Publications

March 2015 (Revised April 2015)
Case

The Heat Is On: Emerging Ecosystems in the Thermostat Industry

By: David Collis and Ashley Hartman

Beth Wozniak, President of Honeywell Environmental and Combustion Controls (ECC) at Honeywell International Inc., spun around in her office chair, reflecting about how the classic, mature thermostat industry was rapidly evolving. In February 2014, Google paid $3.2... View Details

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Emodiversity and the Emotional Ecosystem

By: Jordi Quoidbach, June Gruber, Moira Mikolajczak, Alexsandr Kogan, Ilios Kotsou and Michael I. Norton

Bridging psychological research exploring emotional complexity and research in the natural sciences on the measurement of biodiversity, we introduce—and demonstrate the benefits of—emodiversity: the variety and relative abundance of the emotions that humans experience.... View Details

Keywords: Health; Diversity; Emotions

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21 Jan 2011 - 2011
Conference Presentation

Bottleneck Strategies for Business Ecosystems

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin

Keywords: Strategy; Business Ventures

Jan 2014
Case

StriveTogether: Reinventing the Local Education Ecosystem

StriveTogether is building a network of communities that use Collective Impact as a way for the business community and other stakeholders to collaborate to improve public education in a locale. The leaders of StriveTogether must now focus on creating proof points in... View Details

October 2013 (Revised April 2016)
Case

StriveTogether: Reinventing the Local Education Ecosystem

By: Allen Grossman, Ann Lombard and Noah Fisher

StriveTogether aimed to improve education outcomes by coordinating the actions of diverse community stakeholders—nonprofit service providers, school districts, government, parents, businesses and others. StriveTogether had an intense focus on collective impact—"the... View Details

Keywords: Education Reform; Not For Profit; Communities; Collaboration; Collective Impact; Nonprofit Organizations; Education; Business and Community Relations; Education Industry; United States

19 Jul 2019
News

Building an Ecosystem for African Entrepreneurs

The philosophy of “Africapitalism” has guided Tony Elumelu’s (AMP 166, 2004) business career. The chairman of United Bank of Africa coined the term to describe the type of community-focused investments made by Heirs Holdings, where he is now chairman. Among many other... View Details

20 Feb 2019
News

Building an Ecosystem for African Entrepreneurs

ecosystem for African entrepreneurs.” His work is not charity, Elumelu stresses. It is an investment. The Foundation believes that these entrepreneurs can create at least 1 million jobs in Africa and contribute at least $10 billion in... View Details

Keywords: April White

2014
Other Teaching and Training Material

Entrepreneurship Reading: Attracting Talent and Building Ecosystems

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Carole Carlson

April 2011
Case

The Sandbox: Creating a Bottom-Up Entrepreneurial Ecosystem

By: Shikhar Ghosh, Lynda M. Applegate, Rhea Ghosh and Amar Kumar

Discussion of new model of Social Enterprise that applies the venture capital model to social enterprise. View Details

Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Non-Governmental Organizations; Venture Capital; Business Model

29 Jun 2019
News

Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Africa

And I've always grown up with the strong guiding principle that to whom much is given, much is expected. So specifically with Suguba, what we want to do is to develop strong entrepreneurial ecosystems across francophone Africa through the... View Details

November 2023
Case

AEEC: Building Ecosystem Partnerships for Digital Transformation

By: Lynda M. Applegate and James Short

March 2023 (Revised May 2024)
Case

Paga: Building a Fintech Ecosystem in Nigeria

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Namrata Arora

May 2017
Teaching Note

CIC: Catalyzing Entrepreneurial Ecosystems (A) & (B)

By: William R. Kerr and Alexis Brownell

Teaching Note for HBS Nos. 817-126 and 817-127. View Details

March 2020 (Revised November 2020)
Case

FinTech Hive at DIFC: Creating a Fintech Ecosystem in Dubai

By: Marco Di Maggio and Gamze Yucaoglu

The case opens in 2019 as Raja Al Mazrouei, executive vice president of FinTech Hive (the Hive) at the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), the first and largest financial technology accelerator in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia region, contemplates her... View Details

Keywords: Fintech; Emerging Markets; Business Startups; Venture Capital; Management; Information Technology; Growth Management; Financial Markets; Financial Institutions; United Arab Emirates; Middle East; Dubai

26 Jun 2000
Research & Ideas

A New Ecosystem for Business and Society

In their opening comments at the IS2K conference, Harvard University President Neil L. Rudenstine and Harvard Business School Dean Kim B. Clark called forth, respectively, the spirits of the industrial past and the high-tech future to remind the audience that... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

20 Jul 2020
Interview

Agility in the Startup and Venture Ecosystem

By: Euvin Naidoo