MVP - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Dec 2019
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Celebrities Seek Her Advice. M.B.A.s, Executives Line Up for Her Harvard Class.

29 Aug 2023
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Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases

test it with some users. So I went and did that. I used the $30,000 to pay a developer to work with me for a few months to build the first prototype of the product and tested it in Apple's beta testing platform TestFlight with about 30 users over three months. That... View Details

01 Jun 2011
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A Growing Drumbeat

The Business Plan Contest’s popularity is just one indicator of a surge in entrepreneurial activity at HBS, which this year saw the launch of a $50,000 MVP Fund to support students using the “Lean Startup” approach to develop and test a... View Details

Keywords: Contests

01 Mar 2011
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Entrepreneurs’ Fund

month. Said Rumennik, “The Minimum Viable Product Fund, or MVP Fund, alleviates the daunting financial barrier preventing students from building initial prototypes or test products, and encourages them to connect with like-minded peers.”... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2018
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Ready, Set, Launch

Launching Technology Ventures explore an alternative path, one designed to sidestep many of the missteps: the lean startup methodology. The idea is to launch as quickly as possible with a minimum viable product (MVP). With only the barest minimum of features, View Details

01 Jun 2011
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Letters to the Editor

Botkin (MBA ’68, DBA ’73) Cambridge, MA A Vote for MVP In the March Bulletin, writer Deborah Blagg touched all the bases in “Local Hero,” her article about San Francisco Giants president Larry Baer (MBA ’85). For all his wizardry and... View Details

28 May 2019
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Case Study: Building the Base

the beginning, but it gets easier. Are there any large deals to be made that could solve cash flow issues? —Johan Pensar (OPM 41, 2011) I think this is a clear example of mistaking a better product with market fit. Patel identified his View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Jun 2024
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Case Study: Ready for an Upgrade

for enterprise-sized businesses, where multiple teams (of 50 to 1,000 people) are collaborating on a single program to build hardware. Companies fitting that description tend to be in aerospace and defense, Wen says, so Stell focused on cybersecurity more than a... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services

18 Jul 2014
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Team Players

something niche, something trying to push the envelope," she says, "a nimble, all-hands-on-deck, collaborative environment. And in New York." There you have it: Two of Super Bowl XLVIII's MVPs are now free agents. They're rested, and... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

04 May 2018
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How to Win the Kentucky Derby

selling or you're racing is always the best. She had an OK year as a two-year-old in '17. All of a sudden at the beginning of the year, she just kind of put everything together. So she's kind of like the fifth-round draft pick in the NFL, who after two years puts... View Details

Keywords: horse racing

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