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- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Gurus in the Garage
performance are being carried down to next-generation entrepreneurs. Helping former employees is part of that legacy and culture. Senior mentor capitalists describe how Bill Hewlett encouraged them when they left HP and how HP engineers encouraged View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
McCance First to Serve as Entrepreneur in Residence
chairman of the firm, shared the breadth and depth of his expertise with faculty and students as the first HBS entrepreneur in residence. The newly created posting builds on efforts to involve alumni who can bring a heightened sense of relevance and immediacy to the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Innovation, Inc.
of the French pointillist painter, and it’s easy to imagine Bill Gates or Oprah Winfrey humming the same tune. But if creativity is integral to business, and to entrepreneurship in particular, how exactly does it occur? Where does this... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Welcome to the Future
(“i-lab”). “The i-lab is a University-wide resource for all Harvard students interested in entrepreneurship and innovation,” explains i-lab director Gordon Jones. Used daily for discussion groups and exercises, the hives (above is the... View Details
- 10 Jul 2024
Entrepreneurial Insights: 20 Minutes with an HBS Founder
Wondering how an MBA can help with your professional growth? Join us to hear from Christina Vosbikian, MBA 2025, as she shares insights on being a Rock Summer Fellow and pursuing entrepreneurship at HBS. View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Bert W.M. Twaalfhoven (MBA '54)
economics in 1952, he was eager to study business at HBS, where he was inspired by Professors Georges F. Doriot and John G. McLean, who were pioneers in the study of entrepreneurship and corporate competitiveness, respectively.... View Details
- 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
- 2013
- Working Paper
How the Zebra Got Its Stripes: Imprinting of Individuals and Hybrid Social Ventures
By: Matthew Lee and Julie Battilana
Hybrid organizations that combine multiple, existing organizational forms are frequently proposed as a source of organizational innovation, yet little is known about the origins of such organizations. We propose that individual founders of hybrid organizations acquire... View Details
Keywords: Hybrid Organizations; Imprinting; Institutional Theory; Social Entrepreneurship; Organizations
Lee, Matthew, and Julie Battilana. "How the Zebra Got Its Stripes: Imprinting of Individuals and Hybrid Social Ventures." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-005, July 2013.
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
HBS Moves Ahead with Curriculum Innovations
building on Western Avenue. The first floor of that building houses the Harvard Innovation Lab, scheduled to open this fall. The i-lab will bring together students and faculty from across the University to learn about entrepreneurship and... View Details
- 29 Nov 2017
- Blog Post
HBS, A Dream and Trey: How HBS Helped Me Launch My Social Enterprise
to build skills required to succeed as an early stage entrepreneur. Next, we advanced to the semifinal round of the New Venture Competition (NVC), an annual entrepreneurship competition that awards $300,000 in cash prizes to HBS startup... View Details
- Profile
Jonathan Assayag
entrepreneurship – and a realization that he would need formal business training before he could move forward. "I did my research going through the MBA application process," he says, "Primarily, I knew that HBS had an... View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Innovation: An Orchestra of One
practicing musician in real time. Raphael told Chao that he was already working with a Boston-based music producer and entrepreneur, and put the two in touch. At Chao's urging, the group entered Music+1 (the product's name at the time) in the University-wide Deans'... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Case Study: Your Data, Your Health
during a Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship at HBS. The startup employs a system for collecting reproductive cell samples from a tampon, which the customer sends to the lab for genomic analysis. The lab then provides... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Life in Lockdown
She decides to sleep on it. Come morning, Foalea is charged with leading a team of peers to turn one of these kernels of an idea into a business—in one day. This is Startup Lockdown, a small student-created, student-driven program that turns Spring Break into an View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
change,” says Childress. Why the shift in attitude? “Some people point to 9/11 as creating a heightened awareness of the world as an interconnected system and spurring a search for meaning,” observes Childress. “It may also be generational. Social View Details
- 1990
- Book
The Critical Path to Corporate Renewal
By: M. Beer, R. A. Eisenstat and R. Spector
Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship
Beer, M., R. A. Eisenstat, and R. Spector. The Critical Path to Corporate Renewal. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1990.
- 2004
- Chapter
The Exploratory Processes of Entrepreneurial Firms: The Role of Purposeful Experimentation
Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship
Murray, Fiona, and Mary Tripsas. "The Exploratory Processes of Entrepreneurial Firms: The Role of Purposeful Experimentation." In Business Strategy Over the Industry Life Cycle. Vol. 21, edited by Joel Baum and Anita McGahan, 45–75. Advances in Strategic Management. Elsevier JAI, 2004. (Earlier version distributed as Harvard Business School Working Paper No. 04-031.)
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Eight Among Many: Kenneth A. Goldman
Back in 1974, Massachusetts native Ken Goldman headed for California to pursue a career in high-tech finance, figuring that while he might not find much glory, at least he'd find good weather. "The prestige jobs back then were strictly in banking and consulting," he... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Artist Christo Visits HBS
To illustrate entrepreneurship from a different angle, HBS professors Josh Lerner and Felda Hardymon and research associate Ann Leamon wrote a case about Christo and Jeanne-Claude, the husband-wife team known for their massive,... View Details