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As a technology-first company, Duolingo recognized the enormous potential of Gen AI to power innovative products, such as conversational language practice. However, Hacker envisioned an even broader future in which AI could transform the app into a comprehensive... View Details

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Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

agencies, and Fortune 500 executives. The bet: by providing "no-strings-attached" help to ecosystem partners, the partners might someday reciprocate by steering founders seeking funding to a16z. The case closes by asking whether a16z... View Details

September 2008 (Revised August 2009)
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VMware, Inc., 2008

By: David B. Yoffie, Andrei Hagiu and Michael Slind

Paul Maritz took the helm of VMware in July 2008, just as the company confronted a radically new competitive environment. Since its founding in 1998, VMware had been the leading provider of virtualization software. Now it faced the kind of threat that every software... View Details

Keywords: History; Digital Platforms; Competition; Decision Choices and Conditions; Applications and Software; Business Strategy

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Ranalli 03 Nov 2023 HBS Clubs Global Networking Night; Sweden Club Holds Climate Forum By: Margie Kelley 02 Nov 2023 HBS Alumni News Seeding Startups How entrepreneur Shirish Nadkarni (MBA 1987) is helping to grow the startup ecosystem in... View Details

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Brice Fodouop

strong impact on Africa. The Africa Business Conference attracts a thousand people a year; the alumni base on the continent is important to me.” “The HBS ecosystem has been critical in my first few months here,” Brice says. “There’s... View Details

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Maha Malik

look beyond the business case to the political environment behind the venture, the ecosystems in which my clients operated." This dual perspective led her to the joint MPP/MBA program at the Harvard Kennedy School and HBS. "I... View Details

Keywords: Consulting; Financial Services

08 May 2009
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Capitalizing On Innovation: The Case of Japan

Keywords: by Robert Dujarric & Andrei Hagiu

16 May 2023
In Practice

After Silicon Valley Bank's Flameout, What's Next for Entrepreneurs?

investments and triggered a run on deposits, gave pause to startup investors and also holds lessons for founders going forward. Harvard Business School faculty suggest some key takeaways for the startup ecosystem as the dust settles and... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Technology; Financial Services

02 Nov 2023
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Seeding Startups

Shirish Nadkarni (MBA 1987) was the director of product planning for Microsoft’s MSN when he decided he was ready to become an entrepreneur. He had recently led the growing internet portal’s 1997 acquisition of Hotmail, the first free, web-based email solution, and the... View Details

Keywords: April White

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Strategy Curriculum - Faculty & Research

Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 IFC: Japan; Exploring Japan's Innovation Ecosystem (also listed under Marketing) Ramon Casadesus-Masanell , Tomomichi Amano January 2026 J 3.0 IFC: Saudi Arabia; A Nation and its Oil Economy Reimagined Tarun Khanna ,... View Details

01 Dec 2023
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Thinking Ahead

As we wind down 2023, there’s talk everywhere of generative AI and how it will fundamentally alter the world as we know it; but how does that translate for your corner of the business world? Is TikTok something you need to take seriously? (Is it time to dance?) We... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Illustrations by Chris Gash; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

20 Aug 2021
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Is the MBA Worth It? Hear What Recent HBS Grads Have to Say

would they be? Vibrant, enlightening, and communal. Was an HBS MBA worth it? 100%! I started at HBS with a strong technical background, but very little exposure to the business side of running a company and the venture ecosystem of... View Details

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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

define itself around food delivery—or was it time to evolve into a multi-vertical platform, leveraging the broader ecosystem it had built? Keywords: Acquisition ; Business Conglomerates ; Corporate Entrepreneurship ; Innovation Strategy ;... View Details

19 Sep 2023
Research & Ideas

What Chandrayaan-3 Says About India's Entrepreneurial Approach to Space

unbelievable job. But what’s interesting is that the underlying attitudes are not that different—a lot of experimentation—from those that we’ve seen in the NASA and SpaceX ecosystem in the last decade but with probably a fraction of the... View Details

Keywords: by Clea Simon, Harvard Gazette; Aerospace

14 Mar 2023
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What Does the Failure of Silicon Valley Bank Say About the State of Finance?

exposures, since they fell below the Fed’s threshold for annual collection of Form FR Y-14A Capital Assessments and Stress Testing. At the moment, we also cannot track what fraction of SVB’s deposits was connected to the local venture capital (VC) View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking

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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research

Online: A Fin-Tech Service for Culture and Community (A) By: James Riley and Bernal Cortés July 2025 | Case | Faculty Research In 2020, Ryan Glover and Paul Judge launched Greenwood, a fintech startup designed to counter systemic racial discrimination in the American... View Details

20 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

The 5 Strategy Rules of Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs

would move beyond the computer to use a range of electronic devices for entertainment and communication and then systematically rolled them out one step at a time—the iPod, iPhone, and iPad. Building an Ecosystem Gates was the first of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Computer

September 2023 (Revised June 2024)
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Kaspi.kz: Building Trust through Innovation

By: Sandra J. Sucher, Fares Khrais and Marilyn Morgan Westner

This case is written to help students explore how companies can maintain and develop trust while innovating, how to identify and respond effectively to warning signs that they may not be as trusted as they believe, and how being trusted can aid in expanding and growing... View Details

Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Culture; Trust; Technology Adoption; Innovation and Invention; Banking Industry