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In the News - Entrepreneurship
In the News Every successful entrepreneur knows that the big idea is only as good as his/her ability to execute it. Access to the right knowledge at the right time is often the linchpin to a successful...
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- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
announced plans to roll out the program commercially in 2016 and signed an agreement with Sri Lanka to put all of that country online. The NextGen Angels are all under 45, and most are entrepreneurs...
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- 01 Jun 2001
- News
Modupe Akinola: Outreach In Africa
student clubs, Akinola cochaired this year’s Africa Business Conference, which brought more than five hundred people to campus to discuss entrepreneurial ventures in Africa. She is also writing a case study on a female View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Navigating Success in Volatile Times
The theme of this year's annual HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) conference, "Navigating Success in Volatile Times," seemed particularly apropos after the incidents of September 11. "Like many organizations with events...
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- 07 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship
a business in which there are increasing returns. To put the point another way, it is far easier to found a start-up if there are 10 other entrepreneurs nearby. In many...
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- 24 Mar 2021
- News
Clubs Reaffirm Equity in Community Partners Work; Alumni Angels Invest in Member Education
movement surged in the last year, 75% of VCs now believe they can invest in founders of color and have outsized returns.” With 11 companies in their latest cohort, Harris and...
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Margie Kelley
- 09 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Manager in Red Sneakers
a contestant who entered a prestigious MIT young entrepreneurs competition. Survey respondents perceived the contestant as having higher status when he used his own presentation layout versus the official MIT layout that other...
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- 2020
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Immigrant Entrepreneurship in America: Evidence from the Survey of Business Owners 2007 & 2012
By: Sari Pekkala Kerr and William R. Kerr
We study immigrant entrepreneurship in 2007 and 2012 using the Survey of Business Owners. First-generation immigrants create about 25% of new firms in America, but this share exceeds 40% in some states. Immigrant-owned firms tend to create fewer jobs than native-owned...
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Job Creation;
Employee Benefits;
Owner Demographics;
Exports;
Outsourcing;
Immigration;
Entrepreneurship;
Ownership;
Demographics;
Jobs and Positions;
Compensation and Benefits;
United States
Kerr, Sari Pekkala, and William R. Kerr. "Immigrant Entrepreneurship in America: Evidence from the Survey of Business Owners 2007 & 2012." Art. 103918. Research Policy 49, no. 3 (April 2020).
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Resources and Relationships in Entrepreneurship: An Exchange Theory of the Development and Effects of the Entrepreneur-Investor Relationship
By: Laura Huang and Andrew P. Knight
We develop a theoretical model, grounded in exchange theory, about the process through which relationships between entrepreneurs and investors develop and influence the growth of new ventures. Our theory highlights the multifaceted relationships that entrepreneurs and...
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Entrepreneurship;
Relationships;
Business Startups;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Theory
Huang, Laura, and Andrew P. Knight. "Resources and Relationships in Entrepreneurship: An Exchange Theory of the Development and Effects of the Entrepreneur-Investor Relationship." Academy of Management Review 42, no. 1 (January 2017): 80–102.
- November 2013 (Revised February 2016)
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A Long, Bumpy and Unfinished Road: Education Reform in Memphis, Tennessee
By: Allen Grossman, J. Puckett and Nithya Vaduganathan
In 2010 the Memphis City School District merged with the neighboring Shelby County School system under the supervision of a single board of education and superintendent. It promised much more than just administrative synergies—it was an opportunity to change a... View Details
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Education Reform;
Public Education;
Business Engagement;
Public Sector;
Education;
Business and Community Relations;
Education Industry;
Tennessee
Grossman, Allen, J. Puckett, and Nithya Vaduganathan. "A Long, Bumpy and Unfinished Road: Education Reform in Memphis, Tennessee." Harvard Business School Case 314-064, November 2013. (Revised February 2016.)
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
New Paths to Success in Asia
pair had been studying Silicon Valley mentor-capitalists (successful entrepreneurs who have cashed out of their own companies but serve as business coaches to fledgling enterprises) and wondered if a similar phenomenon were taking place...
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by Alejandro Reyes & Deborah Blagg
- 2022
- Working Paper
Category Kings or Commoners? Marketing Shaping and Its Consequences in Nascent Categories
By: Rory McDonald
For a new market category to materialize, someone must actively bring it into existence. Yet it remains a mystery how entrepreneurs, whose resources are stretched thin, can accomplish this task. Prior research emphasizes the importance of market-shaping...
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- October 2002 (Revised April 2005)
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Jinwoong: Financing an Entrepreneurial Firm in the Wake of the Korean Financial Crisis
Describes T.P. Lee, the founder and CEO of Jinwoong, a 19-year-old entrepreneurial company in Korea that has grown to become the world's largest manufacturer of camping tents. Labeled by Fortune as one of the most promising entrepreneurs in Asia in 1993, Lee faces some...
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Emerging Markets;
Entrepreneurship;
Financing and Loans;
Financial Crisis;
Manufacturing Industry;
Consumer Products Industry;
South Korea
Kuemmerle, Walter, James Lee, and Bokeun Jin. "Jinwoong: Financing an Entrepreneurial Firm in the Wake of the Korean Financial Crisis." Harvard Business School Case 803-059, October 2002. (Revised April 2005.)
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Doing Business in a Divided World - Alumni
Doing Business in a Divided World: The Changing Role and Responsibilities of the American Firm A Conversation with Harvard Business School’s Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society The Madison...
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- 27 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Reputation is Vital to Survival in Turbulent Markets
companies to compete. The reality is much different in developing economies, where the rule of law might be poorly enforced, social anarchy flourishes, or the military runs the government. So, it is quite remarkable when View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 2019
- Working Paper
Immigrant Networking and Collaboration: Survey Evidence from CIC
By: Sari Pekkala Kerr and William R. Kerr
Networking and the giving and receiving of advice outside of one’s own firm are important features of entrepreneurship and innovation. We study how immigrants and natives utilize the potential networking opportunities provided by CIC, formerly known as the Cambridge...
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Immigrants;
Networking;
Advice;
Entrepreneurs;
Inventors;
Start-up Employees;
Venturing;
Co-working;
Agglomeration;
Immigration;
Entrepreneurship;
Networks;
Innovation and Invention;
Social and Collaborative Networks
Kerr, Sari Pekkala, and William R. Kerr. "Immigrant Networking and Collaboration: Survey Evidence from CIC." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-078, January 2019.
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Business Groups, Entrepreneurship and the Growth of the Koç Group in Turkey
By: Geoffrey Jones and Asli M. Colpan
This article examines the emergence and development of what became the largest business group in Turkey, the Koç Group. This venture was an important factor in the emergence of modern business enterprise in the new state of the Republic of Turkey from the 1920s. After...
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurship;
Governance;
History;
Strategy;
Auto Industry;
Consumer Products Industry;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Manufacturing Industry;
Service Industry;
Turkey
Jones, Geoffrey, and Asli M. Colpan. "Business Groups, Entrepreneurship and the Growth of the Koç Group in Turkey." Special Issue on Business Groups around the World. Business History 58, no. 1 (2016): 69–88.
- 05 Dec 2022
- What Do You Think?
How Would Jack Welch’s Leadership Style Fare in Today’s World?
process heavily influenced in previous years by resident scholar Peter Drucker. GE ran a business school. Managers both taught and learned just as their CEO did. But in Gelles’...
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- 04 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Putting Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector
Social entrepreneurs who have innovated using network approaches are in many ways ahead of the curve, even relative to leaders in other fields. Q: Despite the growing magnitude...
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by Sean Silverthorne