Entrepreneurial Ventures - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2000
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Taiwan Club President Thrives on Region's Entrepreneurial Energy

"Taiwan today is an exciting place to be in business," said Benjamin P.L. Feng (MBA 1975), managing director of All Asia Partners, a venture capital firm headquartered in Taipei. At HBS this fall to attend his 25th Reunion, Feng took time... View Details

28 Apr 2016
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New Venture Competition Winners Announced

Video Embed At the 2016 New Venture Competition finale 12 teams competed from 3 tracks for more $225,000 in cash prizes. The opening video portrays inspiring companies founded by HBS graduates and students to show that one simple idea can... View Details

01 Jun 2011
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New Venture Winner Mines E-Waste

brought to the competition,” said HBS professor Lynda Applegate, head of the Entrepreneurial Management Unit. “We are pleased that the contest not only is helping to identify promising new business ventures... View Details

Keywords: contests; awards; Mining (except Oil and Gas); Mining

01 Feb 1997
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Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management

Course descriptions by Elaine Gottlieb, Judith A. Ross, and John Simon (sidebars by Elaine Gottlieb) Whether they come to HBS with a business plan in mind or become entrepreneurially inclined later in their careers, students who take HBS... View Details

01 Feb 1997
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Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS

the first Sarofim-Rock incumbent. (Later, the Classes of 1954, 1960, and 1961 would also fund chairs in entrepreneurship.) Stevenson has completely reworked the Starting New Ventures course into today's elective course View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry and Susan Young; profiles by Garry Emmons

23 Jan 2017
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HBS Ups the Ante for Its Annual New Venture Competition: $300,000 in Prizes to Be Won

28 Feb 2019
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New Program Will Develop Leaders of Innovative Ventures

passionate about making a difference in the world—and many of them are driven to create,” says SEAS Dean Frank Doyle. “Thanks to the generous support of the Roberts family, this program will equip a cohort of remarkable students with new skills and knowledge to realize... View Details

28 Jan 2016
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Inside Harvard Business School’s Startup Machine

Keywords: New Venture Competition

14 Jan 2014
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Spreading the Seeds of Entrepreneurship

men resolved to set up a program in their rural county that would bring in students from each district high school for a daily class in entrepreneurship. Dubbed CEO (Creating Entrepreneurial Opportunities) by its first group of students,... View Details

Keywords: CEO (Creating Entrepreneurial Opportunities); Educational Services; Agriculture; Manufacturing

12 Apr 2023
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Step Change

in deep discussion—is no different in this sprawling city of 20 million than it is in Silicon Valley or any other entrepreneurial hot spot. Yet, 10 or 11 years ago, incubators and accelerators were only emerging concepts in Egypt. An... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

01 Mar 2023
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Step Change

different in this sprawling city of 20 million than it is in Silicon Valley or any other entrepreneurial hot spot. Yet, 10 or 11 years ago, incubators and accelerators were only emerging concepts in Egypt. An Arabic word for entrepreneur... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Abdelrahman Gabr – Koree; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance