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Ravi Belani
Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ), a leading venture capital firm that has backed some of the most successful start-ups in the Internet era. Discovering a fresh environment for growth “To be honest,” Ravi says, “the...
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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Faculty Research Online
HBS Cases: KFC’s Explosive Growth in China In China, Yum! Brands is opening a KFC store every day. But this is not the KFC known in America. A recent case study written by Professor David Bell and Agribusiness Program director Mary...
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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Books
Professor of Business Administration, annually compiles the best posts from blogs on technology start-up management for the benefit of his students. This book makes his latest collection available to the broader entrepreneur community....
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- 22 Jan 2018
- Blog Post
"Luxury, Technology, Integration"
experience, YNAP still feels like a start-up today in many ways. YNAP has seen projects and initiatives move at a fast pace throughout the company, experienced double-digit growth, introduced new technologies, expanded into new buildings,...
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Consumer Products / Retail
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Field Course: Scaling Minority Businesses - Course Catalog
the opportunity to create and scale impactful business enterprises. However, Minority Business Enterprises (MBEs) face economic, sociocultural, and institutional barriers across all phases of entrepreneurship from start-up through scaling...
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- 10 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 10
this connection works primarily through lower employment growth of start-ups in cities that are closer to mines. These effects hold in cold and warm regions alike and in industries that are not directly...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
DonorsChoose: Teaming Up with Teachers
start-up into a sustainable national organization. With plans to expand next year into North Carolina, Chicago, and Denver, the organization’s leaders see management of its rapid growth as a major challenge....
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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Alumni Books
(MBA ’82) (FT Press) Companies that cannot change in response to market disruptions die. Other companies that respond eventually survive but see their profits squeezed, their growth flattened. The long-term winners are companies that...
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Tuce Zengin Van den Eynde
menu that would help facilitate rapid growth through a drive-in retail model. FIELD 3, Tuce observes, “pushes you to see how entrepreneurs work. It gives you a sense of what it would be like to build a business from scratch, and teaches...
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- 10 Apr 2012
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A Winning Formula
that says a lot about what drives his company: “Life is too short to work in a dysfunctional organization.” Dashboard specializes in analyzing why an organization’s growth may have slowed, and then works with management to institute...
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- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs
Kuemmerle, who has studied more than fifty start-ups in twenty countries, says entrepreneurs today should take a litmus test of five questions (See sidebar). In this excerpt from Harvard Business Review, Kuemmerle discusses two of the...
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by Walter Kuemmerle
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Stephanie Tilenius
the first West Trek, a tour of start-ups and early-stage Internet companies that included Yahoo!, WebTV, Excite and many others. “All of us moved to the West Coast after completing our MBAs,” says Stephanie, “and we’re all still there,...
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Strategy and Technology - Course Catalog
products increasingly valuable if more consumers buy their product or if more complements become available. What are the implications for market tipping, pricing and growth strategies? Multisided Platforms (MSPs): The most important...
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CFO Letter - Annual Report 2014
outstanding as any other HBS activity or program. Totaling nearly $12 million, expenses related to this work at HBX were a significant new factor in the School’s overall financial performance for fiscal 2014. Although HBX is in start-up...
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- 01 Mar 2014
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Everything Old Is a New Opportunity
Johnston says these four companies represent the variety of start-ups Aging2.0 is working with: Sabi improves day-to-day life by rethinking the most commonly used products and tools to elevate everyday moments with superior functionality...
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- 20 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Long-Term Fix to US Competitiveness
Rosabeth Moss Kanter, the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration, a panel moderator. "But that strength has to be nurtured." She added, "We count on start-ups for job growth...
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by Stephanie Schorow & Harvard Gazette
- Student-Profile
Hila Lifshitz-Assaf
Growing up in Israel, a country which has one of the highest rates of patents, scientific publications and start-ups per capita, I could not help but be intrigued and fascinated by the phenomena of innovation. In my career as a corporate...
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Mariano Bomaggio
been amazed by how much you learn from your classmates – that's the highest value-add I’ve experienced here." For his EC year, Mariano is considering "getting involved in an independent project, like helping a start-up company...
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- 09 May 2013
- News
Road Trip
share what we learn with a larger, supportive community of fellow entrepreneurs, professors, venture capitalists, and anyone else committed to entrepreneurship. We'd like this trip to be a growth engine for entrepreneurial practice...
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- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
than 350 interviews in 20 countries to identify the leadership practices and operating methods of major companies seeking profitable growth through innovation that benefits society. For example, when the tsunami and earthquake struck...
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Martha Lagace