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  • August 2012 (Revised August 2024)
  • Module Note

Evaluating the Viability of Innovative Technology-Commercializing Ventures

By: Regina E. Herzlinger
A guide for how a person who is not an expert in either technology nor business can, nevertheless, exaluate whether two promising innovative medical technologies are technically and/or financially feasible. Hint: I would not invest in either. View Details
Keywords: Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
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Herzlinger, Regina E. "Evaluating the Viability of Innovative Technology-Commercializing Ventures." Harvard Business School Module Note 313-070, August 2012. (Revised August 2024.)
  • June 2014
  • Teaching Note

Intuit Inc.: Project AgriNova

By: Thomas Eisenmann
In late 2008, a team from Intuit's office in Bangalore, India, is evaluating an opportunity to launch a new venture that would use SMS to deliver crop price information to farmers in India. The case describes the structure of Indian agriculture and the problems... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Venturing; Entrepreneurship; Research; Business Ventures; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Bangalore
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Eisenmann, Thomas. "Intuit Inc.: Project AgriNova." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 814-119, June 2014.
  • 09 Jul 2019
  • Blog Post

Solving the Complexities of the Biotechnology Industry

Biotechnology is a complex industry which combines applied science & engineering and applied business practices with life science.  It is the most multi-faceted industry segment there is because it is... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2018
  • News

Stitch Fix CEO on Building Diverse Teams

Keywords: entrepreneurship; venture capital; leadership; women in business; gender diversity
  • 1993
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Management of Risk Capital in Financial Firms

By: Robert C. Merton and André Perold
Keywords: Risk Management; Capital; Financial Institutions; Financial Services Industry
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Merton, Robert C., and André Perold. "Management of Risk Capital in Financial Firms." In Financial Services: Perspectives and Challenges, edited by Samuel L. Hayes III, 215–245. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1993.
  • March 2014 (Revised September 2017)
  • Case

salaUno: Eliminating Needless Blindness in Mexico

By: Richard Hamermesh, Regina Garcia Cueller and Valeria Moy
In May 2013 the co-founders and co-CEOs of salaUno, Javier Okhuysen and Carlos Orellana, were encouraged by the results of their fledgling start-up. salaUno was founded as a for-profit enterprise in order to have the capital needed for rapid growth and to fulfill its... View Details
Keywords: Medical Services; Developing Countries; Developing Markets; Health Care Industry; Health Services; Healthcare Ventures; Healthcare Startups; Health Care and Treatment; Health; Business Startups; Developing Countries and Economies; Growth and Development Strategy; Health Industry; Mexico; Mexico City
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Hamermesh, Richard, Regina Garcia Cueller, and Valeria Moy. "salaUno: Eliminating Needless Blindness in Mexico." Harvard Business School Case 814-041, March 2014. (Revised September 2017.)
  • October 2018 (Revised August 2023)
  • Case

Safecast: Bootstrapping Human Capital to Big Data

By: Ethan Bernstein and Stephanie Marton
On March 11, 2011, at 2:46pm, a 9.1-on-the-Richter-scale, six-minute long earthquake unleashed a tsunami that ravaged the Tohoku region of Japan, damaging the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power facility and releasing sufficient radioactive material into the air and ocean... View Details
Keywords: Citizen Science; Creative Commons; Open Data; Open Architecture; Volunteer-based Organization; Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Facility; 311; Nuclear; Radiation; Crowdsourcing; Bgeigie; Geiger Counters; Kickstarter; Sustainability; Sustainable Business And Innovation; Design; Energy Generation; Social Entrepreneurship; Human Capital; Innovation and Invention; Crisis Management; Organizational Structure; Organizational Design; Information Technology; Business Model; Energy Industry; Energy Industry; Japan; North and Central America; Europe
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Bernstein, Ethan, and Stephanie Marton. "Safecast: Bootstrapping Human Capital to Big Data." Harvard Business School Case 419-033, October 2018. (Revised August 2023.)
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Managing Innovation in the Emerging Industrial Research System

The second track of Chesbrough's research looks at issues of how firms manage technology in an environment where research capability is increasingly distributed across the globe. Chesbrough sees the research system in the United States undergoing significant change,... View Details
  • fall 1993
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Theory of Risk Capital in Financial Firms

By: Robert C. Merton and André Perold
Keywords: Theory; Risk and Uncertainty; Capital; Business Ventures; Financial Services Industry
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Merton, Robert C., and André Perold. "Theory of Risk Capital in Financial Firms." Continental Bank Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 6, no. 3 (fall 1993): 16–32.
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S&P Capital IQ Pro | Baker Library

S&P Capital IQ Pro An industry-focused platform covering news, data, transactions, filings and analysis covering financial, real estate, insurance, energy, media, consumer and industrial industries. Read... View Details
  • 1993
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Innovation and the Structure of High-Technology Industries

By: Josh Lerner
Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Information Technology; Business Ventures
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Lerner, Josh. "Innovation and the Structure of High-Technology Industries." Research on Technological Innovation, Management and Policy 5 (1993): 89–107.
  • March 1995
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Venture Capitalists and the Oversight of Private Firms

By: Josh Lerner
Keywords: Venture Capital; Private Ownership; Business Ventures
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Lerner, Josh. "Venture Capitalists and the Oversight of Private Firms." Journal of Finance 50, no. 1 (March 1995): 301–318. (Reprinted in Venture Capital, pp. 267-284, edited by Michael Wright and Ken Robbie. Aldershot: International Library of Management/Dartmouth Publishing, 1997.)
  • January 2021 (Revised June 2021)
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Eaton Corporation: Portfolio Transformation and The Cost of Capital (Abridged)

By: Benjamin C. Esty, E. Scott Mayfield and Daniel Fisher
In 2000, Eaton Corporation was a broadly diversified industrial conglomerate. But its strategy was evolving and its focus was narrowing around “power management” and more recently on “intelligent power,” the use of digitally enabled products and services designed to... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Conglomerates; Business Divisions; Cost of Capital; Corporate Finance; Value; Valuation; Industrial Products Industry; United States; Denmark; Republic of Ireland
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Esty, Benjamin C., E. Scott Mayfield, and Daniel Fisher. "Eaton Corporation: Portfolio Transformation and The Cost of Capital (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Spreadsheet Supplement 221-708, January 2021. (Revised June 2021.)
  • 01 Sep 2017
  • News

A Jolt for the African Coffee Industry

Illustration by Jonathan Bartlett In an era of artisanal coffee bars blossoming in neighborhoods worldwide, how could a producer of award-winning beans be struggling to stay afloat? That was the puzzle confronting Chijioke Dozie (MBA 2008) when he cofounded Kaizen... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg; cafe; Cafe Neo; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade
  • April 1994
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Venture Capitalists and the Decision to Go Public

By: Josh Lerner
Keywords: Venture Capital; Decision Making; Going Public
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Lerner, Josh. "Venture Capitalists and the Decision to Go Public." Journal of Financial Economics 35, no. 3 (April 1994): 293–316. (Reprinted in Vol. 1 of Small Firms and Economic Growth, pp. 650-673, edited by Zoltan Acs. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 1996; and in Empirical Corporate Finance, edited by Michael J. Brennan. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2002.)
  • September 2020 (Revised June 2021)
  • Supplement

Eaton Corporation: Portfolio Transformation and The Cost of Capital

By: Benjamin C. Esty, Scott Mayfield and Daniel Fisher
In 2000, Eaton Corporation was a broadly diversified industrial conglomerate. But its strategy was evolving and its focus was narrowing around “power management” and more recently on “intelligent power,” the use of digitally enabled products and services designed to... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Conglomerates; Business Divisions; Cost of Capital; Corporate Finance; Value; Valuation; Industrial Products Industry; United States; Denmark; Republic of Ireland
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Esty, Benjamin C., Scott Mayfield, and Daniel Fisher. "Eaton Corporation: Portfolio Transformation and The Cost of Capital." Harvard Business School Spreadsheet Supplement 221-704, September 2020. (Revised June 2021.)
  • June 2014 (Revised January 2017)
  • Case

Focus Financial Partners and the U.S. RIA Industry in 2014

By: Luis Viceira and Emily A. Chien
In the Spring of 2014, Rudy Adolf, CEO and founder of Focus Financial, and the two other co-founders of the firm are considering alternative growth strategies to solidify Focus Financial's position as a leading aggregator of independent wealth management firms in the... View Details
Keywords: Financial Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Model; Financial Services Industry
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Viceira, Luis, and Emily A. Chien. "Focus Financial Partners and the U.S. RIA Industry in 2014." Harvard Business School Case 214-103, June 2014. (Revised January 2017.)
  • December 1999 (Revised April 2004)
  • Case

Capital Alliance Private Equity: Creating a Private Equity Leader in Nigeria

Describes the creation of the first private equity fund in Nigeria and the fund's potential first investment in GS Telecom, a Nigerian telecommunication service company. The fund's managers are keenly aware that a bad first investment could create a vicious circle for... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Entrepreneurship; Telecommunications Industry; Nigeria
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Kuemmerle, Walter, William J. Coughlin Jr., and Chad S Ellis. "Capital Alliance Private Equity: Creating a Private Equity Leader in Nigeria." Harvard Business School Case 800-104, December 1999. (Revised April 2004.)

    Eaton Corp.: Portfolio Transformation and the Cost of Capital

    In 2000, Eaton Corporation was broadly diversified industrial conglomerate.  But its strategy was evolving and its focus was narrowing around “power management” and more recently on “intelligent power,” the use of digitally enabled products and services designed... View Details
    • 2009
    • Book

    Entrepreneurs, Managers, and Leaders: What the Airline Industry Can Teach Us About Leadership

    By: Anthony J. Mayo, Nitin Nohria and Mark Rennella
    'Entrepreneurs, Managers, and Leaders' examines the role that business leaders play in shaping industries and how the evolving context of industries shapes leaders in turn. This co-evolutionary process of leadership and industry development is told through the story of... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; Entrepreneurship; Leadership Development; Managerial Roles; Supply and Industry; Industry Growth; Air Transportation Industry
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    Mayo, Anthony J., Nitin Nohria, and Mark Rennella. Entrepreneurs, Managers, and Leaders: What the Airline Industry Can Teach Us About Leadership. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.
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