Smart Buildings - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Mar 2020
Blog Post

Know Your Audience – Recruiting HBS Students for Energy

excited to contribute to companies who are increasing energy efficiency, investing in energy innovations, improving infrastructure for transportation and natural resources, and making improvements to the smart grid. There are also... View Details

Keywords: Energy / Cleantech

25 May 2015
Blog Post

RapidSOS Wins the HBS New Venture Competition

Innovation Lab and Rock Center for Entrepreneurship taught us how to build and organize an agile development team. Meanwhile, we reached out to countless alumni in the technology and telecom space. Again and again, we were blown away by... View Details

29 Apr 2020
Book

The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages

Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Mar 2023
News

The Latest Model

Prysm Group Cofounders Hurder (left) and Barrera: bringing an industry-agnostic approach to helping business leverage emerging technologies Prysm Group cofounders Hurder (left) and Barrera: bringing an industry-agnostic approach to helping business leverage emerging... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; blockchain; cryptocurrency; economic models; innovation; consulting; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

14 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Blockbuster! Why Star Power Works

of superstar talent, so any manager hoping to make blockbusters needs them on his or her side. Fourth, an entrepreneurial streak is essential, I think. Every product launch effectively involves groups of people coming together to build... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation

01 Oct 2000
News

Books

concept of modularity -- the building of complex products from smaller subsystems that can be designed independently yet function together as a whole. It was modularity, the authors assert, that freed designers to experiment with... View Details

01 Mar 2023
News

March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Invisible Trillions: How Financial Secrecy Is Imperiling Capitalism and Democracy—and the Way to Renew Our Broken System By Raymond W. Baker (MBA 1960) Berrett-Koehler Publishers Over the last half century, capitalism has created... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Jun 2022
News

June 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

book offers the steps necessary to building the new principles and guardrails to empower flexible, high-performing teams. And it teaches readers to lead with purpose, to manage and measure differently, and to believe that by letting go,... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Apr 2014
First Look

First Look: April 1

investigates the impact of early relationships on entrepreneurial firm innovation. Prior research has largely focused on the benefits of network ties, documenting the many advantages that accrue to firms embedded in a rich network of inter-organizational relationships.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Apr 2001
News

New Ventures New Gains

first location at Boston’s Logan Airport last December. “The fundamentals of the company have not really changed,” she says, adding that the contest gave her the courage to take the entrepreneurial leap. “Having a bunch of smart people... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna and Susan Young; Martin Dubilier (MBA 1952); Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

12 Jul 2019
News

The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster

1,000 people in 180 cities around the world. In this episode of Skydeck, Associate Editor Jen Flint talks to two of Cloudflare’s founders, Michelle Zatlyn (MBA 2009) and Matthew Prince (MBA 2009), about how the business began 10 years ago in the midst of the financial... View Details

13 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

Corporate Venturing: Entrepreneurship on the Inside

talent." Robert Latoff, a leader of the Growth and Business Building Center at McKinsey & Company, said big companies often have to rethink the way they do things when starting new businesses. "The business processes that... View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

05 Apr 2022
Blog Post

The HBS New Venture Competition Turns 25: Celebrating A Quarter Century of Innovation and Entrepreneurship

of the arduous journey of building a successful venture,” said Jodi Gernon (MBA 1991), director of the Arthur Rock Center. “The winners and the participants have gone on to raise over $21 billion and have created over 15,000 jobs in such... View Details

28 May 2008
First Look

First Look: May 28, 2008

institutional entrepreneurship. Finally, the paper highlights future directions for research on this topic. Researchers are encouraged to use this paper to build sophisticated, targeted research designs that will add value to the growing... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2020
News

The Camel and the Unicorn

merchants basically built a portfolio of these highly risky ventures. A lot of the boats didn't come back. Some of the boats didn't come back full or didn't pay off. And with that approach, were able to really build an industry. And that... View Details

01 Dec 2006
News

The Hard Way

Russo at home in her Brisbane apartment. She credits her domineering Sicilian father with teaching her the street smarts to succeed in business. PHOTO BY PATRICK HAMILTON /NEWSPIX/NEWS LTD. Every successful entrepreneur can look back and,... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

04 Sep 2019
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2019

having a networking strategy is the game-changer that can allow you to advance more effectively? Smart networking is about building relationships. Networking is more about coffee and less about cocktails.... View Details

13 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

Does Business Get Done the Same Way in Emerging and Developed Countries?

was level, and he took advantage. Eventually he would build Akfen Holding, today one of the biggest infrastructure construction and operations companies. “As an outsider in the previous era, this was a fantastic opportunity,” says Felix... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

08 Oct 2013
First Look

First Look: October 8

fundamental business model has not changed in more than 100 years: very smart outsiders go into organizations for a finite period of time and recommend solutions for the most difficult problems confronting their clients. But at... View Details