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- October 2022
- Supplement
Beam Dental (A): Pitch Deck Supplement 1
By: Rembrand Koning and Alicia Dadlani
Early pitch deck (one of two). This case is a supplement to Beam Dental (A) 723-355.
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Keywords:
Business Startups;
Business Strategy;
Entrepreneurship;
Insurance Industry;
United States;
Kentucky;
Ohio
Koning, Rembrand, and Alicia Dadlani. "Beam Dental (A): Pitch Deck Supplement 1." Harvard Business School Supplement 723-374, October 2022.
- October 2022
- Supplement
Beam Dental (A): Pitch Deck Supplement 2
By: Rembrand Koning and Alicia Dadlani
Early pitch deck (two of two). This case is a supplement to Beam Dental (A) 723-355.
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Koning, Rembrand, and Alicia Dadlani. "Beam Dental (A): Pitch Deck Supplement 2." Harvard Business School Supplement 723-375, October 2022.
- October 2022
- Supplement
Beam Dental (B)
By: Rembrand Koning and Alicia Dadlani
In May 2016, venture-backed Beam Dental was on the brink of financial collapse. Cofounder and CEO Alex Frommeyer weighed the unattractive terms of a bridge loan offered by Beam’s largest investor. Frommeyer needed to decide whether to accept the terms or concede defeat...
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Keywords:
Business Startups;
Business Strategy;
Entrepreneurship;
Insolvency and Bankruptcy;
Financing and Loans;
Insurance Industry;
United States;
Kentucky;
Ohio
Koning, Rembrand, and Alicia Dadlani. "Beam Dental (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 723-356, October 2022.
- October 2022
- Supplement
Framebridge (A): Pitch Deck Supplement
By: Rembrand Koning and Alicia Dadlani
Early pitch deck. This document is a supplement to Framebridge (A): Reimagining Custom Framing 723-352.
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Keywords:
Startup;
Robotics;
Framing;
Retail;
Business Startups;
Business Strategy;
Entrepreneurship;
Consumer Products Industry;
United States;
District of Columbia;
Kentucky
Koning, Rembrand, and Alicia Dadlani. "Framebridge (A): Pitch Deck Supplement." Harvard Business School Supplement 723-376, October 2022.
- October 2022 (Revised November 2023)
- Case
Framebridge (A): Reimagining Custom Framing
By: Rembrand Koning and Alicia Dadlani
In December 2018, Susan Tynan, founder and CEO of Framebridge, a four-year-old venture-backed startup that sold online custom framing, formulated plans for the future. Her vision was to revolutionize the $4 billion industry by making custom framing easy, transparent,...
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Keywords:
Business Startups;
Business Strategy;
Entrepreneurship;
Operations;
Consumer Products Industry;
United States;
District of Columbia;
Kentucky
Koning, Rembrand, and Alicia Dadlani. "Framebridge (A): Reimagining Custom Framing." Harvard Business School Case 723-352, October 2022. (Revised November 2023.)
- October 2022
- Supplement
Framebridge (B): A New Approach
By: Rembrand Koning and Alicia Dadlani
In 2022, after revamping operations and expanding retail stores, Framebridge founder and CEO Susan Tynan is optimistic for the future but realizes changing market dynamics. New competitors are entering the market, and margin pressures remained. This case is part two of...
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Keywords:
Business Startups;
Business Strategy;
Entrepreneurship;
Operations;
Market Entry and Exit;
Consumer Products Industry;
United States;
District of Columbia;
Kentucky
Koning, Rembrand, and Alicia Dadlani. "Framebridge (B): A New Approach." Harvard Business School Supplement 723-353, October 2022.
- September 2022
- Case
Proactive for Her
By: Rembrand Koning and Kairavi Dey
Proactive for Her began amid the COVID-19 pandemic, in August 2020 as a digital platform to provide accessible, evidence-based, primary, preventive non-judgmental healthcare services for Indian women, who were often dissuaded from seeking help as premarital sex and...
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Keywords:
Women's Health;
Healthcare;
India;
Start-up;
Telehealth;
Digital Platforms;
Health Care and Treatment;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Business Startups;
Health Industry;
Asia;
South Asia;
India
Koning, Rembrand, and Kairavi Dey. "Proactive for Her." Harvard Business School Case 723-351, September 2022.
- September 2022
- Article
Experimentation and Startup Performance: Evidence from A/B Testing
By: Rembrand Koning, Sharique Hasan and Aaron Chatterji
Recent scholarship has argued that experimentation should be the organizing principle for entrepreneurial strategy. Experimentation leads to organizational learning, which drives improvements in firm performance. We investigate this proposition by exploiting the...
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Keywords:
Experimentation;
A/B Testing;
Data-driven Decision-making;
Organizational Learning;
Entrepreneurship;
Strategy;
Business Startups;
Learning;
Performance;
Decision Making
Koning, Rembrand, Sharique Hasan, and Aaron Chatterji. "Experimentation and Startup Performance: Evidence from A/B Testing." Management Science 68, no. 9 (September 2022): 6434–6453.
