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  • 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
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Energy; Venture Capital; Corporate Finance; Initial Public Offering; Investment; Health Testing and Trials; Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Intellectual Property; Product Design; Product Development; Information Technology; Research and Development; Risk and Uncertainty; Technology Industry; Biotechnology Industry; United States; North America; Europe; Asia
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  • April 2009
  • Teaching Note

Apple's Core (TN)

By: Noam T. Wasserman and Lisa Brem
Teaching Note for [809063]. View Details
Keywords: Product Design; Resignation and Termination; Decisions; Business Growth and Maturation; Equity; Selection and Staffing; Electronics Industry; Computer Industry
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  • Profile

Colt Stander

thinking, design and business have much in common. “To create a good product, you have to know all the influences behind manufacturing the product and consumer behavior. I became interested in business... View Details
  • Web

Multimedia Development | Information Technology

by students. Our products are designed to be used on all devices—smartphones, tablets, desktop computers, and laptops—as well as in the classroom. Multimedia cases are a breath of fresh air for students with... View Details
  • Web

Site Credits - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

Murphy Laura Linard Laura Peimer Editing Julia Collins Katherine Fox Catalogue Design eleanor bradshaw fine design Exhibition Design Chris Danemayer, proun View Details
  • January 2010
  • Teaching Note

Transforming ASUSTeK: Breaking from the Past (TN)

By: Willy C. Shih
Teaching Note for [610041]. View Details
Keywords: Information Infrastructure; Transformation; Contracts; Production; Product Design; Customers; Competition; Management Practices and Processes; Value; Performance Effectiveness; Brands and Branding; Disruptive Innovation; Computer Industry; Electronics Industry
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  • 12 Mar 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Crowded at the Top: The Rise of the Functional Manager

"But what we found instead is that it's not an increase in the total number of managers reporting directly, it's just the number of functional managers, which is a little more subtle." The paper divides functional managers into two camps—those focused on... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • Web

Credits – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

HBS Home HBS Index Contact Us Site Credits Curator: Melissa Banta Website Design and production: Alex Taylor, Big Ring Design Production management: Jon Sallade, Melissa Burton... View Details
  • Web

Agents of Change: The Founding of the AASU - Site Credits

proun Design EXHIBITION FABRICATION WB Incorporated WEBSITE DESIGN/PRODUCTION Aaron Carmisciano, Subluxed DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY Boston Photo Imaging Harvard Library Imaging Services A–V PRODUCTION Northern... View Details
  • 23 Oct 2019
  • News

Hands-on Simulations Complement the Case Method

During a hands-on simulation, first-year MBA students work in teams to design and implement a complex process to produce electronic circuit boards. During a hands-on simulation, first-year MBA students work in teams to View Details
Keywords: Educational Innovation
  • 01 Dec 2018
  • News

Ready, Set, Launch

Launching Technology Ventures explore an alternative path, one designed to sidestep many of the missteps: the lean startup methodology. The idea is to launch as quickly as possible with a minimum viable View Details
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

A Perfect Fit: Aligning Organization & Strategy

their espoused strategy and management principles. Beer and Eisenstat began implementing the process ten years ago at Becton Dickinson and Company, a medical products and diagnostic systems supplier. "Ray Gilmartin, who was CEO at... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
  • September 2023 (Revised May 2025)
  • Teaching Note

On

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Karolin Frankenberger, Sascha Mader, Jordan Mitchell and Karen Elterman
Teaching Note for "On," HBS Case No. 723-430. On is a premium performance running shoe company founded in Switzerland in 2010. The company rapidly gained traction through its unique CloudTec cushioning technology, its innovative midsole plate called the Speedboard, and... View Details
Keywords: Brands and Branding; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Business Startups; Business Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Satisfaction; Digital Marketing; Disruptive Innovation; Distribution Channels; Entrepreneurship; Environmental Sustainability; Global Strategy; Initial Public Offering; Innovation and Invention; Innovation Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Marketing Strategy; Product Design; Product Development; Product Marketing; Social Media; Strategy; Supply Chain Management; Technological Innovation; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Europe; Germany; Switzerland; United States
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  • November 2000 (Revised June 2010)
  • Case

Bush Boake Allen

By: Stefan H. Thomke and Ashok Nimgade
Bush Boake Allen, a flavor and fragrance firm, is considering strategic options that would integrate customers into its innovation process via a potentially disruptive Internet-based technology. As this approach could result in dramatic changes to the firm's business... View Details
Keywords: Customer Focus and Relationships; Disruptive Innovation; Technological Innovation; Management Teams; Product Design; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Conflict Management; Internet; Chemical Industry
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  • 30 Sep 2016
  • News

Competing Against Luck

has really become a part of the modern business canon. And he has a new book coming out next month, Competing Against Luck, which argues that understanding customers' motivations, what quote unquote, "role" consumers are buying a product... View Details
  • 03 Jun 2015
  • What Do You Think?

Is the Time Right for Self-Management?

Martin when a long-term strategic plan was put in place that called for the company to distribute its products through more than 100,000 locations of various kinds. The 25-fold increase in the number of distribution points called for more... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail
  • Career Coach

Carrie Goodrich

career transitions, interview preparation, and recruiting strategies. Carrie can also provide interview prep, resume/cover letter reviews, and help students design a longer-term career vision that reflects their unique interests,... View Details
  • 23 Oct 2019
  • News

Understanding Business Firsthand in South Korea

required course designed to develop students’ global and cultural intelligence. In the course, students tackle a real product or service challenge for a partner organization and complete an immersion in... View Details
Keywords: Global Understanding; Internationalization; Educational Innovation
  • February 2024 (Revised March 2024)
  • Teaching Note

X: The Foghorn Decision

By: Kyle Myers and Walter Frick
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 618-060. View Details
Keywords: Alternative Energy; Energy Generation; Energy Sources; Climate Change; Green Technology; Selection and Staffing; Knowledge; Product Design; Product Development; Research and Development; Risk and Uncertainty; Science-Based Business; Innovation and Invention; Auto Industry; Biotechnology Industry; Chemical Industry; Computer Industry; Electronics Industry; Green Technology Industry; Technology Industry
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  • 13 Dec 2018
  • Blog Post

"I Wanted to Move from Analyzing Results to Creating Them": Cynthia Samanian, MBA 2012

shift from her previous strengths to her new ambitions. At Path, a mobile application startup based in San Francisco, Cynthia joined as a business analyst, but during her five-year tenure, moved to design and View Details