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Field Course: Life Sciences Venture Creation - Course Catalog
a difficult and daunting task, especially given recent market conditions. This course is a practical, hands-on field course primarily designed for students who are very serious about pursuing entrepreneurship within the life sciences,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Pitfalls, Trade-Offs, Dreaming Big
teaches the popular MBA elective Founders’ Dilemmas. In 2011, the course was named one of the top entrepreneurship courses in the United States by Inc. magazine. What’s a common instance of ill-advised behavior by entrepreneurs? Splitting... View Details
- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w15325 PublicationsHow Actors Change Institutions: Towards a Theory of Institutional Entrepreneurship Authors:Julie Battilana, Bernard Leca, and Eva Boxenbaum Publication:The Academy of Management... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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
- 01 May 2013
- News
Robert F. Higgins, MBA 1970
Capital Partners, a venture capital firm based in Boston that he cofounded. Now also a senior lecturer at HBS, Higgins passes that knowledge on to students in the MBA elective Entrepreneurship in Healthcare IT and Services. His keen... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Chasing the Silver Tsunami
investor), was interested in investing in entrepreneurship in the aging sector as his “third act.” The duo combined forces and launched Primetime Partners last summer. Primetime’s $50 million venture fund currently has 10 companies in its... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Building a Movement
fall short, but it’s an important idea that resounds to this day. One of the particular things that the founders did back in the 1990s that turned out to be very important was to put focus on social entrepreneurship—which is about adapting the skills and techniques of... 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
Soltes, Eugene, and Sara Hess. "Mara Group." Harvard Business School Case 114-060, February 2014. (Revised December 2015.) (request a courtesy copy.)
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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 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
- 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
- 25 Apr 2023
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Class of 2022 Startups Sweep Alumni New Venture Competition
time we competed. It really represents our growth and perseverance as founders, and it’s incredibly special to be recognized by the HBS entrepreneurship community, as our company truly grew up at HBS.” At M7 Health, cofounders Borkenstein... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 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
- 16 Dec 2020
- News
A Creator in the Era of Disruption
loans and access to payments. Probably in my children's day, [it] will be something different. I never really sought out to be an entrepreneur, to be honest. I just sought out to solve an access problem that many, many people had in Indonesia and ended up realizing... 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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Nikki Skovran
In her varied career to date, Nikki Skovran has applied her talents to processes and product lines at Proctor & Gamble — and to the pursuit of violent gang members in the United States’ toughest inner cities. To account for the variety, Nikki simply says, “I really... View Details
- October 2016 (Revised June 2017)
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Rising From the Ashes: The Emergence of Chicago's Entrepreneurial Ecosystem
By: Lynda M. Applegate, Alexander Meyer and Talia Varley
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
Applegate, Lynda M., Alexander Meyer, and Talia Varley. "Rising From the Ashes: The Emergence of Chicago's Entrepreneurial Ecosystem." Harvard Business School Case 817-061, October 2016. (Revised June 2017.)
- September 10, 2015
- Article
How Israeli Startups Can Scale
Keywords: Entrepreneurship
Bussgang, Jeffrey J. "How Israeli Startups Can Scale." Harvard Business Review (website) (September 10, 2015).
- September 2014
- Teaching Note
Entrepreneurial Finance Lab: Scaling an Innovative Start-up Financing Venture
By: Joan Farre-Mensa
The Entrepreneurial Finance Lab (EFL) is a financial technology start-up that has developed a new tool that uses psychometric tests to aid banks in developing markets with credit scoring of business loan applicants. EFL's ultimate goal is to solve the financing gap... View Details
- November 2013
- Case
Ministry of Supply: Will Professionals Demand Its Performance?
By: Mukti Khaire and Hannah Catzen
Ministry of Supply is an entrepreneurial venture in the apparel sector. The firm focuses on a specific segment—'performance professional wear'—within the sector, specializing in clothes that use fabrics with high-tech performance features (such as moisture-wicking,... View Details
Khaire, Mukti, and Hannah Catzen. "Ministry of Supply: Will Professionals Demand Its Performance?" Harvard Business School Case 814-042, November 2013.