Rembrand Koning

Associate Professor of Business Administration

Harvard Business School

Rem Koning is the Mary V. and Mark A. Stevens Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. His research explores how we can help more entrepreneurs, scientists, and innovators succeed. His work on entrepreneurship and innovation spans industries and regions, from Indian tech ventures to small business owners in Kenya to women’s and mental health startups in the US. Building on this work, he is the co-director and co-founder of the Tech for All lab at The Digital, Data, and Design (D^3) Institute at Harvard, where he leads a group of interdisciplinary researchers studying how entrepreneurs can accelerate and shift the rate and direction of science, technology, and artificial intelligence (AI) to benefit all of humanity.

A pioneer in the use of field experiments to study entrepreneurial strategy and innovation, Rem co-leads the Conference on Field Experiments in Strategy (CFXS), is an associate editor for Management Science, and is an invited researcher at J-PAL’s Science for Progress Initiative (SfPI). He has received generous research funding from the Kauffman and Sloan Foundations.

Rem teaches a new semester-length second-year elective course at HBS, Strategy for Entrepreneurs (SFE), that blends case discussion and hands-on exercises to help students discover and test startup ideas that the market has missed.