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  • May 2021
  • Case

Endeavor Kenya: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem

By: Lynda M. Applegate, Shikhar Ghosh and Christian Godwin
In 2016, Fiona Mungai became Endeavor Kenya’s first managing director. In this role, she helped the organization build its inaugural board and select its first Endeavor entrepreneur, a fintech company called Cellulant. Throughout this process, Mungai observed the power... View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Entrepreneurship; Human Resources; Leadership; Leading Change; Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Negotiation; Economy; Markets; Emerging Markets; Network Effects; Relationships; Strategy; Financial Services Industry; Technology Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Shipping Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Africa; Kenya
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  • 01 Jun 2022
  • News

Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students

the foundation of HBS’s entrepreneurial management program. Since then, students interested in developing their own for-profit or nonprofit startups have come to the School to gain the skills, insight, and practical experience necessary... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
  • 05 Jul 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Radical Change, Entrepreneurial Opportunity

Mary Tripsas, Assistant Professor in the Entrepreneurial Management unit at Harvard Business School, is interested in how radical technological change transforms industries, and how such change affects established firms and creates View Details
Keywords: by Michael J. Roberts; Technology
  • November 2016 (Revised April 2018)
  • Case

Darby's Investment in Sirma: Professionalizing an Entrepreneurial Firm

By: Suraj Srinivasan and Eren Kuzucu
In March 2010, Burak Dalgın (HBS MBA 2004) led private equity firm Darby's investment in Sırma, a local Turkish water and beverage company. Sırma was owned and managed by members of two Turkish business families. The existing management, while being highly... View Details
Keywords: Control Systems; Variance Analysis; Emerging Markets; Debt; Family Ownership; Turkey; Valuation; Business or Company Management; Private Equity; Financial Reporting; Investment; Budgets and Budgeting; Food and Beverage Industry; Turkey
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    Making Markets

    Over the past twenty years, entrepreneurs have created and captured enormous value by launching new marketplaces. Examples include Airbnb, Alibaba, eBay, Google, Rakuten, and Uber, among many. Making Markets (M²), an MBA elective jointly developed with Prof. Scott... View Details
    • December 2021
    • Article

    Entrepreneurial Learning and Strategic Foresight

    By: Aticus Peterson and Andy Wu
    We study how learning by experience across projects affects an entrepreneur's strategic foresight. In a quantitative study of 314 entrepreneurs across 722 crowdfunded projects supplemented with a program of qualitative interviews, we counterintuitively find that... View Details
    Keywords: Crowdfunding; Experience; Prediction; Timeline; Complexity; Entrepreneurship; Learning; Experience and Expertise; Forecasting and Prediction
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    • 2021
    • Working Paper

    Entrepreneurial Learning and Strategic Foresight

    By: Aticus Peterson and Andy Wu
    We study how learning by experience across projects affects an entrepreneur's strategic foresight. In a quantitative study of 314 entrepreneurs across 722 crowdfunded projects supplemented with a program of qualitative interviews, we counterintuitively find that... View Details
    Keywords: Experience; Interdependency; Strategic Foresight; Crowdfunding; Timeline; Delay; Forecasting; Entrepreneurship; Learning; Complexity; Forecasting and Prediction; Product Development; Planning
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    • November 2002 (Revised April 2004)
    • Case

    TCS: An Entrepreneurial Air-Express Company in Pakistan

    Introduces Khalid Awan, co-founder of TCS, an entrepreneurial air-express company in Pakistan. Awan has succeeded in building a sizeable company despite serious obstacles, including pressure from the public postal system, an environment prone to corruption, and a... View Details
    Keywords: Family Business; Emerging Markets; Entrepreneurship; Leasing; Transportation Industry; United Arab Emirates; Pakistan
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    • 2009
    • Case

