Financing Innovation - Publications - Faculty & Research

July 2017 (Revised June 2019)
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Joel L. Dawson: Eta Devices

By: Steven Rogers and Derek G. Abrams

After a successful career in research and academia, Joel Dawson decided to pursue entrepreneurship in the semiconductor industry. As one of the growing number of African-Americans in the technology field, Joel Dawson co-founded Eta Devices in 2010 based on new... View Details

Keywords: Joel Dawson; Eta Devices; Semiconductor Entrepreneurship; Decision Theory; Decision Making; Finance; Engineering; Entrepreneurship; Technological Innovation; Semiconductor Industry; Boston

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01 Mar 2024
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The Exchange: Takeaways from the Takedown

latest chapter of corporate fraud and the lessons for entrepreneurs operating in the murky spaces between innovation and regulation. As you look at how things fell apart at FTX, do you see anything new or is this the same, age-old story... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Finance; Finance

03 Apr 2019
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Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business

United States economy, and how innovation in financial services will reduce the friction and barriers in small-business lending, helping more of them thrive. In our Q&A, Mills, who served as a member of the Obama Cabinet and headed... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Banking; Financial Services

Alex Civetta

financing matters for innovators in the software, technology, professional services, and biotechnology industries. Since 2021 Alex has been named a Top Lawyer in Corporate Law by Boston Magazine; since 2022,... View Details

Keywords: Legal

June 2004 (Revised May 2006)
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Millennial Net

By: Joseph B. Lassiter III and Johanna Regine Naunton Blaxall

Millennial Net created self-organizing, ultra-low-power, wireless sensor networks, a space that was getting a lot of attention in 2004. The company was founded in 2000 and in early 2004 was looking for a second round of funding. The area had attracted a number of new... View Details

Keywords: Information Infrastructure; Technological Innovation; Entrepreneurship; Investment; Information Technology Industry; Telecommunications Industry

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22 Jun 2010
First Look

First Look: June 22

on Innovation and Entrepreneurship, edited by David Audretsch, Oliver Falck, and Stephan Heblich. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar Publishing, Inc., forthcoming Abstract Financing constraints are one of the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

19 May 2022
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Leading to Salvation

Home underway, Bob Ryan realized a shiny new building would not solve the business’s other challenges. He tracked cash flow, collaborated with an employment law firm to iron out personnel issues, and helped Estes secure financing for... View Details

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Bibliography - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections

Cary Brown and Robert M. Solow. New York, N.Y.: McGraw-Hill, 1983. * Merton, Robert C. "Financial Innovation and Economic Performance." Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 4 (winter 1992): 12-22. Merton,... View Details

04 Apr 2014
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Increasing Access to Education

career opportunities and experiences I have had,” says Mount, president of San Francisco–based Jawbone, a leading innovator in wearable technology and smart audio devices. “It gave me the opportunity to change my career path from... View Details

March 2010
Teaching Note

Disruptive IPOs? WR Hambrecht & Co. (TN)

By: Willy C. Shih

Teaching Note for 610065. View Details

Keywords: Auctions; Financing and Loans; Theory; Disruptive Innovation; Initial Public Offering; Investment Banking; Financial Services Industry; Service Industry

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25 Aug 2022
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The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto

cases and then making it very intuitive and simple, like the original Google home page. I think a lot of the innovation today is around trying to understand the core consumer-use cases and the needs that crypto technology can really... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Finance; Finance

October, 2022
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The Economic Dynamics of Competing Power Generation Sources

By: Gunther Glenk and Stefan Reichelstein

Competing power generation sources have experienced considerable shifts in both their revenue potential and their costs in recent years. Here we introduce the concept of Levelized Profit Margins (LPM) to capture the changing unit economics of both intermittent and... View Details

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25 Aug 2022
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Labs Enable Large-scale Research

Administration Digital Value Lab How will finance and accounting functions need to change in the digital and AI age? HBS: Suraj Srinivasan, Philip J. Stomberg Professor of Business Administration Laboratory for View Details

December 2004 (Revised October 2005)
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Intel Research: Exploring the Future

By: Alan D. MacCormack and Kerry Herman

It is 2004 and David Tennenhouse, the director of Intel Research, is reviewing the organization he has built since 2000. Intel Research was charged with exploring new and disruptive technologies that lay off the "silicon roadmap" that drove most of Intel's R&D efforts.... View Details

Keywords: Disruptive Innovation; Technological Innovation; Research and Development; Performance Evaluation; Venture Capital; Technology Networks; Semiconductor Industry; United States

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Sustainable Investing - Course Catalog

designed to use the power of financial contracting to unlock innovation and help transform the social sector. Cases will require rigorous financial and investment analysis, building on and extending skills acquired in the RC View Details

07 Sep 2021
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Building New Connections

lifelong learning and advanced alumni engagement, recognizing both as critical components of the HBS experience; forged important new cross-School partnerships, particularly with Executive Education and Harvard Business Publishing; and encouraged View Details

November–December 1991
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How Capital Budgeting Deters Innovation--And What To Do About It

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin

Keywords: Capital Budgeting; Innovation and Invention

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18 Mar 2020
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Leading Change

International Finance Corporation; Sarah Wright Meyers (MBA 1997), Founder & Managing Partner, Hull Street Energy; and Matt Sonnesyn (Harvard Kennedy School, 2002), VP of Infrastructure, Energy, and Environment, Business Roundtable. “This... View Details

01 Sep 2024
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From the Classroom to Casablanca

launched Blue Space, which the bank built and provides funding for on ISCAE’s Casablanca campus. It includes an educational bank branch offering students workspaces and knowledge of the world of banking and finance and an incubator... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie