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Founder - Entrepreneurship

Student Journey Founder Required Curriculum Elective Curriculum Throughout your Founder Path, get feedback on your idea, testing plan, business model, and more from experienced entrepreneurs and VCs by meeting 1:1 with Rock Executive... View Details

15 Nov 2022
Op-Ed

Why TikTok Is Beating YouTube for Eyeball Time (It’s Not Just the Dance Videos)

the internet. We wrote a series of Harvard Business School case studies between 2009 and 2011 exploring viral videos—United Breaks Guitars, the JK Wedding Dance, and how Ford used influencers to launch the Fiesta car. What struck us right... View Details

Keywords: by John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld

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HBS Entrepreneurship Summit - Alumni

Business Administration Leslie Feinzaig (MBA 2007), Founder & Managing Director, Graham & Walker Venture Fund; Founder, Female Founders Alliance Sarah Fay, Glasswing Ventures and All Raise Chapter Lea 10:15–11:45 a.m. Founders & Builders... View Details

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Video - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Presentation Inclusion of Small Business in Value Chains Inclusion of Small Business in Value Chains by Michael E. Porter Prerecorded CSV video... View Details

30 May 2024
News

How to Have Effective Conversations

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Charles Duhigg (MBA 2003) is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, a staff writer for The New Yorker, and author of the bestselling books The Power of... View Details

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Mira Mehta

conversation with a man who worked for the Chancellor of Texas Tech University, a woman who worked for a small logistics company in Minnesota, and a man who worked at a Private Equity fund in New York. I didn't have that experience at any... View Details

11 Jan 2011
First Look

First Look: Jan. 11

PublicationsBeing the Boss: The 3 Imperatives for Becoming a Great Leader Authors:Linda A. Hill and Kent Lineback Publication:Harvard Business Press, 2011 Abstract You never dreamed being the boss would be so hard. You're caught in a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Apr 2008
Research & Ideas

The New Math of Customer Relationships

been reminded of it in various ways. First, of course, there are those organizations known to us that use the ideas for a range of purposes, all the way from guiding their marketing and service efforts to providing a cornerstone for their overall View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Globalization - Faculty & Research

Chamber of Commerce Foundation, Washington, DC, USA, 2025. Navigating Choppy Waters: How U.S. Trade Policy Uncertainty Affects Small Businesses By: David Atkin, Zoë Cullen and Ebehi Iyoha 2025 | Working... View Details

01 Dec 2023
News

Case Study: Staking a Claim

Illustration by Nhung Lê Kate Terry (MBA 2005) knows that no one attends their fifth-grade career fair and comes home hoping to pursue a career in insurance—but that’s exactly where she wound up. “I really fell in love with it,” she says. As cofounder and CEO of... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Insurance Carriers and Related Activities; Finance

10 Jan 2023
Op-Ed

Time to Move On? Career Advice for Entrepreneurs Preparing for the Next Stage

Over the past year, I have watched several firms going through periods of transition. Some have been cofounders who realized that it was time for a more experienced leader to take their business to the next level. Some were just ready for... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

10 May 2022
Research & Ideas

Being Your Own Boss Can Pay Off, but Not Always with Big Pay

to 9.7 percent and 6.8 percent, respectively, the study says. Should people start their own businesses? While Kerr says the data shouldn’t deter people from striking out on their own, someone considering opening a small View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

March 1998
Case

Bumper Acquisition (A2), A: Confidential Information for Medallion Capital, Inc.

By: James K. Sebenius and David T. Kotchen

Located in Mundelein, IL, Thermo-Impact, Inc. is a rapidly growing, private firm that manufactures automotive bumpers. In 1995, a number of large automotive supply companies and a private equity investment firm offer to buy Thermo-Impact. The cases in this series focus... View Details

Keywords: Private Equity; Valuation; Negotiation Participants; Decision Making; Negotiation Process; Entrepreneurship; Negotiation Offer; Acquisition; Manufacturing Industry; Auto Industry; Illinois

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30 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Market Makers Bid for Success

economy, and in 1990-91, we had a major recession. Back then I think a lot of people who had a latent desire to be in small businesses or to be entrepreneurial didn't see the entrepreneurial opportunities.... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Web Services; Technology

27 Aug 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

Learning From Japan’s Remarkable Disaster Recovery

It's common in Harvard Business School classrooms to discuss the "pivot," the moment an enterprise changes direction to pursue a new strategy. On a visit to eastern Japan, MBA students talked to Masamichi Ono, CEO of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy; Utilities; Retail

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Career Networking - Alumni

to talk about themselves. ” Jonathan Shepherd Corporate Relations Director, Harvard Business School Read Post: Yes, Introverts Can Network Successfully Hear From Your Fellow Alumni Part 1: Meet the Alumni Considering a career transition?... View Details

30 Dec 2013
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2013

Most Popular Articles 2013 How to Spot a Liar Key linguistic cues can help reveal dishonesty during business negotiations, whether it's a flat-out lie or a deliberate omission of key information, according to research by Lyn M. Van Swol,... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

13 Dec 2004
Research & Ideas

How Leaders Create Winning Streaks

strokes" to quickly mobilize the organization, with initiating a "long march" that changes systems and habits. Leaders must start by building credibility and confidence in the organization through small wins. This can occur... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel

October 2016
Supplement

24 Hour Fitness (B): Ownership Changes, 2005–2016

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth

In 2016, 24 Hour Fitness was the number-two fitness chain in the United States, generating revenues of $1.4 billion from 441 clubs serving 3.8 million members. Based in San Ramon, California, 24 Hour Fitness operated clubs in 13 states. Having grown rapidly to become... View Details

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