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- 20 Nov 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 B.C.?
- 23 Sep 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
How Do Venture Capitalists Make Decisions?
- 25 Aug 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Agglomeration and Innovation
Keywords: by Gerald A. Carlino & William R. Kerr
- 08 Oct 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Clusters of Entrepreneurship
- Mar 2012
- Article
Reviving Entrepreneurship
New enterprises don't exist in a vacuum: They rise or fall depending on myriad contextual factors, all of them interrelated, and all of them affected by government policy. U.S. lawmakers must carefully consider the effects of interventions in at least 12 areas, ranging... View Details
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Entrepreneurial Finance
William A. Sahlman is examining the investment and financing decisions made at all stages in the development of entrepreneurial ventures. Related lines of inquiry concern the role of financial institutions in providing risk capital, and the role of government policy in... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
How to Write a Great Business Plan
Professor William Sahlman suggests that a great business plan is one that focuses on a series of questions. These questions relate to the four factors critical to the success of every new venture: the... View Details
Keywords: Re: William A. Sahlman
- 31 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
From SpinPop to SpinBrush: Entrepreneurial Lessons from John Osher
"Large companies look for the perfect solution [and] analyze everything to a T, as opposed to putting something in production, getting it going, and analyzing off of that." “He found a gap that was the size of the Grand Canyon." —William View Details
- 30 Mar 2015
- Video
HBS Campaign - Texas Events
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
A Constructive Summer at HBS
contractor William A. Berry & Son for a "superb job," Moffatt has been pleased with progress on the building. "The whole project has been characterized by good fortune," he says. While the outside structure... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational
to William Lever. After his death, the Overseas Committee became the institutional embodiment of this paternalistic oversight role. Philips too conformed to this model: the Philips family dominated the company's top management until well... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The View from the Pit
to HBS faculty member involved relating to former professors and mentors as colleagues. "I had a hard time calling them by their first names," she says. Now the William L. White Professor of Business Administration and a senior associate... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Race Does Matter in Mentoring
in the career trajectories of white and minority executive suggests that companies implicitly have two distinct tournaments for access to the top jobs.— David A. Thomas Although it took Williams longer to... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
- 06 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
Updating a Classic: Writing a Great Business Plan
Sean Silverthorne: "How to Write a Great Business Plan" has been one of the most downloaded articles on Harvard Business Publishing since you wrote it in 1997. Why do you think you hit a nerve? Bill Sahlman: Writing a business plan is a seminal moment in the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Professorship Brings Brierley's HBS Connection Full Circle
started my first business," he says from his office in Dallas, Texas. Now, with his generous endowment of the chair held by HBS professor John A. Deighton, Brierley's involvement with the School has come full circle. A specialist in... View Details
- 18 May 2012
- News
Facebook IPO creates tech giant
- 12 Jul 2010
- News
Is Venture Capital an Academic Pursuit?
- 15 Dec 2011
- News
R & D tax cut could expire
- 05 Mar 2015
- News