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Brittany Davis
Previously, she was a Manager at Village Capital where she analyzed opportunities and created investment recommendations in the fintech, education, health, food/agriculture, and energy sectors. Before that, she founded an ecommerce...
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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
settle into the new Science and Engineering Complex, which is right across the street from the Harvard Innovation Labs and adjacent to Harvard’s planned Enterprise Research Campus, the future home of company labs, startups, and venture...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 24 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 24
Africa still relevant and achievable? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/715010-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 815-108 Venture Capital and Private Equity Simulation...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
Abstract We document geographic concentration by both venture capital firms and venture capital-financed companies in three metropolitan areas: San Francisco, Boston, and New...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 24
and examines three types of failures associated with each. Subsequently, it discusses solutions for each failure type, and examines strategy implications for these solutions. Purchase this note:http://hbr.org/search/712478-PDF-ENG The View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: W. Mitt Romney
right set of experiences." One such item on Romney's résumé was his successful turnaround of the Boston-based consulting firm Bain & Company. Romney joined Bain in 1977, then left in 1984 to become CEO of its venture View Details
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Garry Emmons
- December 2018
- Supplement
iyzico: Fundraising in Emerging Markets (B)
By: Marco Di Maggio and Gamze Yucaoglu
The case opens in July 2016 as Barbaros Ozbugutu, co-founder and CEO of the Istanbul-based payment technology start-up iyzico, contemplates the pros and cons of the different term sheets the company has received for its Series C round. The case then informs the reader...
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Iyzico;
Fundraising;
Business Startups;
Venture Capital;
Emerging Markets;
Negotiation Offer;
Decision Choices and Conditions
Di Maggio, Marco, and Gamze Yucaoglu. "iyzico: Fundraising in Emerging Markets (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 219-065, December 2018.
- 30 Sep 2015
- News
Looking to Rwanda’s Future
When Jonathan Goldstein (MBA 1990) first traveled to Rwanda in 2002 to talk about venture capital with President Paul Kagame’s cabinet, he was surprised to find the cabinet members “weren’t requesting...
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- November 2000
- Case
Geocast Network Systems, Inc.
By: Thomas R. Eisenmann, Christina L. Darwall and Elizabeth Kind
Geocast, a venture-backed start-up, had developed innovative technology for "datacasting" broadband information and entertainment content to an external hard drive, where it was cached for later retrieval by a Web-enabled PC. By using terrestrial TV, direct broadcast...
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Business Model;
Customer Value and Value Chain;
Entrepreneurship;
Venture Capital;
Information Management;
Technological Innovation;
Marketing Channels;
Corporate Strategy;
Entertainment and Recreation Industry;
Web Services Industry
Eisenmann, Thomas R., Christina L. Darwall, and Elizabeth Kind. "Geocast Network Systems, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 801-211, November 2000.
- 01 Feb 2021
- News
Locally Grown
Inspired by the natural beauty he found when he moved to Boulder, Colorado, Robert Fenwick-Smith (MBA 1988) created Aravaipa Ventures, an unusual venture capital fund to support environmentally sustainable...
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- January 1998 (Revised May 1999)
- Case
Fitzpatrick Hotel Group (B1): Niall Carroll
By: Paul A. Gompers and Catherine M. Conneely
Supplements the (A) case.
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Venture Capital;
Perspective;
Financing and Loans;
Accommodations Industry;
Republic of Ireland
Gompers, Paul A., and Catherine M. Conneely. "Fitzpatrick Hotel Group (B1): Niall Carroll." Harvard Business School Case 298-003, January 1998. (Revised May 1999.)
- 2020
- Working Paper
Immigration Policy Levers for U.S. Innovation and Startups
By: William R. Kerr and Sari Pekkala Kerr
Immigrants account for about a quarter of U.S. invention and entrepreneurship despite a policy environment that is not well suited for these purposes. This chapter reviews the U.S. immigration policy environment that governs how skilled migrants move to America for...
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Invention;
Innovation;
Startups;
High-tech;
Immigration;
Entrepreneurship;
Innovation and Invention;
Business Startups;
Venture Capital;
United States
Kerr, William R., and Sari Pekkala Kerr. "Immigration Policy Levers for U.S. Innovation and Startups." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-105, April 2020.
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Books
a set of entrepreneurial principles individuals can employ to transform their competitive arenas. Done Deals: Venture Capitalists Tell Their Stories, edited by Udayan Gupta, provides a revealing history of the View Details
Lyman Stewart
Prior to starting the Hardison and Stewart Oil Company, the entity that later became Union Oil, Stewart engaged in several unsuccessful business ventures in the oil industry. At Union Oil, however, Stewart thrived as president, investing...
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Utilities & Energy
- October 2017
- Supplement
Snap Inc. Goes Public (B)
By: Lynn Sharp Paine and Will Hurwitz
Supplements the (A) case.
Snap Inc.’s chairman must decide how to address investor concerns about the company’s unprecedented plans to issue only non-voting shares in its upcoming IPO. View Details
Snap Inc.’s chairman must decide how to address investor concerns about the company’s unprecedented plans to issue only non-voting shares in its upcoming IPO. View Details
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Ethics;
Capital Structure;
Corporate Accountability;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Corporate Governance;
Going Public;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Leadership;
Management;
Mobile and Wireless Technology;
Venture Capital;
Technology Industry;
Telecommunications Industry;
Information Technology Industry;
United States;
California
Paine, Lynn Sharp, and Will Hurwitz. "Snap Inc. Goes Public (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 318-049, October 2017.
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Timothy C. Draper | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
the successes of Hotmail, and has been adopted as a standard marketing technique by hundreds of businesses. Tim credits the idea to his case study education at HBS. He talked about his experiences in venture View Details
- 04 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
RealNetworks, CNET, and Judo Strategy
mean nothing. In the book we talk a great deal about how Rob, Shelby, and Donna have used these techniques to beat much larger players in their business." The business environment has changed completely, since the capital markets no...
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by Jim Aisner
- 08 Jan 2016
- News
Investing in Sustainability
new—and increasingly popular—model for doing good and making money. As a venture capitalist nonprofit, Sustainable America is funding entrepreneurs who will make the food and fuel sectors more sustainable and anticipating returns that...
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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
Above: Illustration by Hannah Barczyk When Hayley Barna (MBA 2010) launched the beauty startup Birchbox in 2010, she expected fundraising would be a challenge. Every entrepreneur knows the long odds: By some estimates, less than 1 percent of new companies receive that...
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- 03 Jun 2020
- News
Weathering the Storm
Nnamdi Okike (MBA 2007) Nnamdi Okike (MBA 2007) In this special video edition of Skydeck, contributing host Chitra Nawbatt (GMP 6, 2009) speaks with 645 Ventures Cofounder and General Partner Nnamdi Okike (MBA 2007) about near-term and...
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