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  • 07 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 7

Internet/entertainment company Tencent, Supercell has a valuation of $10.2 billion, making it Europe’s first “decacorn” (a start-up with a $10 billion or greater value). Supercell’s success is due in part to its unconventional company... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • July 2019 (Revised May 2021)
  • Case

Acelerex

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
In early 2019, Randell Johnson, Founder and Chief Executive of Acelerex, was reflecting on the company’s first year of rapid growth and the challenges of scaling the business that lay ahead. Acelerex was riding the waves of change taking place in electrical power grids... View Details
Keywords: Energy; Energy Sources; Growth Management; Expansion; Global Strategy; Cash Flow; Energy Industry; Web Services Industry; Consulting Industry
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  • 05 Feb 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Business and the Global Poor

default. Finally, companies are challenged to find ways to bring BOP initiatives to scale and sustainability within the time frames dictated by traditional corporate targets. In many BOP ventures, the true profit driver lies in volume... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Entrepreneurial Management - Faculty & Research

Chi Wan and Alptug Yorulmaz We study funding gaps on Kickstarter across multiple ethnic groups from 2009 to 2021. Scaling the concept of racially salient events, we quantify the close co-movement of minority funding gaps in crowd-funding... View Details
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Podcast - Business & Environment

HBS professor George Serafeim about his case on Northvolt, a Sweden-based start-up company producing batteries for Europe’s EV auto manufacturers. They'll discuss Northvolt’s efforts to build government partnerships, hire the right... View Details
  • 17 Mar 2015
  • First Look

First Look: March 17

in partnered R&D projects. March 2015 Journal of Operations Management Collaboration in Multi-Partner R&D Projects: The Impact of Partnering Scale and Scope By: Mishra, Anant, Aravind Chandrasekaran, and Alan MacCormack... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

the changes have been accelerated by technology, the pandemic, rising interest rates, and inflation. But the managerial and resource-allocation implications of these developments for start-ups and established companies are often... 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 should seek to double its View Details
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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

data start-ups on the other—offering data-intensive, analytics-based services that could connect to any industrial device. So GE launched a multibillion-dollar initiative focused on what it calls the industrial internet: adding digital... View Details
  • 29 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29

Repository Use in Scaling Service Operations By: Valentine, Melissa A., Tom Fangyun Tan, Bradley R. Staats, and Amy C. Edmondson Abstract—To scale service operations requires sharing knowledge across the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Nov 2021
  • In Practice

What's the Role of Business in Confronting Climate Change?

The 26th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, also known as COP26, ended with a hard-fought pact that called on businesses and governments to meet their climate change goals faster. The event followed an August report by the Intergovernmental... View Details
Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Dina Gerdeman
  • 08 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

important strategic choice for the future. Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/617062-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 517-065 Luminopia: Improving Treatment for Visual Disorders Luminopia—a start-up founded in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Faculty & Advisors - MBA

imperative to scale beyond a single instance, and to reach more people and urban places. Tom Clay MBA ’97, Harvard University; BA, Mathematics, Princeton University. Tom Clay has 20 years of experience successfully commercializing new... View Details
  • 26 May 2023
  • Blog Post

Bringing Space Tech Back to Earth

degree in mechanical engineering from MIT, Sweeney worked for a pair of technology start-ups in the three years before coming to Harvard. Neither experience ended the way she wanted: one company laid her off after going bankrupt when the... View Details
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Curriculum - Business & Environment

managers, entrepreneurs, and investors rely on to balance impact and profit, and how to scale solutions that address societal and environmental issues. For the full listing, click here . Reweaving Ourselves and the World: New Perspectives... View Details
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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research

by Attractive Men By: Alison Wood Brooks , Laura Huang, Sarah Kearney and Fiona Murray Entrepreneurship is a central path to job creation, economic growth, and prosperity. In the earliest stages of start-up business creation, the matching... View Details
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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

company Excara and switched to selling enterprise software for managing product content. In 2002, he started two nonprofits in response to the sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church. He is currently acting VP of Product Strategy for Authoria as he researches and... View Details
  • 06 Sep 2022
  • Blog Post

Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business & Environment

is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage climate tech start-ups that reduce CO2 emissions by at least 2.5 Gt by 2050. The $110M fund focuses on early-stage companies commercializing novel technologies and innovating business... View Details
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Nonprofit Strategy & Governance | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

later in my career. Then it just occurred to me: Well, why not now? That insight led Featured Research Should Your Start-up Be For-profit or Nonprofit? A Guide for Social Entrepreneurs By: Cait Brumme & Brian Trelstad June 2023 | Harvard... View Details
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Past Issues - Alumni

when finance becomes a common language Happy Returns HBS celebrates reunions on a grand scale Complete Table of Contents June 2022 Alumni Achievement Awards 2022 This year’s recipients of the School’s highest honor demonstrate how family,... View Details