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  • 12 Nov 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Corporate Innovation Increasingly Benefits from Government Research

Business Administration and co-head of the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School. Consider that between the 1950s and 1980s, Uncle Sam’s spending on research and development (R&D) rose fivefold from... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 11 May 2022
  • Blog Post

MoMBAs: The Inspiring Student Mothers of HBS

have over 20 mothers on campus. While we still have a long way to go to make our business school classrooms, board rooms, and executive leadership teams representative of their constituents – including mothers – we are hopeful that this... View Details
  • 11 Oct 2016
  • First Look

October 11, 2016

startup in the face of fierce competition. From 2011 through 2016, the business evolved from a hobby to a startup with $22 million in revenue and 45 employees, all of whom... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • June 2005 (Revised May 2006)
  • Case

Vidient (A)

Vidient, a young company, is in the process of being spun out of a much larger, established Japanese business. Vidient is in the business of analyzing the feeds from security cameras and catches security breaches automatically, without human assistance. The parent... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Business Growth and Maturation; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Financing and Loans; Business Startups; Service Industry; Japan
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  • 11 Aug 2021
  • Blog Post

The Equity Network: How HBS Helped Me Launch a Tech-Enabled Social Enterprise

Network, a social enterprise empowering the next generation of diverse business leaders by democratizing access to professional networks. She is also Co-President of the HBS Tech Club and Co-VP of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion for the... View Details
  • 28 May 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'

11 bankruptcy of Energy Future Holdings, which lasted for four years. About the Author Dina Gerdeman is a senior writer at Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. [Image: ljubaphoto] Related Reading How Chapter 11 Saved the US Economy... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking
  • 20 Oct 2015
  • Blog Post

Alumni: Where Are They Now? Featuring Bryan Guerra...

Current Position: Assistant Director of Disruptive Strategy at HBX Current Location: Boston, MA Tell us what you're up to these days. I currently serve as the Assistant Director of Disruptive Strategy at HBX, Harvard Business School's... View Details
Keywords: Technology
  • Web

Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online

program from Harvard Business School. Launching Tech Ventures helps early-stage startups overcome management challenges across all aspects of their business model. Whether... View Details
  • October 2004 (Revised March 2005)
  • Case

Langer Lab, The: Commercializing Science

By: H. Kent Bowen, Alex Kazaks, Ayr Muir-Harmony and Bryce LaPierre
Professor Robert Langer's laboratory at MIT is the source of an unusually large number of published papers, patents, and technology licenses to start-up and established companies in the biomedical industry. Explores Langer's leadership and other factors that create a... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Technological Innovation; Business Startups; Research and Development; Patents; Innovation Leadership; Science-Based Business; Commercialization; Biotechnology Industry; Education Industry
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  • October 1982 (Revised September 1988)
  • Case

Steven B. Belkin

By: Howard H. Stevenson and Richard O. von Werssowetz
Steven Belkin, 26 years old and 2 1/2 years out of HBS, has decided to leave a group travel company he has run for the last year to start his own similar business. In the course of several months he has written a business plan, attracted several partners and employees,... View Details
Keywords: Business Plan; Business Startups; Decisions; Equity; Investment; Personal Finance; Recruitment; Resignation and Termination; Failure; Partners and Partnerships
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  • 2022
  • Chapter

Creating 'Smart' Policy to Promote Entrepreneurship and Innovation

By: Karen G. Mills and Annie Dang
Entrepreneurship is a key to unlocking innovation and fostering regional and national economic productivity. Extensive studies demonstrate that small and young firms contribute to innovation and employment growth. But which of the many types of small firms are... View Details
Keywords: Economic Policy; High-growth; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention; Business Startups; Economic Growth; Policy; United States
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  • 01 Mar 2023
  • News

Step Change

had long been part of the cultural mindset. Today’s startup scene in Egypt is hopping. Venture capital funding reached $491 million in 2021, with a compounded annual growth rate of 117 percent between 2017 and 2021, according to Magnitt.... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Abdelrahman Gabr – Koree; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance
  • January 1994 (Revised March 1995)
  • Case

De Passe Entertainment and Creative Partners

By: Linda A. Hill
After 24 years at Motown Industries, Hollywood executive Suzanne de Passe has decided to go out on her own to start two new businesses. The case describes de Passe's career from her beginning as Berry Gordy's assistant at Motown Records to her presidency of Gordy/de... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Partners and Partnerships; Business or Company Management; Entertainment; Personal Development and Career; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Music Industry; California
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  • June 2020
  • Teaching Note

Catalant's Operating System for the Future of Work

By: Christopher Stanton, William R. Kerr, James Palano and Kendall Smith
This case touches on the topics of project-based work, agile methodology, and skill and talent management through Catalant's evolution as a company. Catalant’s journey to becoming a software platform and talent marketplace provides context for students to explore new... View Details
Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Transformation; Business Startups
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  • March 2006
  • Module Note

Managing Innovation in an Uncertain World

By: Alan D. MacCormack
Describes the second module of the 30-session Harvard Business School elective course Managing Innovation in an Uncertain World. The course helps students understand the challenges that uncertainty implies for innovation and how to overcome these challenges. The course... View Details
Keywords: Innovation and Management; Problems and Challenges; Business Processes; Perspective; Opportunities; Risk and Uncertainty; Managerial Roles; Product Design; Business Startups; Organizational Design
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  • Web

Recent Alumni - Alumni

social event planning, programming content oversight, social media outreach, and fundraising. Volunteer Locally Through an HBS Club or Association HBS Clubs and Associations work to support local businesses and nonprofits through programs... View Details
  • Web

Industry Information - Alumni

entertainment news and analysis on everything from film to television to music and gaming. Sign up to receive one or more of their free, topical newsletters. + – Entrepreneurship Breakout List Stanford Graduate School of Business... View Details
  • 25 Jan 2024
  • Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #15: Hilton Augustine III on Financing Climate Ventures

dating” between Harvard and MIT biotech PhDs and HBS MBAs, taught how to develop a pitch and business plan, and nurtured relationships with venture capitalists for funding opportunities. Hilton explained: “this was a unique way to get... View Details
  • March 2000 (Revised June 2001)
  • Case

AES: Hungarian Project (A)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Ann Leamon
The AES Corp., the world's largest independent power producer, has put out a request for bids to build a new power plant in Hungary. Just after the closing date for submitting bids, one of the contractors calls to request an opportunity to "improve" its bid. Although... View Details
Keywords: Bids and Bidding; Energy Generation; Technology Adoption; Business Startups; Ethics; Value; Energy Industry; Hungary
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  • 05 Dec 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017

Harvard Business School, the co-founders of greeting card company startup Lovepop need capital to cover the company’s operating costs and must choose between two seed financing offers. One offer is from an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne