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- 25 Feb 2015
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How Singapore Became an Entrepreneurial Hub
- 3 Jun 2023
- Talk
Health Care Innovation Opportunities Created by COVID-19 and How to Make Them Happen
The crush of patients created by COVID enabled the creation of sites for care outside the traditional hospital, such as retail pharmacies, ambulatory surgery centers, urgent care centers, telemedicine, and wireless sensors. Public policy mirrored these changes by...
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Policy;
Health Pandemics;
Health Care and Treatment;
Innovation and Invention;
Health Industry;
Insurance Industry
Herzlinger, Regina E. "Health Care Innovation Opportunities Created by COVID-19 and How to Make Them Happen." Harvard Business School Alumni Reunion, Boston, MA, June 3, 2023. (Link to cases described in this talk.)
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Innovation and Renovation: Optimizing Product Line Architecture - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Innovation and Renovation: Optimizing Product Line Architecture Course Number 1955 Assistant Professor Tomomichi Amano Spring; Q4; 1.5 credits 13 sessions Exam Course objectives Managers View Details
- 18 Jul 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Cumulative Innovation & Open Disclosure of Intermediate Results: Evidence from a Policy Experiment in Bioinformatics
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by Kevin J. Boudreau & Karim Lakhani
- 17 Jun 2021
- News
Investing in a Post-COVID World; Exploring the Pandemic’s Impact on Gender Equity
Clubs News Clubs News Alumni Angels Conference Tackles Post-Pandemic Investing and Entrepreneurship The global pandemic has reshaped the world, and investors and founders are full of questions about the future of startups. To find...
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Margie Kelley
- February 2018 (Revised August 2018)
- Case
OpenInvest
By: Shawn Cole, Boris Vallée and Nicole Tempest Keller
Founded by a team of hedge fund and NGO alumni, OpenInvest launched its platform in 2015 to enable retail investors to tailor their portfolios to their personal values in an automated way, for instance by screening out weapons manufacturers stocks or overweighting...
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Keywords:
Fintech;
Impact Investing;
Investment Portfolio;
Customization and Personalization;
Technological Innovation;
Social Issues;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Business Model;
Financial Services Industry
Cole, Shawn, Boris Vallée, and Nicole Tempest Keller. "OpenInvest." Harvard Business School Case 218-064, February 2018. (Revised August 2018.)
- April 2017
- Article
Prizes, Patents and the Search for Longitude
By: M. Diane Burton and Tom Nicholas
The 1714 Longitude Act created the Board of Longitude to administer a large monetary prize and progress payments for the precise determination of a ship’s longitude. However, the prize did not prohibit patenting. We use a new dataset of marine chronometer inventors to...
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Burton, M. Diane, and Tom Nicholas. "Prizes, Patents and the Search for Longitude." Explorations in Economic History 64 (April 2017): 21–36.
- Research Summary
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The research activity of Stefano Denicolai regards the management of innovation and technology. His recent works investigate if and how the investment in intangible assets (IA) - especially knowledge assets, such as patents or copyright - impacts on the firm...
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Creating Inclusive Recruiting Events in a Time of Innovation - Recruiting
Insights & Advice 14 Jul 2020 Creating Inclusive Recruiting Events in a Time of Innovation Becca Carnahan Author HBS Team tag All Industries All Locations Diversity, Inclusion, & Belonging Recruiting Advice Recruiting Strategies With...
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- May 2000 (Revised April 2003)
- Case
Contractual Innovation in the UK Energy Markets: Enron Europe, The Eastern Group, and the Sutton Bridge Project
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Peter Tufano
In December 1996, Enron Europe and The Eastern Group were on the verge of signing an innovative transaction in the utility industry. Eastern was going to buy a long-term option to convert natural gas into electricity from Enron, thereby giving it the economic right to...
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Project Finance;
Infrastructure;
Supply and Industry;
Corporate Finance;
Utilities Industry;
Energy Industry
Esty, Benjamin C., and Peter Tufano. "Contractual Innovation in the UK Energy Markets: Enron Europe, The Eastern Group, and the Sutton Bridge Project." Harvard Business School Case 200-051, May 2000. (Revised April 2003.)
- June 2017
- Article
The Political Economy of Financial Innovation: Evidence from Local Governments
By: Christophe Pérignon and Boris Vallée
We examine the toxic loans sold by investment banks to local governments. Using proprietary data, we show that politicians strategically use these products to increase chances of being re-elected. Consistent with greater incentives to hide the cost of debt, toxic loans...
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Pérignon, Christophe, and Boris Vallée. "The Political Economy of Financial Innovation: Evidence from Local Governments." Review of Financial Studies 30, no. 6 (June 2017): 1903–1934.
- 24 Mar 2021
- News
Clubs Reaffirm Equity in Community Partners Work; Alumni Angels Invest in Member Education
funnel our impact through them.” For more information on Community Partners, contact HBS Alumni Clubs and Associations. HBS Alumni Angels Invest in Member Education with Webinars The HBS Alumni Angels Association recentlypresented a...
