Publications

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

03 Apr 2015
News

Blocking Bad: A Flare for Internet Security

01 Mar 2013
News

Delivering the Power to Dream Big

technology will not only increase solar adoption in the United States, but help people in the developing world as well. In industrialized countries, "you can imagine the impact on portable electronics—it can give you freedom from the... View Details

Keywords: solar power; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

Parker Treacy

Competition in 2016, becoming the first Latin American startup to receive the award. In 2019, Cobli was elected by LinkedIn as one of the top ten startups in Brazil. Previously, Parker founded First Help... View Details

Keywords: Insurance;#64;#Software/App;#68;#Transportation & Logistics

April 2000 (Revised April 2004)
Case

Infosys: Financing an Indian Software Start-Up

Describes the financing and growth of Infosys, an Indian software start-up. Infosys defies a number of stereotypes about barriers to entrepreneurship in India. The company was founded by a small group of entrepreneurs with little equity and without backing from a large... View Details

Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Applications and Software; Financing and Loans; Business Startups; Growth and Development Strategy; Information Technology Industry; India

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

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

05 Mar 2014
What Do You Think?

When Will the Next Dot.com Bubble Burst?

fashion, our management nursed the money through the worst of the downturn. The story doesn't end there. On our way out we were introduced to the management and directors of the startup that had the room reserved after us, kozmo.com.... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Publishing; Retail

01 Sep 2015
News

High Yields

100,000 jobs and $82 billion worth of value. Amazon famously entered the space in 2013, announcing plans to use drones for its 30-minute delivery service, but there’s plenty of startup activity, too. Hawk Aerial, launched last year by CEO... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs

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

Shirish Nimgaonkar

successful exits. Shirish was also a Managing Director at a global investment bank, where he advised several leading high growth technology companies across US, Europe and Asia on this growth strategy, mergers and acquisitions, capital... View Details

June 2001
Case

Bang Networks- The First Customer (A)

By: Jay O. Light and Mary N. Caravella

In November 2000, six-month-old start-up Bang Networks is preparing a proposal for its first paid subscription contract. The recent MBA founders of the new San Francisco--based company believe they have a unique new solution for effective delivery of real-time Web... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Negotiation Tactics; Internet and the Web; Valuation; Value Creation; Negotiation Preparation; Information Technology Industry; San Francisco