A History of Entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Oct 1998
News

A Marketable Skill

doing," says Judy Gehrke, executive director of Greenflea, Inc., the operator of two flea markets just north of midtown Manhattan, whose proceeds help support the city's public... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

30 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

Tracks of My Tears: Reconstructing Digital Music

favorite songs.” Harvard Business School professor Anita Elberse, who does much of her business research on the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Music

22 Nov 2011
News

A Storybook Beginning

Risher: E-reading the African story “Treasure of the Trees” at the Kade Primary School in Ghana. Courtesy David Risher If you’ve just read Curious George Visits the Library and... View Details

Keywords: Elementary and Secondary Schools; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Elementary and Secondary Schools

06 Feb 2019
Blog Post

7 Tips for a Successful Technology Venture Immersion

I grew up in a small town in southern New Hampshire and graduated from Harvard in 2014 with an Engineering Sciences SB (Bachelor of Science). After spending 22 years on the... View Details

11 Sep 2020
News

Two Books Wonder: How Long Until You Fall in Love With a Robot?

2010
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Seven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better Execution

By: Robert L. Simons

To stay ahead of the pack, you must translate your organization's competitive strategy into day-to-day actions that will enable your company to win in the marketplace. This means channeling resources into the right efforts, striking a balance between innovation and... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Innovation and Management; Resource Allocation; Business Processes; Organizational Culture; Competitive Strategy

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10 Jun 2022
Blog Post

New Venture Competition 2022: Business and Environment Ventures

Vacuum is commercializing technology developed at Harvard that mimics the ocean's natural process of absorbing C02 using renewable electricity. Click Here to Watch Alumni Track... View Details

08 Nov 2021
Blog Post

Building an Internship Program at Your Startup: An Interview with Facily’s Diego Dzodan (MBA 1999)

grow the business to five times its size over a period of three years. Then when Dzodan graduated university, he decided to temporarily pivot away from entrepreneurship, and he... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurship

26 Jul 2021
News

The Science of How You Spend Money & How to Set Boundaries People Will Respect

22 Jun 2011
News

HBS's Joe Lassiter Loves High Growth

27 Nov 2019
Sharpening Your Skills

Secrets for Creating a Long-Lasting Brand

A well articulated and adored brand is more valuable to a business than any single product. But they are also vulnerable—a crippled brand, like a... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

30 Apr 2020
Book

Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism

Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories close as a management consultant.... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Energy

03 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

Everyone Knows Innovation is Essential to Business Success—Except Board Directors

three on their list of concerns. That’s the surprising finding in a new survey of boards of directors conducted by View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

Nancy F. Koehn

Nancy F. Koehn is a historian at the Harvard Business School where she holds the James E. Robison chair of Business Administration. Koehn's research focuses on crisis leadership and how leaders and their teams rise to the challenges of high-stakes situations. Her... View Details

Keywords: beauty products; clothing; consumer products; entertainment; fashion; marketing industry; retailing; health care; advertising; media

28 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Football Stars Debate ‘The Social Capital of the Savvy Athlete’

in front of a standing-room-only audience at the Harvard Innovation Lab at Harvard... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Sports

13 Nov 2013
Research & Ideas

Should Men’s Products Fear a Woman’s Touch?

products perceived as feminine—especially in cases where men use a particular brand to communicate their own identities. Harvard Business School... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage; Auto

01 Apr 1999
News

A Vibrant Brand

surrounded by Vibe posters - in the Manhattan office where he oversees the Vibe brand, is clear: he owes a tremendous amount to others. Insightful and likable, Clinkscales would be equally at ease in View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

26 Feb 2020
News

Stephen Miller's alleged management style is nothing like what experts tell you about how to be a good boss

16 Jun 2015
News

The rise of humblebragging, the best way to make people not like you

20 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround

A favorite topic of historians and palindrome fans alike, the Panama Canal has perpetually changed the international trade business. In their new book, The Big Ditch: How America Took, Built, Ran, and... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Transportation

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