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Answers to Your Top Questions about Financial Aid at HBS - MBA
Government Health Care / BioTech Manufacturing Private Equity Real Estate Retail Social Enterprise Technology Venture Capital Audiences Audiences FirstGen+ College Diverse Perspectives International LGBTQ+...
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Entrepreneurship Course Online | HBS Online
Featured Exercises Sizing the market Estimate willingness to pay 6-8 hrs Module 2 Building a Business Apply the POCD (People, Opportunity, Context, Deal) framework, and learn how to manage risk and reward through experimentation. Highlights Describing Successful View Details
Benjamin C. Esty
Benjamin Esty is the Roy and Elizabeth Simmons Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Over the years, he has taught a variety of courses ranging from advanced corporate finance and project finance to competitive strategy and leadership. He... View Details
- February 2003 (Revised October 2003)
- Case
Versity.com
By: Leslie A. Perlow
Versity.com has grown from four college students working out of a dorm to a $125 million venture capital-backed company. The young founders and new professional managers struggle to create a company vision and grapple with the question of whether to acquire another...
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Business Startups;
Growth and Development;
Organizational Design;
Mission and Purpose;
Strategic Planning;
Conflict and Resolution;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Management Teams;
Core Relationships
Perlow, Leslie A. "Versity.com." Harvard Business School Case 403-132, February 2003. (Revised October 2003.)
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Activities, Government & Clubs - MBA
Association Other Activities Club Conferences Other Student Organizations New Venture Competition Clubs Student Clubs are a vital part of the HBS Community experience that support the school's mission to educate leaders who make a...
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Richard G. Hamermesh
Richard Hamermesh was the MBA Class of 1961 Professor of Management Practice at the Harvard Business School. While at HBS Richard served as co-chair of the HBS Healthcare... View Details
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health care
- 22 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 22
http://hbr.org/product/gaston-acurio-a-recipe-for-success/an/514014-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 514-001 Bridges Ventures Bridges Ventures, a UK- based impact investor with double-digit returns on its investments, is reflecting on...
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Sean Silverthorne
- November 2014
- Case
BRAC in 2014
By: Tarun Khanna, Rachna Tahilyani, Reeti Roy and Aldo Sesia
In the early 1970s BRAC was a startup nongovernmental organization (NGO) working in Bangladesh. By 2014, it was the world's largest NGO. It had a strong presence in Bangladesh and had begun to deliver social development programs in nine other countries. Its founder and...
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BRAC;
Bangladesh;
NGO;
Strategy;
Business Model;
Business Organization;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Innovation and Management;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Social Enterprise;
Social Issues;
Poverty;
Bangladesh
Khanna, Tarun, Rachna Tahilyani, Reeti Roy, and Aldo Sesia. "BRAC in 2014." Harvard Business School Case 715-414, November 2014.
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
forthcoming Management Science The First Deal: The Division of Founder Equity in New Ventures By: Hellmann, Thomas F., and Noam Wasserman Abstract—We examine the trade-off between efficiency and equality within the context of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- October 2010 (Revised April 2013)
- Case
Bridge International Academies: A School in a Box
By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Katharine Lee
Bridge International was founded in 2007 as a for-profit social enterprise to address the educational needs of poor children in Africa. Ten schools were operational in Kenya by 2010. The plan was to franchise nearly 3,000 schools all over Africa. The case is meant to...
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Keywords:
Business Model;
Education;
Growth and Development;
Franchise Ownership;
Strategic Planning;
Problems and Challenges;
Social Enterprise;
Segmentation;
Education Industry;
Africa;
Kenya
Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Katharine Lee. "Bridge International Academies: A School in a Box." Harvard Business School Case 511-064, October 2010. (Revised April 2013.)
- December 2001
- Case
Sarah Vickers-Willis: Career Decisions (A)
By: Myra M. Hart, Lynda M. Applegate, Sarah Harden and Susan Saltrick
Sarah Vickers-Willis, HBS MBA 1999, faces a critical career decision: Does she redirect the Internet start-up she helped found or join in shaping a for-profit firm with a social mission? Sarah, a young Australian business executive, has always strived to "find space"...
