Scaling Innovation - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Jun 2014
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Giving millions of students a new path to learning

Sal Khan (MBA 2003) is the founder and CEO of Khan Academy. In this video, he talks about his path from hedge fund analyst to education innovator and the explosive growth of his online learning platform. “I’m the founder and executive... View Details

10 Jul 2015
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Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught?

business development roles. That class, called Launching Technology Ventures, is dedicated to helping train executives in the art of launching, building and scaling startups. Some people wonder whether entrepreneurship can be taught. The... View Details

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HBS - From The Dean

differences. Because everything we do is in service to our mission of educating leaders who make a difference in the world, the third aspiration is transformation in our educational programs. This includes both what we teach and how we deliver that content. We must... View Details

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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

bright-eyed HBS intern at the World Bank in Mozambique. I went there... My Transformational Experience with Social Enterprise at HBS Matt Segneri 08 Sep 2017 MBAs at HBS have a tremendous array of opportunities to get involved in social enterprise during ... Alumni... View Details

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Launching Tech Ventures - Course Catalog

founder. LTV is complementary to Scaling Tech Ventures (STV), which focuses more on post product-market fit startups, and Founder Mindset, which focuses more on human issues and a founder’s psychology. LTV helps students learn the... View Details

12 Feb 2025
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How risk can be the key to a sustainable future with Sophie Levin (MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences 2022)

demand seemed like the biggest obstacles to commercialization. Eventually, my co-founder and I realized that our target suppliers needed help scaling their technology, so we parted ways and joined other companies in the alternative... View Details

19 Aug 2024
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Quantum Leap

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Quantum computing has long been talked about as one of the next big things—the kind of technology, like AI, that will change everything. But to our... View Details

01 Oct 1996
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Uhlmann Award Winners Focus on French Retailer

(Belarus), all members of the MBA Class of 1996 and students in Professor Ray A. Goldberg's Agribusiness Management Research elective, conducted a study of Carrefour, the French mass-market food retailing giant. Founded in 1959 by two French retailers, Carrefour... View Details

27 Oct 2020
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Creating the Minority Renaissance for Venture Capital: Interview with Henri Pierre-Jacques and Jarrid Tingle, Managing Partners at Harlem Capital

weren’t any VC funds of scale that had partners of color; the VC funds that did have partners of color were smaller,” he said. “And from a diversity perspective, most funds were gender focused versus racially focused.” With an... View Details

04 Sep 2019
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The School that Donham Built

and 1927. “Donham’s innovations became anchor points for subsequent campus development,” says Executive Dean for Administration Angela Crispi (MBA 1990). “Our unique status as a residential business school has guided decisions about the... View Details

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Community | HBS Online

fight climate change United Planet to support the growth of its Virtual Exchange Program Empowered to Educate to scale and spread the impact of its fellowship program for women educators The Bantwana Initiative of World Education to... View Details

11 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 11

Advances in Strategic Management Innovation Policies By: Nanda, Ramana, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Abstract—Past work has shown that failure tolerance by principals has the potential to stimulate innovation... View Details

22 Sep 2021
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Student Spotlight: Jesse Lou (MBA 2022) – Working to Change the Food System

internships in venture capital and at an ag-tech startup before school, I saw how unsuccessful commercialization was often a key barrier to large-scale deployments of new scientific discoveries and innovations in food-tech, ag-tech, and... View Details

05 Dec 2022
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2022 Climate Symposium: Tackling Climate Together

The theme of the 2022 Annual Climate Symposium was “Tackling Climate Together”, with a focus on the intersectionality of climate change and the critical need for businesses, individuals, policy makers, and consumers to come together to develop View Details

24 Jun 2019
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Chloe Ho, MBA 2019: Data-Driven and In Demand

mining and exploratory analysis, and familiarized herself with the ins and outs of various machine learning models. Ho took this newly acquired data and analytics knowledge with her to HBS, and, subsequently, landed an internship at the Bay Area–based Samsung View Details

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24 Jul 2019
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Data-Driven and in Demand

mining and exploratory analysis, and familiarized herself with the ins and outs of various machine learning models. Ho took this newly acquired data and analytics knowledge with her to HBS, and, subsequently, landed an internship at the Bay Area–based Samsung View Details

18 Mar 2022
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Career Advice: Transforming the Energy Industry

Tell us about what you were doing before HBS and what brought you to HBS. Prior to HBS, I spent six years in the oil and gas industry working primarily on taking technologies in the energy space from the lab to the field. Being exposed to the full lifecycle of a... View Details

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Faculty & Advisors | MBA

Data, and Design (D^3) Institute at Harvard, and a core faculty member in the new MS/MBA joint degree program. He is an expert in the management of innovation and new product development, with a focus on the design and deployment of... View Details

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Leading Change and Organizational Renewal | HBS Online

This course is part of the Entrepreneurship & Innovation and Leadership & Management track. Introduction to Leading Change and Organizational Renewal ENROLL NOW No application needed for our certificate programs. Start your journey today!... View Details

01 Mar 2011
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Alumni Books

entrepreneurs, he explores how to evaluate innovative ideas and the entrepreneurs behind them (drawing lessons from Yahoo!, Baidu, Tesla Motors, Measurex, and more). He also discusses the value of political leadership in creating... View Details

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