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- 09 Sep 2022
- News
How Founders Self-Destruct Under Pressure
- October 2019
- Supplement
Thierry Deau, Founder and CEO, Meridiam
By: Shawn A. Cole and Lynn Schenk
Cole, Shawn A., and Lynn Schenk. "Thierry Deau, Founder and CEO, Meridiam." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 220-703, October 2019.
- 31 May 2012
- News
Three Pitfalls Startup Founders Must Avoid
- 09 Apr 2012
- News
Harvard Women Entrepreneurs Find Resource in Women's Founders Forums
- 05 Mar 2015
- Video
EiR Sam Clemens, Founder and Chief Product Officer, InsightSquared
- 31 Oct 2014
- News
Silicon valley: start-up founders under pressure
- 28 Jun 2022
- News
Are Former Startup Founders Less Hireable?
- 10 Feb 2010
- News
Founder Lee Embraced East, West Management
- January 2011 (Revised October 2012)
- Background Note
Strengths Become Weaknesses: Cognitive Biases in Founder Decision-Making
By: Noam T. Wasserman and Kyle Anderson
This note combines vignettes and scholarly research to outline the cognitive biases and decision-making strategies that influence key decisions in the founding process. It is argued that the same biases which provide early benefits can later prove to be a weakness for...
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Wasserman, Noam T., and Kyle Anderson. "Strengths Become Weaknesses: Cognitive Biases in Founder Decision-Making." Harvard Business School Background Note 811-068, January 2011. (Revised October 2012.)
- 29 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rich or Royal: What Do Founders Want?
the profit motive. However, early in my case writing, I began running into several decisions that founders were making that seemed to conflict with the profit motive. For instance, founders I was studying...
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- Web
The Founder Mindset - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog The Founder Mindset Course Number 1676 Senior Lecturer Reza Satchu Fall; Q1Q2; 3.0 credits28 SessionsPaper/ProjectQualifies for Management Science Track Credit Course Description Almost all human endeavors start with a...
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- 10 Nov 2022
- News
Peloton Founder Starts His Next Trek
Photo courtesy Ernesta Peloton founder and former CEO John Foley (MBA 2001) is moving from home fitness to home decor. A recent press release announced that Foley and two of his Peloton cofounders are launching Ernesta, a “direct-to-consumer custom rug company” that...
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- August 2018
- Case
BlackBuck (A)
By: Shikhar Ghosh and Shweta Bagai
The case presents the challenges of scaling an asset-heavy company (that relies on its operations). It highlights how decisions on the early team impact a company’s ability to scale, linkage between growth and cash flows, as well the organizational impact of high...
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- April 2002
- Supplement
Cityspace: Product Demonstration and Reflections by Marc Meyohas, Founder
Consists of two parts. The first part shows a television commercial by NEC portraying the Cityspace information kiosks. This commercial was aired in the United Kingdom in 1998. The second part shows Marc Meyohas, founder of Cityspace, reflecting on the business model...
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Kuemmerle, Walter. "Cityspace: Product Demonstration and Reflections by Marc Meyohas, Founder." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 802-806, April 2002.
- October 2022 (Revised August 2023)
- Case
Founders First Capital Partners: An Approach to Capital Access Equity
By: Brian Trelstad, Mel Martin and Amy Klopfenstein
In June 2021, Kim T. Folsom, the founder and CEO of revenue-based financing firm Founders First Capital Partners (FFCP), must decide whether to issue another loan to OnShore Technology Group, an up-and-coming software validation company. FFCP provided revenue-based...
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Keywords:
Finance;
Financial Instruments;
Financing and Loans;
Interest Rates;
Investment Return;
Revenue;
Capital;
Financial Services Industry;
North and Central America;
United States
Trelstad, Brian, Mel Martin, and Amy Klopfenstein. "Founders First Capital Partners: An Approach to Capital Access Equity." Harvard Business School Case 323-013, October 2022. (Revised August 2023.)
- 07 Feb 2013
- News
The case for having a founder run the business
- 23 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Founder of Modern Venture Capital
Georges F. Doriot, an educator and a founder of the modern venture capital industry, is the subject of a new exhibition and website at Harvard Business School, where he spent 40 years. The charismatic professor taught business and...
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- 13 Oct 2017
- HBS Seminar
Helen Greiner, CyPhyWorks, CTO and Founder
- 23 Jan 2024
Entrepreneurial Insights: 20 Minutes with an HBS Founder
Wondering how an MBA can help with your professional growth? Learn from HBS alumnus, Daniel Ross (MBA 2019), how HBS helps prepare you for a career in entrepreneurship.
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