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- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Luxe Redux
refreshing their product lines and extending their brand to more affordable items. Pressure to innovate is intense, says HBS professor Nancy F. Koehn, a business historian and author of Brand New: How Entrepreneurs Earned Consumers’ Trust... View Details
- 05 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
First-Gen Voices: Eric Westphal on Tapping into the Global Alumni Network & Making a Difference across Borders
different.” Dzodan added that he encourages other alumni and entrepreneurs to spend the time necessary to bring on interns, even when there are dozens of other tasks on your list. “It can be scary to think about using your time to build... View Details
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
would stretch the entrepreneur in a direction that, at least at this stage, would not be helpful in building the business. What I like about this approach is that it's very sensitive to building the organization. So you're not applying 50... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 17 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?
bureaucratic and political constraints imposed on scholars by the government that seem to work against intellectual progress. Q: What does a Chinese entrepreneur need to succeed today, and is it different from what someone launching a... View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
- 22 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 22, 2016
program at an urban hospital in Massachusetts, they’re ready to disseminate the software to other accountable care organizations and bundled-payment hospitals. The case explores the issues the two entrepreneurs consider as they pursue the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 3
is that trying to negotiate all terms in a term sheet will be less effective than focusing on the terms that are most important to the specific entrepreneur in question, taking into account the entrepreneur's goals and motivations in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 2, 2007
practical advice for entrepreneurs accessing and utilizing their DNs. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808029 Texas Pacific Group—J. Crew Harvard Business School Case 808-017 Describes... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
production and exports. As a member of the entrepreneurs union and chief of its economic commission, I am quite active in the ongoing work of labor and government relations to better our economic environment. The key for us will be to... View Details
- 04 Aug 2020
- News
How Business Can Advance Racial Equity
recently about the role they can play in changing society. But I know this is a topic you've been engaged in for a long time. What first sparked your interest in it? Lisa Lewin: I think it was probably my family. My father was a corporate executive. My mother was an... View Details
- 09 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Hold or Fold? Sizing Up Business Risk
$1.5 billion and then gave $100 million of their proceeds back to their employees.2 More typically, that's what fabulously successful entrepreneurs like Andrew Carnegie in the late 1800s or Bill Gates in the late 1900s do when they begin... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
Jones at Extend Fertility’s new headquarters in Allston, Massachusetts. Serial entrepreneur Christy Jones is interested in the balance between innocence and experience. With two start-ups under her belt and a third on the way, Jones is... View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
meaningful advice to any entrepreneur seeking investor funding. Civility Rules! Creating a Purposeful Practice of Civility By Shelby Joy Scarbrough (OPM 47, 2015) Forbes Books While our civilization continues to advance, our capacity to... View Details
- 09 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 9
created a new market that entrepreneurs rushed to enter, channeled by regulations that aimed to minimize marijuana's access to minors while not stifling the emergent new industry. The case describes Colorado's initial experience with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 18
the management and business history literatures that entrepreneurship needs incorporating more strongly as an explanatory factor. This working paper argues that Koç acted as both a Kirznerian and Schumpeterian entrepreneur to build his... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2024
- News
The Musts of 2024
what are venture investments that get to the right point in the power law. In VC, it's the one investment in Facebook, Google, Amazon that returns the fund. So Maples talks about what are the characteristics of those investments. And his advice to an View Details
- 11 Jun 2021
- News
The Power of Resilience
now channel that in a different way? That’s what led me to this realization that public speaking and experience sharing could actually be my mission. Instead of being employed by someone else, I could be an entrepreneur and spread my own... View Details
- 21 May 2018
- News
Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area
informal, interactive setting. They get real insights on how to build a brand and how to inspire people to believe in a brand.” For a decade, the HBSAB has partnered with Boston-based brand strategist and entrepreneur Larry Gulko to... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
those who were usually called 'raiders' in the eighties - entrepreneurs who were putting their own money and reputations on the line." Jensen believes that most current mergers undertaken to reduce excess capacity and combine related... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
senior partners from two dozen top-tier VC firms, who visited with government officials and entrepreneurs in each country. Hardymon ranks the trips as “among the biggest recent events in the VC world.” SVB’s Wilcox says the trips helped... View Details
- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
opposed. Which path should ZappRx take? The case is a window into the early go-to-market and business model decisions that an entrepreneur must make, in this case in the face of pushback from her own management team. The case also... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne