Publications

01 Jun 2001
News

Point, Click, Give: Internet Fuels Philanthropic Fundraising Revolution

(dot-org) WEBSEs populate e-philanthropy, Austin found that dot-coms dominate. They can more readily attract the venture capital and technical talent vital to Internet companies. “Imagine a start-up dot-org asking a major foundation for... View Details

Keywords: Anne Kavanagh; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

February 2024
Case

Horizon Quantum Computing

By: Paul A. Gompers and Billy Chan

In 2023, the Singapore-based startup company Horizon Quantum Computing was on the cusp of fast expansion and the founder faced the challenge to decide where to open the second office outside Singapore. To make a choice from the list of 10 countries, the founder had to... View Details

Keywords: Business Plan; Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurial Finance; Disruptive Innovation; Business Offices; Business Startups; Talent and Talent Management; Decision Choices and Conditions; Partners and Partnerships; Expansion; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; Singapore; Asia

01 Dec 2002
News

Alumni Bookshelf

Rules for Getting and Keeping the Best Employees, Fox's book offers a candid and counterintuitive take on securing and managing top talent. Why Economies Grow by Jeffrey Madrick (MBA '71) (Basic Books) In his third book, Madrick examines the 1990s in light of earlier... View Details

October 2022
Supplement

Single Earth: Science White Paper Supplement

By: Rembrand Koning and Emer Moloney

Science White Paper prepared by Single.Earth to give an overview of the models and solutions it has developed. View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology; Natural Resources; Pollution; Analytics and Data Science; Marketing; Product Marketing; Product Launch; Product Positioning; Markets; Market Timing; Strategy; Green Technology Industry; Estonia

October 2022
Case

Single.Earth

By: Rembrand Koning and Emer Moloney

Estonian greentech company Single.Earth is launching a nature-backed token that is linked to and funds the protection of a specific plot fo land. The first landowners had been onboarded to the company's Digital Twin, a virtual representation of the planet's natural... View Details

Keywords: Alternative Assets; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology; Natural Resources; Pollution; Analytics and Data Science; Marketing; Product Marketing; Product Launch; Product Positioning; Markets; Market Timing; Strategy; Green Technology Industry; Estonia

November 2022
Case

Para: Pay Transparency and Gig Drivers' Rights

By: Christopher Stanton and George Gonzalez

The case presents the founding vision and early days of a young startup that seeks to empower delivery drivers with tools and transparency. The company's flagship mobile app has been taken up by tens of thousands of delivery drivers across major U.S. cities who use it... View Details

Keywords: Gig Workers; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Applications and Software; Disruptive Innovation; Compensation and Benefits; Technology Industry; San Francisco

December 1996 (Revised June 1998)
Case

Midnight Networks, Inc.

By: H. Kent Bowen and Marilyn Matis

Midnight Networks, Inc., is a small computer network validation company. This case describes how the five founders built their business from operations earnings and how they established "best practices" operational processes to run their firm successfully. Operational... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Business or Company Management; Operations; Organizational Culture; Applications and Software; Business Startups; Business Growth and Maturation; Information Technology Industry; Massachusetts

Web

Monica Chang | MBA

innovative ideas into a reality. My professional goals are to find a way to bring those two things together. Right now, I'm most interested in launching my own venture at the intersection of technology and... View Details

Web

Neil Band | MBA

delivery for my senior thesis. Formative experience at the intersection of technology and business: At Kensho, an AI/ML fintech company, I learned that the greatest discoveries of this century will be due to unprecedented View Details

Profile

Deborah A. Farrington

hip-deep in paper. And of course, there were no women on the floor back then.” As co-founder and general partner of Manhattan-based StarVest Partners, Farrington is one of the few women to run her own venture capital firm. StarVest... View Details

January 2009
Teaching Note

VMWare Inc., 2008 (TN)

By: Andrei Hagiu

Teaching Note for [709435]. View Details

Keywords: Competition; Applications and Software; Mergers and Acquisitions; Initial Public Offering; Management Succession; Information Technology Industry

01 Dec 2020
News

New News

co-CEO of the New Paper, and Sur, founder and CEO of the Juggernaut, leading a new venture in an intensely competitive environment has been the best sort of challenge, calling on every one of their MBA skills. On November 3 they talked to... View Details

Keywords: entrepreneuship; digital media; startups; news; business models; young alumni; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

April 2011 (Revised February 2015)
Course Overview Note

The Online Economy: Strategy and Entrepreneurship — Course Architecture Note

By: Peter Coles and Benjamin Edelman

This note provides an overview of the Harvard Business School course "The Online Economy: Strategy and Entrepreneurship." It covers the framework for the course, key principles within each course module, and a synopsis of each case, along with the lessons the case is... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Business Plan; Business Education; Curriculum and Courses; Entrepreneurship; Business Strategy; Information Technology; Internet and the Web

06 Dec 2021
News

New Wave

that uses specialized buoys to convert wave energy into electricity. When Shendure and his cofounder launched the company in 2009, for example, they focused on electromagnetic generator technology that had never been used for large-scale... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Chris Sorensen

01 Dec 2009
News

The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle

start-up will be a phone call away, if you have the right idea,” write Senor and Singer. But the IDF experience is not the only reason for Israel’s business success. For one thing, Israel leads the OECD countries in the percentage of GDP earmarked for R&D, creating... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; National Security and International Affairs; Government

July 2011 (Revised September 2011)
Case

Game Time Decision for AppDirect

By: Andrei Hagiu, Laura Arjona and Emily Zhang

AppDirect is a start-up that offers small businesses software-as-a-service solutions through a business app marketplace and portal. Daniel Saks, co-founder and co-CEO, is faced with the key question of deciding distribution strategy: should AppDirect find channel... View Details

Keywords: Digital Platforms; Distribution; Applications and Software; Innovation Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Business Growth and Maturation; Competitive Strategy; Information Technology Industry; United States