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19 Nov 2021
Blog Post

Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate

address climate change: policy, joining startups or building your own, investing, scaling new technologies in large corporations, and beyond. Mitigating emissions requires reimagining entire sections of the... View Details

01 Oct 2021
Blog Post

Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate

climate change: policy, joining startups or building your own, investing, scaling new technologies in large corporations and beyond. Mitigating emissions requires reimagining entire sections of the economy -... View Details

29 Dec 2019
Research & Ideas

Read Our Most Popular Research Stories of 2019

buyouts on target firms and their workers vary greatly by deal type and market conditions. Experimentation and Startup Performance: Evidence from A/B Testing An analysis of the adoption of A/B testing View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

17 Sep 2021
News

Clearing the Path to Citizenship

immigrant families every year,” notes Wang. But it doesn’t have to be that way. The enormous technological changes that have taken place since the Wangs went through the trying process offer an alternative. “Immigration is one of those... View Details

Profile

Andrew Boudreau

different: a student-run startup researching intellectual property. “Technology Commercialization enthralled me,” says Andy. After he and his friends failed to land jobs at Hopkins’ technology transfer... View Details

23 Sep 2024
Blog Post

2024 Summer Internships in Business & Environment

to HBS was Sustainability & Technology Collaboration Engineer at Pratt & Whitney. Luca Mantovani (MBA 2025, Section J), Summer Internship: Business Operations, Antora Energy Antora Energy is a Series B California-based View Details

April 2000 (Revised June 2000)
Case

Everdream

Silicon Valley start-up Everdream wants to turn the provision of PCs to small business into a turnkey service including excellent 24/7 support. This case explores what this will take by focusing on the question of what, if anything, Everdream can guarantee. View Details

Keywords: Service Delivery; Information Infrastructure; Business Startups; Computer Industry; Service Industry; California

September 1998 (Revised December 1998)
Case

Walnut Venture Associates (A): RBS Group Investment Memorandum

The Walnut Group's investigation of the RBS Group, a young software company is described. The RBS business plan is also included. View Details

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

September 2012 (Revised December 2012)
Case

Kyruus: Big Data's Search for the Killer App

By: Robert F. Higgins, Penrose O'Donnell and Mehul Bhatt

Kyruus is used in a course at HBS on Entrepreneurship in Healthcare IT and Services (EHITS). It describes a young company that has built a very large database on physicians. The company has had some early successful pilots with prominent customers, but it is now faced... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Information Technology; Business Startups; Boston

05 Aug 2021
Blog Post

Closing the Education Gap with Kei Takatsuka (MBA 2022)

Resources Upon arrival at HBS, Takatsuka was particularly interested in the impact that startups could make on education and considered three different paths forward. 1) Joining a startup, 2) Impact Investing, and 3) Starting her own... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Technology; Technology

07 Sep 2021
News

Summer Fellowship Recipient is a Changemaker in Tanzania

receiving a Social Enterprise Summer Fellowship from HBS in 2021, DeBere received one in 2020, which enabled him to serve as a research intern for OpenUp, a civic technology company based in South Africa that shares Afya Pamoja’s vision... View Details

Keywords: April White

08 Jul 2021
Blog Post

Managing Sustainable Advantage with Key ESG Co-Founders, Anne-Marie Schoonbeek and Heleen van Poecke

elevates that perspective to the next level,” she shared. Schoonbeek was also eager to gain more experience as an operator at a startup company to supplement her experience as a consultant working with large businesses. Specifically, she... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Technology

17 Sep 2018
Blog Post

My Summer as a Venture Capitalist

was trying to figure out what the future of computing would look like: would serverless technology reach a critical mass, and, when will quantum computing mature? Some days I was talking to the leaders of AWS, IBM, and Cloudflare about... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity

27 Mar 2025
Blog Post

IFC India 2025: Driving India's EV Future: Insights from Ather Scooter and Exponent Energy

reducing emissions. Our research focused on understanding the opportunities and hurdles faced by emerging 2-wheeler EV manufacturers and advancements in EV battery and charging technologies and infrastructure. As part of this research, we... View Details

April 1985 (Revised November 1987)
Case

Sun Hydraulics Corp. (A)

Involves the design and creation of a company with no formally-defined hierarchy. Describes the steps the founder takes to avoid the organizational politics he perceives as crushing the human contributions they were designed to harness. View Details

Keywords: Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Engineering; Business Startups; Technology Industry