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- October 2018
- Case
Accomplice: Scaling Early Stage Finance
By: Ramana Nanda, Raffaella Sadun and Olivia Hull
Accomplice, an early-stage venture capital firm based in Boston, is raising its second fund in November 2017. Since 2009, the firm has followed a seed-led investment model, investing in tech companies at the earliest stages, often when products and business models are...
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Keywords:
Early Stage Finance;
Seed Finance;
Scouts;
Venture Capital;
Business Startups;
Private Equity;
Investment Portfolio;
Organizational Structure;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Partners and Partnerships;
Networks;
Adaptation;
Corporate Strategy;
Technology;
Financial Services Industry;
Massachusetts;
Boston;
Cambridge;
United States
Nanda, Ramana, Raffaella Sadun, and Olivia Hull. "Accomplice: Scaling Early Stage Finance." Harvard Business School Case 719-403, October 2018.
- December 2012 (Revised January 2015)
- Technical Note
Early Career LBOs Using the Search Fund Model
By: Howard Stevenson, Michael Roberts and Jim Sharpe
The funded search model is one alternative for individuals who, at some point in their career, want to run their own companies. This note looks at the funded search, as a means to entrepreneurship through acquisition and describes the path to buy and run a business...
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Keywords:
Search Funds;
Search;
Entrepreneurial Finance;
Investor Behavior;
Career Planning;
Entrepreneurial Management;
Fundraising;
Negotiation;
Entrepreneurship;
Capital Structure;
Borrowing and Debt;
Personal Development and Career;
Private Ownership;
Acquisition;
Finance;
Leveraged Buyouts
Stevenson, Howard, Michael Roberts, and Jim Sharpe. "Early Career LBOs Using the Search Fund Model." Harvard Business School Technical Note 813-119, December 2012. (Revised January 2015.)
- Article
Early Stage Investing in Mexico: The Role of Angel Investors and Seed Capital Funds
By: Roberto Charvel
This articles does a review of newly formed seed capital structures, angel investors and their interaction with venture capital funds in Mexico.
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurial Finance;
Emerging Economies;
Venture Capital;
Entrepreneurship;
Financial Services Industry;
Latin America;
Mexico
Charvel, Roberto. "Early Stage Investing in Mexico: The Role of Angel Investors and Seed Capital Funds." Venture Equity Latin America 12, no. 15 (September 15, 2013).
- July 2018 (Revised January 2021)
- Case
RunKeeper
By: Shikhar Ghosh and Shweta Bagai
The case examines the focus of an early stage company and how venture capital can distort a founder’s view. It encompasses issues such as financing, understanding the founders’ definition of success/failure, defining and pivoting a business model, and determining the...
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Keywords:
Early Stage Funding;
Pivot;
Entrepreneurship;
Venture Capital;
Business Model;
Health Industry
Ghosh, Shikhar, and Shweta Bagai. "RunKeeper." Harvard Business School Case 819-020, July 2018. (Revised January 2021.)
- 20 Jul 2017
- News
Life Lab Nurtures Early Stage Startup Day Zero Diagnostics
and machine learning (Dougal Maclaurin), and Jong Lee (MBA 1999), a former consultant and startup executive with extensive experience in the medical technology space. “There is a huge unmet clinical need for what we are doing,” says Lee, who serves as CEO. That...
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- September 2021 (Revised November 2022)
- Case
MAYA Capital
By: Robert F. White, Carla Larangeira and Pedro Levindo
MAYA Capital co-founders Lara Lemann and Monica Saggioro raised $41.5 million through a series of closings for their early-stage Latin American venture capital fund. The two women had met for the first time in mid-2016 when Lemann was contemplating scaling her angel...
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Keywords:
Early Stage;
Portfolio Construction;
Fund Management;
Investment;
Entrepreneurship;
Venture Capital;
Investment Portfolio;
Strategy;
Business Startups;
Management;
Investment Funds;
Latin America
White, Robert F., Carla Larangeira, and Pedro Levindo. "MAYA Capital." Harvard Business School Case 822-038, September 2021. (Revised November 2022.)
- October 2013
- Case
FasterCures: Removing Barriers to Treatments
By: Richard G. Hamermesh and James Weber
In mid-2013, as FasterCures celebrated its 10th anniversary as a center of the Milken Institute, Executive Director Margaret Anderson thought about what the organization should do to ensure it had even more impact in its next 10 years. FasterCures was a non-profit... View Details
Keywords:
Health Care;
Health Care Industry;
Health Care Policy;
Health Services;
Healthcare;
Healthcare Reform;
Healthcare Ventures;
Nonprofit;
Non-profit Management;
Not-for-profit;
Incubator;
Accelerator;
Venture Philanthropy;
Medical Services;
Medical Solutions;
Medical Research;
Medical Treatment;
Clinical Trials;
Drug Reimbursement;
Early Stage;
Early Stage Research Funding;
Early Stage Funding;
Milken Institute;
Michael Milken;
David Baltimore;
Partnering For Cures;
National Institutes Of Health;
Cancer Care In The U.S.;
Cancer Care Services;
Policy-making;
Health Care and Treatment;
Health;
Health Testing and Trials;
Entrepreneurship;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Policy;
Health Industry;
United States;
District of Columbia
Hamermesh, Richard G., and James Weber. "FasterCures: Removing Barriers to Treatments." Harvard Business School Case 814-003, October 2013.
