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

01 Mar 2023
News

Fostering a Supportive Community

After graduating from Cornell University, where he majored in policy analysis, Joshua Mbanusi (MBA 2021) spent seven years working in education and for a nonprofit that advances equity and economic mobility in the southern United States. That experience challenged his... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Mele

Web

A Conversation with AMP Women on Applying

There's no better time to become a better leader At Harvard Business School Executive Education, the brightest... View Details

Yifei Wu

Yifei Wu is a doctoral student in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School with primary research interests in innovation, entrepreneurship and digitization in emerging markets. She works with impact-driven technology ventures to understsand challenges and... View Details

24 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

Take a Trim Tab Approach to Climate Change

The "bully pulpit"—a term coined by Theodore Roosevelt back when the word "bully" meant terrific—originally referred to the US presidency and its tremendous potential for speaking out and influencing public opinion. Nowadays, the term describes any position with the... View Details

Keywords: by Amy C. Edmondson; Energy; Utilities

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

02 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2006

In the six-year history of Harvard Business School's Working Knowledge, some types of articles have always been... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

17 Apr 2017
Video

HBS Startup Bootcamp

16 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

Kids of Working Moms Grow into Happy Adults

wind up just as happy in adulthood as the children of moms who stayed home. Harvard Business School Professor Kathleen McGinn hopes the findings... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

22 Apr 2016
Blog Post

Working With Organizations That Recruit at HBS: An Interview with Mary-Kate Johnson

Business School but my partner is a first year student at HBS. I can tell you from firsthand experience that students have View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

Web

A Century of Progress - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

HBS Home HBS Index Contact Us Harvard Business School Baker Library Historical Collections The Human Factor Introducing the Industrial Life Photograph Collection View Details

07 May 2012
Research & Ideas

The Art of Haggling

behavior and protracted disputes. Integrative bargaining is the process that is emphasized in most professional schools. Rightly so, says Harvard Business School Professor... View Details

Keywords: by Katie Johnston

28 May 2019
News

A More Perfect Union

is creating a path for the next generation of business leaders to engage in nonpartisan political reform (photo by Stephen Voss) In 2017 Ballou-Aares cofounded the Leadership... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Dan Bejar

17 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs

Kuemmerle, who has studied more than fifty start-ups in twenty countries, says entrepreneurs today should take a litmus test of five questions (See sidebar). In this excerpt from View Details

Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle

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4 Things You Need to Know about Immersive FIELD Courses at HBS - MBA

2006 Immersive Field Courses were first developed in 2006 in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, which devastated New Orleans, LA and its surrounding area. At that time, a... View Details

22 Nov 2013
News

A Passion for Film

d'Arbeloff didn't consider that he could actually work in the film business until he got a job at Lotus Development in Cambridge, Massachusetts, after college. "I was making... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries; Information

16 Jul 2021
Blog Post

Staying Under the 1.5°C Threshold: The Role of Government, Business, and Society

Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, about how governments, businesses, and society must act together—now—to cut global... View Details

24 May 2021
Blog Post

Graduating During a Pandemic

made the decision to spearhead hybrid learning for the 2020-2021 academic year, making us the only school at Harvard with active in-person learning for its entire community. We... View Details

01 Jun 2010
News

MBAs on a Mission

and the participating organization. Approximately one-third of program alumni are now permanent hires of the organization, one-third are at a... View Details

Keywords: Sarah Auerbach;Deborah Blagg;Julia Hanna; Corporate Services; Management; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

22 May 2024
HBS Case

Banned or Not, TikTok Is a Force Companies Can’t Afford to Ignore

Businesses that dismiss TikTok as merely a platform for teenagers looking to create and consume cat and dance videos do so at their own peril. That’s the message View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology

12 May 2021
Book

The Hard Truth About Being a CEO

Fubini, a senior lecturer in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School, poured that knowledge, along with View Details