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- 30 May 2021
- News
How Venture Capitalist David Motley is Trying to Bring Back Pittsburgh’s Black Residents
much faster annual rate than other cities such as Chicago.” To help stem the tide, Motley has cofounded a $50 million fund focused on startups with Black and diverse founding teams, launched a nonprofit dedicated to getting more Black... View Details
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Online Entrepreneurial Marketing Course | HBS Online
the stakeholders making purchasing decisions Understand the importance of brand-building and the key components of an effective brand Build a media strategy across paid, earned, and owned channels Evaluate and identify growth opportunities Who Will Benefit Founders and... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- News
Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”
Out-Innovate, calls it the “frontier market model.” Founded in places with limited resources and nascent entrepreneurial ecosystems, these startups have to be scrappier and leaner. And these limitations, Alex says, make businesses more... View Details
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Early-Stage Feedback | New Venture Competition
Early-Stage Feedback Business Track Early-Stage Feedback allows potential participants in the New Venture Competition (NVC) to receive guidance on their venture. This is a great opportunity to get feedback on your startup idea from VCs,... View Details
- 24 Aug 2021
- News
Having a Moment
paid attention to.” After two years of planning, and a slight delay due to COVID, Moment launched in June 2020 and won Best Startup Beverage at the BevNET New Beverage Showdown 2020. While the company’s tagline encourages potential... View Details
- 18 Jan 2018
- News
Making a Mark in Multicultural Marketing
multimillion dollar investment to launch SUEDE, the first fashion-content-platform brand serving multicultural women. Success at HBS came in and out of the classroom. Mirror Digital got its startup funding from the HBS Angel Investors... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Borders and the Self By Chinwe Ajena-Sagna (MBA 2003) Masobe Books “Who are you?” Every border tells a story. Every story has its origins. Tracing a cultural lineage from the beginnings of Igbo history in the ninth century by delineating... View Details
- 09 Sep 2016
- News
Marla Malcolm Beck’s Path to CEO
million last year—discusses how she employed strategies from her years as a consultant to her startup work. “What I really learned from those experiences was how to break down even the most complicated processes into their most minuscule... View Details
- August 2023 (Revised January 2024)
- Case
Jake Becraft and Strand Therapeutics: The Making of an Entrepreneur
By: Satish Tadikonda, William Marks and Ananya Zutshi
Jake Becraft, a PhD student at MIT disillusioned in pursuit of his dreams of becoming an academic, serendipitously finds himself discussing the potential commercial applications of his work with Tasuku Kitada, his former postdoctoral research mentor. The two decide to... View Details
Tadikonda, Satish, William Marks, and Ananya Zutshi. "Jake Becraft and Strand Therapeutics: The Making of an Entrepreneur." Harvard Business School Case 824-046, August 2023. (Revised January 2024.)
- June 2010 (Revised October 2010)
- Course Overview Note
Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise
By: Willy C. Shih
This Module Note for Instructors outlines the structure and content of the Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise MBA second year elective course at the Harvard Business School. The course focuses on giving students a solid grounding in the construction of... View Details
- December 1998
- Supplement
Vermeer Technologies (A): A Company Is Born
By: Ashish Nanda
The founding team of Vermeer Technologies, an entrepreneurial software start-up, discusses the opportunities and challenges confronting the company. View Details
Keywords: Applications and Software; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Information Technology Industry
Nanda, Ashish. "Vermeer Technologies (A): A Company Is Born." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 899-505, December 1998.
- September 1989 (Revised January 1990)
- Case
Vinod Khosla and Sun Microsystems (A)
Describes how Vinod Khosla got Sun Microsystems started, and a critical marketing challenge the company faced at the end of the first year. Objective is to illustrate how bold creative thinking can make or break start-ups. View Details
Keywords: Marketing Strategy; Business Startups; Innovation and Invention; Information Technology Industry; Computer Industry
Bhide, Amar. "Vinod Khosla and Sun Microsystems (A)." Harvard Business School Case 390-049, September 1989. (Revised January 1990.)
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Back on Course
Stephen Julius (MBA '88), who is English, and Stephen Heese (MBA '88), his Yank buddy, were classmates at HBS, divided by a common language perhaps, but united in their love of quality boats. Last year, the two men took the helm of Chris-Craft, the 128-year-old company... View Details
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Jonathan Assayag
immediately. "I spent a lot of time experimenting with a startup in the area of college admissions," he says. "I was able to pick up the phone and talk to HBS alumni with similar interests. The network really is everything... View Details
- 18 Oct 2016
- News
China, artificial intelligence, and Jim Breyer
misses.” Those misses have been pushed into the shadows by the hits in Breyer’s portfolio, including a once-little startup called Facebook. Breyer met Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg in April 2005. Within 48 hours he knew he wanted to... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Breaking Down Barriers: The Electronic Wallet
As people get more accustomed to using the Internet to conduct business transactions, their demands will become more sophisticated. Cyberspace is jam-packed with startups trying to second-guess what consumers of the future will want.... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
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Systems for Scaling Ventures (SSV) - Course Catalog
actively apply tools. This course is for founders, joiners, investors, and consultants aspiring to create value by designing (or helping design) the management systems necessary to bring new ventures from early-stage startups to... View Details
- 30 May 2018
- News
HBS Fellowship Program Puts an MBA Within Reach
job within Allstate’s leadership development program in Chicago. She later pivoted to personal finance startup NerdWallet in San Francisco, where she realized that colleagues who had the internal strategy jobs she aspired to had MBA... View Details
- 16 Mar 2018
- News
Enabling The Pursuit of Entrepreneurial Dreams
Startup Bootcamp in January 2018, working with teammates from Thailand and Australia to build a marketing platform connecting brands with influencers. Ng appreciates such opportunities and resources offered by the School, and credits the... View Details