Your guide to get involved at HBS and outside to tackle the most pressing problem facing humanity In April 2022, as I landed in sunny San Diego all the way from India for the ASU+GSV EdTech industry conference, I had no idea that I was about to completely change my career trajectory and industry. My… Continue reading The Booming Climate Tech Ecosystem at HBS
Category: Technology
Summer Spotlight—Gaming: Combining Art and Technology
Sathvik Sudireddy (MBA ’23) talks about a summer spent well at Activision Blizzard. Tell us more about your background? After studying computer science at Harvard College, I worked at a large international education company, EF (Education First), before transitioning to a GameTech startup called Beamable, which is building a backend-as-a-service live operations platform for game… Continue reading Summer Spotlight—Gaming: Combining Art and Technology
Bridging Technology and Beauty with Hue
Mike Kelly (MBA ’22) talks with the Hue team about their personalized recommendation engine for beauty. Tell us more about your background and what inspired you all to become entrepreneurs. Shah: When I was five years old, my dad quit his job and started his own company, a circuit board manufacturing business, which now has… Continue reading Bridging Technology and Beauty with Hue
From Enterprise to Venture
Alex Smith (MBA ’23) interviews Angela Son (MBA ’23) and Kevin Miao (MBA ’23), two incoming RC’s who left successful careers at large corporations to join startups. Son’s account at an early-stage venture and Miao’s experience in hypergrowth give unique insight into life at a startup. Angela Son (MBA ’23) is an incoming RC who… Continue reading From Enterprise to Venture
Turning Crisis into an Opportunity
HBS students rise up to lead the fight against COVID-19. The novel coronavirus pandemic may be the largest test of any leadership the world has ever witnessed. Every leader on the planet is facing the same potential threat. Every leader is reacting differently, in his or her own way. The students at Harvard Business School… Continue reading Turning Crisis into an Opportunity
Securing Our Beloved Internet
Umang Sota (MBA ’21) reports on the lessons in cybersecurity and entrepreneurship through the story of cybersecurity startup Zscaler. The enterprise technology landscape has seen dramatic shifts over the last five years, including increasing permeation of the Cloud, an expanding IoT network, adoption of BYOD (Bring your own device), flexibility around remote work and burgeoning… Continue reading Securing Our Beloved Internet
humanID: Reclaiming the Web for Humans
A nonprofit co-founded by Bastian Purrer (MBA ’20) is giving real humans real digital IDs; Shuyao Kong (MBA ’20) reports. We have all been there. Upon downloading a new app, we are prompted with two registration options: “Sign up with Facebook” or “Sign up with Google.” Most people would choose either one of them because,… Continue reading humanID: Reclaiming the Web for Humans
Back to Progress: Piloting a Reborn Revolution
Shrinking the world at supersonic speed could be a reality in less than a decade, says Sergio Porres (MBA ’19). Innovation and progress have completely transformed the way the world looks, particularly in the last few decades. The pace of scientific development has been breathtakingly fast, with consumers benefiting handsomely, from the rise of electronics… Continue reading Back to Progress: Piloting a Reborn Revolution
Innovations and Technologies in CES 2019
The Consumer Electronics Show (CES) was held in Las Vegas between January 8 and 12, 2019, and I attended the event with some of my HBS classmates. CES is the world’s most famous and largest trade show for consumer electronics products. I worked in the corporate venture capital and digital transformation sectors in Asia before… Continue reading Innovations and Technologies in CES 2019
Start Up Corner: Eloops
This month we meet Eloops, a mobile app and web-based platform to help companies better engage their employees and allow them to connect with one another. What is the problem you’re trying to solve? Having an engaged, happy and well-connected workforce is critical for any organization. Companies with remote and/or ‘desk-less’ employees (retail, maintenance services,… Continue reading Start Up Corner: Eloops
How Blockchain is Totally Changing Healthcare
The tech world can’t stop talking about blockchain, and nowhere is that more apparent than in the healthcare sector. As one HealthTech contributor put it, “it was impossible to ignore the growing buzz around blockchain at HIMSS 2018 in Las Vegas.” But behind the buzz and hype, what are the substantial ways that blockchain will… Continue reading How Blockchain is Totally Changing Healthcare
Startup Corner: Alpha Vantage
What is the problem you’re trying to solve? Institutional-quality, real-time financial market data is not affordable or accessible to individual end-users unless they (or the organization they are affiliated with) can afford to shell out tens of thousands of dollars for data charged by legacy providers. Olivier Porte and Steve Zheng (both MBA ‘18) are… Continue reading Startup Corner: Alpha Vantage
Space and SpaceX: Another Small Step For Man, a Nearly Untapped Opportunity for HBS Graduates
Tesla has continually made it into the headlines lately. The revolution that electric cars might bring has fascinated many, and business people, politicians and environmentalist alike can’t stop thinking about how the world might be about to change even more drastically. Nevertheless, another revolution led by Elon Musk is already delivering astonishing results. On February… Continue reading Space and SpaceX: Another Small Step For Man, a Nearly Untapped Opportunity for HBS Graduates
4 Steps to New Product Success: Tech Leaders Discuss Keys to Launching the Next iPhone, Tesla & AWS
What are the greatest high-tech products and services ever launched? Apple’s iPhone? Tesla Model S? Amazon Web Services? Adobe Photoshop? Windows XP? How about the groundbreaking Netscape Navigator? This past year, Silicon Valley technology product leaders launched a Product Leader Summit series hosted by Spero Ventures and sponsored by The Omidyar Network, Women in Product… Continue reading 4 Steps to New Product Success: Tech Leaders Discuss Keys to Launching the Next iPhone, Tesla & AWS
A Letter to Facebook’s CEO
Dear Mark, You founded and built Facebook into a global colossus in a remarkably short time. You conceived of a need to allow people to connect easily, quickly everywhere and at virtually unlimited scale. You recruited the team to help you, made adjustments along the way and in the process built a commercial juggernaut with… Continue reading A Letter to Facebook’s CEO
Harvard Students Help Bring First Ever Hackathon to the Vatican
In the first of a two part series, Editor Emeritus Pippa Lamb (HBS ‘18) takes a look at the first-ever hackathon to be hosted at the Vatican. You might not expect to read the words “Hackathon” and “Vatican” in the same sentence. However, this month, a Harvard-led team of students is helping to change just… Continue reading Harvard Students Help Bring First Ever Hackathon to the Vatican
Why is Microsoft’s New Machine Reading Comprehension Dataset a Big Deal?
