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Reshaping Competition - Course Catalog
who will be executives, strategy consultants, or private equity, public equity, venture capital, and hedge fund investors. The course provides a general management perspective on competition and is designed to improve your ability to...
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- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Ronald P. Mitchell
notes that HBS Ventures generated more than $80,000 for the SA this academic year. "By subsidizing items like yearbooks, as well as social events and intramurals, those funds cut students' costs dramatically." During his tenure, Mitchell...
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Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Thomas C. Høegh
forms such communication may take in the future." After HBS, Høegh plans to establish a London-based company called Arts Alliance, "a creative cradle," he says, that will provide venture capital, consulting, and multimedia production...
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Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
The New “In” Crowd
Just ask Elizabeth Scharpf (MBA ’07), recipient of the Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship. Two years out of HBS, she has already founded a health-care-focused social enterprise and launched a spin–off venture in Rwanda. “First and...
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- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Modupe Akinola: Outreach In Africa
student clubs, Akinola cochaired this year’s Africa Business Conference, which brought more than five hundred people to campus to discuss entrepreneurial ventures in Africa. She is also writing a case study on a female entrepreneur in...
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- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Martin Gonzalez - Quiet Courage
remission, and “feeling healthy,” Gonzalez has accepted a job in marketing with General Mills in Minneapolis, postponing for now his entrepreneurial dream — a venture that would introduce new engineering technologies to Chile — in favor...
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- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Zanzibar: Something for Everyone
slave trade was abolished in 1873 in order to ensure an end to slavery, and services are still held there today. With its white sandy beaches, Zanzibar offered many options for those who were not interested in venturing away from the two...
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- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Porter Course Goes Abroad
hope is to stimulate professors and students from around the world to become positive forces for change,” he says. “This venture is central to the Institute's strategy of redefining the way countries think about and practice economic...
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- March 2011
- Teaching Note
PrimedicProviding Primary Care in Mexico (TN)
Teaching Note for 811040.
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Approaching Business with an Artistic Eye - Global Activities 2020
helped him understand the company’s potential. The Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship also provided resources and support to develop the company, and this past spring, Darza tied for second place in the business track of the Rock Center’s 20th annual New View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Nine MBAs Chosen for Leadership Fellows Program
Meredith Hamilton, Citizen Schools; Tim Nicolette, City of Boston Mayor’s Office; and Adrian Mucalov, Endeavor; (front row) John Kim, Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative; Mikaela Boyd, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Maura Marino, NewSchools View Details
- September 2020
- Case
Disrupting Justice at RightNow: Persevere, Pivot or Perish
By: Shikhar Ghosh and Amir Reza Rezvani
The case examines the focus of an early stage company, and how an unexpected external incidence can threaten or void the business model. It encompasses issues such as defining and pivoting a business model, organizational requirements for a pivot, investor relations,...
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Legal Aspects Of Business;
Startup;
Teams;
Pivot;
Financing;
Entrepreneurship;
Law;
Venture Capital;
Business Startups;
Financing and Loans;
Business Model;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Legal Services Industry;
Germany
Ghosh, Shikhar, and Amir Reza Rezvani. "Disrupting Justice at RightNow: Persevere, Pivot or Perish." Harvard Business School Case 821-027, September 2020.
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Benjamin Schedl Archives | Social Enterprise
Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 1 Results MBAs Accelerate Their Social Enterprise Ventures Benjamin Schedl Rea Savla Sophy Wang...
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- 9 AM – 9 AM EST, 07 Nov 2018
HBX Disruptive Strategy
Make innovation a reality with strategies from two-time Worlds Most Innovative Business Thinker, Clayton Christensen. Program Dates: November 7, 2018 - December 19, 2018
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- February 2024
- Supplement
Ada: General Updates
By: Reza Satchu and Patrick Sanguineti
Mike Murchison, cofounder and CEO of Ada, updates the audience on which investor he chose as well as how Ada has grown since its Series B.
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Founder;
Entrepreneur;
Business Startups;
Entrepreneurship;
Venture Capital;
Growth and Development
Satchu, Reza, and Patrick Sanguineti. "Ada: General Updates." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 824-707, February 2024.
- February 2019 (Revised November 2021)
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MoviePass
By: Willy Shih
Mitch Lowe, the CEO of MoviePass, was having trouble convincing people of the viability of the company's business model. The company was building a multi-sided platform and was planning to extract value from increasing traffic to movie theaters through a number of...
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Start-up;
Start-up Growth;
Start-ups;
Business Model Innovation;
Business Model;
Innovation and Invention;
Multi-Sided Platforms;
Business Startups;
Planning;
Motion Pictures and Video Industry;
United States
Shih, Willy. "MoviePass." Harvard Business School Case 619-052, February 2019. (Revised November 2021.)
- October 2015
- Case
Integrating Avocent Corporation into Emerson Network Power
By: Prithwiraj Choudhury and Vincent M. Servello
This case reviews Emerson Electric’s proposed acquisition of Avocent Corporation in 2009. The focus of this case is how a technology company such as Avocent, with a dramatically different business model compared to its acquirer, should be integrated into a large,...
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Choudhury, Prithwiraj, and Vincent M. Servello. "Integrating Avocent Corporation into Emerson Network Power." Harvard Business School Case 616-032, October 2015.
- September 2001 (Revised May 2006)
- Case
Webvan
Examines Webvan's operations and the processes by which it delivers groceries that were ordered from the Internet to customers' homes. Recounts Webvan's history from founding through early 2001 and concentrates on the unique approaches to warehousing, delivery,...
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- winter 1986
- Article
Auditor Changes Following Big Eight Mergers with Non-Big Eight Audit Firms
By: Paul M. Healy and Tom Lys
Healy, Paul M., and Tom Lys. "Auditor Changes Following Big Eight Mergers with Non-Big Eight Audit Firms." Journal of Accounting and Public Policy 5, no. 4 (winter 1986): 251–265.
- 1992
- Chapter
Organizational Changes and Value Creation in Leveraged Buyouts: The Case of O.M. Scott & Sons Company
By: George P. Baker and Karen H. Wruck