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Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact My Transformational Experience with Social Enterprise at HBS Matt Segneri 08 Sep 2017 MBAs at HBS... View Details

January 2013
Case

Cabot Corporation: The Fuel Cell Decision (A)

By: Willy Shih and Ying Zhou

Managers at Cabot Corporation are faced with deciding the future of its fuel cell program. The (A) case recounts the view of the business manager and the technical project lead, and the (B) case describes the perspective of a senior manager who is the head of the New... View Details

01 Dec 1997
News

A Piece of the Action

manufactured, or improve the way doctors perform surgery. HBS Takes Root in Silicon Valley While the Il Fornaio staff serve up French toast and fresh fruit, the patrons volley the big ideas that have turned Silicon Valley into a global capital of entrepreneurship,... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

13 May 2022
Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #5: Phyllis Newhouse, CEO, Entrepreneur, Leader

Climate Stories Episode #5: Phyllis Newhouse, CEO, Entrepreneur, Leader Episode #5 of Climate Stories is a little different. It describes the innovative solar technology of Heliogen, a renewable energy company. But it is also an interview... View Details

May 2024 (Revised March 2025)
Case

MStudio and Djoli: Accelerating Startup Growth in Francophone Africa

By: Paul A. Gompers, Pippa Tubman Armerding and Temitayo Lawal

Djoli, a procurement platform, was one of the startups launched and supported by MStudio, a startup studio in Côte d'Ivoire, in 2023. After a year of operations, Djoli must look beyond MStudio, which had supported them financially and in kind in exchange for equity,... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Africa; Côte d'Ivoire

20 Oct 2016
News

Smart Moves

2005. In the intervening years, technological evolution has pushed INRIX’s capabilities far beyond just offering help to frustrated drivers on crowded highways. “We began as a traffic company, and HBS wrote a case about us back in 2012... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Support Activities for Transportation; Transportation

22 Apr 2022
Blog Post

Celebrating Earth Day 2022 with the HBS Business and Environment Initiative

my skills and experience to reduce the friction that tough-tech ideas face on their path to scale and bring new technologies to the world, both as an investor and operator. I’m a technologist at heart, but... View Details

Uncovering the roots of innovation

ecosystem, shaping the field's trajectory. As an interdisciplinary scholar, I examined the evolving relationships among individuals and organizations that helped cultivate a world-leading industry at the technological frontier. The... View Details

31 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

A Scholarly Crowd Explores Crowdsourcing

actually might be detrimental to innovation," said HBS Assistant Professor Rory McDonald, presenting the paper Exposed: Venture Capital, Competitor Ties, and Entrepreneurial Innovation. The issues became clear when the research group... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

October 2016 (Revised February 2019)
Case

PTC: A Transformation to IoT

By: Rajiv Lal and Sarah McAra

In the 2010s, PTC, a leading provider of software for discrete manufacturers, faced maturing markets and changing customer needs as smart, connected products took hold—the rise of the Internet of Things (IoT). PTC saw a first mover advantage in entering the IoT space... View Details

Keywords: Internet Of Things; IoT; Smart; Connected Products; Business Organization; Transformation; Customer Relationship Management; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Leading Change; Marketing; Product Development; Service Operations; Strategy; Competition; Technology Industry

18 Dec 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018

case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/319032-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 719-403 Accomplice: Scaling Early Stage Finance Accomplice, an early-stage venture capital firm based in Boston, is raising... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Jun 2011
News

A Growing Drumbeat

Innovation Lab opens on Western Avenue. (Announced last October, the i-lab will serve as a hub for innovation and collaboration across Harvard and beyond.) In the classroom, Eisenmann’s new course, Launching Technology View Details

Keywords: Contests

01 Aug 2002
News

HBS Business Plan Contest Keeps Entrepreneurial Spirit Alive

track, defined as any organization whose core activities address social issues. Each winning team received $10,000 in cash as well as $10,000 in in-kind accounting and legal services to get its venture up and running. For the fourth year,... View Details

August 1997 (Revised July 1999)
Case

Hewlett-Packard's Santa Rosa Systems Division (A): The Trials and Tribulations of a Legacy

By: Michael Beer

Describes the process of transforming a recently formed division of Hewlett-Packard. View Details

Keywords: Business Divisions; Transformation; Courts and Trials; Information Technology Industry