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- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
promising technology—and its first designs didn't work. She and her management colleagues were unknowns, and the product failures subtracted from their slight credibility. And at the time, she said, "the capital markets were totally... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Boston derails his life. Expelled from school, with a cloud over his head, he jumps at a chance opportunity to interview for a job in Paris, hoping for a fresh start away from everyone who knows his past. Alone in a foreign land, Mason is... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Competitiveness at Risk
responsibility in enhancing US competitiveness. When businesses build partnerships with community colleges to train workers, they are enhancing American competitiveness and improving the business environment. When a number of businesses... View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
A Conversation with Dean Clark
important initiatives. BULLETIN: There have been a number of obvious manifestations of progress on the technology initiative, including the shift to an Internet-based communications system at the School, the availability of full-motion... View Details
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
Equity, and the Financing of Entrepreneurship Authors:Josh Lerner, Ann Leamon, and Felda Hardymon Publication:John Wiley & Sons, 2012 An abstract is not available at this time. Publisher's Link: http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-EHEP002070.html... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Balanced Equation
still true today: eBay enables users to trade with other people without regard to time and distance. It makes inefficient markets efficient. What kind of communications devices do you use? I may be the last person on earth who does not... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
The Wise Men
Harvard College in 1950 and working as a reporter for the Boston Herald, he signed on at the U.S. Department of Labor (he has been a card-carrying member of three different unions) for several years before making an unsuccessful run... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Life in Lockdown
alumni commitment is really cool,” says Shin, adding that the Lockdown experience creates a tightly knit networking community of alumni interested in the startup sector. To create the 2017 team, “Adam and I started reaching out to people... View Details
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
is being abandoned by the two remaining large capital exporters—the U.K. and Japan—that had maintained similar regimes. The conundrum facing policymakers is how to reconcile mounting pressures for increased tax burdens on foreign activity... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
are many communities that must be satisfied." Venture Capital and Private Equity The pool of U.S. private-equity funds has grown on the order of 2,500 percent in the past decade-and-a-half. Venture View Details
- 03 Oct 2012
- What Do You Think?
Can We Bring Back the “Industrial Commons” for Manufacturing?
has fallen behind in the competition for a share of the "commons." Peter Sebregondi commented that "companies aim to have the least possible ownership of the capital or assets involved in the value chain," but points... View Details
- 16 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Nitin Nohria: Why US Competitiveness Matters
that our friends abroad cheer for America with foreboding and pessimism, the way sports fans nervously pull for a team whose lead is slimming and whose energy is fading. These outsiders recognize that the system of democratic capitalism... View Details
Keywords: by Nitin Nohria
- 23 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
A Lifelong Friendship: From Classmates in Cameroon to Roommates at HBS
What's your story? Gana: I grew up in Cameroon, in a town called Douala. My grandfather made the importance of education and how it impacts your life front and center. I grew up with my parents working, my dad in the petroleum industry, my mom as an entrepreneur and... View Details
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
Kramer, Mark R., and Marc W. Pfitzer Abstract—Governments, NGOs, companies, and community members must all be involved in programs to create shared value, yet they work more often in opposition than in alignment. A movement known as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
and from electronic communication servers—the effect of open office architectures on employees' face-to-face, email, and instant messaging (IM) interaction patterns. Contrary to common belief, the volume of face-to-face interaction... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
original response, no one can decide in advance what that response should be. So the role of a leader of innovation is not to set a vision and motivate others to follow it. It's to create a community that is willing and able to innovate.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2025
- News
Challenge Accepted
(MBA 1990), Deborah Farrington (MBA 1976), Jeremy Grantham (MBA 1966), and John Rice (MBA 1992) Photos by Susan Young READ MORE Julia Hanna: In 1998, Deborah Farrington (MBA 1976) cofounded StarVest Partners, one of the largest women-owned venture View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
control room, located in a converted shipping container The hardware reset was successful, and Oscilla recently deployed a version of Triton off the coast of Hawaii. (Known as Triton-C, this iteration should someday be capable of powering small View Details
- 08 Sep 2016
- News
How We Make It Work
delivery app Dolly, and Peter is creative and brand director at PitchBook, which he likens to a “Bloomberg for the private capital markets.” Peter Escher reads to Josh while Diane Escher tackles toothbrushing duty as part of the bedtime... View Details
- 02 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/318002-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 318-068 Eastern Bank: Innovating Through Eastern Labs Eastern Bank is a 200-year-old New England mutual bank with a community focus. Eastern... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne