Publications

05 Sep 2018
News

HBS Named Top School for Producing Entrepreneurs

repeat victory—with PitchBook counting 1,310 entrepreneurs, 1,186 companies founded, and $39.28 billion in capital raised. The School was also ranked first for its alumnae founders, with 220 entrepreneurs... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

17 Jun 2011
News

How Harvard's Bill Sahlman Turns Leaders into Entrepreneurs

26 Jan 2018
News

Harvard Business School Announces RISE Program to Help Alumni Entrepreneurs Scale Ventures

Forthcoming
Article

Confronting the Limits of Symbolic Actions: How Entrepreneurs Narrow the Presentation-Performance Gap

By: Rebecca Karp and Siobhan O'Mahony

Entrepreneurs often skillfully leverage symbolic actions to manage impressions and gain acceptance for their innovations. Impression management can generate interest, but also heighten expectations beyond an innovation’s capabilities, creating a gap between... View Details

Keywords: Digital Innovation; Entrepreneurship; Integration Strategy; Impression Management

08 Jan 2015
News

What You Give Up by Becoming an Entrepreneur

09 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

How Social Entrepreneurs Can Increase Their Investment Impact

Foundation has made frequent use of investments in the form of “program-related investments” to support its social and environmental goals. How can an entrepreneur trying to do good evaluate the best form of... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

16 Feb 2016
Video

The Amazing Life of one of America’s Earliest Black, Female Entrepreneurs

April 1996
Case

The Road Well Traveled: A Note on the Journeys of HBS Entrepreneurs

Based on a 1992 mail survey of Harvard MBAs who started their own businesses. Questions focused on 4 areas: 1) development of the business concept, 2) sales and marketing, 3) finance, and 4) building a staff. The entrepreneurs surveyed include 24 in consulting, 17 in... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship

2014
Book

Own Your Future: How to Think Like an Entrepreneur and Thrive in an Unpredictable Economy

By: Paul B. Brown, Charles F. Kiefer and Leonard A. Schlesinger

It used to be that if you studied and worked hard, you could be assured of an extremely satisfying career. But in a world of constant layoffs and dying industries, it has become increasingly difficult to "plan" your way to success. So what is the solution? Well, when... View Details

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15 Nov 2016
News

Field Course Helps Nascent Entrepreneurs Connect with Customers

simply have the best products. Today’s young entrepreneurs realize that success requires customer connection right at the outset.” In the course’s beta version rollout, Cespedes, Roberge, and Eisenmann... View Details

12 PM – 1 PM EDT, 20 Sep 2016
Webinars: Career

Become an Entrepreneur Without Leaving Your Day Job

What if there was a way to pair the stability of a day job with the excitement and upside of entrepreneurship? Using proven strategies and a range of case studies, author and serial "10% Entrepreneur" Patrick J. McGinnis (MBA 2004) will explain how you can integrate... View Details

01 Jun 1999
News

New York Club Names Entrepreneur of the Year

Over three hundred enthusiastic alumni and guests gathered at New York City's Plaza Hotel in February for the first annual HBS Club of Greater New York Entrepreneurs' Exhibition and Conference. Along with exhibits from promising... View Details

Article

Stretch the Mission? A Nonprofit That Supports Emerging-market Entrepreneurs Considers Expanding to the U.S.

By: William A. Sahlman and Ramana Nanda

A case study is presented concerning a nonprofit organization that helps entrepreneurs in emerging-markets countries in regions including Latin America and Asia, focusing on the decision over whether to expand its services into the Miami, Florida, area, a question on... View Details

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January 2021
Case

Andela: Africa's AWS for Talent

By: Caroline M. Elkins, Tarun Khanna and Joyce J. Kim

Five years after the company’s founding, Andela, a company that built and trained remote engineering teams, became arguably Africa’s greatest technology unicorn. By January 2019, Andela raised $100 million in Series D funding. As Andela looked to scale in an... View Details

Keywords: Education In Africa; Entrepreneur; Remote Work; Software Engineering; Edtech; Entrepreneurship; Education; Applications and Software; Engineering; Growth and Development Strategy; Africa

2014
Working Paper

Entrepreneurship and Business Groups: An Evolutionary Perspective on the Growth of the Koç Group in Turkey

By: Asli M. Coplan and Geoffrey Jones

This working paper examines the origins and development of the Koç Group, which grew to be the largest business group in Turkey. This enterprise was an important actor in the emergence of modern business enterprise in the new state of the Republic of Turkey from the... View Details

Keywords: Business Groups; Turkey; Entrepreneurship In Emerging Markets; Entrepreneurship; History; Government and Politics; Auto Industry; Banking Industry; Electronics Industry; Middle East; Europe

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26 Apr 2012
News

Social Entrepreneurs Try to Offer Solutions to K-12 Problems

February 2006 (Revised August 2006)
Case

Christo and Jeanne-Claude: The Art of the Entrepreneur

By: G. Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon

Christo and Jeanne-Claude, the artists who created The Gates in New York City in 2005, are trying to decide how best to finance their next project. Over the River, a project to drape sections of the Arkansas River with translucent fabric is a very different enterprise... View Details

Keywords: Private Equity; Arts; Fine Arts Industry; Arkansas