innovative investing - Publications - Faculty & Research

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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08 Jan 2019
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Raising Prospects for Female Funders

Maria Eugenia Giron (MBA 1992) is an entrepreneur and investor in the luxury goods industry, based in Madrid. She’s a cofounder of Rising Tide Europe, a women’s angel investing group that is part of an international movement to provide... View Details

19 Mar 2014
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ID.me Raises $7.5M to Help Teachers, Veterans Get Deals Safely Online

Keywords: venture capital; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments

01 Jun 2022
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Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students

furthering the entrepreneurial passions of its students has led to the creation of some 25 courses, research that has informed 1,300 cases, and the growth of a wide range of resources that support innovators both inside and outside of the... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

10 Jan 2017
News

Street Smarts

government agencies in 40 states and 60 countries worldwide. “Cities can make improvements without making a big investment by using data and being smarter,” says Mistele. “Data by itself doesn’t fix things, but it can tell you where you... View Details

01 Sep 2014
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Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014

Alumni Books Coffee Can Investing: A Better Idea Than Mutual Funds in an IRA or 401(k) by Terry Allen (MBA 1963) Fuller Mountain Press This book describes exactly what to do to maximize returns for those who want to bet on the stock market. It also suggests alternative... View Details

Keywords: faculty research; Alumni Research

Sidney W. Winslow, Jr.

Following the death of his father, Sidney Winslow Jr. took an increasingly important role in the family company, which had been consolidated into the holding company, United Shoe Machinery Corporation. Winslow went on to expand the company internationally and also to... View Details

Keywords: Fabric & Apparel

25 Nov 2014
First Look

First Look: November 25

effectively, where they can be damaging, and where additional complementary mechanisms to spur innovation may be appropriate. Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/tnicholas/patents_creative_destructive.pdf Working Papers Does... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

Leonard S. Shoen

Foreseeing the demands of post-war relocation by veterans and their families, Shoen focused his efforts on the development of a cheap one-way truck rental unit, U-Haul. Shoen’s original and innovative ideas allowed him to cheaply and... View Details

Keywords: Transportation

04 Mar 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar

with the lessons taught in BSSE. "I tell my students that they'll get a better framework in this 14-week course than I got in 14 years at the school of hard knocks," Huber says. "General Motors spent a billion dollars on my tuition. That was the negative... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Auto

24 Apr 2014
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Breaking the cycle of poverty in urban areas

As president of Eos Foundation, Andrea Silbert (AB 1986, MBA 1991, MPA 1992) invests charitable dollars to help fight poverty and hunger in Massachusetts. In 2007 Silbert became president of the Boston-based philanthropic grant-making... View Details

15 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

The Lessons of New-Market Disruption

investments in customized test software developed for UNIX systems. Teradyne's top customers were not interested in sacrificing accuracy and scrapping already installed software for the cost benefits of CMOS chips and NT. Instead, they... View Details

Keywords: by Clark Gilbert; Technology

21 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

What Happens in Vegas Could Shape the Metaverse

company’s investment in the online social entertainment world. The researchers started playing Fortnite during the pandemic “to break the monotony of constant Zoom meetings,” Wu says. But soon, they found themselves spending real money on... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Nover; Computer; Information Technology

Career Coach

Matt Spielman

the globe. To complement his training as a certified executive coach, Matt draws upon his operating experience working as a Chief Marketing Officer, Chief Revenue Officer, SVP Strategy & Innovation and Chief People Officer. Matt... View Details

Keywords: Investment Banking; Investment Banking; Investment Banking; Investment Banking; Investment Banking; Investment Banking; Investment Banking; Investment Banking; Investment Banking; Investment Banking; Investment Banking; Investment Banking

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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog

Shipley Spring 2026 Q4 1.5 Field Course: Ideation and Prototyping for Innovation Thomas Eisenmann Shai Bernstein Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Field Course: Investing for Impact (also listed under General Management)... View Details

November 2005 (Revised May 2007)
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HP Nanotech: Partnership with CNSI

Stan Williams, leading nanotech researcher at Hewlett Packard Laboratories, must decide whether to renew the firm's sponsorship of California NanoSystems Institute, spend the funds on internal R&D, or fund foreign universities. Illustrates the challenge of managing... View Details

Keywords: Information Technology; Partners and Partnerships; Investment; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Business and Community Relations; Financial Strategy; Technology Industry; California

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14 Jan 2022
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Power Play

Courtesy Rahul Advani, Sara Graziano, Chris Smith When Rahul Advani (MBA 2004) began his investment career in 1996, focused on the energy sector, he thought a future of accessible and affordable clean energy was a ways off. But as he... View Details

12 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

The Broadband Explosion: Thinking About a Truly Interactive World

called "The Computer as a Communication Device." These guys imagined human capabilities moving to a new level when real-time interactivity was realized. They expected an acceleration of our abilities to innovate and work... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications

Profile

Scott Wu

and make the government’s international outreach efforts—from agriculture and education to health care—more effective and scalable. Wu describes the work at USAID as “essentially a two-and-a-half year-old venture capital fund housed in the agency to View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government; Venture Capital / Private Equity; Financial Services; Technology

18 Nov 2013
Op-Ed

Twitter IPO: Overvalued or the Start of Something Big?

opportunities for real-time conversations and engagement to people around the world. The company has accomplished this by taking advantage of the modular nature of today's ubiquitous communications infrastructures provided by the Internet and wireless data networks,... View Details

Keywords: by Chet Huber; Technology

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