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JULIA AUSTIN:

Harvard Business School, Senior Lecturer, Entrepreneurial Management

Date: Thursday June 26, 2025
9:00am PT, 12:00pm ET, 6:00pm CET

About this Event:

Join us for a fireside chat with HBS Professor Julia Austin to discuss her new book "After the Idea" which gives the reader an inside view into Professor Austin's waitlisted HBS course "Startup Bootcamp".

Many entrepreneurs are great at the formulating an idea but do not anticipate the details required to actually run and scale a new venture. Drawing on her experience at renowned startups like Akamai Technologies, VMware, and DigitalOcean and the hundreds of founders and startups she has educated, coached, and advised, Professor Austin will elaborate on her time-tested strategies to help founders, joiners and investors navigate the operational challenges of startup ventures, including validating problem hypotheses, building and scaling the functional areas of a business, team management, and more. Her accessible set of techniques is for anyone determined to turn a great idea into a solid success.

In this webinar we will discuss techniques for:

- Conducting effective discovery;

- Validating and refining your idea and building product market fit;

- Building a strong founding team;

- Productive fundraising and communications strategies;

- Scaling and growth.

If you are an early stage entrepreneur, growing a venture, or an investor looking to find your next promising venture, this webinar is not to be missed!!

This webinar will be hosted by Sameera Bazaaz, HBS Angels Board Member and DC Chapter Chair

PRESENTER

JULIA AUSTIN

HBS Senior Lecturer | Entrepreneurial Management

Julia Austin is a seasoned operator who has served in leadership roles at several technology startups. She is on the faculty at Harvard Business School and is faculty cochair of the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship. As a certified executive coach, Austin works exclusively with startup founders. She is an angel investor, serves on startup boards, and advises many founders through her work with several accelerators. She has three daughters and lives in New York City.

Her first book After the Idea, which is full of time-tested strategies to help founders, investors, and employees navigate the operational challenges of startup ventures, will be released in early June.

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RE-HUMANIZE:

How to Build Human-Centric Orgs in the Age of Algorithms

Date: Wednesday, May 28, 2025
9:00am PT, 12:00pm ET, 6:00pm CET

About this Event:

Integration of AI into organizational workflows are beginning to serve as more than mere tools. Algorithms are poised to become new teammates in our organizations, dramatically transforming how we work. In light of this, how can we actively manage organizations to achieve both goal and human centricity and why is this challenge worth focusing on?

INSEAD Professor, Phanish Puranam, a leading voice on organizational behavior and design, an expert on using computation methods to study organizations as complex adaptive systems, and the author of reHumanize – Building Human Centric Organizations in the Age of Algorithms, will present his vision for the building organizations that are indeed human and algorithm friendly and why the dual focus is imperative to their long term wellbeing and success.

Some of the questions we will discuss in this webinar are:

1. How do digital algorithms change organizations?

2. How can data and algorithms be used to improve organizational design?

3. What are some best practices of AI and human interaction in organizations?

4. Can algorithmic adoption actually increase rather than decrease human centricity of organizations?

Attendees will also get an exclusive look at an innovative chatbot designed by Professor Puranam and his team.

Don't miss this opportunity to learn from one of the leading minds in organizational design and AI integration.

This webinar will be hosted by Sameera Bazaaz, HBS Angels Board Member and DC Chapter Chair

PRESENTER

PHANISH PURANAM

PROFESSOR OF STRATEGY & ORGANIZATION DESIGN AT INSEAD

Phanish Puranam is Roland Berger Chair Professor of Strategy & Organization Design at INSEAD.

His research in organization science focuses on how organizations work, and how we can make them work better. His current projects focus on how algorithms affect organizations as tools (e.g., machine learning), templates (e.g., blockchain and metaverse), and teammates (human-AI collaboration).

Phanish leads the Organizations and Algorithms research program (supported by the Desmarais Fund) at INSEAD which has trained several doctoral students who are themselves now faculty at leading business schools, and which involves collaborators from around the world. He is also co-founder of cimerai, an AI start-up that is developing new ways to integrate human and machine intelligence to solve strategy and organization design problems.

His book for researchers “The Microstructure of Organizations” (Oxford University Press, 2018) offered a first principles reimagining of organization design that focused on aggregation as the central feature of organizations, conceptualized as complex adaptive systems. His books for practitioners include "Corporate Strategy: Tools for analysis and decisions" (co-authored with Bart Vanneste, Cambridge University Press, 2016) which is used in business schools around the world, and “India Inside” (co-authored with Nirmalya Kumar, Harvard Business Review Press, 2012), which won critical acclaim for its balanced look at the prospect of India emerging as a global hub for innovation. His new book “re-Humanize: Building human-centric organizations in the age of algorithms” (Penguin Random House, 2024) explores how AI is changing how we organize.

