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Eric Lin | MBA
Eric Lin Computer Science, Secondary in Economics Quincy 2022 Cohort 3 Discovering an idea is only the beginning. Everything else that goes around the idea -- the team, resources, and product market fit --... View Details
- 05 Nov 2013
- News
Start-Ups Get a Start in New Orleans
Everyone had to open up shop again," he says. He soon became an entrepreneur-in-residence at Idea Village, a nonprofit organization dedicated to keeping entrepreneurs in New Orleans by supplying them with strategic consulting and... View Details
- 20 May 2008
- News
Endowment Tax Debate Puts Harvard on the Spot
Just in case you missed it, the Massachusetts legislature has voted to study the idea of taxing college endowments 2.5 percent annually on the amount that exceeds $1 billion. That puts Harvard, with a $34 billion endowment that includes... View Details
- 07 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy
and German. Government leaders and policymakers in each of these countries were influenced by the Essay's key idea that government should be a dominant player in helping shape economic development. Of particular interest to Reinert is... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Top-Down Resource Allocation on the Rise?
Business unit buy in was a concern of Asit Goel. "Sponsorship from the top is critical to make innovation part of the culture but resource commitment from the BUs (business units) is critical if an idea is to ever take off."... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
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Ed Rogers
What’s the one thing you’re most excited about learning at HBS? The FIELD III module [on entrepreneurship] has impressed me more than I thought it would. Obviously, I knew we were supposed to incorporate lessons learned over the RC year into our project. But as our... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Funny Business
comedians known for ad-libbing? A much looser structure works well. So much of the writing involves coming up with an idea and providing as much ammunition as they might need. We want to stay out of the way and give them the tools to come... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 25 Sep 2015
- Blog Post
4 Challenges All Early-Stage Startups Face
weaknesses and knew what we wanted to learn from one another through working as a team. 2. Coming up with ideas Coming up with ideas was more difficult than choosing a team--at first, we felt that every... View Details
- 07 Jan 2009
- What Do You Think?
Is the World Really Flat?
travel easily and at relatively low cost, but that (3) as one progresses from high-level to ground-level products and services and from high-level to ground-level know-how, ideas travel less easily. The work associated with them is more... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Future Tech Leaders Dive into New Program
ideas to the next level,” notes Thomas Eisenmann, faculty co-chair of the program and the Howard H. Stevenson Professor of Business Administration at HBS. Through courses in business and engineering, as well as specially designed... View Details
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Laura Hayden
When I was little I wanted to be a comedian. I thought there was something magical in being able to make others laugh. I loved the idea that just by telling a story you could make people forget about their troubles and release this wild... View Details
- 26 Mar 2018
- News
Funding Climate Change Solutions
actually, ideas that were coming from all over the world and see which of these ideas could be adapted. “Increasingly, I think people realize that you cannot address climate change if you don't address also... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Ink: The Habit of Innovation
authors suggest a strategy to determine whether valuable resources in your operation are being drained by projects that aren’t viable. Zombie Amnesty Do you feel like you don’t have sufficient resources to take promising ideas forward? It... View Details
- 16 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
How Gender Stereotypes Kill a Woman’s Self-Confidence
away from certain professions: They lack confidence in their ability to compete in fields that men are stereotypically believed to perform more strongly in, such as science, math, and technology. Women are also more reluctant to share their View Details
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Room to Write
Edited by April White; photos courtesy of the authors “A lot of my book was written on the Notes function of my phone while commuting in London. The ideas flow easily wherever I am, but I need a bit more quiet to bring it all together.”... View Details
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Rakhshan Zahid
that a lot of these businesses were started by ordinary people. The real difference between someone with an idea and someone who starts a business is just courage – taking a leap. Then you look at everything from how to get financing, how... View Details
Keywords: Financial Services
- 04 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Think of it as Professors in Cars Having Coffee
I’ve heard many ideas for reducing gun violence in the United States, but this was a new one on me. Mihir Desai, a finance professor at Harvard Business School, noted in a recent podcast that stock prices of gun manufacturers are severely... View Details
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Early-Stage Feedback | New Venture Competition
Early-Stage Feedback Business Track Early-Stage Feedback allows potential participants in the New Venture Competition (NVC) to receive guidance on their venture. This is a great opportunity to get feedback on your startup idea from VCs,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Noted & Quoted
chin goes back, like, ‘Really?’” — former supermodel Tyra Banks describing reaction to her enrollment in the OPM Executive Education program. (CBS Sunday Morning, March 6, 2011) “People often misunderstand ‘preparation’ to mean just knowing their own View Details
- 24 Feb 2016
- News
Did William Alden Invent the Car of the Future in the 1960s?
Alden envisioned a hybrid system he called the StaRRcar—a “car-like train” with small pods that a passenger could call like a taxi and would ride on rails directly to the desired destination. It was an idea ahead of its time, Adi... View Details