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HBS Entrepreneurship Summit - Alumni

engagement opportunities. About the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship The Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship supports faculty and their development of a deep collection of on-campus resources, an unparalleled network of entrepreneurial alumni, and an active... View Details

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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni

and in 15 countries in Latin America, Asia, and Africa. Under his leadership, WWF has built strategies and partnerships to scale up the production of sustainable food and renewable energy; double the population of tigers; shut down global ivory markets; and protect... View Details

12 May 2020
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Leaving a Career in Tech for Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship

ecosystem both from an entrepreneurial and investing perspective. I’d heard it was a difficult industry to break into, and I’d hoped to find a supportive network at HBS who could help me prepare for it. “The best way to get a job in VC,... View Details

27 Aug 2013
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The Impact of Patent Wars on Firm Strategy: Evidence from the Global Smartphone Market

Keywords: by Yongwook Paik & Feng Zhu; Legal Services

29 May 2023
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Nurturing Breakthrough Ideas

As a center for creativity where innovation and entrepreneurship are intertwined, the Harvard Innovation Labs ecosystem encourages the development of novel ideas, approaches, and technologies that inspire new ventures or ways of thinking... View Details

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Our Mission & Team | Institute for Business in Global Society

Our Mission & Team We are working with scholars, business leaders, and community leaders around the world to advance our understanding of business' role in society and to develop a thriving ecosystem for translating that research into... View Details

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Launching Tech Ventures | HBS Online

startup ecosystem to improve your chances of raising capital Get an insider view into the venture capital (VC) process Develop an awareness of the systemic biases and ethical considerations in the startup View Details

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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog

Course: Life Sciences Venture Creation Satish Tadikonda Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Field Course: Managing Family Wealth: A FIELD Immersion (also listed under Finance) Lauren Cohen Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Field Course: Private Equity Projects and View Details

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Your Social Entrepreneurship checklist | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

students. HealthLab: A new University-wide accelerator for student ventures, HealthLab brings together students and postdocs from across the Harvard ecosystem to solve challenges in public and planetary health. Legal support: Harvard Law... View Details

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Competing on a Common Platform

Why have over 100 firms joined the Eclipse Foundation to collectively produce an open source platform and tools for software application development? What are they trying to accomplish? This research analyzes IBMs divestment of the Eclipse Java Integrated Development... View Details

15 Oct 2019
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Bridging Business and Engineering

the world’s most dynamic ecosystems for technology, especially for startups and venture capital. During five years in the military fulfilling his required service, he gained firsthand technical experience as a member of the IDF’s Elite... View Details

02 Aug 2022
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From HBS to Cutting-Edge Tech

practical advice about operating a startup from the founders themselves. The Harvard Innovation Lab and the Rock Center of Entrepreneurship are two other massive resources one should not miss! Overall, I think the tech ecosystem is highly... View Details

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Effects of Climate Change - Business & Environment

improved transportation has the potential to dramatically improve health by reducing the major sources of air pollution [7] . Mass extinctions and ecosystem collapse Some 1 million species are now threatened with extinction, with climate... View Details

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Searching for a Corporate Savior: The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs ( Princeton University Press, October 2002)

By: Rakesh Khurana

In this book, I argue that the external CEO labor market was born in a burst of rhetoric about wresting control of corporations away from a group of self-interested insiders, as senior managers in the era of managerial capitalism had come to be portrayed. The rationale... View Details

14 Sep 2023
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MBAs Accelerate Their Social Enterprise Ventures

impactful product. Personally, I learned the immense emotional resilience that is required to work in this ecosystem – change horizons are long, traditional startup benchmarks for scale must be rethought, and interventions require immense... View Details

06 May 2021
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How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups

creating an inclusive entrepreneurial ecosystem can be seen through the stories of four women—two of them Black, one Latinx, and one white—who launched new enterprises in Miami with an eye to diversifying tech jobs in the future.... View Details

Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo

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Events - Private Capital Project

Capital Project) Israel’s Entrepreneurial Ecosystem June 15, 2023, “Israel’s Entrepreneurial Ecosystem” with Eugene Kandel (Start-Up Nation Central), Rona Segev (TLV Partners), Adam Fisher(Bessemer Venture Partners), David Berkowitz (KFO... View Details

2018
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Zig-Zagging Your Way to Transformative Impact

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Tricia Gregg

Achieving transformative impact has been much discussed by social entrepreneurs, funders, and consultants. These discussions have focused on issues of increasing impact and scale, but often with no clear distinction between the two terms. In order to provide clarity,... View Details

Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Performance Efficiency; Growth and Development; Outcome or Result; Strategy

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01 Jun 2023
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From Big Pharma to Startup

valued most from the fellowship program—and from my time at HBS—is the cohort of peer founders and the ability to compare notes and share stories and challenges.” HEALTH CARE AND LIFE SCIENCES VENTURES AT THE HARVARD INNOVATION LABS Since opening in 2011, the Harvard... View Details

Keywords: April White

23 May 2023
Research & Ideas

Lessons on Life, Graffiti, and Value: 'It's in That Darkness That You Can Actually Develop and Evolve'

pass—because, ‘Now we can account for who you are, what you’re about, and how you plug into this ecosystem we have happening,’” Riley said. “It let you fit in without having to give your life over to a neighborhood.” Even rival artists... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

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