On March 1, 2018, Microsoft released the latest large-scale dataset for machine reading comprehension and question answering. You can access the public dataset, named MS MARCO, at //www.msmarco.org/. As human beings, we are so habituated to the daily routines of reading, writing, and conversing that we may deem it intuitive to transfer our language understanding… Continue reading Why is Microsoft’s New Machine Reading Comprehension Dataset a Big Deal?
A Macro Framework For Valuing Crypto – All About Velocity
Even the most ardent cryptocurrency enthusiast will usually admit, in a vulnerable moment or after a few drinks, that parts of the cryptocurrency market are likely overvalued, and perhaps enormously so. But the question of precisely how cryptocurrencies should be valued is rarely discussed at HBS. Given the level of investment in the space, this… Continue reading A Macro Framework For Valuing Crypto – All About Velocity
Overheard @ Startup Bootcamp
Over January 12-19, 188 first-year MBA candidates participated in the 2018 HBS Startup Bootcamp. Below, you can hear from 26 Bootcamp teams directly about their startup ideas, their greatest lessons learned over the course of the Bootcamp, and the startups that they have on their radars. AlphaInvest Digital platform providing retail investors with access to… Continue reading Overheard @ Startup Bootcamp
How Things Work: Fifty Shades of a Search Engine
What is a shared attribute among the following items? The digital archive of the Baker Library, the endless emails from LinkedIn suggesting new connections, the “you may also like” section on Amazon, and the top three most-used mobile apps on your smartphone. One shared attribute may be that they are all powered by information retrieval… Continue reading How Things Work: Fifty Shades of a Search Engine
A Challenge for Uber’s Board
Uber is a remarkable company that has transformed personal transportation around the world. In the process it has created enormous value for shareholders, provided jobs for thousands including many HBS grads, and upended the status quo. The CEO has pursued an aggressive, take no prisoners approach familiar to many in Silicon Valley. He has made… Continue reading A Challenge for Uber’s Board
Who said Harvard MBAs don’t code?
Last spring, we published a Harbus piece asserting that “coding is the new business literacy.” As we look back on the student-led digital literacy movements at HBS over the past year, we’d say that the student body agrees. There’s a blossoming ecosystem on campus of tech-driven clubs, hackathons, and ventures. It’s hard to believe that… Continue reading Who said Harvard MBAs don’t code?
An Interview with Drew Houston Founder & CEO, Dropbox
Drew, thank you for taking the time to talk with us, we’re excited to have you. I’d like to take you to the beginning, to the very first days of Dropbox. Some entrepreneurs have a grand vision for their startup to take over the world right from the get-go. Did you ever imagine that Dropbox… Continue reading An Interview with Drew Houston Founder & CEO, Dropbox
Why Facebook’s Algorithms are Destroying Democracy
According to Pew Research, 61 percent of millennials use Facebook as their primary source for news about politics and government. The implications this could have for democracy’s underpinnings should not be underestimated. In disrupting the fundamental structures behind traditional information creation, distribution and consumption, social media has been one of the Internet’s most radical and innovative… Continue reading Why Facebook’s Algorithms are Destroying Democracy
Learning to code: MBAs alpha-testing new b-school feedback app
The last time you encountered something that your employer (or HBS) did that could obviously be better, what did you do? Probably complained to a friend, then moved on with your life. Sometimes the solution is simple and straightforward, but nobody seems to be listening, and even if you find someone to tell, are they… Continue reading Learning to code: MBAs alpha-testing new b-school feedback app
Creative Deconstruction
The business ethics of automation and human obsolescence – What do we owe the world and future generations? “Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.” – Milton Friedman Income disparity has become an issue of note… Continue reading Creative Deconstruction