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- July 2022 (Revised January 2024)
- Case
Kovi: Changing Brazil's Mobility Landscape
By: Lynda M. Applegate, Michael Norris and Alexis Lefort
Kovi, a car rental startup located in São Paulo, Brazil, provides affordable access to rental cars for rideshare drivers. The case examines the origins of the company, provides background on the auto and rideshare industries in Brazil, and follows the CEO, Adhemar...
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Keywords:
Ridesharing;
Entrepreneurship;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Business Startups;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Auto Industry;
Brazil;
Mexico;
Latin America
Applegate, Lynda M., Michael Norris, and Alexis Lefort. "Kovi: Changing Brazil's Mobility Landscape." Harvard Business School Case 823-028, July 2022. (Revised January 2024.)
- August 2010 (Revised January 2013)
- Case
Urban Water Partners (A)
By: Karthik Ramanna, George Serafeim and Aldo Sesia
The case explores a new business venture to bring clean water to residents of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, who otherwise cannot afford it. Management has enough money to get the company through August 2010 but needs more capital thereafter. An HBS alumnus is interested in...
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Keywords:
Accrual Accounting;
Financial Statements;
Business Startups;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Investment;
Performance Evaluation;
Dar es Salaam;
Massachusetts
Ramanna, Karthik, George Serafeim, and Aldo Sesia. "Urban Water Partners (A)." Harvard Business School Case 111-016, August 2010. (Revised January 2013.)
- June 2008 (Revised April 2013)
- Case
Bernd Beetz: Creating the New Coty
By: Geoffrey Jones and David Kiron
Considers the creation of the world's largest fragrance company by Bernd Beetz, appointed chief executive of Coty Inc. in 2001. In 1990 the German consumer goods company Benkiser began acquiring fragrance and cosmetics brands with the intent of developing a beauty...
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Keywords:
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Entrepreneurship;
Globalized Firms and Management;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Corporate Strategy;
Beauty and Cosmetics Industry;
Germany;
United States
Jones, Geoffrey, and David Kiron. "Bernd Beetz: Creating the New Coty." Harvard Business School Case 808-133, June 2008. (Revised April 2013.)
- 20 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: Survival’s Secret Sauce
The secret sauce of long-term business success can't be captured in numbers. As the operations manager of a leading and fast-growing Brazilian business recently explained to a reporter, "There's a secret sauce in this business [but] it's almost impossible for a...
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- September 2013 (Revised November 2013)
- Case
AngelList
By: Ramana Nanda and Liz Kind
In early 2010, Naval Ravikant and Babak Nivi posted a list of angel investors on the Venture Hacks blog as a resource for founders looking for funding prior to seeking venture capital. The list quickly evolved into AngelList, a separate matchmaking platform for... View Details
Keywords:
Angel Investors;
Venture Capital;
Entrepreneurial Finance;
Finance;
Entrepreneurship;
Investment;
Financial Services Industry;
United States
Nanda, Ramana, and Liz Kind. "AngelList." Harvard Business School Case 814-036, September 2013. (Revised November 2013.)
- October 2013 (Revised November 2016)
- Case
Carbon Engineering
By: Joseph B. Lassiter III and Sid Misra
Dr. David Keith, President of Carbon Engineering, a company based in Calgary, Alberta, is commercializing a technology to capture carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere. The company plans to market the captured CO2 to produce low carbon transportation fuels in...
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurship;
Government Legislation;
Technological Innovation;
Climate Change;
Environmental Sustainability;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Research and Development;
Transportation;
Information Infrastructure;
Energy;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Energy Industry;
Green Technology Industry;
Industrial Products Industry;
Transportation Industry;
Utilities Industry;
Technology Industry;
Canada;
United States;
China;
India
Lassiter, Joseph B., III, and Sid Misra. "Carbon Engineering." Harvard Business School Case 814-040, October 2013. (Revised November 2016.)
- April 2019 (Revised October 2019)
- Case
Sanjeev Kapoor: The Recipe for Success
By: Boris Groysberg and Mahima Rao-Kachroo
India's most recognized celebrity chef Sanjeev Kapoor has been an integral part of the country's food industry since 1993. As a celebrity chef, Kapoor enjoyed a 17-year run of his hit TV cooking show “Khana Khazana,” published more than 100 cookbook titles in multiple...
