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- June 2020
- Teaching Note
The New LAX: Ready for Takeoff?
By: Boris Groysberg, Carin-Isabel Knoop, Kerry Herman and Amy Klopfenstein
This teaching note serves as a supplement to “The New LAX: Ready for Takeoff?” HBS 420-025.
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Change Management;
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Leadership Style;
Management;
Management Practices and Processes;
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- 27 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 27
venture capital firms, angel investors, crowd-funding, and accelerators/incubators. 3) What investors look for. Each source has a different funding process and set of criteria that you need to understand before seeking funding from that...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Microfinance: A Way Out for the Poor
capital in Latin America. Chu still runs Pegasus but also joined HBS in 2003. His courses include "Effective Leadership of Social Enterprise" and "New Opportunities in Emerging Markets," the latter about managing investment opportunities, Chu said,...
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by Martha Lagace
- 23 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn
higher risk projects and new ventures. This has a domino effect on the venture capital providers and subsequently on the angel investor community. Each group is concerned that there will not be an investor willing to fund or buy into a...
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by Martha Lagace
- 07 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure
novel Look Homeward, Angel and cut its length by almost one-third. Had an editor of Perkins's talents applied his skills to Business Cycles, the book might well have fulfilled—and exceeded—Schumpeter's ambitions.16 The reorganized work...
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by Thomas K. McCraw
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
injunction from selling its Mynx family of VCDs, its sole source of revenue. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/fred-khosravi-and-accessclosure-b/an/814038-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 814-036 AngelList In early 2010, Naval Ravikant and Babak Nivi...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
reality technology to treat amblyopia (more commonly called “lazy eye”), the single biggest cause of visual disorders among children. By February 2017, the three founders had raised $950,000 in angel funding and developed a prototype of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 6
funding, including venture capital, corporate venture capital, angel investors, incubators, and crowdfunding. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/a-note-on-funding-digital-innovation-startups/an/614039-PDF-ENG Harvard Business...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
Capital IQ database, fewer than 6 percent achieved more than $10 million in revenues by 2010, and fewer than 2 percent grew to more than $50 million. The percentages are worse for US and international companies founded in years since 2000. The increase in View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?
cost of recent subway projects in Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.), subways can be tough medicine. And cost aside, subways are no panacea—disruptive construction, limited residential connections, and for many routes, long trips due to...
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- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
case:http://hbr.org/search/913701-PDF-ENG Convertible Notes in Angel Financing Ramana Nanda and William R. KerrHarvard Business School Note 813-017 This note introduces convertible notes in angel financing....
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Carmen Nobel
- 10 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 10, 2007
decision to bring in a COO, transition him to CEO, and assume the position of Chairperson. Also describes communication and control challenges faced when Zhang moves to Los Angeles with her family, and tries to remain involved in her...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 19, 2008
"November Agreement." Since then, Michael has found an angel investor and has worked non-stop on the business, while one co-founder was off enjoying the winter break with his family and the other worked on lucrative consulting...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jan 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
Racial Discrimination in the Sharing Economy: Evidence from a Field Experiment
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
banking and financial sector. Purchase this note: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=809111 KenCall—Can Nik Nesbitt's Venture Succeed in Kenya? Harvard Business School Case 809-114 Nik Nesbitt is preparing a presentation of his Kenyan contact...
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Martha Lagace
- 22 Apr 2002
- Lessons from the Classroom
Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught
often see staged financing in new venture situations. The fourth is sources of financing. While traditional finance courses have focused on classic corporate financing options, we introduce venture capital, angel investors, strategic...
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by Staff
- 03 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 3
Los Angeles area called Bibigo, the meeting would also touch on the restaurant's U.S. growth plans and how they might be connected to KCON. More broadly, the executives had to wrestle with the question of whether Americans would ever...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
Improving Public Health for the Poor
who originally challenged Chu to apply his experience to these issues, stepped up as an angel investor for Project Antares, named after the brightest star in the night sky. One of the challenges of the project, says Chu, will come in...
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- 16 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience
professionals in venture capital firms or who were cashed-out entrepreneurs acting as angels for small start ups. Both sets of people had certain expertise that they were trying to transmit to highly inexperienced entrepreneurs....
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
Harvard Business School, the co-founders of greeting card company startup Lovepop need capital to cover the company’s operating costs and must choose between two seed financing offers. One offer is from an angel group and the other from a...
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Sean Silverthorne