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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

data start-ups on the other—offering data-intensive, analytics-based services that could connect to any industrial device. So GE launched a multibillion-dollar initiative focused on what it calls the industrial internet: adding digital... View Details
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Corporate Strategy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

across divisions (e.g., Mickey’s birthday) – Disney University provides consistent training for employees across the company – Credit card and catalog designed to capture customer data across divisions – Senior personnel transferred across divisions Recent acquisitions... View Details
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Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

and start-up founders. We focus our research on the identification and pursuit of entrepreneurial opportunities; domestic and international funding of entrepreneurial endeavors; innovation, particularly technological innovation in... View Details
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Profiles - MBA

of technology and business to change the world; indeed, I've had the chance to see how a tech start-up can address a problem most people believe technology/tech companies created. Professional goals As I look to the future, my goals are... View Details
  • 20 Oct 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

Financing Risk and Bubbles of Innovation

Keywords: by Ramana Nanda & Matthew Rhodes-Kropf; Financial Services
  • August 2011 (Revised October 2011)
  • Case

PureTech Ventures in 2011

By: Andrei Hagiu, Cesar Castro and Sarah Murphy
In early May 2011, Daphne Zohar, founder and managing partner of PureTech Ventures, a life science venture creation company in Boston, MA, was reviewing a term sheet she had just received from a venture capital (VC) firm for one of PureTech's portfolio companies. The... View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Business Startups; Venture Capital; Investment; Innovation and Invention; Negotiation; Partners and Partnerships; Science-Based Business; Opportunities; Boston
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Loan Reduction - Entrepreneurship

needed to meet the deadline should contact Rock@hbs.edu at least two weeks in advance of the deadline. Club List Entrepreneurship Club VC Club Insights Get insights and news on a range of start-up topics. Read more Career & Professional... View Details
  • 05 Apr 2024
  • Blog Post

How I Spent my 2+2 Deferral: Zoe Bhargava

had never faced before. The start-up ceased operations in June 2023, but the lessons I learned will be invaluable to my future career as a potential founder. Before starting at HBS in Fall 2023, I was able to squeeze in one more... View Details
  • 13 Dec 2019
  • Blog Post

All Is Well in Texas: How Julia Cheek Founded Her At-Home Lab Testing Startup, EverlyWell

routinely returns to Boston to attend the Rock 100, a biennial event that HBS holds for start-up alums in entrepreneurship, and feels “it is by far the most helpful event put on my HBS. It’s a world-class resource for alums. HBS has been... View Details
  • 30 Nov 2021
  • In Practice

What's the Role of Business in Confronting Climate Change?

The 26th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, also known as COP26, ended with a hard-fought pact that called on businesses and governments to meet their climate change goals faster. The event followed an August report by the Intergovernmental... View Details
Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Dina Gerdeman
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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

company Excara and switched to selling enterprise software for managing product content. In 2002, he started two nonprofits in response to the sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church. He is currently acting VP of Product Strategy for Authoria as he researches and... View Details
  • 2013
  • Dissertation

Designing Freemium: A Model of Consumer Usage, Upgrade, and Referral Dynamics

By: Clarence Lee, Vineet Kumar and Sunil Gupta
Abstract. Over the past decade "freemium" (free + premium) has become the dominant business model among internet start-ups for its ability to acquire and monetize a large install-base with limited marketing resources. Freemium is a hybrid strategy where a firm offers... View Details
Keywords: Discrete-Continuous Choice Dynamic Structural Models; Bayesian Estimation; Word-of-Mouth; Digital Services; Freemium; Entrepreneurship; Business Model; Motivation and Incentives; Marketing Strategy; Internet and the Web; Consumer Behavior; Marketing Reference Programs; Business Startups
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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research

by Attractive Men By: Alison Wood Brooks , Laura Huang, Sarah Kearney and Fiona Murray Entrepreneurship is a central path to job creation, economic growth, and prosperity. In the earliest stages of start-up business creation, the matching... View Details
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Leadership - Faculty & Research

AI Code Assistant Market By: Suraj Srinivasan , Sudhanshu Nath Mishra and Radhika Kak May 2025 | Case | Faculty Research In April 2025, the founding team of Windsurf, an AI start-up specializing in code generation gathered in Mountain... View Details
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Becoming a Board Member - Alumni

your value statement to align with the board's focus and organization's needs. + – Highlight Relevant Expertise Board experience - for-profit or non-profit Fundraising experience Industry knowledge and contacts M&A experience IPO experience Experience running a company... View Details
  • 02 May 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: May 2, 2017

Farre-Mensa, Joan, Deepak Hegde, and Alexander Ljungqvist Abstract—We provide evidence on the value of patents to start-ups by leveraging the random assignment of applications to examiners with different propensities to grant patents.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 09 May 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

Clusters of Entrepreneurship and Innovation

Keywords: by Aaron Chatterji, Edward Glaeser & William Kerr
  • January 2015 (Revised April 2015)
  • Case

Zeal: Launching Personalized and Social Learning

By: John J-H Kim and Christine S. An
Set in 2014, this case follows John Danner and his team at Zeal as they consider their product development strategy. In February 2013, serial entrepreneurs John Danner and Sanjay Noronha co-found Zeal, an education technology start up providing a web-based, mobile... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Education Technology; MVP; Product Development; Product Market Fit; Monetization Strategy; SaaS Business Models; Education; Personalized Learning
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  • 26 May 2023
  • Blog Post

Bringing Space Tech Back to Earth

degree in mechanical engineering from MIT, Sweeney worked for a pair of technology start-ups in the three years before coming to Harvard. Neither experience ended the way she wanted: one company laid her off after going bankrupt when the... View Details
  • 14 Jul 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

From Russia with Love: The Impact of Relocated Firms on Incumbent Survival

Keywords: by Oliver Falck, Christina Guenther, Stephan Heblich & William R. Kerr; Manufacturing