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

07 Apr 2023
Blog Post

Career Advice: Pursuing a Dual Degree

lives is front of mind for me because the role energy in society has had an outsized influence on my life. Ultimately, my ambition is to leverage my experiences, network, and newly gained knowledge base from my time View Details

14 Feb 2018
Blog Post

HBS Partner Feature: Love Doesn’t Need a Zip Code

school, but to apply to Harvard Business School (despite my frequent assertions that I would never get in). When I received the email to interview I immediately called him and... View Details

09 Apr 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

The Dark Side of Performance Bonuses

decisions, to get flu shots, to lose weight, to be wiser about personal financial planning. Behavioral scientists are becoming the new HR superstars in some organizations. Research through the years at View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

28 Mar 2024
Blog Post

Empowering Future Leaders: Meet the HBS Women’s Student Association

What is the WSA? The WSA, or Women’s Student Association, is a student-led organization at Harvard Business School... View Details

11 May 2021
Blog Post

IPO or M&A? How Venture Capital Shapes a Startup's Future

company to a larger one. In contrast, startups funded by a VC syndicate with less familiar co-investors are most likely to exit through a potentially splashy IPO that could let... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity

09 Dec 2015
Research Event

When Hosts Attack: The Competitive Threat of Online Platforms

are building their services around these platforms,” said Harvard Business School assistant professor Feng Zhu, during a presentation View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail; Technology; Web Services

12 Mar 2013
News

Anthropology Inc.

06 May 2022
Blog Post

Career Advice: Starting a Sustainable Startup

ideas with two of the same friends I had tried starting a company with earlier. Timing worked out well, as one of these friends had also just started View Details

16 Oct 2019
Blog Post

6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees

could no longer hold people back from achieving important leadership roles in the United States. Not true, says Harvard Business School senior lecturer Anthony J. Mayo.... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

14 Feb 2017
Research & Ideas

A Strategy For Steady Leadership in an Unsteady World

business leaders to step forward and lead in ways that business schools don’t teach. Let’s examine these different ways of leading comprising... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

September 2019 (Revised May 2021)
Case

pymetrics: Early Days

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock

In 2013, CEO Frida Polli was contemplating the next steps for her start-up business, pymetrics. After receiving her PhD in neuropsychology and MBA from HBS, she was determined to put her scientific and academic knowledge to work to build a business solving real world... View Details

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22 Feb 2021
Book

Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy

sales productivity is not only about profit maximization and shareholder value—which, by the way, I don't think a CEO or Harvard Business School... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

19 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

Climbing the Great Wall of Trust

In recent conversations with US executives doing business in China, Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Roy Y.J. Chua heard about View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Members of the Military - MBA

search process of members, to promote camaraderie, and to raise awareness and support for the military on the Harvard Business School campus.... View Details

25 Mar 2019
Research & Ideas

The Secret Life of Supply Chains

however, all the industries that comprised that sector or how many jobs it contained. Two years ago, she teamed with Mercedes Delgado, professor at Copenhagen Business School... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Manufacturing; Service

28 May 2019
News

The Physical Campus in a Virtual World

less transformational. Other manifestations of the physical versus online dichotomy abound on our campus. Eight years ago we launched the Harvard i-lab adjacent to our campus; this facility has become View Details

Keywords: Nitin Nohria

01 Dec 2018
News

Preparing Our Students for a Changing World

CEO and cofounder Michael Martin (MBA 2015). Through the three labs—the i-lab, Launch Lab X, and the Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab—students and alumni can access a network of peers... View Details

08 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

Is it Worth a Pay Cut to Work for a Great Manager (Like Bill Belichick)?

Monday: How Much Do Coaches Really Matter? CEOs and Coaches: How Important is Organizational 'Fit?' Boris Groysberg is a professor of business administration View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg & Abhijit Naik; Sports

17 Jul 2006
Lessons from the Classroom

Developing a Strategy for Digital Convergence

and Doris Starr Professor of International Business Administration at Harvard Business View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer; Education

Emily Tedards

Emily Tedards is a Doctoral Student in the Organizational Behavior program at Harvard Business School and a Doctoral Fellow for the Reimagining the Economy Initiative at Harvard Kennedy School. Emily is interested in interorganizational networks, alliances, and the... View Details

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