Entrepreneurship - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Oct 2016
HBS Case

Business Solutions That Help Cut Food Waste

As much as 40 percent of food grown in the United States for human consumption is wasted. Source: Eivaisla After decades of wasteful food practices, where perfectly good food is discarded even as poverty keeps many families hungry, solutions are starting to come... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

25 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]

Professor William A. Sahlman calls "the problem of simultaneity." If, as the business school defines it, entrepreneurship is the pursuit of a business opportunity requiring resources beyond one's control, Polished was all... View Details

Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg

01 Mar 2004
News

Drug Imports a Hot Topic at Alumni Health-Care Conference

Conference Coverage on the Working Knowledge website. MBA Program’s Entrepreneurship Activities Cited as National Model The scope and excellence of Harvard Business School’s MBA activities in View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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

Keywords: New Orleans; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services

01 Dec 2011
News

Professors Recognized with New Chair Appointments

McKinsey & Company, where he was cohead of the media and entertainment practice. He is course head of The Entrepreneurial Manager in the Required Curriculum. The Stevenson Professorship was established by alumni and colleagues who sought to honor Stevenson’s dedication... View Details

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Building an Infrastructure for Empirical Research on Social Enterprise: Challenges and Opportunities

By: Matthew Lee, Julie Battilana and Ting Wang

Purpose: Despite the increase in empirical studies of social enterprise in management and organization research, the lack of a cohesive knowledge base in this area is concerning. In this chapter, we propose that the underdevelopment of the attendant research... View Details

Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship

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01 Oct 1998
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A Marketable Skill

What is the perfect job for someone who is fiercely independent, likes to work with artistic people, has no desire to be fabulously wealthy, and has "a mouth with a death wish"? Give up? "My friends who have known me the longest tell me that running a flea market is... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Sep 2010
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Faculty Books

Star analysts who change firms suffer an immediate, lasting decline in perfor-mance. He also explores how some Wall Street research departments are successfully growing, retaining, and deploying their own stars. International Differences in View Details

Keywords: Retail Trade; Water Transportation; Transportation

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Club Conferences | MBA

Club Conferences Student club conferences are run by student clubs. For more information on any of these, please contact the club directly. Please note: conference dates are subject to change and ticket availability may be limited. 2024 View Details

01 Dec 2017
News

Alumni Salute Bill Sahlman

has created a culture of entrepreneurship that has powerfully influenced the School, its students and alumni, and society at large. Following Sahlman’s retirement in June 2017 (he remains on the faculty as a Baker Foundation Professor),... View Details

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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

17 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs

fortune of more than $300 million in just twelve years. Although many aspects of entrepreneurship favor the young, patience does not. Here, more seasoned businesspeople have the edge. The impatience and idealism of the young often lead... View Details

Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle

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Digital Transformation - HBS Online

More Free E-Book So You Want to Be an Entrepreneur: How to Get Started In this guide, you’ll learn about what characterizes a successful entrepreneur, how to decide if entrepreneurship is right for you, and what skills you need to thrive.... View Details

Career Coach

Dan Mindus

Dan (Yale '01, HBS '08) is Founder and Managing Partner at NextGen Venture Partners, an early-stage venture capital firm with $200M+ in assets under management. NextGen has a unique, network-driven model with more than 1600 entrepreneurs and executives engaged... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurship

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Gallery - The Art of American Advertising

Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership... View Details

01 Sep 2013
News

The New Tech Meccas

When author and start-up vet Chris Schroeder (MBA 1992) attended a regional entrepreneurship conference in Dubai in 2010, the energy of the crowd was a revelation. "I could not get my head around the idea that this was coming from places... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Sep 2014
News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2014

photography and reporting by Susan Young See full profiles and more photographs here. There’s a common thread among the stories of this year’s recipients of the School’s highest honor: every one of them answered a daunting challenge with an entrepreneurial solution.... View Details

30 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Venture Investors Prefer Funding Handsome Men

is a critical first step," Brooks says. "Though gender in entrepreneurship has become a hot topic (Sheryl Sandberg's wonderful Lean In and Ban Bossy campaigns, for example), we haven't seen much concrete data on the topic until... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

03 Feb 2023
News

Immersive Field Courses Take the Classroom on the Road

students heard from President Nana Akufo-Addo, who discussed the challenge their country faces creating future opportunities for the younger generation. Read more. London In Entrepreneurship in the UK and Europe, with Professors Greg... View Details

07 Jul 2022
Blog Post

Pathlight: Reimagining the Developer Onboarding Experience

joined—from starting Red Hat Consulting’s UI/UX Community of Practice to building the first employee resource group (women in tech) at Invitae. In late 2019, I felt a strong itch to consider the entrepreneurship path. I applied to HBS... View Details

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