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- 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
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Student Clubs | MBA
Coffee and Tea Club Conservative Club Consulting for Impact Club Crimson Parents D Democrats, Liberals, Progressives Club E Education Club Energy & Environment Club Entertainment & Media Club Entrepreneurship Club View Details
- 29 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rich or Royal: What Do Founders Want?
working definition of entrepreneurship is Howard Stevenson's assertion that entrepreneurship is "the pursuit of opportunity beyond the resources controlled." If this is correct, then most... View Details
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Career Support & Exploration Funds | MBA
a fully self-funded entrepreneurship through acquisition search (search fund). Rock Center Loan Reduction for Entrepreneurs The Rock Center for Entrepreneurship offers a one-time, need-based award in the... View Details
- 02 Sep 2021
- News
Elevating Ethiopian Entrepreneurs
women in the country, so we're very excited about it. “I've never been an entrepreneur. And it wasn't until after HBS that I really seriously looked at entrepreneurship as being a real option for myself. So it gave me a lot of tools in my... View Details
- 18 Mar 2015
- News
9 Alumni Named Young Global Leaders
Nine HBS alumni have been selected as 2015 Young Global Leaders (YGL) by the World Economic Forum. The organization engages these “bold, brave, action-oriented, and entrepreneurial” individuals to help shape a more positive, peaceful and prosperous society, according... View Details
Keywords: World Economic Forum
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Site Credits - Business Education For Women At Harvard University | Harvard Business School
Executive Education HBS Alumni Bulletin HBS News HBS Working Knowledge MBA Admissions Harvard Business School Alumni Business & Environment Executive Education MBA Recruiting Rock Center: Entrepreneurship Social Enterprise Initiative HBS... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
It has been said that because of the case method, entrepreneurship has always been at the core of a Harvard Business School education. The case method, after all, teaches students to analyze problems, think creatively, and be alert for... View Details
- 20 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Are Company Founders Underpaid?
the founders of Zipcar, a case we teach in our first-year entrepreneurship course. The Zipcar founders, who barely knew each other before founding the company, split the equity simply, shaking hands over a 50-50 split. One founder joined... View Details
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Field Course: Value Creation in Small and Medium Firms - Course Catalog
lessons are taught through the lens of Entrepreneurship through Acquistion (EtA), but the lessons learned can be applied to many career paths and jobs. While not a prerequisite, many students who take VCSME have taken Financial Management... View Details
- 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
- 07 Feb 2018
- News
Helping Startups Give Back
“If you really want your company to be associated with giving back and having a social mission,” says Janie Goldstein (MBA 1991), “it needs to be baked in from the start.” But while most startups want to be philanthropic, Goldstein, the cofounder and former executive... View Details
- 25 Apr 2014
- News
Distributing dreams with a curatorial eye
Eric d'Arbeloff (MBA 1993) plays a leading role in bringing independent films to wider audiences. In 2004 he launched his film distribution company, Roadside Attractions. Among its successes are Super Size Me, Winter's Bone, Margin Call, Arbitrage, and Mud, starring... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
firms with only domestic growth opportunities? Growth in the Chinese middle class and on-the-ground entrepreneurship indicate that the most attractive opportunities will be companies that win by focusing on really understanding the... View Details
- 1990
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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
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Accelerating Innovation | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
As social entrepreneurship has taken on increasing prominence over the past two decades, HBS alumni have been at the forefront of change from starting new organizations and embedding an entrepreneurial spirit within established ones to... View Details
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Visionary, Innovator, Educator - 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
- 19 Dec 2013
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“Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?”
would do with my free time. By the second month, I found myself wondering where my free time went. In between my roles in the Entrepreneurship Club, TechMedia Club, Harbus Foundation, and Volunteers Club, I fortunately still have time to... View Details
Keywords: Technology