    Innovamedica: Innovation in an Emerging Market

    By: Roberto Charvel, Fernando Fabre and T. Putimahtama
    Innovamedica was a medical start up with several state of the art devices such as a silicon substitute heart and other inventions. However, the founding scientist was struggling in attracting talent and fundraising and that had an impact on growth. View Details
    Keywords: Biotech; Entrepreneurial Finance; Entrepreneurship; Start-up; Emergent Countries; Business Startups; Talent and Talent Management; Design; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Private Equity; Health Testing and Trials; Innovation and Invention; Managerial Roles; Biotechnology Industry; Latin America; North and Central America
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    • June 2018
    • Case

    Relax (Boston): Innovating and Growing an Entrepreneurial Business

    By: Paul Marshall and Carole Carlson
    The Relax case traces the history of a massage services company from its founding in 2007 to mid-2017, when it is considering the best strategy for growth and an acquisition. The company's owner and top managers wonder how the firm should reorganize to cope with the... View Details
    Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Acquisition; Brands and Branding; Entrepreneurship; Organizational Design
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    • 29 Oct 2000
    • Research & Ideas

    The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation

    line. Not surprisingly, therefore, the class has no shortage of members involved in the sort of entrepreneurial ventures that demand innovative thinking. While many classmates started out in more traditional settings, within a decade of... View Details
    Keywords: by Susan Young
    • Web

    Building Entrepreneurial Organizations - Health Care

    Impact Building Entrepreneurial Organizations Health Minute: How Entrepreneurs are Reducing Costs & Improving Outcomes More “Entrepreneurship” stories Faculty Focus Innovating In Health Care is the focus of Professor Regina Herzlinger’s... View Details
    • Web

    Entrepreneurial Support - Business & Environment

    MBA Experience Entrepreneurial Support 2ms Entrepreneurial Support Across HBS, Harvard, and Boston, there are many resources to support students interested in founding or joining a climate start-up. The... View Details
    • January–February 2023
    • Article

    External Interfaces and Internal Processes: Market Positioning and Divergent Professionalization Paths in Young Ventures

    By: Alicia DeSantola, Ranjay Gulati and Pavel Zhelyazkov
    We explore how the initial market positioning of entrepreneurial ventures shapes how they professionalize over time, focusing specifically on the development of functional roles. In contrast to existing literature, which has presumed a uniform march toward... View Details
    Keywords: Market Positioning; Professionalization; Scaling; Entrepreneurship; Strategy; Business Startups; Growth and Development; Organizational Structure
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    • 19 Nov 2014
    • HBS Case

    Marketing Marijuana

    like Philip Morris and R.J. Reynolds are looking carefully at this, but they are not going to make a move until the recreational market is more established and looks likely to go national." It is likely, however, that some View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage
    • Web

    Entrepreneurial Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research

    Entrepreneurial Management Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students MBA Required Curriculum (FIRST YEAR) The Entrepreneurial Manager In order to “educate leaders... View Details
    • 09 Jun 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    Around the World of Entrepreneurial Ventures

    elective: International Entrepreneurial Finance. As he explained in a presentation to other HBS professors during the Faculty Research Symposium on May 20, the research project has led him to examine in detail twenty-nine sites that cover... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • Research Summary

    Entrepreneurial Management: Customer Discovery and Business Development

    By: Frank V. Cespedes
    This research focuses on: (a) market research methods and tactics suitable to startups seeking their initial customers and validation of their initial business model; (b) guidelines for conducting visits with potential customers as part of the startup ptrocess; and (c)... View Details
    • 16 Mar 2018
    • News

    Enabling The Pursuit of Entrepreneurial Dreams

    AwesomenessTV was sold to NBCUniversal, the timing was right. “I was wearing many hats at the studio — from business development to finance to marketing and operations. I learned a lot on the job, but thought an HBS education would... View Details
    • 31 Mar 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    From SpinPop to SpinBrush: Entrepreneurial Lessons from John Osher

    the more eclectic business careers of the last few decades. His entrepreneurial journey culminated (at least temporarily) in the sale of his electric toothbrush company to Procter & Gamble for almost a half-billion dollars. Not bad... View Details
    Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Consumer Products