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  • December 2020 (Revised April 2021)
  • Teaching Note

Women Entrepreneurs and Tech Ecosystems: One City, Two Realities, and Four Diverse Women

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Joyce J. Kim
Four diverse women entrepreneurs launched their ventures in a thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem that was part of a shift to a creative technology-driven economy for Miami. Although Miami was rated the #1 U.S. city for startups in 2017, the region contained structural... View Details
Keywords: Women; Racism; Black Entrepreneurs; Entrepreneurship; Diversity; Gender; Race; Prejudice and Bias; Innovation and Invention; City; Culture; Miami
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Leading in the Digital Era

business models Particularly appropriate for: Executives responsible for implementing the company's strategy or digital transformation, as well as those considering or currently running innovation labs, incubators and corporate... View Details
  • March 2023
  • Supplement

Innovation at Google Ads: The Sales Acceleration and Innovation Labs (SAIL) (B)

By: Linda A. Hill and Emily Tedards
In 2018, Ana Owczarzak was appointed to lead Google Ads' new innovation and accelerator team - the Sales Acceleration and Innovation Labs (SAIL). The purpose of SAIL was to offer testing and incubation services for individuals within Google Ads who were developing new... View Details
Keywords: Innovation Leadership; Organizational Culture; Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; Advertising Industry; United States
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Entrepreneurship & Innovation - MBA

are looking to explore innovation and entrepreneurship at any stage. It provides all the physical and intellectual resources current students need to develop and grow, including one-to-one advising, office hours with industry experts, workshops, an View Details
  • 06 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

2018 Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism American Capitalism: New Histories By: Beckert, Sven, and Christine Desan, eds. Abstract—The United States has long epitomized capitalism. From its enterprising shopkeepers, wildcat banks, violent slave... View Details
  • 02 Jan 2024
  • Research & Ideas

10 Trends to Watch in 2024

The lightning-fast ascent of generative AI isn’t the only sea change on the horizon for businesses in the new year. The global economy is in flux as war, climate change, trade issues, and infrastructure problems demand attention. Many companies continue to struggle to... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • Research Summary

Moving Beyond Direct-to-Consumer

By: Leonard A. Schlesinger

Changing consumer behaviors have redefined what it means to be direct to consumer ("DTC"). What once began online a decade ago as a distribution and disintermediation strategy has since evolved into a multifaceted approach for the modern-day brand.

The... View Details

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Hiring Organizations

Performing Arts, Inc. Lindsay Goldberg Ling Aging Lab Lithos Carbon Locust Walk Lone Pine Capital Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator - LACI LTS One Lux Capital Lyra Health M M33 Growth Macy's Mae Deli, The Magdrive Magna International Main... View Details
  • December 2017
  • Case

International Institute of Tropical Agriculture

By: Jose B. Alvarez and Sarah Mehta
It is July 2017, and Dr. Nteranya Sanginga, the director general of the Nigeria-based International Institute of Tropical Agriculture (IITA), is making progress toward two of his primary strategic objectives for the nonprofit research Institute: 1) to scale the impact... View Details
Keywords: Scaling Technologies; Youth Unemployment; Innovation In Nonprofits; Agribusiness; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Cash Flow; Labor; Employment; Commercialization; Problems and Challenges; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Africa; Nigeria
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  • June 2009 (Revised June 2009)
  • Case

VidaGas: VillageReach - The Mozambican Foundation for Community Development Joint Venture

This case describes the evolution of a liquid petroleum gas (LPG) distributor start-up, incubated by two not-for-profit NGOs to help improve the vaccine cold chain in Northern Mozambique. These NGOs must face the decision whether and how to sell their participation in... View Details
Keywords: Joint Ventures; Supply Chain; Health Care and Treatment; Investment; Non-Governmental Organizations; Energy Sources; Energy Industry; Health Industry; Mozambique
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Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship - Health Care

founded the nonprofit biotechnology incubator Sling Health during his MD/PhD at Washington University in St. Louis. Steve holds a master's in drug development from the University of Cambridge, where he was a Churchill Scholar. He... View Details
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Podcast - Business & Environment

MBA students: Nabig Chaudhry, Mitch Hirai, and Kamya Jagadish. They describe how they spent the summer interning in climate-related businesses, from impact investing to a climate tech incubator and climate risk analytics. They also... View Details
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Leadership Initiative - Leadership

where he spearheaded its digital transformation to a Software-as-as Service business. Sunand was also Global Head of New Ventures at Thomson Reuters, where he incubated and scaled several digital businesses such as Thomson Reuters... View Details
  • 07 Feb 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Digital Transformation: A New Roadmap for Success

services. Others talked about the benefits of running design thinking labs with customers to incubate new offerings. These approaches helped employees across the organization develop a shared understanding of the customer journey. As... View Details
Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards
  • Profile

Thomaz Galvao

venture they are incubating in the i-lab. “Our country has one of the highest unemployment rates in the Americas,” Thomaz explains. “There are significant gaps between supply and demand for job occupations: companies can’t find people... View Details
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Student Journey - Entrepreneurship

entrepreneurship. The Rock Center’s Entrepreneurs-in-Residence and Venture Capital Partners hold their office hours at the i-labs. We highly recommend you visit and explore some of the i-labs’ programs such as the Venture Incubation... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2023
  • News

Elevator Pitch: Feedback

per day; the company expects to open a fundraising round in early 2024 for further expansion of its hub-and-spoke operations model. Earlier this year, Bright Feeds was selected to join the Harvard Climate Entrepreneur’s Circle, an View Details
Keywords: Illustration by Drue Wagner; Photo by ChiChi Ubiña
  • 23 Apr 2024
  • In Practice

Getting to Net Zero: The Climate Standards and Ecosystem the World Needs Now

With each month clocking record-breaking temperatures across the planet, this Earth Day reflected the renewed urgency of regulators and businesses to find climate-change solutions. The US Securities and Exchange Commission recently adopted new rules that will mandate... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
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HBS - The year in Review

Weinzierl. H. Naylor Fitzhugh Conference Video Harvard Climate Entrepreneurs Circle Selected The Harvard Innovation Labs have selected 23 ventures to join the third annual Harvard Climate Entrepreneurs Circle, an incubation program for... View Details
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PE & VC investors by investment criteria (industry, stage and geography)

investments by industry, stage (from incubation to mature, including buyouts, re-capitalization, turnaround and PIPES), size of investment, and geography. Select each desired item for the search by clicking Add to Criteria... View Details