• March 2024 (Revised August 2024)
• Case

Darktrace: Scaling Cybersecurity and AI (A)

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport and Alexis Lefort

In 2023, Darktrace CEO Poppy Gustafsson was contemplating her growth strategy at a leading U.K.-based cybersecurity venture, launched in 2013 by a group of anti-terror cyber specialists, University of Cambridge mathematicians, and artificial intelligence (AI) experts.... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Talent; Scaling; Entrepreneurship; Cybersecurity; Leadership; Business Growth and Maturation; Recruitment; Resignation and Termination; AI and Machine Learning; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Culture; Going Public; Technology Industry; United Kingdom; Europe; United States

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Rayport, Jeffrey F., and Alexis Lefort. "Darktrace: Scaling Cybersecurity and AI (A)." Harvard Business School Case 824-092, March 2024. (Revised August 2024.)

• 2020
• Chapter

Climate Change Is Going to Transform Where and How We Build

By: John D. Macomber

As fires, floods, and droughts increasingly threaten homes, businesses, and other institutions, climate risk has become financial risk. This implies that homeowners and investors have been making location decisions without properly pricing the cost of potential peril,... View Details

Keywords: Climate Change; Housing; Mortgages; Geographic Location; Real Estate Industry

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Macomber, John D. "Climate Change Is Going to Transform Where and How We Build." In Climate Change: The Insights You Need from Harvard Business Review. Vol. 12. HBR Insights Series. Boston, MA: Harvard Business Review Press, 2020.

• January 2020
• Case

Celata Bioinnovations

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock

In December 2019, Jon Hu (HBS ‘19) and Dr. Samantha Dale Strasser, co-founders of Celata Bioinnovations, were raising $1 million to launch their company. They had founded Celata less than six months earlier with the aim of redefining the drug discovery process.... View Details

Keywords: Drug Development; Drug Discovery; Drug Trials; Pharmaceutical Companies; Pharmaceutical Company; Pharmaceuticals; Therapeutics; Biologics; Biotech; Biotechnology; Biopharmacy Company; Biochemistry; Technology Commercialization; Technology Companies; Drug Testing; Startup; Start-up; Startups; Start-ups; Startup Financing; Strategic Decision Making; Strategic Decisions; Strategic Evolution; FDA; Food And Drug Administration; Clinical Trials; Disease Management; Market Attractiveness; Market Entry; Market Opportunities; Health Disorders; Technological Innovation; Information Technology; Commercialization; Business Startups; Finance; Decision Making; Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Opportunities; Pharmaceutical Industry; Biotechnology Industry

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Wells, John R., and Benjamin Weinstock. "Celata Bioinnovations." Harvard Business School Case 720-427, January 2020.

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The Decreasing Value of Our Research to Management Education

By: Jone L. Pearce and Laura Huang

For centuries we have expected the best teachers also to be scholars. The practice of scholarship should do more than make scholars more humble teachers; scholarship is expected to be more than an activity done for its own sake. Here we present evidence that our... View Details

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Pearce, Jone L., and Laura Huang. "The Decreasing Value of Our Research to Management Education." Academy of Management Learning & Education 11, no. 2 (June 2012): 247–262.

• 29 Jan 2019
• HBS Seminar

Bryan Bollinger, Fuqua School of Business at Duke University

• 24 Nov 2015
• Research & Ideas

Developing Your Next CEO for the Family Business

built a manufacturing company for Manitowoc Cranes as an Outsider CEO before buying that company and selling it, then being recruited by his family’s fifth generation hot sauce maker, McIlhenny Company. These family members have the right... View Details

Keywords: Retail; Auto

• 06 Aug 2019
• Cold Call Podcast

Super Bowl Ads Sell Products, but Do They Sell Brands?

exciting. For the other 364 days a year, consumers go out of their way to avoid commercials. Kenny: The case gets into some data about how much brands are spending on advertising, generally speaking. I mean, what does that number look... View Details

Keywords: Advertising; Sports; Entertainment & Recreation; Media & Broadcasting

• 03 May 2010
• Research & Ideas

What Is the Future of MBA Education?

director of research. Garvin, the C. Roland Christensen Professor of Business Administration, teaches courses for MBAs and executives on leadership, general management, and operations. Garvin is also faculty chair of the School's... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

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Data Science for Managers

• Served as a teaching fellow; assisted MBA students with classroom coding exercises. 
• Developed course materials, including new case studies, technical notes, and code notebooks students used to analzye case data. 
• Developed interactive web... View Details

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Putting Patients First: Marketing Strategies for Treating HIV in Developing Nations

It is more than mere coincidence that the highest rates of HIV occur in the world’s poorest countries. Of the over 40 million people currently living with HIV, 95 percent are in the developing world. The first half of this paper explores the economics of HIV and... View Details