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Oliver Bladek
Why was getting a business education important to you? In my undergraduate studies, I had received a business degree where I learned the basics of business (the 4Ps of marketing, accounting debits and credits, NPV, etc). I wanted to come back to business school to...
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Maria Brewer
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? During my time in operations, the more I was able to work with multiple areas of the business and see how they interact, the more excited I was by my work. Observing how one decision in a particular area rippled...
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- 11 Apr 2014
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HBS in San Francisco: Get a Recap on West Coast Recruiting
In March, HBS ventured to the Bay Area to host a series of recruiting and networking focused events. In response to our students’ enthusiasm towards exploring opportunities on the West Coast, HBS Career & Professional Development (CPD) hosted the first...
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- 30 May 2013
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Product Launch Day
At Sonation we’ve been working all summer toward product launch day, and the day has finally come! Last week I went to Michigan with my cofounder Paul to demo the app at Interlochen, one of the premier summer arts camps in the US. Of all the things entrepreneurs do,...
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- 11 Feb 2019
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John Bracaglia, MBA 2020: “I Want to Find the Machine Learning Strategy That Avoids the Pitfalls While Fulfilling the Promise.”
For John Bracaglia, his academic and professional careers have been driven by two themes: “machine learning and behavioral economics,” he says. “The two work together. Machine learning is about how computers understand information, while behavioral economics is about...
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- 01 Sep 2007
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Faculty Books
and become mere purveyors of a product, the MBA, with students treated as consumers. Moral ideals that once inspired business schools have been replaced by the view that managers are merely agents of shareholders, beholden only to the cause of share profits. View Details
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Michael Schrader
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? Starting a company for the first time was an intimidating task for me, perhaps even too intimidating without the tools that HBS provided. First, HBS provided confidence by introducing me to a host of entrepreneurs and...
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- 27 Aug 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Guts, Gall, and Good Luck: What It Takes To Be An Entrepreneur
Literature This paper brings together recent findings in the academic literature on the prevalence of various personality traits among entrepreneurs and their impact on venture performance. Self-Employment Dynamics and the Returns to View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2001
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In Dot-Calm Era, Conference Examines Options for Entrepreneurs
Is the bloom off the entrepreneurial rose? Do B2B and B2C mean "Back to Banking" and "Back to Consulting," as the current joke would have it? Where are the opportunities for those who still believe starting their own business is the way to go? The 2000 HBS View Details
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- 25 Sep 2017
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Solving Nigeria’s Skilled Workforce Challenge
her WAVE cofounders, Karan Chopra and Bryan Mezue. The three shared the experience of having grown up in Africa and the desire to help solve youth unemployment. Another classmate, Navid Rahimi, joined the team along with two classmates from an HGSE course on View Details
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Carole Carlson
consulting skills and social entrepreneurship in their MBA program, and she also moderates online executive education programs for HBS Publishing.Carole is a 1998 graduate of Harvard Business School, where she was a Baker Scholar. She...
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- 01 Jun 2010
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Lerner Honored for Research
Lerner The most esteemed international prize in entrepreneurship research was awarded in February to HBS professor Josh Lerner, author or coauthor of five books, including most recently Boulevard of Broken Dreams, the first in-depth...
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Jack Perkowski
Against the advice of many, Jack Perkowski (MBA 1973) ditched his high-flying investment career and relocated to China in 1992 to build his own company. Through trial and error, Perkowski learned that the key to its success was in hiring young mainland Chinese with...
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Robert Kimmel
of a startup, he also has experience in entrepreneurship and an interest in coaching students considering starting their own businesses. In addition to these industries, Robert enjoys helping students navigate through work-life balance...
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Peter Platzer
market. Having re-invented his career path multiple times, he is particularly adept in helping individuals navigate career changes also later in life. Work Experience: Entrepreneurship (CEO and co-founder of a space exploration company),...
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- 31 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
One Quarter of Entrepreneurs in the United States Are Immigrants
contractors with no employees may call themselves self-employed, while the CEO of a rapidly growing startup might not. Research shows that the immigrant percentage of entrepreneurship in America has grown over time, from 17 percent in...
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by Michael Blanding
- 18 Mar 2001
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Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
role (himself MBA '75, PhD '82, he is D'Arbeloff MBA Class of 1955 professor of business administration and cochair of the school's entrepreneurship and service management unit), he pointed out that none of these ideas was a business....
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by John S. Rosenberg
- 01 Dec 2010
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Wasserman Wins Award
Associate Professor Noam Wasserman has won the Innovation in Entrepreneurship Pedagogy Award from the Academy of Management in recognition of his second-year MBA elective course Founders’ Dilemmas. Based on a decade of research, the...
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Minal Mehta
When did you and your cofounders come up with the idea of a Bollywood-inspired dance and fitness program? "I grew up splitting my time between swimming pools and dance studios. When I wasn't choreographing synchronized swimming routines, I was immersed in my next...
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Cynthia Samanian
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? There were many reasons why I knew HBS was the right fit for me, both in the classroom and in my career. First, I was thrilled to experience the unique and engaging classroom dynamic offered through the HBS case method....
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