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Margie Kelley
- 20 Mar 2017
- Book
Why Companies Are Placing Users at the Core of Their Innovation Strategies
Many in business long believed that product innovation sprung from inside their own companies—that is, until economist Eric Arthur von Hippel came along in the late 1970s. Von Hippel proposed that users were as important, if not more...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 2019
- Book
VC: An American History
By: Tom Nicholas
An exploration of venture financing in America, from its origins in the whaling industry to the rise of Silicon Valley, that shows how venture capital (VC) created an epicenter for the development of high-tech innovation. The VC industry arose from the United States’...
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Innovation;
Venture Capital;
Innovation and Invention;
Entrepreneurship;
History;
United States
Nicholas, Tom. VC: An American History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. (Chinese Edition: 风投 看懂巨头的投资倾向 汤姆·尼古拉斯 著 中信出版社, Beijing: CITIC Press, 2020; Japanese Edition: ベンチャーキャピタル全史 トム・ニコラス, Shinchosha Publishing, 2022.)
- January 2017 (Revised December 2017)
- Case
Carmichael Roberts: To Create a Private Equity Firm?
By: Steven Rogers and Kenneth J. Cooper
Carmichael Roberts, a rare African-American venture capitalist, considered leaving his general partnership in a private equity firm near Boston and setting up his own in 2015. He weighed whether the timing was right, with the economy still not fully recovered from the...
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Venture Capital;
Equity;
Innovation And Invention;
Investment;
Ownership;
Science;
Science Bassed Business;
Markets;
Relationships;
Capital;
Private Equity;
Technological Innovation;
Investment Return;
Going Public;
Ownership Stake;
Science-Based Business;
Market Timing;
Marketplace Matching;
Partners and Partnerships;
Financial Services Industry;
Technology Industry;
Manufacturing Industry;
United States;
Massachusetts;
Boston;
California;
San Francisco;
New York (city, NY)
Rogers, Steven, and Kenneth J. Cooper. "Carmichael Roberts: To Create a Private Equity Firm?" Harvard Business School Case 317-079, January 2017. (Revised December 2017.)
- 10 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - Innovations to Address the Global Water Crisis
area.” – Page 18-19 of Interview Transcript Watch this video clip and download Anil Jain’s full interview transcript to learn how Jain Irrigation continues to invest in R&D and innovation in order to...
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- January 2018
- Case
Environmental Technology Fund Partners and E-Leather
By: Vikram S. Gandhi and Aldo Sesia
It is 2014 and Environmental Technologies Fund (ETF) Partners, a UK-based venture capital firm, has an opportunity to invest in a privately held UK company that manufactured engineered composition leather extracted from waste leather using an environmentally friendly...
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Keywords:
Sustainability;
Venture Capital;
Investment Strategy;
Investment;
Strategy;
Ownership;
Valuation;
Energy Conservation;
Equity;
Technological Innovation;
Environmental Sustainability;
Performance Efficiency;
Manufacturing Industry;
Financial Services Industry;
United Kingdom
Gandhi, Vikram S., and Aldo Sesia. "Environmental Technology Fund Partners and E-Leather." Harvard Business School Case 318-001, January 2018.
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Innovation and Entrepreneurship - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
parallel on inventions of insistent practicality as well as expansions of human perception," Victor McElheny explains. "Riding a storm of ever-altering customer specifications, Polaroid adapted its innovations again and again." 97 Land...
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- November 2017 (Revised April 2019)
- Case
Summa Equity: Building Purpose-Driven Organizations
By: George Serafeim and David Freiberg
In 2015, Reynir Indahl left top Nordic private equity firm Altor Equity Partners to found Summa Equity (Summa). After long contemplation following the financial crisis, Indahl was convinced the financial system was producing negative externalities and that the current...
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Keywords:
Corporate Purpose;
ESG;
ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance;
Social Impact;
Investment Management;
Management Practices;
Innovation;
Voice;
Environmental Impact;
Private Equity;
Social Enterprise;
Finance;
Capital Markets;
Management Practices and Processes;
Innovation Leadership;
Leadership;
Innovation and Management;
Entrepreneurship;
Mission and Purpose;
Value Creation;
Financial Services Industry;
Norway;
Sweden;
Scandinavia
Serafeim, George, and David Freiberg. "Summa Equity: Building Purpose-Driven Organizations." Harvard Business School Case 118-028, November 2017. (Revised April 2019.)
- March 2019 (Revised March 2023)
- Case
Accion's Fintech Strategy
By: V. Kasturi Rangan, Michael Chu and Tricia Gregg
Accion, an NGO, had been a pioneer in microfinance since its entry into that sector in the early 1970s. Its investments in Banco Compartamos paid off, when the microfinance bank went IPO in 2007, leaving an influx of $138 million for Accion. Under a new CEO, Michael...
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Keywords:
Fintech;
Impact Investing;
Financial Inclusion;
Technological Innovation;
Strategy;
Strategic Planning;
Performance Effectiveness;
Non-Governmental Organizations;
Microfinance;
Financial Institutions;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Industry Growth
Rangan, V. Kasturi, Michael Chu, and Tricia Gregg. "Accion's Fintech Strategy." Harvard Business School Case 319-091, March 2019. (Revised March 2023.)