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- 01 Jun 2011
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Mr. Start-Up
could stray from an assignment to write market assessments and instead create a start-up business plan. “The professor was Walt Salmon, and fortunately he was all for it,” recalls Cassidy, who eventually made good on the plan to launch...
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- 18 Jun 2019
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The Soul of a Start-up
- 03 Apr 2013
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A 4-step guide to landing a start-up job
- 09 Apr 2012
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HBS Prof. Publishes Book on Start-Ups
- 01 Dec 2010
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How to Survive Past Start-up
others.” Cenedella recalled the first day he walked into his company and was greeted by an employee he was certain he’d never seen before. Recognizing that leading a company of 200 or 300 people would be a different challenge than leading...
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- 23 Feb 2012
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What Start-Ups Can Teach Big Companies About Service
- 24 Oct 2017
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Are You Suited for a Start-Up?
- 29 Jul 2019
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Finding (and Keeping) Your Company’s Soul
- 01 Sep 2003
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Mark Fuller
start-up with five employees to a global powerhouse with sixteen hundred employees in 23 countries. From day one, Fuller and his colleagues knew they wanted to build a firm...
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- 13 Jun 2013
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Learning Curve
something from the ground up when he served as president and COO of Green Dot Public Schools, a start-up charter organization that has since expanded to include 18 schools. Now his days are spent meeting with members of city government;...
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- 01 Mar 2006
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Fast Lane to Country Lane
TOGETHERNESS: Mark and Kim Lackley based their furniture business in Vermont. Learn on someone else’s dime. That’s a lesson from HBS that served Kim Alley Lackley (MBA ’94) well as she made the leap from software and Internet start-ups to...
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- 01 Jun 2011
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Latin Flair
undergraduates at Harvard College. Together, the trio has turned Vostu from a tiny 12-person start-up to an operation with close to 400 employees in three locations: São Paulo, Buenos Aires, and New York....
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- 01 Jun 2013
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EnTRIPreneurs
also hosts a July music festival (Emmy Lou Harris, Merle Haggard, et al) to support its charitable foundation. "Unlike a start-up in a larger city, RAP, based in a community of 900 people, makes everything work without the advantage of...
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- 01 Oct 2000
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Books
and former HBS Bulletin editor Jeffrey Cruikshank (51st PMD) that is based on Reiss's experiences as the founder of fourteen successful start-up companies. (One of these start-ups, a novelty-watch distributor, was named one of the...
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- 01 Mar 2013
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Making Change
much a start-up has to fail in order to be successful. It took us several iterations to get there. I was also surprised at the degree to which the private sector accepts or even values start-up failure...
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- 01 Jan 2008
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Meg Whitman, MBA 1979
firms that are American household names—Disney, Stride Rite, Procter & Gamble— and then applied her multifaceted talents to a fledgling start-up auction site. During her ten years at the helm, eBay grew from a small operation where...
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- 01 Jun 2011
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All in Good Time
picked up steam after a nationwide franchise program launched in 2009. Revenues for that year were $2 million; in 2011, they’re projected to hit $10 million. The company charges employers a percentage of a worker’s hourly rate or salary; franchisees (which now number...
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- 01 Apr 2000
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Marketing Muscle
On her first foray into Silicon Valley, Karen Edwards (MBA '90) didn't have much success finding the job she wanted: head of marketing at an Internet company. Told she didn't know enough about technology, Edwards persevered and finally landed a job at View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
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Lydia M. Marshall: Gumption and Grace
notes, "and it was very exciting to be a part of it." In 1999, Marshall decided to do something completely different. The result, VentureThink, is a start-up that aims to create, build, and manage e-commerce businesses. With the budding...
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- 01 Dec 2010
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Ilene Lang
professional lives in a new direction. An early pioneer in the high-tech world, Ilene Lang (MBA 1973) worked in senior management and chief leadership roles at established corporations and start-ups alike during the 1980s and ’90s,...
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