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- 02 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping
"Delivering phone books is the worst way to spend a Sunday when you're a kid," says Olds, now an assistant professor in the Entrepreneurship Management unit at Harvard Business School. The family lived paycheck to paycheck. And... View Details
- 15 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Founding CEO’s Dilemma: Stay or Go?
terms for that capital. That's one of the factors that Henry McCance and I examine in the "Wily" case. NB: Is it inevitable that founders will not be able to go the distance? Wasserman: Not inevitable, but probable. We teach a case in our first-year View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Making History, Starting Over
At age 26, Ronald Cohen (MBA ’69) planted the seed of a great idea in inhospitable British soil. With three HBS classmates, he cofounded a consulting firm to advise entrepreneurial businesses. Admittedly, it was a risk. Entrepreneurship... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
In Dot-Calm Era, Conference Examines Options for Entrepreneurs
Is the bloom off the entrepreneurial rose? Do B2B and B2C mean "Back to Banking" and "Back to Consulting," as the current joke would have it? Where are the opportunities for those who still believe starting their own business is the way to go? The 2000 HBS View Details
Keywords: Information
- 27 Aug 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Guts, Gall, and Good Luck: What It Takes To Be An Entrepreneur
Literature This paper brings together recent findings in the academic literature on the prevalence of various personality traits among entrepreneurs and their impact on venture performance. Self-Employment Dynamics and the Returns to View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Michael Schrader
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? Starting a company for the first time was an intimidating task for me, perhaps even too intimidating without the tools that HBS provided. First, HBS provided confidence by introducing me to a host of entrepreneurs and... View Details
- Profile
Oliver Bladek
Why was getting a business education important to you? In my undergraduate studies, I had received a business degree where I learned the basics of business (the 4Ps of marketing, accounting debits and credits, NPV, etc). I wanted to come back to business school to... View Details
- Profile
Maria Brewer
Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? During my time in operations, the more I was able to work with multiple areas of the business and see how they interact, the more excited I was by my work. Observing how one decision in a particular area rippled... View Details
- 11 Apr 2014
- Blog Post
HBS in San Francisco: Get a Recap on West Coast Recruiting
In March, HBS ventured to the Bay Area to host a series of recruiting and networking focused events. In response to our students’ enthusiasm towards exploring opportunities on the West Coast, HBS Career & Professional Development (CPD) hosted the first... View Details
- 30 May 2013
- Blog Post
Product Launch Day
At Sonation we’ve been working all summer toward product launch day, and the day has finally come! Last week I went to Michigan with my cofounder Paul to demo the app at Interlochen, one of the premier summer arts camps in the US. Of all the things entrepreneurs do,... View Details
- 11 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
John Bracaglia, MBA 2020: “I Want to Find the Machine Learning Strategy That Avoids the Pitfalls While Fulfilling the Promise.”
For John Bracaglia, his academic and professional careers have been driven by two themes: “machine learning and behavioral economics,” he says. “The two work together. Machine learning is about how computers understand information, while behavioral economics is about... View Details
- 13 Jun 2017
- Blog Post
What is the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program? A Q&A with Professor Tom Eisenmann
learn more. Professor Eisenmann chairs the HBS Rock Center for Entrepreneurship and leads a January Term Startup Bootcamp for first-year MBAs. In recent years, Eisenmann has served as Chair of Harvard's MBA Elective Curriculum—the... View Details
- Career Coach
Ben Schlatka
(electronic materials company)- Co-Founder & Vice President of Business Development; Nantero (venture funded nanotechnology startup)- Director of Business Development; IBM Microelectronics (semiconductor company)- Strategic Marketing Manager; Volunteer Solutions... View Details
- Career Coach
Robert Kimmel
of a startup, he also has experience in entrepreneurship and an interest in coaching students considering starting their own businesses. In addition to these industries, Robert enjoys helping students navigate through work-life balance... View Details
- 25 Sep 2017
- News
Solving Nigeria’s Skilled Workforce Challenge
her WAVE cofounders, Karan Chopra and Bryan Mezue. The three shared the experience of having grown up in Africa and the desire to help solve youth unemployment. Another classmate, Navid Rahimi, joined the team along with two classmates from an HGSE course on View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
In 1947, Professor Myles Mace, a pioneer in the study of entrepreneurship and corporate governance, introduced a unique offering into the MBA curriculum called The Management of New Enterprises. Believed to be the first View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Attn: Alumni Entrepreneurs
$50,000 grand prize, a $25,000 second prize, and $25,000 to the 2012 Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship winner. For entry details, visit www.alumni.hbs.edu/nvc/. View Details
Keywords: contests
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Reimagining China and India
pipeline of perhaps 200 to 300 more that are likely to emerge in the next five to ten years. Is entrepreneurship distinctively different in India and China? The fundamentals of entrepreneurship are strong in... View Details
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
role (himself MBA '75, PhD '82, he is D'Arbeloff MBA Class of 1955 professor of business administration and cochair of the school's entrepreneurship and service management unit), he pointed out that none of these ideas was a business.... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- Profile
Nathan Lasche
Why was earning an MBA at HBS important to you? I was excited about the chance to be exposed to world-class faculty and peers in a place that would nurture my interest in tech and entrepreneurship. How has your overall HBS experience shaped your goals and career path?... View Details