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- 31 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
One Quarter of Entrepreneurs in the United States Are Immigrants
by natives. “They are more likely to fail than those founded by natives, but those that survive experience greater employment growth,” says Kerr. This “up or out” scaling dynamic is frequently connected to how entrepreneurs create jobs,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 16 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Unfulfilled Promise of Educational Technology
really good at adopting and scaling things, and school districts in general have not had to do that before," he says. "Technology holds a lot of promise, but we haven't seen the proof yet." View Details
- 08 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Building an Internship Program at Your Startup: An Interview with Facily’s Diego Dzodan (MBA 1999)
co-founders were committed to the company’s success, and as the business grew it was time to hire. They brought on strong talent, like their head of strategy, who has helped the company to grow and scale rapidly. “A key learning from HBS... View Details
- 18 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
How Much is Freedom Worth? For Gig Workers, a Lot.
(Oberholzer-Gee says food-delivery drivers tend to work shorter shifts, and so are less likely than other gig economy workers to use the work as a primary income source.) “This suggests that the ability to scale working hours up or down... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products
- 20 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Changing the Face of Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital at Harlem Capital
year at HBS, I found that there weren’t any VC funds of scale that had partners of color; the VC funds that did have partners of color were smaller,” Pierre-Jacques said. “And from a diversity perspective, most funds were gender focused... View Details
- 04 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Advice from My HBS Career Journey in Renewable Energy
figuring out exactly what career path that I want to take to have the biggest impact. I built up the operator experience, so now I want to get some investment experience. I will take what I learned at HBS into the investing world to figure out how to deploy capital at... View Details
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Contemporary Black Artists and Public Art | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
HBO Home Entertainment, the digital and DVD program distribution division of Home Box Office. He joined the HBS faculty in 2013 and he co-designed and teaches the courses Arts and Cultural Entrepreneurship, and Scaling Minority... View Details
- Web
Space, Public And Commercial Economics (SPACE) - Course Catalog
transform the kinds and scale of value we derive from space and even our relationship to it, namely by making it a place where we can live and work. At the vanguard of developing these applications is a concept that has inspired space... View Details
- 25 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Hikma Health + HBS MBAs Crowdsource Largest County-Level COVID-19 Dataset
coupled with any number of other data sources to perform unique and more detailed analyses on factors like demographic disparities, political alignment, or population density in relation to local COVID-19 policies. What’s next for the project? Cray: To View Details
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social... View Details
- 24 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017
realized. Our model aligns with many observed empirical regularities, and we quantify our framework by matching Census Bureau operating data with patent data for U.S. firms. We observe that internal innovation scales moderately faster... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 5
focuses on scaling a venture's sales process and provides a methodology for identifying core customers and some implications for governance criteria and potential product changes as well as sales management. Paper: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
energy philanthropy, scale EF to meet the sector's needs, and utilize the strengths of its grantees and their networks. He must determine how the foundation can achieve greater impact by leveraging not only its own resources, but also... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Oct 2013
- Op-Ed
Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
urgently pushing for achievable, effective, and truly global solutions” There is a clear opportunity to hold ARPA-E style design challenges around the world focused on nuclear power that call for entrepreneurs to submit designs that meet the cost, safety, construction,... View Details
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Path Ahead
us continue to redefine our program delivery as well as scale and deliver our content. But it will also impact how we build a research infrastructure. We have a fabulous physical infrastructure at the School and, as an alumnus, you know... View Details
- 24 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017
2012 French presidential election. While existing experiments randomized door-to-door visits at the individual level, the scale of this campaign (five million doors knocked) enabled randomization by precinct, the level at which vote... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 26, 2016
confirm that homophily, which here likely arises from social influence, permeates all scales of human behavior. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51392 May 2016 Seminars in Oncology Nursing Transformation of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
entrepreneurs actually go about producing transformative change. There are four key stages: understanding the world; envisioning a better future; building a model for change; and scaling the solution. The Debate over Jewish Achievement:... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Bringing It Back Home
Grossman, who wrote the case study "Salud Digna: Successfully Competing with For-Profit Organizations." "This is one of very few examples where a nonprofit is scaling into the United States—and it's doing quite well at this point. It... View Details
- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
manufacturing these and of getting the supply chain in place. Now we are coordinating the raw material procurement and production across our network of factories and are bringing on more factories to dramatically scale production,” said... View Details