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Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
organizations such as Harvard University, HBS will not provide funding for political campaign work. Founders of consulting, research, and/or brokerage services, as well as investment funds (including but not limited to hedge funds, private equity funds, search funds,... View Details
- 15 Dec 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Surprisingly Successful Marriages of Multinationals and Social Brands
Green and Black's, and Coca Cola purchasing a significant interest in HonestTea.) As the authors write, "Making a virtuous mouse and rich elephant merger work is a delicate, but potentially high-value undertaking in terms of... View Details
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship in Europe
push into other countries more quickly. "Building a functioning multinational firm is a huge challenge. There are many that underestimate it." A strong rise in both venture capital and private... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
Abstract We document geographic concentration by both venture capital firms and venture capital-financed companies in three metropolitan areas: San Francisco, Boston, and New... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Ingredients of a Deal Disaster
Experienced negotiators are generally comfortable working out the terms of an economic contract: They bargain for the best price, haggle over equity splits, and iron out detailed exit clauses. But these same seasoned professionals often... View Details
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WesTrek 2025: Exploring the future of tech in Silicon Valley - Recruiting
significant expansion, with visits to six top venture capital firms — a 20% increase from last year — offering students deeper insights into the evolving investment landscape. The four company tracks... View Details
- 07 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Obama’s Clean Power Plan: Can Nuclear Power Beat the Global Threat of Coal?
This week, President Obama and the Environmental Protection Agency released the final version of the Clean Power Plan, a major set of rules and incentives aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions from America's power plants. The plan requires each state to meet a... View Details
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Approaching Business with an Artistic Eye - Global Activities 2020
dress. Companies don’t create specific fashions for the region, so women who wear modest clothing struggle to find styles they like and often end up with very bland choices.” Yazan Halwani MBA 2020 The courses Halwani took at HBS and his participation in the School’s... View Details
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How One Center of Innovation Lost its Spark
tacit knowledge flows. These knowledge flows, in turn, contribute to cumulative incremental innovations in both product and process technology among firms embedded in the cluster. I use the term 'active inertia' to describe the tendency... View Details
- 23 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn
higher risk projects and new ventures. This has a domino effect on the venture capital providers and subsequently on the angel investor community. Each group is concerned that there will not be an investor... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 Jun 2017
- Blog Post
What is the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program? A Q&A with Professor Tom Eisenmann
key indicators of entrepreneurship and innovation. Boston is second only to Silicon Valley in terms of venture capital invested per capita. Boston-area research universities... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
settle into the new Science and Engineering Complex, which is right across the street from the Harvard Innovation Labs and adjacent to Harvard’s planned Enterprise Research Campus, the future home of company labs, startups, and venture... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 12 Jan 2017
- News
Personalizing Women’s Path to Success
group partner,” she says. “Moving from consumer products to venture capital was a pretty hard pivot. I was 30 years old and pursuing a not-so-easy industry to break into,” she admits. “However, HBS gave me... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 17 Jan 2019
- News
The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition
music producer and drummer whose mission is to elevate and celebrate the female voice. I produce music that tackles issues of modern gender equality today, and I travel the world to speak and perform about these issues.” Tucker: “I’m a principal at Troy, a View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
We Rise
Above: Illustration by Hannah Barczyk When Hayley Barna (MBA 2010) launched the beauty startup Birchbox in 2010, she expected fundraising would be a challenge. Every entrepreneur knows the long odds: By some estimates, less than 1 percent of new companies receive that... View Details
- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
as the way to have the most meaningful impact, and what implications their ultimate decision will have on the Family Office in terms of its capital outlays, structure, staffing, and many other categories.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
New Agenda for Corporate Accountability Reporting
accountability of financial reporting practice in the broader capital market system, he explains. "We can use some of the insights of these 30 years of research to study this much broader, much more difficult subject, which is... View Details
- 19 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 19
provider must decide whether to IPO or accept an offer to be acquired by Euromoney, a global publishing and information content provider that is eager to launch an Internet information service. The case contains a term View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Oct 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #10: Amanda Li (MBA 2018): Speeding Climate Change Solutions Through Project Finance Efficiencies
which leads to a lot of overhead in terms of origination costs. It involves copying and pasting from hundreds of models and contracts. Issues involving permitting, manufacturing and supply chain as well as labor shortages are all serious,... View Details
- 30 May 2000
- Lessons from the Classroom
Entrepreneurship’s Wild Ride
entrepreneurial community's success has attracted capital on an unprecedented scale. The venture capital market and the market for initial public offerings have gone to... View Details
Keywords: by William Mahoney