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

11 May 2022
Blog Post

MoMBAs: The Inspiring Student Mothers of HBS

have over 20 mothers on campus. While we still have a long way to go to make our business school classrooms, board rooms, and executive leadership teams representative View Details

Trang Nguyen

Trang Nguyen is a student at the Ph.D. Business Administration program jointly offered by Harvard Business School and Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences.

Trang is interested in research at the intersection of corporate governance... View Details

01 Jun 2008
News

The Prophet of Start-Ups

person you couldn’t take your eyes off for a minute. He got me motivated to start a business.” His lectures were so memorable and controversial — he once lectured his students on how to pick View Details

Keywords: Spencer E. Ante; George Doriot; Charles F. Kettering; Lawrence Lowell; F. Warren Hellman; Finance; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

25 Oct 2020
Research & Ideas

The Dark Side of Fintech Borrowing

Cream-Skimming?, was written by Marco Di Maggio, the Ogunlesi Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services; Banking

27 Nov 2019
News

Remembering Lincoln's 1863 Thanksgiving Proclamation

William C. Kirby

William C. Kirby is T. M. Chang Professor of China Studies at Harvard University and Spangler Family Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He is a Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor. He serves as Chairman of the Harvard... View Details

Keywords: education industry; wine

11 May 2016
Research & Ideas

Fix This! Why is it so Painful to Buy a New Car?

Harvard Business School have as much pain shopping for a new car as the rest of us. For Jill Avery, View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Auto

Peter Tufano

Peter Tufano is a Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School and Senior Advisor to the Harvard Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability. From 2011 to 2021, he served as the Peter Moores Dean at View Details

01 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness

"Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. And the third is to be kind." —Henry James As a professor of business... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Susan Seligson

28 May 2024
In Practice

Job Search Advice for a Tough Market: Think Broadly and Stay Flexible

will create barriers at a time when many firms are actively seeking to trim their workforce. Flexibility and willingness to be available for opportunities as they arise will be View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

08 Sep 2011
News

Why Founders Get Fired

Alexandra C. Feldberg

Alexandra (Allie) Feldberg is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School.

Professor Feldberg uses qualitative and quantitative methods to examine intersections between gender,... View Details

10 Apr 2012
News

Heroic vs. Homegrown Entrepreneurs?

21 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

Is a Gap in Small-Business Credit Holding Back the American Economy?

(Editor's note: This first in a series of articles based on a Harvard Business View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills; Manufacturing

12 Nov 2020
News

All in the Neighborhood

Photo courtesy of Angela Hicks Photo courtesy of Angela Hicks As native Hoosiers, Angie’s List cofounders Angela Hicks (MBA 2000) and Bill Oesterle (MBA 1992) knew they wanted to ground themselves in View Details

Keywords: community; volunteer work; corporate social responsibility; entrepreneurship; leadership; Personal Services

04 Dec 2013
Research & Ideas

The Fantastic Horizon: How to Invest in a New City

Editor's Note: Rapid urbanization and resource scarcity pose problems—and opportunities—for businesses and governments all over the world. But who can best lead the building and developing of these... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction; Real Estate

05 Jan 2022
News

Venture Capitalist Tim Draper Continues to Stand by Elizabeth Holmes after Guilty Verdict

12 Jan 2018
Cold Call Podcast

Leadership Lessons from a Young Martin Luther King, Jr.

president of Morehouse. He had gone on from there to Crozer Theological Seminary, then elected to go north to Boston University to get his PhD, a very famous school View Details

11 Apr 2024
In Practice

Why Progress on Immigration Might Soften Labor Pains

for skilled and unskilled labor. Either way, immigration will be a critical issue during the US election season. The carefully negotiated bipartisan bill that failed in the House of Representatives earlier... View Details