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Tough Tech Ventures - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Tough Tech Ventures Course Number 1727 Associate Professor Joshua Lev Krieger Senior Lecturer Jim Matheson Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits Paper Course Overview Tough tech ventures face both high levels of technology and... View Details
Melody Koh
Melody is a Partner at NextView Ventures, based in its New York office. She has spent her entire career working with technology and Internet startups as an entrepreneur, operator, and investor. Prior to joining NextView, Melody was Head... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Read All About It: Journalism Can Be Profitable
news content creation business. Creating high-quality news content is an expensive endeavor and one that doesn’t scale that easily. These companies are platforms that can aggregate consumer demand and sell advertising against that. It’s... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Open Market
first focusing on scaling operations and then becoming a partner at Google Capital (now CapitalG), investing in late-stage tech companies and helping founders grow their businesses. The experience at Google was revelatory, with Howard... View Details
- 25 Feb 2025
- Blog Post
Making a broader impact with multiple disciplines: Santosh Iyer (MBA 2020)
beyond human capability. I focus on commercializing science and building businesses around these transformative technologies to democratize access to high-quality surgical care for billions worldwide. My fascination with robotics and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Ready, Set, Launch
Launching Technology Ventures explore an alternative path, one designed to sidestep many of the missteps: the lean startup methodology. The idea is to launch as quickly as possible with a minimum viable product (MVP). With only the barest... View Details
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Micah Macfarlane
market failures for climate change but less response from society. "We are just worse at thinking about climate impacts, which feel further away than they really are. I want to be part of the solution." Because so many clean View Details
- 16 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
Read Our Most Popular Stories of the Quarter
What stories were readers like you diving into this summer on HBS Working Knowledge? Your interests varied dramatically, everything from how researchers use machine learning technology to predict CEO performance to the power of rituals in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Surprisingly Successful Marriages of Multinationals and Social Brands
systems and capabilities that are needed for going to and operating at scale that would take the social icon years to build. So structured correctly, an acquisition strategy can effectively marry the brand strength and "social... View Details
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Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry - Course Catalog
restaurant to scaling to leadership of multinational chains, and evaluate opportunities inherent in typical restaurant business models as well as those created by disruptive changes affecting and shaping the industry. Michael and Andy... View Details
- 21 Aug 2019
- Blog Post
Leveraging Academic Opportunities to Attain My Post-HBS Job
leverage two opportunities during my final semester. One was an Independent Project (IP), and the other was the final project for the Scaling Technology Ventures course. Career Exploration Using... View Details
- 02 Feb 2023
- News
Can We Really Engineer a Climate Fix?
change. JM: Primarily all of my focus for the last 10 or 15 years has been in climate and sustainability and the impact that that technology can have as it scales to meet the size of the problem that we're... View Details
- 22 Nov 2022
- Blog Post
Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combatting Climate Change
scaling up new approaches and technologies such as ours." Claire Broido Johnson (MBA 2002) COO, Fermata EnergyAs business leaders with lots of privilege, it is our responsibility to focus our efforts on both... View Details
- 19 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Tata Power - Trombay Thermal Power Plant Takeaways
(1). The culprit, however, was not the mammoth coal fired power plant under our feet. In fact, Tata Power equipped Trombay with state-of-the-art air pollution mitigation technology to minimize both NOx and SOx emissions, as well as... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Case Study: Welcome Aboard
Technology Partners, possibly the OG of remote-first companies, in the 1990s. We came together frequently as a whole company, which allowed for fun interactions and an amazing culture. As a first step, a detailed, confidential survey of... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Research Brief: As the Wind Blows
with the oil crises of the 1970s, but unlike the United States, where the government invested hundreds of millions in technology development, the Nordic country saw more organic and long-term growth. Its smaller private firms focused on... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
E Ink’s Wild Ride
demand for E Ink technology was growing rapidly, and the company had begun to scale up its production. “We were an R&D company trying to be a manufacturing company,” he remarks. One of the company’s largest... View Details
- 22 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
Celebrating Earth Day 2022 with the HBS Business and Environment Initiative
my skills and experience to reduce the friction that tough-tech ideas face on their path to scale and bring new technologies to the world, both as an investor and operator. I’m a technologist at heart, but... View Details
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Launching Global Ventures - Course Catalog
of heightened geopolitical tensions, breakthrough technological innovations, and significant demographic change presents not just complexity but immense opportunity. This course provides frameworks for recognizing patterns across markets... View Details
- 11 Jun 2018
- Blog Post
Meet the 2018-2019 Blavatnik Fellows in Life Science Entrepreneurship
to work with Harvard inventors to promote the commercialization of life science technologies with significant market potential. Harvard's i-lab serves as the hub, providing fellows with space and the opportunity to join an entrepreneurial... View Details