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Keywords:
Decisions;
Leadership;
Internet and the Web;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Personal Development and Career;
Gender;
Business Startups
Hart, Myra M., Lynda M. Applegate, Sarah Harden, and Susan Saltrick. "Sarah Vickers-Willis: Career Decisions (A)." Harvard Business School Case 802-111, December 2001.
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Hiring Organizations - Recruiting
Achieve Partners Actis Activision Blizzard Addition Wealth Adidas Adobe Advantage Capital Advent International Africa Healthcare Network AGBO Agoda Airwallex Akamai Technologies Akeneo Akooda Al Mada Venture Cap Alife Health Allegion...
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- October 1998
- Case
CRA Managed Care, Inc. (A)
By: Myra M. Hart and Jennifer Starr
Silverman and her co-founder, Don Larson, own the largest privately held injury-management and cost-containment services firm in the United States. When their $80+ million company attracts substantial interest of investment bankers and venture capitalists, the two must...
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Transition;
Leadership Development;
Venture Capital;
Business Exit or Shutdown;
Investment;
Business or Company Management;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Personal Development and Career;
Entrepreneurship;
Service Industry;
United States
Hart, Myra M., and Jennifer Starr. "CRA Managed Care, Inc. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 899-068, October 1998.
- 29 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29
Documenting the actual levels of inequality within and across countries is generally considered a critical input to the design of economic and social policy (7–10); we suggest that assessing laypeople’s understanding of those levels, and...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Curriculum - MBA
conflict in new ventures as well as investor-founder conflicts and ways in which managers cope with such conflicts. Read More Leading Social Enterprise This course is about leadership and strategy for...
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- August 2022
- Supplement
Broadway Angels (2022)
By: Jo Tango and Alys Ferragamo
In late June of 2022, Sonja Perkins, co-founder of Broadway Angels, contemplated the group’s future. She and her co-founders, Jennifer Fonstad, and Magdalena Yesil, started the group to gather together the most successful and powerful women in venture capital and...
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Keywords:
Gender Equity;
Impact;
Business Startups;
Venture Capital;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Entrepreneurship;
Gender;
Mission and Purpose;
Groups and Teams;
Financial Services Industry
Tango, Jo, and Alys Ferragamo. "Broadway Angels (2022)." Harvard Business School Supplement 823-001, August 2022.
- April 2011 (Revised May 2011)
- Case
EMC2: Delivering Customer Centricity
By: Thomas Steenburgh and Jill Avery
This case introduces the concept of customer centricity and traces its development at EMC, the world's leading data storage hardware and information management software company. EMC's customers had historically relied on EMC salespeople to guide them through the...
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Keywords:
Business Model;
Interpersonal Communication;
Customer Relationship Management;
Knowledge Acquisition;
Marketing Strategy;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Salesforce Management;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Internet;
Information Technology Industry
Steenburgh, Thomas, and Jill Avery. "EMC2: Delivering Customer Centricity." Harvard Business School Case 511-124, April 2011. (Revised May 2011.)
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Rising Generation in the Family Enterprise
retiring and rising generations Formulate and implement new-generation solutions that are right for today's—and tomorrow's—business, stakeholders, and family Take an entrepreneurial approach to new opportunities Balance opportunity and risk while changing the business...
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Government Health Care / BioTech Manufacturing Private Equity Real Estate Retail Social Enterprise Technology Venture Capital Audiences Audiences FirstGen+ College Diverse Perspectives International LGBTQ+...
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- May 2013
- Case
Yammer (A)
By: Mikolaj J. Piskorski, Kerry Herman and Aaron Smith
In Spring 2012, Yammer was on track to become a highly successful standalone company. Yammer was a leading Enterprise Social Network (ESN), providing companies a private social network in which employees could collaborate securely and efficiently. However, later that...
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Keywords:
Information Infrastructure;
Opportunities;
Applications and Software;
Organizational Culture;
Problems and Challenges;
Management Teams;
Integration;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Acquisition;
Information Technology Industry
Piskorski, Mikolaj J., Kerry Herman, and Aaron Smith. "Yammer (A)." Harvard Business School Case 713-407, May 2013.