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- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Social Enterprise Conference Draws 800 Participants
idea (no business plan necessary) in thirty seconds, with the two best ideas getting a second, longer hearing of two minutes. The winning concept was an online site that encourages teachers to share lesson plans and best practices. The... View Details
- 02 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2011
CEOs' personal assistants to track their bosses' activities with time-use diaries. Research was conducted by Raffaella Sadun of Harvard Business School, Luigi Guiso of the European University Institute, and Oriana Bandiera and Andrea Prat of the London School of... View Details
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- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Entrepreneur Named Director of Harvard i-lab
by the entrepreneurship bug at an early age, and having helped launch several start-ups, I understand what it takes to bring a business concept from idea to fruition,” said Jones. “I am very excited to make the i-lab a valuable resource... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Faculty Learn Firsthand about Chinese Business
Professor Warren McFarlan, spent 10 days getting an up-close introduction to China. “Most of the group had very limited exposure to China, so the concept was to give them a detailed immersion to inform their teaching and research,”... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Student turns family health crisis into online solution
opportunity,” she explains. Hoffman’s experiences inspired her to collaborate with classmate Arick Morton (MBA 2014), with whom she brainstormed in Harvard’s Innovation Lab (i-lab), which led to a concept for an entrepreneurial solution... View Details
- 18 Nov 2013
- Op-Ed
Twitter IPO: Overvalued or the Start of Something Big?
focusing on disruptive technologies, offers his analysis of the Twitter IPO phenomenon. In our second-year MBA elective Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise (a course developed by my colleague Clay Christensen), one of the View Details
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Entrepreneurship | MBA
are founders, joiners, or investors activate their ideas and build their ventures to drive global impact. Rock Center for Entrepreneurship New Venture Competition An annual opportunity for students to pitch their concepts and get... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Is the Auction House of the Future Online?
auction house Paddle8 to handle the high-profile sale. They “understand the concept of the new form of art,” said Wu-Tang chief producer RZA of the four-year-old company, cofounded by a team including Aditya Julka and Osman Khan (both MBA... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Entrepreneur's Notebook with Paul Conforti and Kim Moore (both MBA '97)
upscale, premium desserts to the masses. Elevator pitch: Finale is an upscale dessert-focused restaurant concept that provides people with an alternative to bars or coffee shops, where they can enjoy a sensational dessert experience. Our... View Details
- 24 Jul 2017
- News
Back to School for Big-City Mayors
on July 17, is bringing together 40 mayors, 30 of them from American cities, such as Philadelphia, Baltimore, Phoenix, and Mobile. The concept behind the program is to teach the mayors how to think like a CEO in handling everything from... View Details
- 16 Jun 2016
- Blog Post
Why Entrepreneurs Should Consider Business School
learn how to do a DCF, and how to read a balance sheet. Tuition well spent! Sometimes the cases we’d read to apply these concepts were about oil rigs or department stores—and sometimes they were about technology companies, too. All the... View Details
- 04 Jun 2014
- What Do You Think?
Does Internet Technology Threaten Brand Loyalty?
has to be a mistake to carry over uncritically to the management of information those concepts that have proven so useful during the centuries when things were the dominant resources.... These concepts... View Details
- 19 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
China’s Complicated Relationship With Mother Nature
that it has not yet fully or effectively deployed to unite the country's greening efforts. "The Chinese Communist Party has a powerful propaganda arm, but it has an ill-defined concept of what the China dream will be," Kirby... View Details
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Jonathan Assayag
learn more about business by getting a consulting internship." Jonathan followed the advice and then accepted an offer with Deloitte's Strategy and Operations Practice in New York after graduation. Proof of concept While at Deloitte,... View Details
- 03 May 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Much Is Enough?
Summing Up The concept of "just enough" triggered the sensitivities of many of us, judging from the quantity of responses to this month's column. Respondents divided themselves not into the usual pro and con camps, but into... View Details
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Online Entrepreneurial Marketing Course | HBS Online
Stories FAQs Enroll Now Key Concepts Develop and continually adapt go-to-market strategies Distinguish between marketing- and sales-led organizations and marketers’ role in each Establish a customer selection strategy, including buyer... View Details
- 23 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes
clear, our research is aimed at the organizational level. And in that context, the idea of tradeoffs is nothing new. Peter Drucker and others have said it, and people accept the concept when you are talking about companies that make... View Details
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Julie Cruz
perspectives in my section are like different lenses on a camera – each providing a unique angle on business concepts and problem-solving based on the unique professional and personal experiences of my section mates. Whether it's hearing... View Details
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2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
self-presentation. It will examine such topics as the deconstruction of the gender binary; the concept of the authentic self; and how social identities, such as gender, race, social class, and sexual orientation, intersect to affect... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Helping one child led to improving the lives of thousands
company, Chertavian turned this concept into reality in 2000 by launching Year Up, a job-training program for urban youth ages 18–24. By providing participants with technical and professional skills as well as six-month corporate... View Details