Entrepreneurship - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Sep 2020
News

We Rise

entrepreneurs and slowing deal volume for VCs. But change cannot wait, says Barna, just one of many alumni and academics in the entrepreneurship and investing sectors who advocate steps toward inclusivity like the ideas offered here.... View Details

Keywords: April White; Finance

06 Dec 2021
News

Vision: Sound Science

at HBS.” Simons saw entrepreneurship as “the best path to translate breakthrough research into something that can help people.” He launched Akouos (Greek, for “to listen”) with a realistic attitude about risk and a flexible definition of... View Details

Keywords: Deb Blagg

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Harvard Business School and Polaroid - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

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

13 Apr 2017
News

Solving Nigeria’s Skilled Workforce Challenge

the experience of having grown up in Africa and a desire to help solve the problem of unemployment among youth. Navid Rahimi, another classmate, joined the team along with two classmates from an HGSE course on entrepreneurship in... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog

Founder, Investor, or Advisor Lou Shipley Spring 2025 Q4 1.5 Entrepreneurship in Life Sciences Satish Tadikonda Fall 2024 Q1Q2 3.0 Entrepreneurship Outside the Valley (also listed under Finance) Paul Gompers... View Details

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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

26 Apr 2011
News

BioMine Strikes Gold

Entrepreneurship Fellowship, and Student Business Plan Contest have been announced. Representing the HBS Association of Northern California and the HBS Tech Alumni Club, BioMine, led by co-founder and CEO Privahini Bradoo (MBA '08), took... View Details

Keywords: Mining (except Oil and Gas); Mining; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Jun 2009
News

Crisis and Creativity

creates an opening for entrepreneurs who can meet the profitability challenge by reexamining the whole business model — a process that might involve customer acquisition or retention, or pricing innovations. It is only fitting for the downturn to precipitate a fresh... View Details

Keywords: Bhaskar Chakravorti

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Noah Lizerbram Archives | Social Enterprise

Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 1 Results Entrepreneurship for Nutritional Equity: Summer Fellows... View Details

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Alex Landon Archives | Social Enterprise

Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 1 Results From Learning to Teaching Business and Entrepreneurship... View Details

13 Jan 2021
News

Silicon Valley’s “Detroit Moment”

That was a great moment. Morrell: Nicole was no stranger to the Silicon Valley model of entrepreneurship when she launched Energicity in 2015. Until its IPO, she had been a part of US-based OPower, a software-as-a-service company that... View Details

February 2014 (Revised December 2015)
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Mara Group

By: Eugene Soltes and Sara Hess

Mara Group is a rapidly growing Pan-African conglomerate run by its entrepreneurial CEO Ashish Thakkar. The case explores Thakkar's decision on which African markets to expand operations into. View Details

Keywords: Telecommunications Manufacturing; Business Ventures; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Pulp and Paper Industry; Real Estate Industry; Shipping Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Africa

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06 Jan 2010
What Do You Think?

Is a Stringent Climate Change Agreement a Pot of Gold?

financing, a socially positive attitude toward entrepreneurship and the failure that it often entails, and a market for new ideas). If that's the case, countries that should be at the forefront in advocating more stringent rules regarding... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Energy; Utilities

07 Jun 2011
News

Back to the Future

undergraduate, Alden did read economist Joseph Schumpeter on entrepreneurship and wrote his honors thesis on his father as an entrepreneur of the family company. At HBS, Alden notes that several courses were helpful to anyone starting or... View Details

01 Dec 2020
News

The Camel and the Unicorn

capitalist by day. I teach entrepreneurship with the Middlebury Institute for International Studies. I often ask my students where they think the root of venture capital is. They'll often tell me they think it's Silicon Valley. The... View Details

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Introduction - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

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

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

24 Apr 2014
News

Driving economic growth and job creation

capital, supporting more than $100 billion in lending to small businesses during her tenure. Heading up an agency of more than 3,000 employees, she prioritized overhauling and strengthening programs and operations, including streamlining loan processing and expanding... View Details

Profile

Jeremy Andrus

HBS Alumni of a certain vintage might recall a BusinessWeek article from a decade ago about the dismal job market for newly minted MBAs. Jeremy Andrus (MBA 2002) certainly does. Upon graduation, with no job offers, Andrus decamped to his parents’ basement in Park City,... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurship

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