Publications

Video

Product-Market Fit: How to Find It in the Tech Industry | Business: Explained

September 2024
Case

TechEnergy Ventures: Innovating Through Corporate Venture Capital

By: Rebecca Karp and Lena Duchene

This case examines TechEnergy Ventures, the corporate venture capital (CVC) arm of the Techint Group, and its role in scaling innovation within the energy sector. Founded in 2021, TechEnergy Ventures operates with a mandate to invest in disruptive technologies to... View Details

June 2013
Background Note

Venture Philanthropy: Its Evolution and Its Future

By: Allen Grossman, Sarah Appleby and Caitlin Reimers

This note explores the current state of venture philanthropy in the U.S. and its future. Based on interviews with 28 practitioners in the field of philanthropy and a review of the literature since the publication of the article introducing the concept of venture... View Details

Keywords: Philanthropy; Nonprofit; Social Institutions; Nonprofit Organizations; Social Entrepreneurship; Civil Society or Community; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; United States

Article

The Secrets to TripAdvisor’s Impressive Scale

By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang

Keywords: Venture Capital

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26 May 2023
Blog Post

Bringing Space Tech Back to Earth

struggled to manage its finances in order to scale up. Those two jobs spurred Sweeney to join the M.S./M.B.A. program in order to add entrepreneurship to her engineering skills. “I realized I didn’t want to just assume that if someday I... View Details

August 2020 (Revised March 2021)
Supplement

Migros Turkey: Scaling Online Operations (B)

By: Antonio Moreno and Gamze Yucaoglu

The case opens in February 2020 as Ozgur Tort and Mustafa Bartin, CEO and chief large-format and online retail officer of Migros Ticaret A.S. (Migros), Turkey’s oldest and one of its largest supermarket chains, are looking over the results of the fulfillment pilot the... View Details

Keywords: Grocery; Business Model; Strategy; Digital Platforms; Information Technology; Technology Adoption; Value Creation; Globalization; Competition; Expansion; Logistics; Profit; Resource Allocation; Corporate Strategy; Retail Industry; Turkey

31 Jan 2023
News

Female Founders' Dilemmas; UK Tech Startups

Orange County. UK Founders Find a Way Forward in Uncertain Times More than 120 HBS alumni from across the UK gathered in London on January 10 for a candid conversation on “Building and Scaling Tech View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Mar 2005
News

Venture Capital’s Comeback

investing soared from under $10 billion in the mid-1990s to over $100 billion in 2000, before plunging back to earth after the tech bubble burst. Since then, annual venture investing has hovered in the range... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

10 Jun 2022
Blog Post

New Venture Competition 2022: Business and Environment Ventures

Steven Henderson (MBA 2016) and Michael Carter won the Alumni Track for FleetZero. We wanted to highlight the contestants from this year’s competition who are developing a wide range of ventures to address climate change. Winners Tough... View Details

19 Oct 2023
Blog Post

New Venture Competition 2023: Business and Environment Ventures

entrants, and we wanted to highlight the contestants from this year’s competition who are developing a wide range of ventures to address climate change. WINNER: Tough Tech: Most Promising Climate Tech View Details

2023
Working Paper

Where Strategy Matters: Evidence from a Global Startup Field Study

By: Nataliya Langburd Wright

The role of strategy for innovative startups is theoretically ambiguous and much debated among practitioners. I interviewed executives of 253 scaling software ventures from 34 countries and scored the alignment of their market and organizational choices to detect... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship And Strategy; Scaling Technology Ventures; Global Contextual Intelligence; Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Global Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy

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13 Jan 2020
Blog Post

Blending my Tech and Managerial Mindsets

way I perceive life, career, and business: I was fortunate enough to have Professor Clayton Christensen himself teach us his Building and Sustaining Successful Enterprises (BSSE) class, frameworks from which I use literally daily, and Launching View Details

February 2016 (Revised December 2016)
Case

IMAX: Scaling Personalized Learning in India

By: John Jong-Hyun Kim, Michael Chu and Rachna Tahilyani

IMAX is a provider of comprehensive testing and personalized content across mid-range and low-cost private K-10 schools in India. It aims to improve learning outcomes by providing schools with an integrated product suite including textbooks, workbooks, assessments,... View Details

Keywords: Curriculum and Courses; Learning; Acquisition; Business Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Education Industry; India

July 2021
Teaching Plan

Scale and Scope at Drake Real Estate Partners

By: Christina R. Wing and David Lane

Teaching Plan for HBS Case No. 621-065. View Details

Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Family Business; Investment; Ownership; Value Creation; Financial Services Industry; Real Estate Industry; United States; Latin America; Chile

October 2019 (Revised April 2020)
Background Note

Note on Funding Deep Tech Startups

By: Karim Lakhani, Peter Barrett and Noubar Afeyan

This Background Note provides essential information on funding deep technologies—those technologies that were inherently capital intensive, time consuming, risky, and potentially disruptive. Both dilutive and non-dilutive sources of investment are highlighted, along... View Details

Program

Private Equity and Venture Capital

venture capital fields, our foundational investment program, Foundations of Private Equity and Venture Capital, may be more appropriate. The programs are not intended to be taken consecutively and are... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Finance

January 2012 (Revised November 2014)
Background Note

Scaling a Startup: People and Organizational Issues

By: Thomas Eisenmann and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld

Keywords: Business Startups