Publications

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Throwing Your Opponent: Strategies for the Internet Age

Navigator 1.0 part of a whole package of Internet tools, it sidestepped the competition by offering its product as a stand-alone browser. By also distributing Navigator over the Web and using a new pricing model that essentially made it free, the View Details

Keywords: by Daniel Penrice

01 Jun 2013
News

Accelerating Therapies

supporting early-stage technologies, enhancing their value, and making them attractive candidates for licensing, startup formation, and commercial development. The idea for the Blavatnik Fellows program resulted from conversations between... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Scientific Research and Development Services

October 2005 (Revised February 2007)
Case

Red Flag Software Co.

By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Tarun Khanna, David Lane and Elizabeth Raabe

In 2005, just five years after its formal launch, Beijing-based Red Flag Software was the world's second-largest distributor of the Linux operating system and was expecting its first annual profit. On a unit basis, Red Flag led the world in desktops (PCs) shipped with... View Details

Keywords: Digital Platforms; Competitive Advantage; Applications and Software; Business Startups; Globalized Markets and Industries; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; Beijing; United States

October 1995 (Revised July 1996)
Case

Aspen Technology, Inc.: Currency Hedging Review

By: Peter Tufano

The chief financial officer of a rapidly growing U.S.-based software firm that sells its process-control software to industrial users around the globe must review the goals, strategies, and policies of the firm's currency hedging program. This review is prompted by... View Details

Keywords: Currency Exchange Rate; Applications and Software; Investment; Business Startups; Business Strategy; Information Technology Industry; United Kingdom; United States

September 1998 (Revised August 1999)
Case

Walnut Venture Associates (B): RBS Due Diligence--Customers

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital; Business Plan; Research; Entrepreneurship; Applications and Software; Business Startups; Information Technology Industry

01 Mar 2012
News

Reinventing Radio Days

COO—he followed his passion for music and took the helm at Savage Beast Technologies (SBT), a cash-strapped San Francisco start-up. How bad were things at SBT? “The company wasn’t running on fumes,” Kennedy recalls. “The fumes were gone.”... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; internet radio; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

2013
Case

Advanced Leadership Pathways: Laurent Adamowicz and Bon'App

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Juliane Calingo Schwetz and Patricia Bissett Higgins

After a successful career as Chairman and CEO of Paris-based luxury food company, Fauchon, Laurent Adamowicz, sought to reduce obesity and improve health outcomes. Adamowicz created a mobile application to provide consumers with more accessible and interpretable... View Details

Keywords: Nutritional Information; Obesity; Weight Loss; App Development; Business Startups; Nutrition; Health; Information; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Entrepreneurship; Social Enterprise; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry

11 Jun 2016
News

Navigating Fertility Clinics with a Click

(Talia Herman for The New York Times) (Talia Herman for The New York Times) Startups often begin around a pain point. For Jake Anderson (MBA 2010), that point was a painful one: Due to a preexisting medical condition, he and his wife... View Details

18 Dec 2018
Blog Post

"There's No Substitute For Finding The Right Role": James Correa, MBA 2015

I had acquired at HBS with a desire to have an impact on society." During his 2015 – 2016 Fellowship year, James served as the Mayor's representative to the startup and innovation community. "I recognized that I was interested... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Technology

November 2003 (Revised March 2004)
Case

Marv Tseu at Active Reasoning

By: William A. Sahlman and Christina Darwall

Describes a set of decisions confronting the management team of an early-stage software company. The company has made considerable progress in developing its software but will need additional capital to move forward. Unfortunately, conditions in the capital market are... View Details

Keywords: Applications and Software; Financing and Loans; Capital; Business Startups; Information Technology Industry

01 Mar 2017
News

What’s New in Educational Innovation? A Few Highlights

A student team pitches its venture to a panel of instructors, entrepreneurs, and investors on the final day of the Startup Bootcamp program. (photo by Susan Young) MBA Program Startup Bootcamp This is the... View Details

22 Feb 2022
Blog Post

Lessons Learned from My HBS Career Journey in Environmental Sustainability

my HBS essay while working in a business facing role. Some soul searching helped me realize that my ideal post-MBA role needed to satisfy the following criteria: Be sustainability and technology focused Challenge me to solve tough... View Details

Keywords: Energy / Cleantech

07 Jan 2015
News

Taking on risk

Having worked as an engineer at SpaceX and as an analyst at Oaktree Capital, Zach Lupei (MBA 2015) is now building a startup in the personal-finance space. (Published January 2015) View Details

24 Feb 2014
News

A Capital Idea for Small Business

managements, and form groups around common interests." "I like the idea of the crowd vetting ideas, and determining winners and losers by voting with their capital," says McGee. "This project got its start back in 2011. I had been involved in several View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; crowd-funding; online communities; Finance; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

Web

Strategy for Entrepreneurs - Course Catalog

your startup idea. SfE’s unusual structure and focus on developing and testing a startup idea make it an excellent complement to more case-centered early-stage entrepreneurship courses like Launching View Details

01 Dec 2020
News

Two Truths and a Lie About 5G

Here, alumni and faculty experts weigh in on some of the assumptions about a hyper-connected world. The upgrade to 5G will be revolutionary for consumers. The arrival of 3G, which delivered the iPhone to the world and made it mainstream, was the stuff of real View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

13 Mar 2019
News

The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)

because we wanted it to be perfect. The reality is a startup isn’t about perfection on the first try. When we launched our first product we were hawks––watching and waiting for any feedback we could get. Hearing what consumers had to say... View Details

September 2023
Case

Ada: Cultivating Investors

By: Reza Satchu and Patrick Sanguineti

Mike Murchison, co-founder and CEO of Ada, has an enviable dilemma. Launched in 2016 by Murchison and his co-founder David Hariri, Ada is an AI-native company that aims to revolutionize how businesses approach customer service. The company has already attracted a buzz,... View Details

Keywords: Founder; Fundraising; Business Startups; Decisions; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; AI and Machine Learning; Technology Industry