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Securicor Wireless Networks: February 1996

By: G. Felda Hardymon and Bill Wasik

Securicor Wireless (SWN) sold software products to wireless telephone carriers. The company was incorporated in January of 1995 as a 40%-owned subsidiary of Securicor Telesciences (STI), itself a wholly-owned subsidiary of British security giant Securicor PLC. Just... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital; Business Subsidiaries; Nationality; Business Conglomerates; Applications and Software; Mergers and Acquisitions; Organizational Culture; Business Startups; Business and Shareholder Relations; Technology Industry; United Kingdom; United States

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01 Jun 2024
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Decoding the Promise and Perils of Generative AI

ChatGPT burst into the public consciousness on November 30, 2022. Within two months, the generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) software, which leverages a large language model (LLM) to produce human-like, text-based conversations, had reached an estimated 100... View Details

Keywords: April White

June 19, 2023
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Should You Start a Generative AI Company?

By: Julian De Freitas

Many entrepreneurs are considering starting companies that leverage the latest generative AI technology, but they must ask themselves whether they have what it takes to compete on increasingly commoditized foundational models, or whether they should instead... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; AI and Machine Learning; Applications and Software

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01 Jun 2017
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The Exchange: Venture Forth

the IBMs or the RCAs of the world to continue to create innovations and job opportunities. Think about the number of firms that wouldn’t be here and the number of technologies that wouldn’t be here without venture capital. The innovation... View Details

Keywords: April White

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Nathan Zhao | MBA

builders and thinkers in my Tech Fellow cohort. Tech areas of interest: civic tech, consumer tech, product management, human-computer interaction, deep tech, tech ethics Formative experience at the intersection of technology and business:... View Details

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Michael Chen | MBA

Financial Services, Ed-Tech, Sustainability, Digital Health Formative experience at the intersection of technology and business: Having co-founded a healthcare startup that was funded by some of the most... View Details

31 Mar 2011
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Building an Online Swap Shop

the holidays. He also recalled how the idea for thredUP came to him at HBS. “The original concept for how to deal with two-sided marketplaces, which is what thredUP is, came from HBS associate professor Andrei Hagiu’s Strategy & View Details

Keywords: Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade

02 Jul 2019
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Fast-track to Better Outcomes: Yoonjin Min and RapidSOS

partnerships. There, Yoonjin was part of the strategy team collaborating with government entities. Discovering a big opportunity with a smaller startup Yoonjin applied to HBS with the express intention “to continue exploring business... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Technology

16 May 2018
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ALUMNI NVC Finals and Regional Roundup

took place at the Signature Conference. MedEXO Robotics won 2017 HBSAHK Startup of the Year, out of a field of 40 companies. Sophia, the company’s social humanoid robot, announced the win. MedEXO, which is creating wearable View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

07 Mar 2024
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IFC India: Green-tech Entrepreneurship in India

green technology is a testament to the power of nurturing a strong startup ecosystem. The company's close-knit relationships with suppliers and investors have cultivated a fertile ground for innovation,... View Details

Melody Koh

Melody is a Partner at NextView Ventures, based in its New York office. She has spent her entire career working with technology and Internet startups as an entrepreneur, operator, and investor. Prior to... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital

15 Apr 2016
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Working With Organizations That Recruit at HBS: An Interview with Molly DeCastro

Diplomacy in the Office of Career Services. What do you enjoy about working with organizations? I manage relationships with organizations in the Technology and Entertainment and Media industries, along with View Details

Keywords: Technology; Technology

14 Aug 2019
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The Manager's Guide to Leveraging Disruption

and the orchestrator. How Big Companies Can Outrun Disruption Large companies can be easy targets for disruption, but there are steps that can keep them ahead of the innovation curve. Rule 1: Don't emulate startup cultures. What’s Really... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2016
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Taking Care of Business

most importantly, affordable. Since then, the company’s offerings have expanded to include a monitor that uses mobile technology to record patient calls and response times by medical professionals; also in the works is a medication... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

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Benjamin Chang | MBA

this future, and through this program, I hope to learn from and empower each other to move the world forward. Tech areas of interest: Synthetic biology, AI/ML, genetic engineering, space exploration, social impact tech Formative experience at the intersection of View Details

17 Oct 2019
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Venturing Away from Venture Capital

Life Science Entrepreneurship in 2015, she worked for several venture capital firms specializing in health care and technology startups.) In order to satisfy the limited partners that supply their capital, Unger explains, venture... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand

24 Apr 2019
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2019 New Venture Competition Student and Alumni Journeys

Takeover - Behind-the-Scenes with Valentina Toll Villagra (MS/MBA 2020) MS/MBA student Valentina Toll Villagra and her co-founder Kyle Dumont founded their startup Allspice in their first year at HBS. Valentina... View Details

01 Dec 2022
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Road to Recovery

digital therapeutics (app-based programs designed to improve health outcomes), he did not fully appreciate the bureaucratic hurdles the company would face. Developing the technology and processes to administer a contingency management... View Details

Keywords: April White; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

21 Dec 2012
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Start-up travel site offers a Peek at hidden gems

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Mar 2019
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Napkin Finance: Say It in a Picture

for anyone who wants to understand money and finance. Courtesy Napkin Finance The company was an accidental outgrowth of another startup Hay founded—a payment platform targeting millennials that also included some Napkin Finance–style... View Details