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- January 2000 (Revised September 2000)
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Casablanca Finance Group
Examines the founding and development of an investment bank in Morocco. Two Moroccan expatriates return from Paris and enter the brokerage business. Over the next six years they build the leading financial services firm in the country. Concludes with a series of... View Details
Kennedy, Robert E., and Ismail A Douiri. "Casablanca Finance Group." Harvard Business School Case 700-063, January 2000. (Revised September 2000.)
- September 1991
- Case
Momenta Corp. (B)
Momenta is a one-year-old corporation that has sought to build a distinct culture and identity through a structured process and organized rituals. The company is seeking to be a major player in the highly competitive pen-based computer market and has attracted... View Details
Bhide, Amar. "Momenta Corp. (B)." Harvard Business School Case 392-014, September 1991.
- 18 Oct 2022
- News
Startups, Don’t Pin Your Hopes on VC Dry Powder
- 12 Jul 2022
- News
Expanding the Power to Prosper
After building her career on Wall Street, with roles at Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs, Stella Dyer (MBA 1994) launched Millicent, a blockchain-based company that Dyer hopes will make the global banking system more inclusive. Funded in part by British government... View Details
- 18 Sep 2019
- News
Buffett Protégé Britt Cool to Start Own Firm
Photo via The Wall Street Journal Photo via The Wall Street Journal Tracy Britt Cool (MBA 2009) is leaving Berkshire Hathaway after a decade to start her own investment firm, reports the Wall Street Journal. Britt Cool is currently the CEO of the Pampered Chef and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Business Plan Contest Has Many Winners
With its ninth annual competition last May, the HBS Business Plan Contest has become a well-established start-up that hits “home runs” every year. This year’s traditional track winner was Karen Grajwer (MBA ’05), founder of Uplift, an Internet and retail-store venture... View Details
- 16 Mar 2010
- News
New Site Offers Free Wardrobe Advice
- Profile
Jason A. Kilar
Internet commercial marketplace. Rayport called the class “Managing in the Marketspace” and through one of his cases, he introduced a relatively unknown Seattle-based online bookseller named Amazon. Kilar recalled spending countless hours discussing View Details
- 21 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
Leveraging Academic Opportunities to Attain My Post-HBS Job
company I was considering joining after school. Enter Plaid. Plaid is a startup that enables businesses to access their users’ financial information by streamlining the connection to their users’ bank accounts. This service is not only... View Details
- 23 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Founder of Modern Venture Capital
creation of new products for the welfare of American soldiers. For decades, as president of American Research & Development Corporation, an early venture capital firm founded in 1946, he fostered the development of startup companies... View Details
- 15 Apr 2016
- Blog Post
Working With Organizations That Recruit at HBS: An Interview with Molly DeCastro
Diplomacy in the Office of Career Services. What do you enjoy about working with organizations? I manage relationships with organizations in the Technology and Entertainment and Media industries, along with startups which is a lot of fun.... View Details
- Web
David Brown | MBA
startup working to revolutionize the stratosphere. Over the last years, I've enjoyed getting to see the value and impact we will bring to the world, and look forward to seeing what is to come. Professional goals: I hope to lead the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Jump-Start
using the Lean Startup methodology, for the 19 cash awards given out this year. There were also 12 venture capital firms (listed below) that stepped up to help fund the program run by HBS’s Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship. All the... View Details
- 19 Apr 2016
- News
LuminOva Makes Great Strides Tackling Infertility
Alexandra Dickson (MBA 2013) Alexandra Dickson (MBA 2013) LuminOva, a biotech startup in Boston that won the 2015 Bertarelli Prize, is making progress on its quest to develop a new technology that could increase in vitro fertilization... View Details
- 24 Feb 2014
- News
A Capital Idea for Small Business
managements, and form groups around common interests." "I like the idea of the crowd vetting ideas, and determining winners and losers by voting with their capital," says McGee. "This project got its start back in 2011. I had been involved in several View Details
- 28 Feb 2022
- News
Equal Partner
Fund. It focuses on innovative tech startups founded by women of color and inclusive teams. For Aditya, such startups are both a smart financial opportunity and an essential investment in the future.... View Details
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Hiroshi Mikitani
startup venture is almost unheard of. Needless to say, in 1996, when Mikitani made his decision to quit IBJ and found Rakuten, his family, friends and colleagues were astonished. What would shock them far more, however, was what Mikitani... View Details
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Rock 100: The Summit - Entrepreneurship
posts on scaling/organization/culture , Tom Eisenmann The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup , Noam Wasserman The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy... View Details
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Joseph Blair
his business unit managed: the famous Bobcat excavator. Yet Joe's experience at another manufacturer – FlexEnergy, a clean-tech company that makes microturbines – inspired “a passion for startups and smaller businesses” that encouraged... View Details
- 17 Apr 2017
- News
Jeff Immelt Wants a Radical Transformation of GE
with fellow alumni, including Robert Kraft (MBA 1965), owner of the Kraft Group and the New England Patriots; classmate Stephen Pagliuca (MBA 1982), chairman of Bain Capital; and more recent graduates, such as the cofounders of the View Details