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- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Forward Thinking
The tallest animal to roam the land, giraffes cast long shadows on the dry savannas and woodlands of sub-Saharan Africa where they live. But their lands are vanishing, with estimates suggesting that 90 percent of their habitat has already been lost; giraffe populations... View Details
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Rock 100: The Summit - Entrepreneurship
Chasm , Geoffrey Moore Customer Discovery and Validation for Entrepreneurs , Frank Cespedes Customer Visits for Entrepreneurs , Frank Cespedes Entrepreneurial Marketing : Learning from High-Potential Ventures , Joe Lassiter SPIN View Details
- 16 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 16, 2007
firms aim to replicate success, and how they find, foster, and sell potential blockbuster products. Also illustrates how similar efforts by competitors increase each firm's dependence on a handful of hits. Contains detailed unique... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part Two
decades mixing and selling skin care formulas before she undertook to build a national market for her products. Howard Schultz did not grow up drinking specialty coffee, but as soon as he was introduced to the business, he learned as much... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Profile
Aaron Chadbourne
For Aaron Chadbourne, entrepreneurship began early. "As soon as I could talk, I was put to work in my grandmother's business – selling vegetables at a roadside picnic table piled high with corn." As Aaron grew up, he helped with... View Details
- 01 Jan 2009
- News
Jorge Paulo Lemann, A.B. 1961; Carlos A. Sicupira, OPM 9, 1984; Marcel H. Telles, OPM 10, 1985
was a senior partner for more than 25 years before selling the firm to Credit Suisse First Boston in 1998. At Garantia and later at GP Investimentos, Lemann invested in management talent and diverse acquisitions, including a retail chain,... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
September 2021 Alumni Books
Victoria Crittenden (DBA 1989) and William Crittenden Business Expert Press Direct selling is not an industry, per se, nor is it merely a go-to-market business model or channel to reach consumers. It is bigger than any of that: Direct... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Farming for Fuel
the hope of a more stable future for their children. “This is also a fascinating entrepreneurial story,” Reinhardt notes. “These farmers have reduced their exposure to corn prices, but at the expense of exposure to the oil market.” With... View Details
- 17 Nov 2016
- News
Wired for Innovation
ultimate goal of selling transmission capacity to generators of renewable-energy seeking to get their product to market; or to utilities looking to access the lowest-cost clean power in the country. To make that happen, Skelly spends much... View Details
- 28 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: The Good Struggle: Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World
reactions in the markets for funding, talent, partners, and meaning. Evolving commitments have always been central to entrepreneurial success. Leaders of new organizations have never been able to see very far into the future. They have... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph L. Badaracco
- 21 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 21
Benjamin G., and Michael Luca Abstract—Online marketplaces often contain information not only about products, but also about the people selling the products. In an effort to facilitate trust, many platforms encourage sellers to provide... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Supplying Demand
of Staples, Inc., will be the first to tell you, thank goodness he got canned. On July 4, 1985, Stemberg - who had been let go by First National Supermarkets earlier that year as the firm prepared to sell his division - ran out of... View Details
Keywords: Paul Michelman
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong
customers about their needs and collect relevant market data. But when markets do not yet exist, neither do customers. The process must be an interactive one wherein innovators work to sell disruptive products to customers and then watch... View Details
- Profile
Jenny Tison
summer internships. At J.P. Morgan, Jenny learned that, “banking was not for me.” An internship at the Pentagon, as a junior program analyst, confirmed her enthusiasm for math and measuring performance. An entrepreneurial venture – View Details
- 26 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
New Winners and Losers in the Internet Economy
including Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo!, saw slower job growth than did smaller entrepreneurial ventures. Sole proprietors and super-small firms enjoyed some of the biggest employment gains: For example, as many as 35,000 full-time... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Mr. Start-Up
an astronaut. After selling Stylus, he briefly indulged a long-held passion by studying jazz piano, before settling into a spectacularly successful career as an entrepreneur, building and selling three tech... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Luxe Redux
notes Thuy T. Tranthi (MBA 1993), president of Thomas Pink USA, the London-based shirtmaker. “Many of the established brands started out as small, entrepreneurial ventures. It’s a field in constant change, which often creates significant... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do I Get Your Job?
work at the Harvard i-lab on his first entrepreneurial venture. Here, one entrepreneur asks another for advice on that aha moment, the HBS network, and keeping your perspective. OW: After graduation you went into real estate. What made... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 18 May 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Anjali Vaidya (MBA 2010)
HBS student? “Strategy is a luxury. More acutely needed are people who can sell product or build product.” What were your favorite HBS classes and what made them so impactful? “My favorite classes were The View Details
- 14 May 2024
- Blog Post
Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - How to Build a Culture of Intrapreneurship
Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series – How to Build a Culture of Intrapreneurship Today, the concept of “sustainable innovation” seems commonplace and is generally accepted as a viable path balancing business growth with responsibility towards the... View Details