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    Lindsay N. Hyde

    Lindsay is a Senior Lecturer at Harvard Business School in the Entrepreneurial Management unit. She teaches Avoiding Startup Failure, Launching Technology Ventures, and Startup Bootcamp. Lindsay also serves as the HBS Faculty co-chair of the View Details

    • 2023
    • Working Paper

    Networking Frictions: Evidence from Entrepreneurial Networking Events in Lomé

    By: Stefan Dimitiadis and Rembrand Koning
    Spatial proximity between firms plays a crucial role in entrepreneurship by creating knowledge spillovers, enabling resource sharing, and sparking productivity gains. Building on these insights, research has explored whether institutions and organizations can engineer... View Details
    Keywords: Local Range; Knowledge Sharing; Performance Productivity; Togo
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    • August 1999 (Revised February 2000)
    • Case

    Cisco Systems, Inc.: Acquisition Integration for Manufacturing (A)

    By: Steven C. Wheelwright, Charles A. Holloway, Nicole Tempest and Christian G. Kasper
    Describes the procedures and processes used by Cisco Systems in its acquisition of high-technology firms. Its goal is to retain key engineering talent and to leverage existing product development efforts, but to quickly merge acquired companies its own systems and... View Details
    Keywords: Information Technology; Leveraged Buyouts; Acquisition; Integration; Mergers and Acquisitions; Production; Activity Based Costing and Management; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Management; Technological Innovation; Talent and Talent Management; Human Resources; Manufacturing Industry; Technology Industry; England
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    • February 2003 (Revised April 2012)
    • Case

    Sheila Mason & Craig Shepherd

    Describes a marketing executive and an engineer who are starting a company together. Each is still at his/her former employer, and each has signed a different employment agreement that, on paper, may prohibit soliciting customers or employees. Focuses on how... View Details
    Keywords: Resignation and Termination; Intellectual Property; Contracts; Legal Liability; Entrepreneurship; Ethics
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    • 25 Sep 2018
    • News

    Corporations of the World! Young Scientists Need You

    • 10 Sep 2020
    • Blog Post

    Founding a Company at the Intersection of Medicine and Technology

    Paxton Maeder-York is a proud member of the MBA class of 2019, Section G.  He deferred between his RC and EC years to complete an additional master’s degree in Computational Science. Having studied Biomedical Engineering as an... View Details
    • July 2010
    • Article

    The Supply Side of Innovation: H-1B Visa Reforms and U.S. Ethnic Invention

    By: William R. Kerr and William F. Lincoln
    This study evaluates the impact of high-skilled immigrants on U.S. technology formation. We use reduced-form specifications that exploit large changes in the H-1B visa program. Higher H-1B admissions increase immigrant science and engineering (SE) employment and... View Details
    Keywords: Engineering; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Immigration; Innovation and Invention; Patents; Business and Government Relations; Science; United States
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    • 19 May 2021
    • Blog Post

    Instagram Takeover - Ja’ Saint-Tulias (MBA 2022)

    Ja’ Saint-Tulias (MBA 2022) is a forward-thinking, aspiring digital beauty marketing leader, and storyteller with an extensive background in chemical engineering and entrepreneurship from Michigan State University. Since she was a little... View Details
    • Article

    Digital Ubiquity: How Connections, Sensors, and Data Are Revolutionizing Business

    By: Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani
    When Google bought Nest, a maker of digital thermostats, for $3.2 billion just a few months ago, it was a clear indication that digital transformation and connection are spreading across even the most traditional industrial segments and creating a staggering array of... View Details
    Keywords: Digital Innovation; Digitization; Industrial Internet; Technological Innovation; Production; Competitive Strategy; Engineering; Aerospace Industry
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      Robert C. Merton

      Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

      Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

      Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services

        Robert S. Kaplan

        Robert S. Kaplan is Senior Fellow and Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School. He joined the HBS faculty in 1984 after spending 16 years on the faculty of the business school at Carnegie-Mellon University, where he... View Details

        Keywords: health care; nonprofit industry
        • 09 Jul 2018
        • Video

        Sergio Velasquez-Terjesen

        • June 2024
        • Simulation

        Vehicle Lifecycle Emissions Calculator

        By: Mike Toffel, Shirley Lu and George Serafeim
        This Vehicle Lifecycle Emissions Calculator calculates the greenhouse gas emissions over the lifespan of internal combustion engine (ICEs) vehicles, battery electric vehicles (BEVs), and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV), including those associated with their... View Details
        Keywords: Decarbonization; Environment; Carbon Accounting; Carbon; Carbon Abatement; Electric Vehicles; Automobiles; Environmental Accounting; Environmental Management; Environmental Sustainability; Strategy; Technological Innovation; Supply Chain; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Climate Change; Transportation; Transportation Industry; Auto Industry; Battery Industry
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        • 12 Jul 2015
        • News

        How Genzyme became a source of biotech executives

        • 18 Dec 2019
        • Video

        An Inside Look at the MS/MBA Joint Degree Program

          California Management Review article wins 2007 Accenture Award

          Greater job mobility among engineers and scientists has caused the extended social networks of inventors to become increasingly connected.  Firms that operate within small worlds such as in Silicon Valley long ago learned to manage invention in an... View Details

          • November 2016 (Revised October 2018)
          • Case

          IguanaFix

          By: Frank V. Cespedes, Thomas R. Eisenmann, Maria Fernanda Miguel and Laura Urdapilleta
          IguanaFix is a rapidly scaling Latin American startup that provides an online platform connecting consumers with home improvement contractors. The founders have acquired customers through both B2C and B2B methods. But in seeking to grow and scale the business, they now... View Details
          Keywords: Entrepreneurial Marketing; Home Improvement Services; Marketing Management; Scaling; Entrepreneurship; Marketing; Sales; Online Advertising; Latin America
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          • September 2012 (Revised September 2012)
          • Case

          Inkaterra

          By: Diego Comin, Rohan Gopaldas and Diego Rehder
          The case presents the unique business model of Inkaterra, a leading eco-tourism organization in Peru, and the different strategies the company can pursue to grow. Through the experience of Inkaterra the case studies two general issues. First, it discusses the potential... View Details
          Keywords: Inkaterra; Ecotourism; Tourism; Environment; Peru; Informal Sector; Regulation; Economic Development; Bottom Of The Pyramid; Technology Diffusion; Competitiveness; Business Model; Growth and Development Strategy; Natural Environment; Market Entry and Exit; Conflict Management; Tourism Industry; Peru
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          • February 2007
          • Case

          South African Airways (A)

          By: Joshua D. Margolis, Laura Morgan Roberts and Laura Winig
          Amid efforts to engineer a turnaround at South African Airways (SAA), the CEO confronts an impending strike at the struggling company. How should the company address questions of distributive and procedural justice in post-Apartheid South Africa, and how should the CEO... View Details
          Keywords: Fairness; Crisis Management; Employees; Employment; Growth and Development; Developing Countries and Economies; Air Transportation Industry; South Africa
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          • November 2008
          • Case

          HNA Group: Moving China's Air Transport Industry in a New Direction

          By: William C. Kirby, F. Warren McFarlan and Tracy Manty
          HNA Group, the parent company of Hainan Airlines, was positioning itself to go global and make a mark for itself as the largest private airline in China. Positioned squarely behind the "Big Three" state-owned carriers, Hainan Airlines sought to create a world-class... View Details
          Keywords: Global Strategy; Management Practices and Processes; Private Ownership; Competitive Advantage; Air Transportation Industry; China
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