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- 22 Jan 2025
- Blog Post
Career risks and professional growth: Finding a fulfilling career with Paige Arnof-Fenn (MBA 1991)
Coca-Cola, where I honed my skills and learned to blend creativity with data-driven decision making. I later joined three tech startups as head of marketing. Their fast-paced environments pushed me to adapt quickly and think on my feet... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
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Eshan Tewari | MBA
Eshan Tewari Statistics Dunster 2021 Cohort 2 I've had a chance to work in technology from a host of different angles, spanning from ground level research to rapidly scaling startups to venture capital to journalism. In the process, I've... View Details
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Dhilan Ramaprasad | MBA
had an opportunity to see a full picture of how an IoT startup went from conception and ideation to refinement and next generation rollouts by identifying and then cultivating their own niche consumer market. The forethought, insight, and... View Details
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Rhea Acharya | MBA
Interaction, Sustainability, Privacy, Security & Trust Formative experience at the intersection of technology and business: The summer before my junior year, I joined the team of 7 at J.P. Morgan's new sustainable investing growth fund, focused on View Details
- 24 Sep 2019
- News
Connecting Patients and Providers
10 months with her family. And it inspired Jarzabek to create Trustedoctor. The digital healthcare startup “focuses on the first half mile of the patient and provider journey,” explains Jarzabek. Through his mother’s treatment, he saw... View Details
- 12 Feb 2019
- News
A View of the Valley
spends a lot of time managing male expectations at work and at home (with both her dad and her husband, an aspiring startup founder who was the ninth engineer at Google and has never gotten over leaving too early). Fred, the son, seems... View Details
- 12 Jun 2017
- News
Jeff Immelt to Retire as GE CEO
headquarters—a move spurred in part by the CEO’s professed desire to shake up the corporate mindset: Immelt, 61, also wanted a big culture shift. He asked employees to think more like they work for a startup and less like they work for a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
@Soldiers Field
Polaroid in the 1930s and ’40s, when the iconic company was a risky startup led by an untested entrepreneur. A “Hack Your Sleep” event offered insights into the science of slumber—a subject unfamiliar to many MBA students. Cosponsored by... View Details
- February 2021 (Revised October 2021)
- Case
Collab Capital
Founded in 2020 by Jewel Burks Solomon and her partners, Barry Givens and Justin Dawkins, Collab Capital was a new investment firm built on two pillars: first, it would identify and support ventures founded by Black entrepreneurs, a group underrepresented in... View Details
Keywords: Black Entrepreneurs; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Race; Business Startups; Financial Services Industry; Atlanta
Rigol, Natalia, Jeffrey J. Bussgang, and Mitchell Weiss. "Collab Capital." Harvard Business School Case 821-067, February 2021. (Revised October 2021.)
- June 2016 (Revised December 2017)
- Case
The Cheese and the Oligarchs: The Politics, the Media, and Israel's Dream of a Start-Up Nation
By: Rafael Di Tella and Christine Snively
Israel enjoyed the highest concentration of technology start-ups in the world per capita. Despite regional instability, the country maintained strong economic growth and was considered a high-tech powerhouse. But not all Israelis benefited. Between the 1980s and 2010s,... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Information Technology; Business Conglomerates; Business Startups; Israel
Di Tella, Rafael, and Christine Snively. "The Cheese and the Oligarchs: The Politics, the Media, and Israel's Dream of a Start-Up Nation." Harvard Business School Case 716-060, June 2016. (Revised December 2017.)
- March 2009
- Teaching Note
Proteus Biomedical: Making Pigs Fly (TN)
Teaching Note for [809051]. View Details
- January 2009
- Article
Planning a Start-Up? Seize the Day...Then Expect to Work All Night
By: Noam Wasserman
If you dream of starting your own business, it's better to leave the corporate nest sooner than later, before you get too comfortable with the big-company amenities every start-up lacks. Get going before you're 40 - or even earlier, if you want to make entrepreneurship... View Details
Wasserman, Noam. "Planning a Start-Up? Seize the Day...Then Expect to Work All Night." Harvard Business Review 87, no. 1 (January 2009).
- April 1985 (Revised November 1987)
- Case
Sun Hydraulics Corp. (A)
Involves the design and creation of a company with no formally-defined hierarchy. Describes the steps the founder takes to avoid the organizational politics he perceives as crushing the human contributions they were designed to harness. View Details
Keywords: Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Engineering; Business Startups; Technology Industry
Barnes, Louis B. "Sun Hydraulics Corp. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 485-169, April 1985. (Revised November 1987.)
- 17 Mar 2022
- News
Venture Capital & Angel Investing - What We Know and Still Need to Learn
Keywords: Angel investing
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Exploring new ways to understand and engage audiences
Victoria Ransom (MBA 2008) launched Wildfire Interactive, now a Google company, to connect companies and customers through social media. (Published April 2014) View Details
- 03 Feb 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Jonathan Assayag (MBA 2010)
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
The “A” List
Started in 1995 in Columbus, Ohio, by Angela Hicks (MBA ’00), Angie’s List is a consumer-driven report card on numerous local services (plumbers, car mechanics, and moving companies, not to mention solar panels and Christmas decorating) in 56 American cities. List... View Details
- 26 Jul 2011
- News
An Entrepreneur of the Arts
Efimova: Inspiring a love of the arts in young children. Photo courtesy Aleksandra Ekimova Originally from St. Petersburg, Russia, Aleksandra Efimova (OPM 39, 2010) attended the renowned Art School at the Hermitage State Art Museum and received training in classical... View Details
- 15 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Black Swans and Big Trends Can Ruin Anyone's Internet Prediction
how we thought about online opportunities one year after the dot-com bubble burst. In retrospect, many of my thoughts about the internet’s future evolution missed the mark. If you think history repeats itself, then these forecasting errors might be germane, since View Details