---
id: "pisquared:interview/koning-rem"
type: "Pi-Squared interview"
title: "Anita McGahan in conversation with Rem Koning"
url: "https://pisquared.theburnescenter.org/interviews/koning-rem"
date: "2025-10-06"
people: ["Anita McGahan","Rem Koning"]
summary: "Rem Koning is the Mary V. and Mark A. Stevens Associate Professor at Harvard Business School. He teaches entrepreneurship and conducts research on how AI is..."
recording: "https://vimeo.com/1124878566"
source: "Pi-Squared (pisquared.theburnescenter.org), The Burnes Center for Social Change"
licence: "none stated"
---

# Anita McGahan in conversation with Rem Koning

Rem Koning, Mary V. and Mark A. Stevens Associate Professor, Harvard Business School · 6 October 2025

## About the guest

Rem Koning is the Mary V. and Mark A. Stevens Associate Professor at Harvard Business School. He teaches entrepreneurship and conducts research on how AI is transforming businesses from microenterprises in Jakarta to startups in San Francisco. A pioneer in the use of field experiments to study entrepreneurial strategy and innovation, Rem is the co-director and co-founder of the Tech for All lab at Harvard and is co-lead of the Conference on Field Experiments in Strategy. He is a researcher at J-PAL’s Science for Progress Initiative (SfPI). With publications in a wide range of top journals, he has received generous research funding from the Kauffman and Sloan Foundations.

## Reflections from the interview

[

    {

        "text": "Rem’s profile at Harvard Business School",

        "url": " https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=876389"

    },

    {

        "text": "Google Scholar on Rem",

        "url": " https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=sChrXHUAAAAJ&hl=en"

    },

    {

        "text": "Tech for All Lab at Harvard",

        "url":  “https://d3.harvard.edu/labs/tech-for-all-lab/"

    },

    {

        "text": "CFXS Conference",

        "url": "https://cfxs.org/”

    },

    {

        "text": "Hyunjin Kim’s website",

        "url": " https://www.kimhyunjin.com/”

    },

    {

        "text": "Gary Dushnitsky’s website",

        "url": "https://www.london.edu/faculty-and-research/faculty-profiles/d/dushnitsky-g”

    },

    {

        "text": "Kaplan and Murray (2010)",

        "url": "https://www.emerald.com/books/edited-volume/10674/chapter/80276080/Entrepreneurship-and-the-construction-of-value-in”

    },

    {

        "text": "Rem’s HBS Course on Entrepreneurship",

        "url": “https://sfehbs.com/"

    }

]

## Related resources

- [Rem’s profile at Harvard Business School](https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/profile.aspx?facId=876389)
- [Google Scholar on Rem](https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=sChrXHUAAAAJ&hl=en)
- [Tech for All Lab at Harvard](https://d3.harvard.edu/labs/tech-for-all-lab/)
- [CFXS Conference](https://cfxs.org/)
- [Rem’s HBS Course on Entrepreneurship](https://sfehbs.com/)

## Recording

Video: https://vimeo.com/1124878566

## Category

[Where Do We Go From Here?](https://pisquared.theburnescenter.org/category/where-next)

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Original page: https://pisquared.theburnescenter.org/interviews/koning-rem · Licence: none stated