Ecosystems - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 Nov 2023
Book

Economic Growth Draws Companies to Asia. Can They Handle Its Authoritarian Regimes?

case of China, businesspeople outside of China have found the regime’s efficiency and the country’s market size and innovation ecosystem attractive, and with good reason. But many people misunderstand how power is practiced in China. The... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

20 Aug 2021
Blog Post

Is the MBA Worth It? Hear What Recent HBS Grads Have to Say

would they be? Vibrant, enlightening, and communal. Was an HBS MBA worth it? 100%! I started at HBS with a strong technical background, but very little exposure to the business side of running a company and the venture ecosystem of... View Details

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HBS Veteran Spotlight: Lindsey Chrismon (MBA 2025) - MBA

Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year... View Details

2024
Working Paper

Don’t Expect Juniors to Teach Senior Professionals to Use Generative AI: Emerging Technology Risks and Novice AI Risk Mitigation Tactics

By: Katherine C. Kellogg, Hila Lifshitz-Assaf, Steven Randazzo, Ethan Mollick, Fabrizio Dell'Acqua, Edward McFowland III, François Candelon and Karim R. Lakhani

The literature on communities of practice demonstrates that a proven way for senior professionals to upskill themselves in the use of new technologies that undermine existing expertise is to learn from junior professionals. It notes that juniors may be better able... View Details

Keywords: Rank and Position; Competency and Skills; Technology Adoption; Experience and Expertise

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14 Mar 2023
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What Does the Failure of Silicon Valley Bank Say About the State of Finance?

exposures, since they fell below the Fed’s threshold for annual collection of Form FR Y-14A Capital Assessments and Stress Testing. At the moment, we also cannot track what fraction of SVB’s deposits was connected to the local venture capital (VC) View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking

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Kraft Accelerator

they all have the same goal: get better treatments to patients. Often, the focus is solely on research. Organizations could achieve so much more by building and implementing comprehensive business plans that keep pace with cutting-edge science. Today, the structure of... View Details

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Investing for Impact | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

at affordable rates the HBS Impact Investment Fund is part of an important local ecosystem working to build greater equity and diversity in business ownership, and ultimately in wealth creation . The fund also seeks to provide HBS... View Details

01 Sep 2023
News

Startup Success Beyond Silicon Valley

late 2010s, Professor Paul Gompers started noticing clusters of entrepreneurial ecosystems popping up in places around the world not known for such activity: Kenya, Pakistan, the Philippines. What was driving their emergence? What could... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Mele

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Courses - Private Capital Project

capital strategies, and receivables financing. Field Course: Private Equity Projects and Ecosystems Professor John D. Dionne SPRING; Q3Q4 The Private Equity Projects and Ecosystems course is a hybrid field... View Details

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By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang

Launching Technology Ventures
Launching Technology Ventures (LTV) is designed for students who are actively working on their own startups or who will work at early-stage startups. The course material is, in particular, focused on new businesses in the... View Details

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Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab | About

The Harvard Innovation Labs is a vibrant, cross-disciplinary ecosystem for the Harvard community to explore innovation and entrepreneurship while building deeper connections. The Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab gives Harvard students and other... View Details

23 Dec 2019
Blog Post

Taking the Risk to Start a Company at Business School

gives back to the HBS community and is involved in the entrepreneurial “Field X” class, which allows students to receive course credit while developing and growing their start-ups. “HBS is an ecosystem and a village. The availability of a... View Details

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Business History - Faculty & Research

globally. As an entity representing 42 teams in the first and second divisions, LALIGA has recently signed and negotiated “Boost LALIGA,” a 1.994 billion capital injection in the Spanish soccer ecosystem from the investment fund CVC. The... View Details

21 Jun 2023
Blog Post

Building a Better World: The Harvard Builders Club

unfair partition of the world’s resources, the innovation ecosystem is not diverse and equal enough, and we aim to change that. The Harvard Builders Club is home for ALL who dare to innovate. Together, we will build a better world. View Details

08 Oct 2020
Research & Ideas

Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated

four-drive ecosystem Acquire/Achieve On the organizational level this drive is usually met through the compensation and rewards system. Best practices include: Pay as well as competitors. There can be exceptions; the need to acquire... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

16 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive

contactless curbside pickup options. Investors are helping shore up distribution networks by injecting cash into distributors to keep products flowing. Franchisees are being offered more generous payment terms. Every player in the fragile View Details

Keywords: by Michael S. Kaufman, Lena G. Goldberg, and Jill Avery; Food & Beverage

01 Jun 2023
News

An Engine of Innovation

Startup life can often feel like a solo sport, says Matt Segneri (MBA 2010), the Bruce and Bridgitt Evans Executive Director of the Harvard Innovation Labs: “What the three labs in our ecosystem do is to make building a venture something... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Sep 2023
News

Made in Italy

in faculty-led IFCs, nearly 2,000 have pursued research interests in countries around the world. In 2023, approximately 300 students traveled across several continents, exploring such topics and locales as crisis management in Ghana, the startup View Details

Keywords: April White

25 Aug 2022
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Reinventing the Future of Business

members’ research, the creation of a more porous research ecosystem with the rest of Harvard and beyond, the integration of new content and insights into the School’s curricula, and the ability to help companies be more competitive in the... View Details

18 Jun 2024
Research & Ideas

Industrial Decarbonization: Confronting the Hard Challenges of Cement

Cities like Cairo; Chongqing, China; Delhi; and Kinshasa, Congo are experiencing population explosions accompanied by unprecedented demand for homes, offices, factories, and infrastructure. In the United States, the Biden Administration’s policy-driven infrastructure... View Details

Keywords: by by Janelle Conaway; Green Technology; Energy; Industrial Products; Manufacturing

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