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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

Reducing unemployment among Palestinian youth and helping small businesses in the West Bank by establishing a cell-phone based job matching service. Business Track, 2005 Uplift Karen Grajwer Business Track... View Details
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Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream: How Technology Is Transforming Lending and Shaping a New Era of Small Business Opportunity

By: Karen Mills
Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream describes the needs of small businesses for capital and demonstrates how technology—novel data sources, artificial intelligence, machine learning—will transform the small business lending market. This market has been... View Details
  • March 2020
  • Technical Note

Intrapreneurship: Leading Innovation Efforts in Established Organizations

By: Karen G. Mills and Annie Dang
“Intrapreneurship” is the use of entrepreneurial management techniques within established companies to create new environments that foster innovation. Mature firms have consistently faced risk of elimination from competitors, shifting consumer preferences, and... View Details
Keywords: Intrapreneurship; Innovation; Corporate Venture Capital; Accelerators; Incubators; Lean Startup; Hypothesis Testing; Business Ventures; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention; Leadership; Framework; Disruption
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Physical Disabilities & Learning Differences - MBA

Student & Academic Support (SAS) Physical Disabilities & Learning Differences Justin Ernest MBA 2019 "It's my hope that by raising my hand in an Aldrich classroom, I am promoting awareness for stutterers everywhere." Lindsay Rosenblum MBA... View Details
  • 22 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019

experimentation that is required for the initial commercialization and diffusion of technologies. A New Categorization of the U.S. Economy: The Role of Supply Chain Industries in Innovation and Economic Performance By: Delgado, Mercedes, and View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
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Building Small Business Utopia: How Artificial Intelligence and Big Data Can Increase Small Business Success

By: Karen Mills
Small business lending has remained unchanged for decades, laden with frictions and barriers that prevent many small businesses from accessing the capital they need to succeed. Financial technology, or “fintech,” promises to change this trajectory. In 2010, new fintech... View Details
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Cumnock Hall | About

modern, three-story, brick structure was designed by Earl Flansburgh & Associates and originally housed five flexible classrooms, HBS Health Services, squash courts, and a lounge. In 1989, the courts were removed, and Cumnock was... View Details
  • 25 Jun 2020
  • Blog Post

Harvard Business School Class of 2021 Student Profiles

Collaborating with a friend, Nouf, Fatima launched Jonnah, a nonprofit that would help women with sewing skills get the materials, space, and services necessary to run a garment business. By August 2018, they had successfully launched... View Details
  • 16 Aug 2013
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Women's Business Leader

magazine's list of the 50 Most Powerful Black Executives in Corporate America, Essence magazine's 50 Women Who Are Shaping the World, and Black Enterprise magazine's 50 Most Powerful Women in Business. Outgoing SBA Administrator Karen... View Details
Keywords: Administration of Economic Programs; Government
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Past Issues - Alumni

ideas and trends that generated buzz in 2021—and could define 2022 New Wave Tapping the power of tides and waves to help power the planet is an attractive concept, but marine-energy companies have long been held back by issues ranging... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2016
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In My Humble Opinion: Chip Brewer (MBA 1991)

(photo by Christina Gandolfo) Perhaps not surprisingly, Oliver “Chip” Brewer III (MBA 1991) found his first job in golf while playing the game with a friend who happened to know the founder of Adams Golf. At the time, Brewer was working... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 16 May 2024
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On the Job

came very close to costing me an entire career. DM: In this special edition of Skydeck, associate editor Julia Hanna asked this year’s recipients of the School’s highest honor to describe a work experience that has really stayed with them over the years and what they... View Details
Keywords: first job; leadership; life experience; career lessons; Finance; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Retail Trade
  • June 2018
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The Grommet in 2018

By: Lynda M. Applegate, Karen Gordon Mills and Lena Goldberg
The Grommet, an online product launch platform, was at the brink of scaling its business. The Grommet's daily launch and sale of innovative consumer products, using personal videos created by product makers, had led to its initial success. In 2014, the company launched... View Details
Keywords: Retail; Value Capture; Internet and the Web; Entrepreneurship; Product Launch; Value; Retail Industry
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Events - Private Capital Project

moderated by Victoria Ivashina (Harvard Business School) FinTech and Small Businesses June 16, 2021 “FinTech and Small Businesses” with Sabrina Howell (New York University’s Stern School of Business), Eyal Lifshitz (CEO and Founder,... View Details
  • August 1977 (Revised April 1987)
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Crown Cork & Seal Co., Inc.

By: Richard G. Hamermesh, Karen Gordon Mills and John P. Reed
Describes the technical, economic, and competitive trends in the metal container industry. The strategy of Crown Cork and Seal is then described in relation to these trends. Focuses on two immediate threats to Crown's strategy: the future of aerosol cans, given the... View Details
Keywords: Business Strategy; Industry Structures; Environmental Sustainability; Trends; Manufacturing Industry
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  • 21 Sep 2015
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HBS Convening Brings Together Leaders & Experts to Focus on Driving Both Growth and Shared Prosperity

  • 2019
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Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream: How Technology Is Transforming Lending and Shaping a New Era of Small Business Opportunity

By: Karen G. Mills
Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream describes the needs of small businesses for capital and demonstrates how technology—novel data sources, artificial intelligence, machine learning—will transform the small business lending market. This market has been... View Details
Keywords: Fintech; Big Data; Data; Technology; Artificial Intelligence; Great Recession; Regulation; Innovation; Banks; Lending; Loans; Access To Capital; American Dream; Community Banking; Small Business Administration; Entrepreneur; Government; Public Policy; API; Policy Making; Small Business; Financing and Loans; Technological Innovation; Financial Crisis; Banks and Banking; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; AI and Machine Learning; Analytics and Data Science; United States
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Work/family

By: D. Quinn Mills
I have just published, in 2004, a book on how professionals might manage the challenge of balancing work and family demands. The book is oriented not at the problem, which is often dealt with in publications by others, but with six steps for dealing with it. View Details
  • 12 Mar 2021
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My Favorite Case

Edited by Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Taylor Callery Scroll the main story to read all alumni submissions or jump to a specific case here: “Suzuki Samurai” Paige Arnof-Fenn (MBA 1991) “Johnson &... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 07 Dec 2022
  • Blog Post

2022 Climate Symposium: Tackling Climate Together

achieve our goals. This year's theme 'Tackling Climate Together' is a nod to COP27 but also to our hopes for open collaboration and communication amid a further polarizing world.” The opening keynote address featured Irina Gerry, CMO of Change Foods, who started off... View Details