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The Roundtables - Entrepreneurship
Rock 100 Boston: The Roundtables Rock 100 Boston: The Roundtables is an intimate gathering for HBS rising entrepreneurial alumni from New England. The October 18-19, 2018 event features small group discussions led by HBS faculty and ‘Rock Star’ Advisory Board members... View Details
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Showcase Me - Entrepreneurship
Showcase Me First Name * Last Name * Company Name * Degree * Year * Section Recent Accomplishments Entrepreneur Investor Submit Initiatives focus on societal challenges that are too complex for any one discipline or industry to solve alone. View Details
- 2008
- Working Paper
Cost of External Finance and Selection into Entrepreneurship
By: Ramana Nanda
This paper examines the extent to which the positive relationship between personal wealth and entry into entrepreneurship is due to financing constraints. I exploit a tax reform and use unique micro-data from Denmark to study how exogenous changes in the cost of... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Cost; Financing and Loans; Personal Finance; Human Capital; Wealth; Denmark
Nanda, Ramana. "Cost of External Finance and Selection into Entrepreneurship." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-047, January 2008.
- 27 Jan 2009
- Other Presentation
Competitiveness and the State of Entrepreneurship in Saudi Arabia
Presentation on entrepreneurship and competitiveness View Details
Porter, Michael E. "Competitiveness and the State of Entrepreneurship in Saudi Arabia." Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, January 27, 2009.
- 30 Jan 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Cost of External Finance and Selection into Entrepreneurship
Keywords: by Ramana Nanda
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Faculty & Research - Entrepreneurship
Faculty & Research February 13, 2025 Article Research: The Costs of Circumventing Tariffs By: Jaya Y. Wen , Ebehi Iyoha , Edmund Malesky and Sung-Ju Wu When tariffs are levied against a specific country, that country might attempt to circumvent the tariff by rerouting... View Details
- 27 Oct 2016
- News
Public Programs Encourage Entrepreneurship
- 08 Feb 2010
- News
Professor Josh Lerner Wins Major Entrepreneurship Prize
Creating ‘Smart’ Policy to Promote Entrepreneurship and Innovation
The heterogeneity of America’s small businesses has led to some confusion and missteps in policy circles regarding the best strategies to promote entrepreneurship and innovation. We describe three policy areas: improving access to capital, delivering entrepreneurship... View Details
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Entrepreneurship and Urban Growth: An Empirical Assessment with Historical Mines
By: Edward L. Glaeser, Sari Pekkala Kerr and William R. Kerr
We study entrepreneurship and growth through the lens of U.S. cities. Initial entrepreneurship correlates strongly with urban employment growth, but endogeneity bedevils interpretation. Chinitz (1961) hypothesized that coal mines near cities led to specialization in... View Details
Keywords: Industrial Organization; Chinitz; Agglomeration; Clusters; Cities; Mines; Industry Clusters; Urban Development; Entrepreneurship; City; Mining; Mining Industry; United States
Glaeser, Edward L., Sari Pekkala Kerr, and William R. Kerr. "Entrepreneurship and Urban Growth: An Empirical Assessment with Historical Mines." Review of Economics and Statistics 97, no. 2 (May 2015): 498–520.
- October 2009
- Article
Democratizing Entry: Banking Deregulations, Financing Constraints, and Entrepreneurship
By: William R. Kerr and Ramana Nanda
We examine entrepreneurship and creative destruction following US banking deregulations using Census Bureau data. US banking reforms brought about exceptional growth in both entrepreneurship and business closures. Most of the closures, however, were the new ventures... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Market Entry and Exit; Capital Markets; Banks and Banking; Growth and Development; Disruptive Innovation
Kerr, William R., and Ramana Nanda. "Democratizing Entry: Banking Deregulations, Financing Constraints, and Entrepreneurship." Journal of Financial Economics 94, no. 1 (October 2009): 124–149.
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Entrepreneurship in Education Reform
This work explores two questions in the US public education system. First, is there a correlation between improved leadership and management practices and increased student outcomes? And second, can the introduction of market forces such as customer choice among... View Details
- 05 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
Intensive Bootcamp Kicked my Entrepreneurship Goals Into Gear
trip, so I knew that HBS was a place where entrepreneurship thrived. With this in mind, I decided to jump at the opportunity to join Startup Bootcamp, a two-week Short Intensive Program (SIP) or class that takes place between the first... View Details
- July 2021 (Revised July 2024)
- Course Overview Note
Social Entrepreneurship and Systems Change
By: Brian Trelstad and Preeti Varma
Systems thinking is a discipline that emerged in the 20th century as a way to understand the complex interrelationships among various players and dynamics within an industry or field that resist simple, reductionist thinking. The big challenges we face play out in... View Details
Trelstad, Brian, and Preeti Varma. "Social Entrepreneurship and Systems Change." Harvard Business School Course Overview Note 322-029, July 2021. (Revised July 2024.)
- December 1986
- Case
Bernard Matthews: Entrepreneurship in Agribusiness
By: Ray A. Goldberg
Goldberg, Ray A. "Bernard Matthews: Entrepreneurship in Agribusiness." Harvard Business School Case 587-112, December 1986.
- 01 Apr 2009
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Professor James Austin Wins Social Entrepreneurship Award
- 29 Oct 2020
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Why Entrepreneurship Is So Hard
- 15 Feb 2017
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Black Business Leaders & Entrepreneurship
- January–February 2017
- Article
Buying Your Way into Entrepreneurship
By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
An increasingly popular route to success as a small business owner is “acquisition entrepreneurship”—buying and running an existing operation. If you’re considering such a path, the authors offer practical advice for each stage of the process. Think it through. Do you... View Details
Ruback, Richard S., and Royce Yudkoff. "Buying Your Way into Entrepreneurship." Harvard Business Review 95, no. 1 (January–February 2017): 149–153.
- 2020
- Working Paper
Social Networks, Ethnicity, and Entrepreneurship
By: William R. Kerr and Martin Mandorff
We study the relationship between ethnicity, occupational choice, and entrepreneurship. Immigrant groups in the United States cluster in specific business sectors. For example, Koreans are 34 times more concentrated in self-employment for dry cleaning than other... View Details
Keywords: Self-employed; Occupation; Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship; Industry Clusters; Ethnicity; Immigration; Networks; United States
Kerr, William R., and Martin Mandorff. "Social Networks, Ethnicity, and Entrepreneurship." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-042, October 2015. (Revised November 2020. NBER Working Paper Series, No. 21597, September 2015)