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Economics of Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital

Designed for Harvard College sophomores.

Course Description: Why do so many individuals choose to pursue entrepreneurship despite substantial risks? How do these entrepreneurs raise money to finance their ventures? And what is the impact of... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurial Finance; Entrepreneurship And Strategy; Venture Capital
  • March–April 2012
  • Article

The Genesis and Dynamics of Organizational Networks

By: Gautam Ahuja, Guiseppe Soda and Akbar Zaheer
An extensive body of knowledge exists on network outcomes and on how network structures may contribute to the creation of outcomes at different levels of analysis, but less attention has been paid to understanding how and why organizational networks emerge, evolve, and... View Details
Keywords: Economic Sociology; Economics And Organization; Social Networks; Organization And Management Theory; Interorganizatonal Relationships; Networks; Strategy; Change
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  • 30 Jan 2013
  • News

4 Proven Weight Loss Tips From Behavioral Economics

  • July–August 2019
  • Article

Coupling Labor Codes of Conduct and Supplier Labor Practices: The Role of Internal Structural Conditions

By: Yanhua Bird, Jodi L. Short and Michael W. Toffel
Exploitive working conditions have spurred companies to pressure their suppliers to adopt labor codes of conduct and to conform their labor practices to the standards set forth in those codes. Yet little is known about whether organizational structures such as codes... View Details
Keywords: Organization Theory; Economic Sociology; Social Responsibility; Sustainability; Auditing; Process Improvement; Organizational Structure; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Supply Chain; Labor; Working Conditions
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    Ryann Noe

    Ryann Noe is a doctoral candidate in the Organizational Behavior program jointly offered by Harvard Business School and the Department of Sociology at Harvard University.

    Her research examines how industries and technologies emerge and evolve, with a focus... View Details
    • 05 Dec 2024
    • HBS Seminar

    Amanda Sharkey, Mendoza College of Business

    • Research Summary

    Overview

    By: Susanna Gallani
    In her current research, Professor Gallani draws on economic and sociological theories to analyze the design of incentive and performance management systems. She explores the effectiveness of monetary and non-monetary incentives, feedback systems, and types of... View Details
    • July 1991 (Revised December 2018)
    • Compilation

    Slavery

    By: Thomas K. McCraw
    Explores the general history of slavery in the United States. Through detailed exhibits and a text consisting of excerpts from six first-hand observations of slavery, this note is designed to present the ethics, economics (especially the perverse incentive systems),... View Details
    Keywords: Slavery; Human Capital; History; Ethics; Social Issues; Motivation and Incentives; United States
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    • 17 Aug 2010
    • News

    Economy Led to Cuts in Use of Health Care

      Letian Zhang

      Letian (LT) Zhang is an assistant professor of business administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit. He teaches in the MBA required curriculum.

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      • 26 Apr 2018
      • HBS Seminar

      Olav Sorenson, Yale University

      • Article

      Entrepreneurship: Field of Dreams?

      This paper has two objectives. We begin by contrasting two potential paths for future research in entrepreneurship. One is the establishment of an independent field of research with a clear jurisdiction, a common theoretical canon, and autonomy from related fields. The... View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Research; Interests
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        Sophus A. Reinert

        Sophus Reinert is T.J. Dermot Dunphy Professor of Business Administration and of History in the Business, Government, and the International Economy Unit at Harvard Business School and in the History Department and Harvard University. He has won numerous awards... View Details

        Keywords: banking; defense; education industry; fashion; food; manufacturing; wine
        • 26 Nov 2017
        • News

        ‘Entrepreneurs here think technology can solve everything’

          Julie Battilana

          Julie Battilana is the Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior unit at Harvard Business School and the Alan L. Gleitsman Professor of Social Innovation at Harvard Kennedy School, where she is also the founder and faculty... View Details

          • 22 Feb 2017
          • HBS Seminar

          Juliet Schor, Boston College

            David Ager

            David Ager is a Senior Lecturer in Executive Education.  He engages CEOs, CHROs, and their teams to design and deliver customized executive development experiences for executive, senior and high potential leaders.  The companies hail from diverse sectors including... View Details

              Silvan Baier

              Silvan Baier is a doctoral student in Organizational Behavior at HBS and the Department of Sociology at Harvard University. He studies how social structures shape and are shaped by the organization, spread, and evaluation of ideas and people. In his research, he... View Details

              • 20 Oct 2015
              • HBS Seminar

              Elizabeth Pontikes, University of Chicago Booth School of Business

              • 2012
              • Chapter

              The Small Worlds of Business Groups: Liberalization and Network Dynamics

              By: Jon Brookfield, Sea-Jin Chang, Israel Drori, Shmuel Ellis, Sergio G. Lazzarini, Jordan I. Siegel and Juan Pablo von Bernath Bardina
              Using comparative data from six major emerging economies — Brazil, Chile, Israel, Mexico, South Korea, and Taiwan — we examine how ownership networks in those societies responded to a roughly similar “ structural break ” of economic liberalization during the 1990s... View Details
              Keywords: Emerging Economies; Ownership; Corporate Governance; Emerging Markets
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