Ecosystems - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 Apr 2016
News

New Venture Competition Winners Announced

ventures. Rock Center Director Jodi Gernon (MBA 1991) began the finale by saying that the Competition has had more than 3,000 students participate from across the Harvard ecosystem and has awarded over $2.5 million in prize money... View Details

25 Aug 2022
News

Clean Slate

airlines’ transition to sustainable aviation fuels (SAF), for example, and incentivizing greener options for airport transport, whether that’s an Uber, HOV, or a Logan Express bus. “We think about our airport as an ecosystem, where the health and success of any... View Details

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Digital Operations - Course Catalog

coordinate multi-party ecosystems through digital platforms. Students will analyze how companies adapt their processes to new industry structures, shifting competitive dynamics, and changing operational roles. Module 3: Scaling... View Details

31 Oct 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/317040-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 817-126 CIC: Catalyzing Entrepreneurial Ecosystems (A) CIC creates "entrepreneurial ecosystems," renting out office and co-working space to start-ups and... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2017
News

The Middle Way

crowd that the agreement was “proof of the strength of what we could do if we decide to find common purpose.” The head of a regional lumber coalition touted the achievement, crediting his fellow speakers. A representative from the environmental groups said the... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous

02 Aug 2010
Research & Ideas

Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market

had had to be actively created. Supply alone did not generate demand. Second, this was a case in which actors other than the producers (that is, the artists) interpreted the product to explain and construct its value to consumers, allowing us to examine the entire... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Industrial Production & Materials - Business & Environment

technologies. At Athena Cleantech, we are helping companies minimize their carbon footprint while creating an ecosystem for sustainable technologies to scale rapidly.” Prashant Pundrik PLDA 9 Director, Athena Cleantech Pte. Ltd. Lisa Yao... View Details

19 Jul 2011
News

Brightening the Future

ecosystem that will improve access to electricity in off-grid communities across the globe. “It sounds complicated,” Ayala says, “but we set it up this way to have a globally scalable business model.” Stiftung Solarenergie Philippines,... View Details

Keywords: Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

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Undergraduate Technology Innovation Fellows Program | MBA

innovation ecosystem committed to helping you move your ideas further, faster. Rock Center for Entrepreneurship The Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship is a vital resource to Harvard Business School (HBS) students and a champion for... View Details

01 Sep 2016
News

The Big Business of Little Loans

Funding Circle, among others. It was a wide circle. These startups are part of a new ecosystem filling the void left by traditional banks that don’t want to lend to small businesses because they are too risky or because interest rates are... View Details

Keywords: Nancy Miller

18 May 2015
News

The First Five Years: Anjali Vaidya (MBA 2010)

an incredibly successful advertising model on desktop to mobile devices. I learned about the mobile ecosystem and its vocabulary: apps, developers, deep-linking, SDKs, APIs, server-side, device IDs, carriers, exchanges, SSPs, DSPs, DMPs,... View Details

Keywords: Google; Yahoo; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

Blog

In-Person Programs: Q&A with Portfolio Directors

started coming back to campus, we realized just how much we had missed it. The overall program experience relies on the technologically rich ecosystem of classrooms, living groups, residence lounges, libraries, outdoor spaces, beautiful... View Details

23 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019

Sachs started the 10,000 Small Businesses program to help small businesses in the United States by providing education and a network of support—at no cost —and access to capital. It required the firm to create a new business ecosystem... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

November 2020
Teaching Note

Unilever's Response to the Future of Work

By: William R. Kerr and Bailey McAfee

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 820-104. View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Human Capital; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Structure; Transformation; Human Resources; Consumer Products Industry; Europe

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01 Dec 2022
News

The Potential of Business to Improve Lives

the Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor of Business Administration and senior associate dean for Business and Global Society, who leads the Institute. “We want to get their ideas out into the world and to make HBS the center of an View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Mar 2025
News

Forward Thinking

There was a time when human activity in outer space was a highly centralized, government-led endeavor, says Professor and Senior Associate Dean Matthew Weinzierl. But that era has passed: Over the past two decades, a calcified space bureaucracy has given way to a... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; Illustrations by Franziska Barczyk; Space Research and Technology; Government

12 May 2020
Blog Post

The Importance of Coordination: Apoorva Pasricha Reflects on Crisis Leadership

partners, “we have an ecosystem for digital equity, twenty-three organizations trained to help schools get connected.” In addition, Pasricha had been working on an AI-powered Chatbot to help San Jose residents access City services in a... View Details

Keywords: Social Enterprise; Technology; Nonprofit / Government

27 Jun 2017
Blog Post

Why I Would Have Applied to the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program

curriculum, are frameworks I now think about all the time in my work, and it's a night-and-day difference in how effective I am with my teammates and customers." What do you think the benefits are to being in the Boston tech View Details

28 Apr 2020
Blog Post

The Importance of Coordination: Apoorva Pasricha Reflects on Crisis Leadership

partners, “we have an ecosystem for digital equity, twenty-three organizations trained to help schools get connected.” In addition, Pasricha had been working on an AI-powered Chatbot to help San Jose residents access City services in a... View Details

November 2019
Case

DeepMap: Charting the Road Ahead for Autonomous Vehicles

By: Shane Greenstein and Nicole Tempest Keller

Founded in 2016, DeepMap developed high definition (HD) mapping software and localization services for Level 4+ autonomous vehicles. Traditional navigational maps were accurate to a few meters, which was sufficient for drivers but not for machine-driven vehicles that... View Details