- June 18, 2021
- Article
Who Do We Invent for? Patents by Women Focus More on Women's Health, but Few Women Get to Invent
By: Rembrand Koning, Sampsa Samila and John-Paul Ferguson
Women engage in less commercial patenting and invention than do men, which may affect what is invented. Using text analysis of all U.S. biomedical patents filed from 1976 through 2010, we found that patents with all-female inventor teams are 35% more likely than...
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Keywords:
Innovation;
Gender Bias;
Health;
Innovation and Invention;
Research;
Patents;
Gender;
Prejudice and Bias
Koning, Rembrand, Sampsa Samila, and John-Paul Ferguson. "Who Do We Invent for? Patents by Women Focus More on Women's Health, but Few Women Get to Invent." Science 372, no. 6548 (June 18, 2021): 1345–1348.
- April 2021
- Supplement
VIA Science (C)
By: Juan Alcácer, Rembrand Koning, Annelena Lobb and Kerry Herman
Alcácer, Juan, Rembrand Koning, Annelena Lobb, and Kerry Herman. "VIA Science (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 721-372, April 2021.
- March 2021
- Case
CashDrop (A)
By: Rembrand Koning, Paul A. Gompers and Sarah Gulick
In July 2020, Ruben Flores-Martinez had launched a startup, CashDrop, which provided easy and cheap sales options for small businesses. The COVID-19 pandemic helped CashDrop quickly grow. Flores-Martinez, who had previously sought and been denied venture capital...
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Keywords:
Payment Systems;
Small Business;
Entrepreneurship;
Business Startups;
Venture Capital;
Online Technology;
Technology Industry;
Financial Services Industry;
Chicago;
Illinois
Koning, Rembrand, Paul A. Gompers, and Sarah Gulick. "CashDrop (A)." Harvard Business School Case 221-051, March 2021.
- March 2021
- Supplement
CashDrop (B1)
By: Rembrand Koning, Paul A. Gompers and Sarah Gulick
After the events in CashDrop A, Flores-Martinez received two concrete offers from VC funds for his startup business, CashDrop. This case describes the tensions between the two funds: a traditional VC fund who would offer Flores-Martinez a prestigious platform, and a...
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Keywords:
Small Business;
Entrepreneurship;
Business Startups;
Venture Capital;
Internet and the Web;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Technology Industry;
Financial Services Industry;
Chicago;
Illinois
Koning, Rembrand, Paul A. Gompers, and Sarah Gulick. "CashDrop (B1)." Harvard Business School Supplement 221-052, March 2021.
- March 2021
- Supplement
CashDrop (B2)
By: Rembrand Koning, Paul A. Gompers and Sarah Gulick
After the events in CashDrop A, Jarrid Tingle and Henri Pierre-Jacques, the founders of Harlem Capital partners, worried that Ruben Flores-Martinez, CashDrop’s founder, would take another offer while he waited for them to officially make an offer. HCP traditionally...
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Keywords:
Small Business;
Entrepreneurship;
Business Startups;
Venture Capital;
Online Technology;
Technology Industry;
Financial Services Industry;
New York (city, NY)
Koning, Rembrand, Paul A. Gompers, and Sarah Gulick. "CashDrop (B2)." Harvard Business School Supplement 221-053, March 2021.
- 2023
- Working Paper
Judging Foreign Startups
By: Nataliya Langburd Wright, Rembrand Koning and Tarun Khanna
Can accelerators pick the most promising startup ideas no matter their provenance? Using unique data from a global accelerator where judges are randomly assigned to evaluate startups headquartered across the globe, we show that judges are less likely to recommend...
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurship And Strategy;
Entrepreneurial Financing;
Innovation;
Bias;
International;
Strategy;
Entrepreneurship;
Global Strategy;
Business Startups;
Financing and Loans;
Decision Making
Wright, Nataliya Langburd, Rembrand Koning, and Tarun Khanna. "Judging Foreign Startups." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-097, March 2021. (Revised January 2023. Accepted at the Strategic Management Journal.)
- January 2021
- Case
mPharma (A)
By: Rembrand Koning, John D. Macomber, Pippa Tubman Armerding and Wale Lawal
mPharma pioneered electronic prescriptions in Ghana, and aimed to increase drug affordability and accessibility in Africa, but the company remained unprofitable. Following investor concerns about mPharma's business, CEO Gregory Rockson considered alternative business...
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Keywords:
Strategy;
Entrepreneurship;
Acquisition;
Health;
Business Model;
Health Industry;
Technology Industry;
Ghana
Koning, Rembrand, John D. Macomber, Pippa Tubman Armerding, and Wale Lawal. "mPharma (A)." Harvard Business School Case 721-428, January 2021.
- January 2021
- Supplement
mPharma (B)
By: Rembrand Koning, John D. Macomber, Pippa Tubman Armerding and Wale Lawal
mPharma pioneered electronic prescriptions in Ghana, and aimed to increase drug affordability and accessibility in Africa, but the company remained unprofitable. Following investor concerns about mPharma's business, CEO Gregory Rockson considered alternative business...
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Keywords:
Strategy;
Health;
Entrepreneurship;
Business Model;
Health Industry;
Technology Industry;
Ghana
Koning, Rembrand, John D. Macomber, Pippa Tubman Armerding, and Wale Lawal. "mPharma (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 721-429, January 2021.