Publications

December 2024
Case

Core Innovation Capital: Investing in Fintech for Good

By: Ray Kluender, Natalia Rigol, Benjamin Roth and Nicole Tempest Keller

In 2017, Arjan Schütte, founder of Core Innovation Capital, faced a decision on whether to invest in Hugo Insurance, an auto insurance startup. Core, an early-stage social impact VC firm, focused on “fintech for good,” by investing in financial services for low- to... View Details

Keywords: Fintech; Venture Capital; Social Entrepreneurship; Insurance; Measurement and Metrics; Investment; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Product Positioning; Financial Services Industry; Technology Industry; Insurance Industry; United States

Web

Undergraduate Technology Innovation Fellows Program | MBA

innovation ecosystem committed to helping you move your ideas further, faster. Rock Center for Entrepreneurship The Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship is a vital resource... View Details

Web

Fostering Innovation in Life Sciences - Health Care

to additional field-based experience in innovating new health care ventures on topics chosen by the students or from those made available by the faculty. For Students & Alumni Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science View Details

14 Jan 2016
News

In Taiwan, Survivor Mentality Stymies Tech Innovation

26 Jan 2004
Research & Ideas

What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation

capitalists to fund big bets on technology, research universities that mint PhDs, and a clear legal framework that protects intellectual property. In stark contrast, companies in developing countries lack these advantages. But does this mean that View Details

Keywords: by Donald N. Sull, Alejandro Ruelas-Gossi & Martin Escobari

15 Aug 2019
News

How the Best Leaders Inspire Their Employees to Be Innovators

24 Apr 2014
News

An engine of innovation in public education

inner-city school in New York City, before HBS. After receiving dual graduate degrees at Harvard, Leschly sold Exchange.com, the e-commerce site he created, to Amazon. Years later, he returned to HBS to teach a course he developed, View Details

February 2019 (Revised May 2019)
Case

Schneider Electric: Opening Up to External Innovation

By: Antonio Davila

Schneider Electric competes in tough but stable markets around energy management, automation, and control of infrastructures ranging from homes to production plants. New technologies and new approaches to serving markets are challenging the status quo. To take... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Venture Capital; Accelerator; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Organizational Design; Energy Industry; Manufacturing Industry; France; United States

21 Sep 2012
News

HBS Professor Says Companies Need To Change How They Innovate

1988
Chapter

Encouraging Innovation and Entrepreneurs in Bureaucratic Companies

By: R. M. Kanter

Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Design

01 Dec 2007
News

Where Are the Innovators in Health Care?

No sector of our economy is more in need of innovation than health care, yet its many regulations handcuff entrepreneurs. A consumer-driven health-care system will unlock these shackles to bring about a much-needed entrepreneurial... View Details

Keywords: Regina E. Herzlinger; Health, Social Assistance; Management

12 Aug 2014
News

Internal Entrepreneurs Don't Have to Be Lonely

Keywords: internal entrepreneurship; tribes; alliances; innovation strategy

December 2024
Supplement

Core Innovation Capital: Investing in Fintech for Good (B)

By: Ray Kluender, Natalia Rigol, Benjamin Roth and Nicole Tempest Keller

In 2017, Core Innovation Capital invested $725,000 in Hugo Insurance, a pay-as-you-drive auto insurance startup targeting the non-standard market. Core followed with $300,000 in 2019 during a Seed II round. By 2022, Hugo founder, David Bergendahl, sought $10 million in... View Details

Keywords: Fintech; Venture Capital; Social Entrepreneurship; Insurance; Measurement and Metrics; Investment; Financial Services Industry; Technology Industry; Insurance Industry; United States

June 2013
Supplement

Montague Corporation: Unfolding the Future in Cycling (Video Supplement)

By: Jim Sharpe

This is the Video Supplement for Montague Corporation: Unfolding the Future in Cycling (HBS Case #808087). View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurs; Consumer Products; Innovation ＆ Entrepreneurship; Innovation; General Managers; Growth; Growth Management; International; Consumer Behavior; Marketing Channels; Founding; Channels Of Distribution; Entrepreneurship; Marketing; Leadership; Bicycle Industry; United States

Aug 2011 - 2011
Conference Presentation

Institutional Heterogeneity, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship in the U.S. Biodiesel Fuel Sector

By: Shon R. Hiatt

Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Entrepreneurship; Business Ventures; Energy Industry; Green Technology Industry; Biotechnology Industry

April 2006 (Revised May 2009)
Case

Inverness Medical Innovations - Born Global (A)

Ron Zwanziger has just started his third company, having just sold the last one for $1.3 billion to Johnson & Johnson. As part of the deal with J&J, certain assets were transferred to the new company, Inverness Medical Innovations, which, at the time of its creation,... View Details

Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Mergers and Acquisitions; Entrepreneurship; Health Care and Treatment; Corporate Finance; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Health Industry; Waltham