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- 20 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Are Company Founders Underpaid?
the founders of Zipcar, a case we teach in our first-year entrepreneurship course. The Zipcar founders, who barely knew each other before founding the company, split the equity simply, shaking hands over a 50-50 split. One founder joined... View Details
- 26 Aug 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Built for Global Competition from the Start
students just those skills. When Kerr started drafting a syllabus for the course, he knew fresh business cases were needed—much of the academic research and course materials on global entrepreneurship he reviewed were dated. For example,... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
It has been said that because of the case method, entrepreneurship has always been at the core of a Harvard Business School education. The case method, after all, teaches students to analyze problems, think creatively, and be alert for... View Details
- 19 Apr 2017
- News
Chicago Becomes a Hub of Startup Action
a clone of Silicon Valley, but as a unique, networked support system with its own identity. Positioning Chicago as a city conducive to entrepreneurship required ongoing, deliberate efforts on the part of Emanuel (who was sworn in as mayor... View Details
- 02 May 2016
- News
Building Startup Skills for Business and Life
Island school district the skills to develop and run their own startups and to begin to think more broadly about careers. E360 is a year-long entrepreneurship curriculum at the Metropolitan Regional Career and Technical Center, a... View Details
- 11 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
Women Entrepreneurs Usher in the Next Generation
entrepreneurs discussing women's often uneasy relationship with money and power. Their panel session, titled "Women and Entrepreneurship in Contemporary America," held on October 25 as part of the two-day conference, was... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Faculty Books
Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed — and What to Do about It by Josh Lerner (Princeton University Press) As governments worldwide seek to spur economic growth in ever more aggressive ways, Professor Lerner offers an... View Details
- Profile
Nneka Ezeigwe
yourself? I’m taking advantage of HBS’ focus on entrepreneurship to test myself and see if this is a path I’d want to take in the future. With one of my classmates, I entered the New Venture Competition this year. Our idea: a fast-fashion... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing/Energy
- 21 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Are Crummy Products Your Next Growth Opportunity?
Business School professor Clayton M. Christensen. At the Harvard Business School Entrepreneurship Conference 2003, Christensen provided an advance peek at his new book, which follows on his influential The Innovator's Dilemma: When New... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Aug 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Melissa Fensterstock (MBA 2012)
this theory is core to entrepreneurship and to understanding the consumer, whether she is a patient or a shopper at the mall. The 'job to be done' was front of mind when we discovered Aromaflage. I kept thinking to myself what a clear job... View Details
- 17 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Building Communities as Well as Companies
Despite the uncertain climate for start-ups, launching a business continues to hold irresistible appeal for aspiring entrepreneurs. For many African-Americans, entrepreneurship is seen as a means of building community as well as personal... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- Web
Resources on Indian Business History - Creating Emerging Markets
of Entrepreneurs: How China and India Are Reshaping Their Futures -- and Yours Tarun Khanna Scholarly Articles Apr 2014 Business History Review Special Edition 88, no. 1 Business, Networks, and the State in India Jan 1992 The Journal of View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
How to Spur Prosperity
Dreams: Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed — and What to Do about It (Princeton University Press), HBS finance and entrepreneurial management expert Josh Lerner offers a timely look at what works... View Details
- 13 Jun 2018
- News
The First Five Years: Momchil Filev and Ben Faw (both MBA 2014)
can help a lot, and yet these are not sufficient. Entrepreneurship is a skill you learn out in the wild, through failure after failure and through persistence when everything seems to be going against you.” How did your HBS experience... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Entrepreneur Named Director of Harvard i-lab
by the entrepreneurship bug at an early age, and having helped launch several start-ups, I understand what it takes to bring a business concept from idea to fruition,” said Jones. “I am very excited to make the i-lab a valuable resource... View Details
- 05 Nov 2013
- News
Start-Ups Get a Start in New Orleans
Greater New Orleans Foundation, which helps with companies working on water resource issues. This outbreak of entrepreneurship is the result of an influx of well-educated citizens to the city. From 2007 to 2009, more people with college... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Mission in Motion
fellowships that support students and alumni who want to use their business skills to create social good. As you'll notice in this issue of the Bulletin, that drive can take many forms. In "Making Change", we check in with alumni honored with the School's Social View Details
Keywords: summary
- 29 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rich or Royal: What Do Founders Want?
working definition of entrepreneurship is Howard Stevenson's assertion that entrepreneurship is "the pursuit of opportunity beyond the resources controlled." If this is correct, then most... View Details
- Profile
Beau D'Arcy
How was the idea for Breakwater Chicago born? "I came up with the idea for Breakwater Chicago after my business school internship at The Venetian in Las Vegas. I observed that Chicago had not yet picked up on the trend of daytime entertainment—something which had... View Details
- 05 Aug 2021
- Blog Post
Closing the Education Gap with Kei Takatsuka (MBA 2022)
Growing up in the countryside of Japan, Kei Takatsuka (MBA 2022) attended a small school with fifty other students. She had good friends and teachers and never imagined something might be missing until she moved to Nagoya, Japan for college. It was then that she saw... View Details