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Early Impact
By its launch at the end of April, The Harvard Business School Campaign had achieved $600 million toward its $1 billion goal. This early success was made possible by the thousands of alumni and friends who have given to the HBS View Details
- July 2015
- Case
Uncharted Play (A)
By: Shikhar Ghosh and Ali Huberlie
The case recounts the process of launching an early stage venture, from idea conception through initial efforts to validate the concept, followed by product launch, and fund raising. It emphasizes the Customer Value Proposition of the business model, and asks – Who is...
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Keywords:
Early Stage;
Female Protagonist;
Value Proposition;
Team Building;
Founders' Agreements;
Start-up;
Entrepreneurship;
Business Model;
Business Startups;
Sports;
United States;
North America;
Nigeria;
Africa
Ghosh, Shikhar, and Ali Huberlie. "Uncharted Play (A)." Harvard Business School Case 816-018, July 2015.
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
HBS Fund Helps Fuel Faculty Research and New Learning Experiences
support of her research from the HBS Fund for Leadership and Innovation, she feels a bit less like an economist and a bit more like an entrepreneur. (photo by Russ Campbell) “I want to have an impact on the...
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- November 2023
- Case
BiomX: Bringing Phage Back to the Stage
By: Paul A. Gompers, Elie Ofek, Orna Dan and Emilie Billaud
In the spring of 2023, and following the favorable results of a trial involving its phage cocktail for treating lung infections among cystic fibrosis (CF) patients, the leadership of BiomX had several critical issues to wrestle with. First, given its precarious...
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- 2003
- Report
UK Competitiveness: Moving to the Next Stage
By: Michael E. Porter and Christian H.M. Ketels
In October 2002, the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) appointed Professor Michael Porter and his team to conduct a brief, three-month review of the existing evidence on UK competitiveness. The effort was funded jointly by the ESRC and the Department of... View Details
Keywords:
Competition;
Economics;
Performance Productivity;
Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques;
Research and Development;
Competency and Skills;
Investment;
Assets;
Corporate Strategy;
Policy;
Management;
Knowledge Use and Leverage;
United Kingdom;
United States
Porter, Michael E., and Christian H.M. Ketels. "UK Competitiveness: Moving to the Next Stage." DTI Economics Paper, May 2003.
- February 1985
- Case
Business Research Corp. (B)
Contains a description of a set of related decisions confronting the management and directors of Business Research Corp. (BRC) in April of 1984. BRC needs more capital to finance continued development of the market for a full-text database comprised of Wall Street...
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Keywords:
Decisions;
Finance;
Capital Structure;
Capital;
Goals and Objectives;
Conflict of Interests;
Business Plan;
Financing and Loans;
Ethics
Sahlman, William A. "Business Research Corp. (B)." Harvard Business School Case 285-090, February 1985.
- May 2012
- Technical Note
Frameworks for Dialogue and Research about Social Impact Investing
Social Impact Investment is a rapidly expanding field, but terminology in the field is poorly defined and imprecise. This note suggests frameworks that help to clarify important dimensions of SII projects, distinguishing and clarifying key differences in approaches to...
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Keywords:
Development Stage Enterprises;
Entrepreneurial Management;
Entrepreneurs;
Entrepreneurial Finance;
Financial Instruments;
Performance Measurement;
Balanced Scorecard;
Investment Funds;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Research;
Framework;
Entrepreneurship;
Financial Services Industry
Leonard, Herman B. "Dutch". "Frameworks for Dialogue and Research about Social Impact Investing." Harvard Business School Technical Note 312-091, May 2012.
- Web
Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni
US Navy (aviation), and midshipman second class, US Naval Academy. Patricia is a retired dermatologist and a member of the Board of Trustees of the Hope Funds for Cancer Research and of the Board of Regents...
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- 24 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why It's Best to Take Tests Early in the Day
The research provides food for thought as policymakers debate the efficacy and fairness of education initiatives like No Child Left Behind, the 2001 United States Act of Congress requiring federally funded...
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- 10 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Amazon Web Services Changed the Way VCs Fund Startups
amount of money to each,” says Nanda. “Equally important, we wanted to see if they were just investing in a lot of worse firms, or if these long-shot firms were actually higher in value if they succeeded.” The researchers found that the...
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- March 2021
- Teaching Plan
The Black New Venture Competition
Black entrepreneurs encounter many unique obstacles when raising capital to start and grow a business, some stemming from deep systemic discrimination. During their second year at Harvard Business School (HBS), MBA students Kimberly Foster and Tyler Simpson decided to...
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Keywords:
Analytics;
Startup;
Start-up;
Startup Financing;
Financing;
Startups;
Start-ups;
Business And Community;
Business And Society;
Business Growth;
Discrimination;
Women;
Women-owned Businesses;
African Americans;
African-american Entrepreneurs;
African-american Investors;
African-American Protagonist;
African-American Women;
Early Stage Funding;
Early Stage;
Innovation & Entrepreneurship;
Innovation Competitions;
Entrepreneurial Financing;
Business Plan;
Business Startups;
Diversity;
Gender;
Race;
Entrepreneurship;
Venture Capital;
Small Business;
Leadership;
Information Technology;
Competition
- 10 Jan 2023
- Op-Ed
Time to Move On? Career Advice for Entrepreneurs Preparing for the Next Stage
book Transitions, by William and Susan Bridges, outlines three stages of transition—the ending, the neutral zone, and the new beginning—and encourages the reader to pause and understand each of these phases during their own transitions....
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Keywords:
by Julia Austin
- Web
Research - Global
Research February 2024 Teaching Material The Globalization of Manchester City Football Group By: Tiona Zuzul, Maria P. Roche and Exequiel Hernandez February 2024 Teaching Material Dena Almansoori at e&: Fostering Culture Change at a UAE...
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