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  • August 1988 (Revised October 1988)
  • Background Note

Business Plan

Describes the various uses for a business plan and focuses on writing a business plan to attract financing for a new venture. View Details
Keywords: Business Plan; Business Startups; Borrowing and Debt; Venture Capital; Management
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Roberts, Michael J. "Business Plan." Harvard Business School Background Note 389-020, August 1988. (Revised October 1988.)
  • September 2000
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TruckitNow.com Business Plan

By: Myra M. Hart and Judith Marie Dror
Presents an original business plan. Students are challenged to develop assumptions and create financial projections and statements based on business plan text. View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Plan; Finance; Framework; Value Creation; Transportation Industry
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Hart, Myra M., and Judith Marie Dror. "TruckitNow.com Business Plan." Harvard Business School Case 801-151, September 2000.
  • January 2002
  • Case

Metromove.com Business Plan

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Sheila Marcelo
Enables analysis of a business plan in a volatile market. Also enables analysis of the decisions entrepreneurs must make as they start a new business, develop the concept, choose partners, and find funding. View Details
Keywords: Business Plan; Decisions; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Business or Company Management; Partners and Partnerships
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Applegate, Lynda M., and Sheila Marcelo. "Metromove.com Business Plan." Harvard Business School Case 802-117, January 2002.
  • 10 Aug 2009
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Business planning

  • May 1983 (Revised November 1987)
  • Case

Technical Data Corp.: Business Plan

By: William A. Sahlman
Contains materials extracted from a business plan developed by the company in 1980. The purpose of the business plan was to raise $100,000 to finance the commencement of operations. The firm intended to provide analytical services to bond market traders. The product... View Details
Keywords: Business Plan
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Sahlman, William A. "Technical Data Corp.: Business Plan." Harvard Business School Case 283-073, May 1983. (Revised November 1987.)
  • 01 Sep 2003
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Business Plan Contest

’03), who is now CEO of FBC, and faculty advisor HBS associate professor Stefan H. Thomke. Photos by Catherine Walsh/HBS Communications Now in its seventh year, the HBS Business Plan Contest is designed to... View Details
Keywords: contests; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • September 1999
  • Case

Chemdex.com Business Plan

By: Lynda M. Applegate
Keywords: Business Plan; Chemical Industry
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Applegate, Lynda M. "Chemdex.com Business Plan." Harvard Business School Case 800-139, September 1999.
  • November 1996
  • Background Note

Some Thoughts on Business Plans

By: William A. Sahlman
A framework for assessing new business opportunities and the business plans used to describe them is developed. Useful for aspiring entrepreneurs in MBA programs. View Details
Keywords: Business Plan; Entrepreneurship; Framework; Opportunities
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Sahlman, William A. "Some Thoughts on Business Plans." Harvard Business School Background Note 897-101, November 1996.
  • October 2003 (Revised March 2008)
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Salick Cardiovascular Centers: Business Plan

By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Kaushik Sen, Alex Tkachenko and Carolyn Wolff
A seasoned health services entrepreneur develops a business plan for a cardiovascular-focused factory. Will it work? View Details
Keywords: Factories, Labs, and Plants; Business Plan; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Medical Specialties; Health Industry
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Herzlinger, Regina E., Kaushik Sen, Alex Tkachenko, and Carolyn Wolff. "Salick Cardiovascular Centers: Business Plan." Harvard Business School Case 304-007, October 2003. (Revised March 2008.)
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2010 HBS Business Venture Track Business Plan Winner

  • September 1999
  • Case

Throughline Company Business Plan

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Sheila L Marcelo
Keywords: Business Plan
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Applegate, Lynda M., and Sheila L Marcelo. "Throughline Company Business Plan." Harvard Business School Case 800-140, September 1999.
  • 01 Sep 2008
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Business Plan Contest Winners

The 12th annual HBS Business Plan Contest winner in the social enterprise track was Diagnostics-For-All (DFA), a nonprofit launched to develop a disposable, low-cost, paper-based “lab-on-a-chip” for use in... View Details
Keywords: awards; Educational Support Services; Educational Services
  • March 2013
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The Unintended Consequences of Ownership Transfer Planning

By: Josh Baron and Marion McCollom Hampton
The article discusses the challenges of passing down family businesses across generations, highlighting complexities in executive succession and estate planning. It emphasizes how emotional factors, complicated family dynamics, and unintended consequences influence... View Details
Keywords: Estate Planning; Family Business; Family and Family Relationships; Management Succession; Family Ownership; Manufacturing Industry; Financial Services Industry; Education Industry; Fashion Industry
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Baron, Josh, and Marion McCollom Hampton. "The Unintended Consequences of Ownership Transfer Planning." Trust & Estates 152, no. 3 (March 2013): 52–56.
  • 01 Sep 2004
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HBS Business Plan Contest

The School’s eighth annual Business Plan Contest proved that entrepreneurship is alive and well at HBS: Close to forty teams entered plans to be judged by a panel of experts.... View Details
  • 29 Apr 2008
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Harvard Business School Holds 12th Annual Business Plan Contest

  • 29 Apr 2010
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Harvard Business School Holds 14th Annual Business Plan Contest

  • 06 Oct 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Updating a Classic: Writing a Great Business Plan

Sean Silverthorne: "How to Write a Great Business Plan" has been one of the most downloaded articles on Harvard Business Publishing since you wrote it in 1997. Why do you think you hit a nerve?... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Apr 2012
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Harvard Business School Holds 16th Annual Business Plan Contest

  • 28 Apr 2011
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Harvard Business School Holds 15th Annual Business Plan Contest

  • 1999
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Some Thoughts on Business Plans

By: William A. Sahlman
Keywords: Business Plan
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Sahlman, William A. "Some Thoughts on Business Plans." Chap. 9 in The Entrepreneurial Venture. 2nd ed. by William A. Sahlman, Howard H. Stevenson, Michael J Roberts, and Amar V. Bhide, 138–176. Harvard Business School Press, 1999.
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