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Keywords:
Advertising;
Business Ventures;
Change;
Decision Making;
Entrepreneurship;
Food;
Leadership;
Management;
Markets;
Media;
Organizations;
Ownership;
Problems and Challenges;
Quality;
Relationships;
Technology;
Food and Beverage Industry;
India;
South Asia
Groysberg, Boris, and Mahima Rao-Kachroo. "Sanjeev Kapoor: The Recipe for Success." Harvard Business School Case 419-076, April 2019. (Revised October 2019.)
- December 2022
- Article
Shaping Nascent Industries: Innovation Strategy and Regulatory Uncertainty in Personal Genomics
By: Cheng Gao and Rory McDonald
In nascent industries—whose new technologies are often poorly understood
by regulators—contending with regulatory uncertainty can be crucial to organizational survival and growth. Prior research on nonmarket strategy has largely
focused on established firms in mature...
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Keywords:
Technological Change;
Innovation;
Qualitative Methods;
New Categories;
Entrepreneurship;
Technological Innovation;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Strategy
Gao, Cheng, and Rory McDonald. "Shaping Nascent Industries: Innovation Strategy and Regulatory Uncertainty in Personal Genomics." Administrative Science Quarterly 67, no. 4 (December 2022): 915–967.
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HBS Global Opportunity Fellowship: Making a Difference in Africa - MBA
Business & Environment Career Change Career and Professional Development Case Method Clubs Curriculum Digital Entrepreneurship FIELD Financial Aid Health Care Instagram Takeover JD/MBA Leadership Letters to Classmates MBA/MPP & MBA/MPA-ID...
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- September 2008 (Revised December 2011)
- Case
Frank Addante, Serial Entrepreneur
By: Noam T. Wasserman and Antony Uy
Frank Addante is a 28-year-old serial entrepreneur who is in the process of building his fifth venture. Of his first four ventures, two were sold, one went public, and in the last he decided to close the venture and return unused capital to his investors. With the...
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Keywords:
Business Startups;
Entrepreneurship;
Venture Capital;
Equity;
Selection and Staffing;
Groups and Teams
Wasserman, Noam T., and Antony Uy. "Frank Addante, Serial Entrepreneur." Harvard Business School Case 809-046, September 2008. (Revised December 2011.)
- July 2015 (Revised March 2016)
- Teaching Note
Uber and Stakeholders: Managing a New Way of Riding
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Daniel Fox
This case provides a vehicle to analyze stakeholder relations as a company grows, particularly in the context of new business models that challenge established industries. It introduces the dilemmas posed by rapid growth, new technologies, regulatory uncertainty, and...
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- January 2021 (Revised June 2023)
- Case
Biobot Analytics
In 2017, Newsha Ghaeli and Mariana Matus were deciding whether to leave their labs at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, put other job opportunities aside, and dive full-time into founding a wastewater analysis start-up, Biobot. Ghaeli, an architect, and Matus,...
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurship;
Information Technology;
City;
Analytics and Data Science;
Personal Development and Career;
Technology Industry;
Utilities Industry;
Health Industry;
Information Technology Industry;
Information Industry;
Biotechnology Industry;
United States;
Kuwait;
Korean Peninsula
Kluender, Raymond, Joshua Krieger, and Mitchell Weiss. "Biobot Analytics." Harvard Business School Case 821-045, January 2021. (Revised June 2023.)
- Article
Start-Ups That Last: How to Scale Your Business
By: Ranjay Gulati and Alicia DeSantola
Gulati, Ranjay, and Alicia DeSantola. "Start-Ups That Last: How to Scale Your Business." Harvard Business Review 94, no. 3 (March 2016): 54–61. (Reprinted in the Harvard Business Review OnPoint Winter 2016 "Launch a Start-Up That Lasts" Edition.)
- December 2004 (Revised April 2014)
- Case
Stan Lapidus: Profile of a Medical Entrepreneur
By: Robert F. Higgins and Sophie LaMontagne
Describes the career path and insights of Stanley Lapidus, a successful serial entrepreneur in the medical and life sciences industry. Lapidus is the founder of Cytyc Corp. (NASDAQ: CYTC) and EXACT Sciences (NASDAQ: EXAS) and is currently the CEO of his third start-up,...
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Keywords:
Business Startups;
Experience and Expertise;
Entrepreneurship;
Venture Capital;
Managerial Roles;
Health Industry
Higgins, Robert F., and Sophie LaMontagne. "Stan Lapidus: Profile of a Medical Entrepreneur." Harvard Business School Case 805-087, December 2004. (Revised April 2014.)
