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Innovation & the War Effort - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership...
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By: Dutch Leonard
Professor Leonard's research focuses on understanding the role of leadership in the development of strategy and processes for execution in private sector and socially-oriented organizations, including an emphasis on innovation, uncertainty, building successful adaptive...
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- April 2013 (Revised November 2015)
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Advanced Leadership Pathways: Gilberto Dimenstein and Community Empowerment in Brazil
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Alexandre Naghirniac, Ai-Ling Jamila Malone and Daniella Suarez
In 2011, Gilberto Dimenstein, a well-known Brazilian journalist, created a new model that connected disparate resources to revitalize Sao Paulo. He wanted his model to expand across Brazil and the world. Dimenstein covered many of the social issues facing Brazil as a...
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- June 2007
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Buddy March
Entrepreneurial general manager (GM) ignores specific directives from his boss (GVP) to discontinue a new venture that the GM is championing.
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Sathe, Vijay V., Chin B. Ho, and James J. Dowd. "Buddy March." Harvard Business School Case 407-128, June 2007.
- 31 Oct 2019
- News
Finding an Audience
Rene Solis (MBA 1958) is director of Musica en Mexico, a performing arts information service in Mexico City. In this interview he talks about how the group grew out of a personal mission to today serving a wide community of interest. “I have been a business man most of...
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- 02 Sep 2016
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Building a Legacy
Sunil B. Mittal (OPM 27, 1999) is founder and chairman of Bharti Enterprises and is a 2016 recipient of an HBS Alumni Achievement Award. In this video, he talks about the role of innovation and reinvention to keep a business moving forward. “I like to build new things....
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- 05 Feb 2016
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How An Entrepreneur Made A Choice She'll Never Forget
- 17 Aug 2015
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The Play Alchemist
When Jessica Matthews (AB 2010, MBA 2014) was 19 and in her junior year of college, she and some classmates invented the Soccket, a soccer ball that generates and stores electricity during play. It was designed to provide a clean source of light for the nearly 1.2...
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Constantine von Hoffman
- 19 Nov 2014
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Advancing opportunities for diverse professionals
Wall Street banker Sherrese Clarke Soares (MBA 2004) works with the Council for Urban Professionals to help minority professionals advance in their careers to the C-suite and corporate boards. (Published November 2014)
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- 24 Apr 2014
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Transforming nonprofits with business-oriented insights that scale impact
Tom Tierney (MBA 1980) is working to empower social entrepreneurs, mission-driven organizations, and philanthropists to build a better world. The Bridgespan Group, the professional services firm he cofounded with Jeff Bradach (PhDOB 1992) in 1999, collaborates with...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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Outside-the-box innovation for off-the-grid energy
Andreas Jaegle (MBA 2014) and his Harvard University colleagues use the Harvard Innovation Lab as a co-development hub for their startup, elementa energy solutions, which brings low-cost electricity to the most underserved communities in the world. In this...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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Capitalizing on the power of knowledge
Yoshito Hori (MBA 1991), founder and dean of Globis University in Japan, on the power of knowledge and the opportunity to innovate. (Published April 2014)
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- August 2021
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Shorefast: A Strange and Familiar Way to Reimagine Capitalism: Zita Cobb, Founder and CEO
By: Brian Trelstad
Video Supplement for HBS Case No. 320-098. In 2006, Zita Cobb and two of her brothers, Alan Cobb and Tony Cobb, native Newfoundlanders, launched Shorefast to help grow another leg of Fogo Island’s economy. Like so many rural communities, Fogo Island’s fate was tied...
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Place Making;
Nonprofit;
Hotel;
Economic Development;
Tourism;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Development Economics;
Economic Systems;
Tourism Industry;
Canada
Trelstad, Brian. "Shorefast: A Strange and Familiar Way to Reimagine Capitalism: Zita Cobb, Founder and CEO." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 322-701, August 2021.
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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact Leadership In Challenging Times: Thierry Ibri (MBA 1997) Thierry Ibri 15 Apr 2021 This post is...
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- 07 Dec 2015
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The Rise of Personalized Entrepreneurial Finance and Other VC Trends
entrepreneurship and venture capital are especially exciting right now? Josh Lerner: One of the big changes in venture capital in the last decade is the rise of “personalized” entrepreneurial finance. That includes crowdfunding platforms...
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Early Years at HBS - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership...
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The Art of "Posting" - The Art of American Advertising
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- June 2008 (Revised October 2012)
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Big to Small: The Two Lives of Barry Nalls
By: Noam T. Wasserman and Rachel Galper
Barry Nalls describes lessons learned during his 25-year career—his rise at GTE and shorter-lived ventures—and how these prepared him to found MASERGY, a telecommunications start-up. Even as a young boy in a family of entrepreneurs, Nalls had a reputation as a hard...
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Business Startups;
Experience and Expertise;
Entrepreneurship;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Personal Development and Career
Wasserman, Noam T., and Rachel Galper. "Big to Small: The Two Lives of Barry Nalls." Harvard Business School Case 808-167, June 2008. (Revised October 2012.)
- 05 Jan 2022
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Untapped Potential
change we’ve baked into our future.” That understanding, as well as the realization that water entrepreneurship is lagging behind other sectors focused on climate and sustainability, led Ferguson to found Burnt Island Ventures in 2020....
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- 06 Oct 2021
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