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How Social Entrepreneurs Zig-Zag Their Way to Impact at Scale

This article provides guidance to social entrepreneurs and their funders as they seek to advance the enterprise from startup to scale. It focuses on the evolution of four social entrepreneurs and their decision-making paths as they attempt to scale their respective... View Details

Keywords: Systemic Impact; Scaling; Strategy Process; Nonprofit Organizations; Social Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy

03 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

Top Ten Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs

faced by entrepreneurs in starting and running a business, including securities and intellectual property law issues. Bagley's teaching and research focus on legal aspects of entrepreneurship and corporate... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

05 Dec 2014
News

Ernest Shackleton: The Entrepreneur of Survival

15 Jul 2020
Video

The HBS Health Minute: A Tool Kit for Entrepreneurs

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Strategy for Entrepreneurs - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Strategy for Entrepreneurs Course Number 1257 Associate Professor Rembrand Koning Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits 27 Sessions Paper (formerly Strategy for Entrepreneurs and Startups) Overview of... View Details

2003
Book Review

Review of Back Alley Banking: Private Entrepreneurs in China by Kellie Tsai

By: Doug Guthrie

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30 Mar 2015
News

An education reformer and social entrepreneur

Sir Cyril Taylor (MBA 1961) is a social entrepreneur and British educator who served 10 successive secretaries of state for education. “I love my work helping young people get a good education,” he says. Taylor had a successful career at... View Details

20 Feb 2018
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7 Ways You Can Succeed as an Entrepreneur Today

20 Feb 2019
News

Building an Ecosystem for African Entrepreneurs

Bank estimated that 40 percent of the country’s population lacked access to electricity in 2016—“but we hope it encourages and inspires other leaders,” he adds. Entrepreneurs are key to Africapitalism, says... View Details

Keywords: April White

09 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Why Entrepreneurs Should Go Work for Government

rather than inventors and builders” Once chief of staff to the late Boston mayor Thomas Menino, Weiss isn't just engaging in wishful thinking. He's seen firsthand how entrepreneurs within government can cut... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

May 1999
Article

Banks and Entrepreneurs in Porfirian Mexico: Inside Exploitation or Sound Business Strategy?

By: Noel Maurer

Keywords: Banks and Banking; Strategy; Behavior

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Find at Harvard

13 Aug 2014
News

Family Businesses Need Entrepreneurs for Long-Run Success

01 Sep 2011
News

Entrepreneur Named Director of Harvard i-lab

Gordon Jones (photo by Evgenia Eliseeva) Related Links: Follow i-lab news on Twitter Find the i-lab on Facebook Gordon Jones didn’t tailor his career path to become the ideal director for the Harvard innovation lab. It just worked out that way. An View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

1 Jul 2006
Conference Presentation

The Role of Individuals in Institutional Change: When Individuals Act as Institutional Entrepreneurs

By: Julie Battilana

Keywords: Change; Entrepreneurship; Identity

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2016
Working Paper

Immigrant Entrepreneurs and the Social Safety Net

By: Gareth Olds

This paper explores the role of public health insurance in small business ownership among immigrants, a group with high rates of entrepreneurship. The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 created a five-year “waiting period” for legal... View Details

Keywords: Insurance; Entrepreneurship; Welfare or Wellbeing; Immigration

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