Publications

14 May 2019
News

Data privacy, AI, regulation: Small-business lending is changing fast

Profile

Gerald Chertavian

his new wife, Kate, where he ran marketing for a financial services firm before cofounding Conduit Communications, a consulting firm focused on the nascent field of Internet marketing. He spent several years building Conduit into one of Europe’s fastest-growing View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurship

October 2023 (Revised April 2024)
Case

TetraScience: Unlocking the Power of Scientific Data

By: Satish Tadikonda and William Marks

After pivoting from a focus on hardware to a focus on scientific data, TetraScience, led by veteran SaaS executive, Patrick Grady and Founder Spin Wang, has embarked on a journey from nearly cash-out to a player in the scientific data management space. This case... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Change Management; Entrepreneurship; Information Management; Business Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Information Technology Industry

September 2004 (Revised August 2007)
Case

Enterprise IT at Cisco (2004)

By: Andrew P. McAfee, F. Warren McFarlan and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld

Illustrates the challenges associated with centralizing IT decisions at Cisco after a decade of decentralized planning and project funding. When Brad Boston became Cisco's new CIO in 2001, he found that managers were starting to get frustrated with the results of their... View Details

Keywords: Management; Resource Allocation; Information Technology; Problems and Challenges; Business Ventures; Change Management; Entrepreneurship; Projects; Planning; Corporate Finance; Information Technology Industry

23 Jul 2020
Blog Post

Why Plume? To Make a Difference in the World

cancelled and recruiting heated up, I continued to find myself thinking about Plume. Each case in Strategy and TEM transformed into a lens through which I looked at our mission and market. Midway through the semester, I joined the team formally as Head of Growth. Plume... View Details

January 2002 (Revised July 2002)
Case

Vialog Corporation

By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Michele Lutz

Traces the origin of Vialog Corp.--from its founding in 1996 through a roll-up of several independent teleconferencing companies in 1997 and its initial public offering (1999) and eventually to a potential merger or acquisition in June 2000. The company has grown... View Details

Keywords: History; Business Exit or Shutdown; Internet and the Web; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Partners and Partnerships; Initial Public Offering; Business Growth and Maturation; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Processes; Information Technology Industry; Europe

May 2004 (Revised December 2004)
Case

Slingshot Technology, Inc. (C)

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Elizabeth Collins

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Private Ownership; Opportunities; Partners and Partnerships; Information Technology; Entrepreneurship; Applications and Software; Intellectual Property; Business Startups; Information Technology Industry

Web

Zach Komes Archives | Social Enterprise

Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 2 Results HBS Impact Investing Fund Makes First Investments Devon... View Details

14 Nov 2019
Blog Post

Future Leaders Dive into the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program

around the world who comprise the first cohort, which started in the fall of 2018. The two-year program confers both an MBA and a Master of Science in Engineering Sciences. It is designed to train future leaders of technology ventures by... View Details

01 Mar 2008
News

Innovation, Inc.

of the French pointillist painter, and it’s easy to imagine Bill Gates or Oprah Winfrey humming the same tune. But if creativity is integral to business, and to entrepreneurship in particular, how exactly does it occur? Where does this... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Mary Tripsas; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management

01 Jun 2011
News

The Best-Laid Plans

Issue Focus: Entrepreneurship The Sweet Life: Paul Conforti at Finale Desserterie & Bakery. “Everything is a balancing act... you’ve got to be able to adapt.” Related Links A Growing Drumbeat Show Me the Money - or Not Cloudflare... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; contests; Health, Social Assistance; Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Professional Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

October 2002 (Revised May 2004)
Case

Intuit's New CEO: Steve Bennett

By: William A. Sahlman and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld

Describes the transition to a new CEO at Intuit, a successful software and financial services firm in California. The new CEO must decide what to change and how fast. He must also navigate within a culture everyone believes to be successful but he envisions can be... View Details

Keywords: Management Succession; Entrepreneurship; Organizational Culture; Applications and Software; Management Teams; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; California

01 Oct 2015
News

A Lifesaving Smartphone App Inspired by a Brush With Tragedy

Keywords: RapidSOS; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government

24 Apr 2014
News

Unlocking mobile money in emerging markets

Monique Maddy (MBA 1993) is focusing her entrepreneurial energies on connecting the world's poor to global commerce through their cell phones. In 2007 she launched Ezuza, a Mexico City–based mobile money company that focuses on the unbanked and under-banked in emerging... View Details

02 Dec 2013
News

Do-It-Yourself Dinners Inspired a Booming Business

Keywords: Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality

November 2014
Case

Taryn Rose Launches Dresr: Street Marketing a Luxury Brand

By: Lena G. Goldberg, Marcel Saucet and Christine Snively

Serial entrepreneur and shoe designer Taryn Rose, M.D., prepared to launch a new e-commerce platform, Dresr, which would connect shoppers with tastemakers online. Dresr would bring the service element found in brick and mortar luxury stores into the online shopping... View Details

Keywords: E-commerce; Online Platforms; Online Marketing; Footwear; Legal Aspects Of Business; Street Marketing; Entrepreneurship; Internet and the Web; Luxury; Marketing Strategy; Digital Platforms; Legal Liability; Technology Industry; Technology Industry