Phanish directs the “Transforming your Business through AI” and “AI for Business” programs for executives and teaches the MBA electives “Org2.0: People Analytics” and “TechWork” at INSEAD. He has also served in advisory/training roles with several global corporations as well as public sector agencies. He currently serves as a Special Advisor on organization design and analytics for the UNHCR.

Phanish obtained his Ph.D. at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 2001 and was on the faculty of London Business School till 2012. He served there as School Chair Professor of Strategy & Entrepreneurship, and Co-Director of the Aditya Birla India Centre. Phanish has served as the Academic Director for the Ph.D. Program at both London Business School and INSEAD. He has also held visiting and Distinguished Visitor positions at Northwestern University, the University of Pennsylvania, London Business School, Oxford University, the Indian School of Business, IIM-Ahmedabad, Stanford University and Imperial College London.

Webinar History

Past webinars have included:

HBS Senior Lecturer Julia Austin discusses book, "After the Idea"
RE-HUMANIZE: How to Build Human-Centric Orgs in the Age of Algorithms
HERE COME THE AI AGENTS: Can you save or should you sell your Software/SaaS company?
BEST PRACTICES OF MEDTECH INVESTING: a perspective from HBS Alumni Angels Expert Group
MASTERING AI: A Survival Guide to Our Superpowered Future with Jeremy Kahn and Simon Greenman
The Venture Mindset: a transformative playbook for delivering extraordinary results in modern organizations
The New CEO: Lessons from CEOs on How to Start Well and Perform Quickly
Economic Climate and Outlook - Implications for Early-Stage Investors
SPACE: The Final Frontier For Angel Investors?
Linking Strategy and Sales in an Entrepreneurial Venture
Intro to Cap Tables: What Every Angel Investor (and Founder!) Should Know
The Generative AI Gold Rush: Who Will Profit and How?
SVB Collapse: Faculty Perspectives
The Voltage Effect: How to Make Good Ideas Great and Great Ideas Scale with John A. List, Professor in Economics at the University of Chicago
The Genesis Machine: Programming the Living World with Andrew Hessel, Microbiologist and Geneticist
The Synergy Solution: A Conversation with Deloitte's Mark Sirower on How Companies Can Master Mergers & Acquisitions
Converted: A Conversation with Google's Neil Hoyne on Using Data to Grow Your Business
Sales Management That Works: a Webinar and Discussion with Professor Frank Cespedes, HBS Senior Lecturer
How to Build a Sustainable, Scalable, and Sellable Business with Michelle Seiler Tucker, Author of Exit Rich
Rita McGrath, Author, Seeing Around Corners: How to Spot Inflection Points in Business Before They Happen
Morgan Stanley's Multi-Cultural Lab Panel with Carla Harris & Alice Vilma
How to Plan Platform Strategy in a Global Digital Landscape
Wattpad - The World’s Most Innovative Social Network
FOMO Sapiens: Overcoming Analysis Paralysis to Live and Work Decisively
Launching Tech Products In Tough Economic Times: 3 Crucial Questions to Ask Before Launch-Not Afterwards!
Getting Deals Done: It's What the Best Deal Leads Do
Passion and the Pitcher: Building Strong Founder/Angel Relationships From the Start
Investing with Impact: The Continuing Rise of ESG in a Post COVID-19 World
Entrepreneurial Leadership: New Ventures, Inspiring Others and Running Stuff
Pandemic Investing: Likely Impact on VC and Angel Investing
Angel Investing and COVID-19
Investing in Blockchain: The Big Opportunity
Finding your Angels: Raising Capitol for your Start-Up
Toss the Financial Model Spreadsheets
Healthcare Start-ups: How to Distinguish Real Companies from Overhyped Ones?
Who's Really Going to Make Money in AI and Machine Learning?
How Safe are Safe's?
"Best Practices" in Angel Investing
The Shiny Penny: How to Maximize the M&A Value of Your Company
Structuring Success: Building Term Sheets that Build Businesses
Syndicated Investments
Technology Disruption in Money Management
Emerging Technologies in Financial Services
The Science of Sales GrowthImpact Investing in Sustainable Food
Building Term Sheets that Build Business
Revenue-Based Investing
Cyber Security Investing
Angel and Venture Investing with Brad Feld
The Ultimate Marketing Framework
A Data-Driven Perspective on Early Stage Saas Investing
Investing In Blockchain
Internet of Things Primer
Moonshots and Soft Landing
Seed Investing in Consumer Products and Services

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PRESENTER

JULIA AUSTIN

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PHANISH PURANAM

Webinar History

Thursday December 7, 2023 9:00am PT, 12:00pm ET

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Thursday July 20, 2023 9:00am PT, 12:00pm ET

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Thursday June 15, 2023 9:00am PT, 12:00pm ET

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Thursday May 4, 2023 9:00am PT, 12:00pm ET

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Thursday March 16, 2023 9:30am PT, 12:30pm ET

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Thursday March 16, 2023
9:30am PT, 12:30pm ET