- Web
Opportunity to Offset Travel Emissions with Carbon Credits that Meet HBS Criteria - Blog - Business & Environment
Stories Courses & Curriculum Creating Emerging Markets Entrepreneurship Event Faculty IFC Decarbonization & Sustainable Production 2023 IFC India 2024 - Development While Decarbonizing: India’s Path to Net Zero MBA Teaching & Research...
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- March 2021 (Revised March 2024)
- Case
M-KOPA: Empowering Lives
By: V. Kasturi Rangan, Wale Lawal and Pippa Tubman Armerding
The Pay As You Go solar power company in East Africa had sales of $71 million in 2019. It wished to grow to $300 million by 2025. M-KOPA, founded by three entrepreneurs in 2011, had grown nicely in Kenya and Uganda to reach nearly 750,000 households with an innovative...
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Keywords:
Mobile Payment;
Go-to-market Strategy;
Business At The Base Of The Pyramid;
Business Growth;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Renewable Energy;
Business Model;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Expansion;
Marketing Strategy;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Kenya;
Uganda;
Nigeria
Rangan, V. Kasturi, Wale Lawal, and Pippa Tubman Armerding. "M-KOPA: Empowering Lives." Harvard Business School Case 521-085, March 2021. (Revised March 2024.)
- August 2018 (Revised October 2020)
- Case
Tailor Brands: Artificial Intelligence-Driven Branding
By: Jill Avery
Using proprietary artificial intelligence technology, startup Tailor Brands set out to democratize branding by allowing small businesses to create their brand identities by automatically generating logos in just minutes at minimal cost with no branding or design skills...
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Keywords:
Startup;
Services;
Artificial Intelligence;
Machine Learning;
Digital Marketing;
Brand Management;
Big Data;
Internet Marketing;
Analytics;
Marketing;
Marketing Strategy;
Brands and Branding;
Information Technology;
Entrepreneurship;
Venture Capital;
Business Model;
Consumer Behavior;
AI and Machine Learning;
Analytics and Data Science;
Advertising Industry;
Service Industry;
Technology Industry;
United States;
North America;
Israel
Avery, Jill. "Tailor Brands: Artificial Intelligence-Driven Branding." Harvard Business School Case 519-017, August 2018. (Revised October 2020.)
- September 2020 (Revised December 2021)
- Case
Building India's 2.0: PayNearby
By: Lauren Cohen and Spencer C. N. Hagist
Headquartered in Mumbai, India, FinTech startup Nearby Technologies has seen its flagship brand, PayNearby, rapidly flourish across most of its target market within just four years. The unprecedented success of its payment app, which allows users to access banking...
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Keywords:
Fintech;
Developing Markets;
Payments;
Financial Inclusion;
Finance;
Entrepreneurship;
Emerging Markets;
Competitive Strategy;
Banking Industry;
India
Cohen, Lauren, and Spencer C. N. Hagist. "Building India's 2.0: PayNearby." Harvard Business School Case 221-027, September 2020. (Revised December 2021.)
- January 2018
- Case
John Rogers, Jr.—Ariel Investments Co.
By: Steven Rogers and Greg White
John Rogers Jr., the founder and CEO of Ariel Investments, an enormously successful finance firm with $12 billion of invested capital, is one of the few African Americans in the asset management industry. As one of the high profile leaders in the black business...
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Keywords:
Advocacy;
Diversity;
Investment Management;
Affirmative Action;
Disruption;
Cost vs Benefits;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Fairness;
Moral Sensibility;
Values and Beliefs;
Corporate Accountability;
Leading Change;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Problems and Challenges;
Financial Services Industry;
Chicago
Rogers, Steven, and Greg White. "John Rogers, Jr.—Ariel Investments Co." Harvard Business School Case 318-099, January 2018.
- March 2000 (Revised May 2001)
- Case
Silicon Valley Bank
By: G. Felda Hardymon and Ann Leamon
Silicon Valley Bank, a $4 billion institution in California, has made its reputation by working with venture capitalists in backing start-up companies. In 1999, it is forced to compete with nonbank financial institutions that can give money on better terms and in a...
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Keywords:
Banks and Banking;
Business Startups;
Competitive Strategy;
Financial Institutions;
Financing and Loans;
Financial Markets;
Venture Capital;
Private Equity;
Entrepreneurship;
Banking Industry;
Financial Services Industry;
California
Hardymon, G. Felda, and Ann Leamon. "Silicon Valley Bank." Harvard Business School Case 800-332, March 2000. (Revised May 2001.)