Scaling Tech Ventures - Publications - Faculty & Research

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Entrepreneurship Course Online | HBS Online

come away with tangible tools and techniques that they can apply to their own entrepreneurial journeys. Related Programs Launching Tech Ventures Professor Jeffrey Bussgang Gain proven frameworks to build a... View Details

30 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

Why Ethical People Become Unethical Negotiators

the scales of fairness. How companies can promote ethics Negotiators can keep their values intact and prevent deception from creeping into talks by using several techniques or processes, Bazerman says. To promote ethics at the bargaining... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Business Insights Blog | HBS Online

Marketing Strategy Disruptive Strategy Dynamic Teaming Economics for Managers Entrepreneurial Marketing Entrepreneurship Essentials Financial Accounting Global Business Launching Tech Ventures Leadership... View Details

15 Oct 2019
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Bridging Business and Engineering

the world’s most dynamic ecosystems for technology, especially for startups and venture capital. During five years in the military fulfilling his required service, he gained firsthand technical experience as a member of the IDF’s Elite... View Details

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Globalization - Faculty & Research

of that firm's affiliate activity in their native countries. Ethnic innovators also appear to facilitate the disintegration of innovative activity across borders and to allow U.S. multinationals to form new affiliates abroad without the support of local joint View Details

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Becoming an Entrepreneur - Alumni

Entrepreneurship in developing countries + – Networking Resources for Founders Entrepreneurs' Organization Young Entrepreneur Council Young Presidents' Organization FoundersCard Tech Cocktail Small Giants The Funded Discuss fundraising,... View Details

01 Mar 2024
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Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

from his spirited partner Sam, Finn continues pursuing his dream of being recognized as an elite athlete through unrelenting challenges on and off the water. Smooth Scaling: 20 Rituals to Build a Friction-Free Organization By Rob Bier (MBA 1998) Wonderwell Smooth View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

06 May 2021
HBS Case

How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups

Despite widespread investment in entrepreneurship in cities across America, venture capital-funded startups still tend to be founded by white men in Silicon Valley. In contrast, businesses led by women are 63 percent less likely to... View Details

Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo

11 Aug 2021
Blog Post

The Equity Network: How HBS Helped Me Launch a Tech-Enabled Social Enterprise

Network, a social enterprise empowering the next generation of diverse business leaders by democratizing access to professional networks. She is also Co-President of the HBS Tech Club and Co-VP of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion for the... View Details

01 Apr 2000
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Student "Treks" Lead to Jobs and Opportunities

one-third of the HBS student body -- traveled to San Francisco and Silicon Valley as participants in the fifth annual WesTrek, an event organized by members of the High Tech and New Media Club in coordination with the School's Career... View Details

12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

not-for-profits for environmental science, law, economics, innovation, and advocacy increase at far greater than historical rates. Capital for new clean tech ventures has also increased at a rate... View Details

12 May 2021
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The First Five Years: Sophie Bai (MBA 2020)

experience.” Sophie Bai is the founder and CEO of B.A.I. Technologies, a biotech company based in Cambridge that holds various patented technologies to treat skin diseases. Brianna Bai is a member of the HBS Class of 2023 and is interested in exploring rising real... View Details

31 Jul 2023
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Striving for Imperfection

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Since he left HBS in 1990, Charles Conn (MBA 1990) has built a full and varied portfolio career. Early on, he was a partner at McKinsey and then a tech executive, founding... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

11 Feb 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

10 Rules Entrepreneurs Need to Know Before Adopting AI

for neural networks increase, as does accessibility to off-the-shelf APIs from big tech and academic institutions that help speed up innovation. Entrepreneurs have also learned the wisdom of targeting AI applications toward specific,... View Details

Keywords: by Rocio Wu

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

and the availability of limited liability to raise finance for the new business opportunities which appeared at this time. They functioned in part as venture capitalists identifying opportunities and placing potential British investors in... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones

18 Sep 2019
Op-Ed

WeWork—The IPO That Shouldn’t?

more recently floated, as low as potentially $15 billion. This would constitute a “down round,” and typically prior venture investors receive extra shares to protect their ownership percentage in a down round. There is only a cryptic... View Details

Keywords: by Nori Gerardo Lietz; Financial Services; Real Estate

01 Sep 2023
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Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint

and dilemmas. During discussions about the gaming platform Roblox, AI chatbot Replika AI, and crypto-native venture capital fund Electric Capital, students are exposed to the challenges of the rapidly evolving View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Jun 2023
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From Big Pharma to Startup

supported Harvard students and alumni in their quest to launch and scale game-changing ventures in a variety of sectors. Examples of enterprises in health care and the life sciences include the following:... View Details

Keywords: April White

24 Jul 2017
Blog Post

Transitioning to Product Management at HBS

resources available - for students looking to start their own venture, for those like me that want to join a startup, and for those interested in large tech companies. In fact, the tech/startup spirit permeated much of the campus, from... View Details

06 Feb 2023
Blog Post

African American Student Union Spotlight on HBCUs

Before HBS, I worked in tech as a Product Marketing Manager on the YouTube Ads Marketing and Google for Startup teams. I also interned as a summer Investment Analyst at Obvious Ventures, an early-stage View Details

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