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James Reinhart

One of the toughest challenges for young entrepreneurs is figuring out the most effective strategy to turn a good idea into a great venture. A bad decision early in the game, such as sticking to an original... View Details

01 Sep 2009
News

Professor, Historian, and Storyteller

impersonal forces and events. Indeed, in the field of business history, it was HBS professor Alfred Chandler who shifted the focus of scholars and others away from individual heroic entrepreneurs toward a... View Details

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

02 Oct 2013
What Do You Think?

Is Leadership an Increasingly Difficult Balancing Act?

Summing Up What's the Future of the Authority Figure In Leadership? Leadership involves the effective management of tensions characteristic of all organizations. Are such tensions exacerbated by today's need for increasing speed and... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Sep 2017
News

The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of

Glass (MBA 1994), a serial entrepreneur and co-owner of an esports team, explains, “Esports is the most gigantic industry that nobody’s ever heard of.” Bjerg, third from left, and Team SoloMid compete in a... View Details

Keywords: April White; illustration by Brian Stauffer; esports; Twitch; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

23 May 2019
News

Michael R. Bloomberg, MBA 1966

2002–2013 Born in Boston and raised in Medford, Massachusetts, just miles from HBS, Mike Bloomberg has pioneered innovations that have spread across the world. From Medford to Wall Street and beyond, the... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

30 Jan 2014
Blog Post

Big Media, Big Business! Inside scoop on the upcoming Entertainment & Media Club Conference

Entertainment & Media Club hopes to initiate dialogues that delve into key trends relevant to all members of the entertainment and media community, from rising entrepreneurs to established executives. Our aim is to create a forum that... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports

08 May 2020
In Practice

Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On

(like 2008) but a depression (like the 1930s.) Accordingly, we must be prepared to act in ways we’ve never done before. Second, just as doctors in overburdened hospitals, we need to triage with iron... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

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Entrepreneurial Finance (Q3) - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Entrepreneurial Finance (Q3) Course Number 1625 Associate Professor Raymond Kluender Spring; Q3; 1.5 credits 14 Sessions Exam Career Focus Entrepreneurial Finance is primarily designed for students who plan to get involved with a new venture at some... View Details

01 Jun 2017
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017

(MBA 1996) (Plon) Cavaretta argues that France is a paradise for entrepreneurs. It has one of the best ecosystems for opportunity in the world. Entrepreneurs in France have a... View Details

06 Dec 2022
Blog Post

Meet the Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition (ETA) Club

search for, acquire, and operate a business in which they have a meaningful ownership position. For those of us that have ever dreamed of being an entrepreneur and running our own business, but lack an... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship

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Climate Symposium 2024: Confronting Reality, Celebrating Innovation - Blog - Business & Environment

Blog Blog Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author HBS Faculty Author HBS Staff Author Staff Author Students Topics Topics Accelerating Climate Solutions Conference 2023 Alumni Alumni Programs Alumni in Climate Networking Series Business... View Details

02 Nov 2015
News

Making Higher Ed Accessible to Africans

from six radio stations to 70 in five years, took it public in 1999, and raised a couple billion dollars of capital. Today, Radio One is the largest African-American broadcasting company View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Jan 2004
News

A. G. Lafley, MBA 1977

historians—not just modern business gurus—if you're interested in mastering the power of strategy and the power of execution in your job." CURRENT READING Bush at War, by Bob Woodward A.G. Lafley has been... View Details

01 Jun 2006
News

India Arrives

machines to cars. The story of Sunil Mittal (OPM 27, 1999) illustrates the challenges entrepreneurs faced in the years before the government loosened its regulatory hold on business. View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

11 Jun 2014
News

The First Five Years: Brittani Rettig (MBA 2010)

will see the launch of my first brick and mortar fitness studio! I'm partnering with a friend who is a respected entrepreneur to transform his current fitness studio located in New York City's Lower East... View Details

Keywords: fitness; wellness; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

03 Apr 2006
What Do You Think?

Has Globalization Reached Its Peak?

annual contest among budding entrepreneurs here at HBS, were awaiting the arrival of software being designed in India that would allow them to demonstrate smoothly-functioning Web sites important to their... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Content & Community for Students | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

manager recommended that she read an HBS case study about how the Sesame Workshop CEO, Jeff Dunn... An Emerging Entrepreneur Patricio Bichara 2015 Patricio “Pato” Bichara (MBA 2015) learned something important View Details

11 Jun 2019
Book

These Aren't Beach Books, but Managers Should Read Them Anyway

R. Kerr’s book explores why global talent flows matter to national economic development and security Trust: Creating the Foundation for Entrepreneurship in Developing CountriesLegal and social institutions that support View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 1997
News

A Piece of the Action

the Valley's "Band of Angels," a group of entrepreneurs who are recycling their capital and energies into new ventures. This month the Center's first two intellectual products will make their debut in... View Details