Scaling Tech Ventures - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry

begin with consumer electronics. That industry began with radio. Two enterprises commercialized, that is, brought the technology into public use: Radio Corporation of America (RCA), a joint venture of the three leading U.S. electrical and... View Details

Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.; Consumer Products

30 Jun 2021
In Practice

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021

What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I... View Details

Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland

22 Jul 2019
Book

How to Be a Digital Platform Leader

research, you identified 209 platform failures between 1995 and 2015 and about 45 successful firms for the same period. What are drivers of success? Yoffie: The most important driver of success is network effects. Network effects create the opportunities to View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

After the Boom and the Bust What’s Next for Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship? Professor Professor Josh Lerner (PMD 62) + More Info - Slides – Less Info - Slides Venture capital—and high-potential... View Details

Profile

Jason Flood

about the future of tech. Google was my dream job—and I got it. I had a fantastic experience there, and my life plan was to scale the ranks at Google.” But his cancer experience, Jason says, “inspired a passion to get involved in health... View Details

Keywords: Tech; Tech

25 Aug 2022
News

Up on the Corner

operations in several cities, leading to more than $950,000 in financing. “Rarely do financial institutions in the US invest in Black women at the $1 million level, especially when the underlying assets don’t hold much value,” says Dlodlo. CDFIs, which range from banks... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Melissa Golden; Real Estate

10 May 2020
Blog Post

Let’s Hear it For the Moms – The Incredible Balancing Act of Student Mothers

Shanghai someday and tell him that he was in my belly! Gaby Goldstein | Class of 2020 Little(s): Theodore (1 month) Pre-HBS Industry: Tech Proudest Accomplishment: My proudest accomplishment during my time at HBS has definitely been... View Details

Profile

Phoebe Peronto

complete strangers who, over time, become your close friends. It all helps me discover what I care about; what my personal values are.” Looking ahead, Phoebe has no, one fixed ambition. Venture capital still holds her interest. “It’s not... View Details

Keywords: Tech

Melody Koh

Apron as the first product hire when the company was 18 months old with 20 HQ employees. She helped scale the business through hyper-growth (25x in 3.5 years) and to its IPO, building and leading a 35-person team across Product... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital

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Eshan Tewari | MBA

Eshan Tewari Statistics Dunster 2021 Cohort 2 I've had a chance to work in technology from a host of different angles, spanning from ground level research to rapidly scaling startups to venture capital to... View Details

Eric Boutin

Eric Boutin is a digital health investor, board member, and serial entrepreneur, helping early-stage startups to global pharma companies reimagine healthcare through science and technology. Eric helps founders launch, fund, and scale... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare

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Esther Koh | MBA

Tech Fellow, I can gain the strong foundation necessary to launch such ventures in a dynamic biotech environment alongside fellow builders on campus. Tech areas of interest:... View Details

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Palis Pisuttisarun | MBA

and business: I came to realize the power of tech and entrepreneurship when I founded my first startup. A few years ago, I built a social peer-counseling app to connect minority youth with mental health support. The nuanced process of... View Details

Career Coach

Megan Gardner

Megan (HBS ’06) is an executive coach, board member and tactical advisor for CEOs and senior executives. As a founder and CEO of a technology business, she knows first-hand the value of strong coaching in a rapidly growing business. In her last venture, she raised over... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital; Venture Capital; Venture Capital; Venture Capital; Venture Capital

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Beverly Fu | MBA

dedicated to developing and applying tech solutions to change the world. Tech areas of interest: Biotechnology, Data Science Formative experience at the intersection of technology and business: I have... View Details

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Kavya Kopparapu | MBA

Title 1 schools in the area has turned into 10 state chapters, events across the country, and a national team of over 50 dedicated students. The experience taught me a lot about scaling an organization and helped me realize the positive... View Details

04 Mar 2022
Blog Post

Celebrating Black History Month at HBS

Black Tech Masters Series alongside the third annual Black New Venture Competition on Friday, followed by the conference on Saturday. We asked AASU’s conference co-chairs, April Weathers (MBA 2022) and Cyril... View Details

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Eric Li | MBA

Unlike many other mechanisms of change, tech allows us to scale impact in a way previously impossible. I'm excited to find the use cases where tech is an outsized lever... View Details

01 Oct 2021
Blog Post

Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate

which, along with other tech companies, is using its scale to drive impact by setting ambitious energy and sustainability goals aimed at increasing renewable energy penetration and decarbonizing the energy... View Details

21 Aug 2019
Blog Post

Leveraging Academic Opportunities to Attain My Post-HBS Job

Cabinet, she was familiar with Plaid’s role in helping small businesses and was excited to oversee my Independent Project. Another part of the curriculum that supported my career goals was the Scaling Technology View Details

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