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- 21 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 21, 2009
businesses outperform both single-unit firms and multi-unit firms composed of unrelated businesses. Explanations for this relationship between focus and firm performance have largely centered on economies of scope achieved by sharing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
present day. The chapter focuses on the role of business enterprises as powerful actors in the spread of global capitalism after 1848 and up the present day. It shows how multinational firms have created and co-created markets and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
Silicon Valley. Over these next few episodes, we’ll explore the ideas at the heart of Alex’s book, detailing how entrepreneurs and ecosystems across the globe are challenging the Silicon Valley model—and explaining what these global... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Inbox: From Das’s Desk
we will work our hardest to harness all the resources in our ecosystem to reach you, to help you learn, and to make HBS relevant to you on a real-time, ongoing basis throughout your life. Your feedback on this model is vital. I look... View Details
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
influential, and industry less influential, than we commonly assume. How Early Adoption Has Increased Wealth—Until Now Authors:Diego Comin and Bart Hobijn Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 3 (March 2012) Abstract Societies that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Students Ready to Make an Impact
In March, Dean Srikant Datar and HBS staff gathered with winners of the 25th annual New Venture Competition at HBS has long grounded its students in both the theoretical insight and practical experience needed to conceive and launch enterprises that solve challenges... View Details
- February 2018 (Revised August 2019)
- Case
Amazon's HQ2 (A)
By: Karen Mills and Jan W. Rivkin
In September 2017, the Internet giant Amazon announced that it aimed to open a second headquarters in some city other than Seattle, its current home base. By 2032, the company projected, this “HQ2” would be home to as many as 50,000 high-paying tech jobs and up to $5... View Details
Keywords: Economic Development; Headquarters; Local Government; Incentives; Business Headquarters; Business and Government Relations; Development Economics
Mills, Karen, and Jan W. Rivkin. "Amazon's HQ2 (A)." Harvard Business School Case 718-494, February 2018. (Revised August 2019.)
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Preparing Our Students for a Changing World
Harvard Innovation Labs Students at the i-lab facilities in Batten Hall (photo by Rose Lincoln) The Harvard Innovation Labs are an ecosystem that bring entrepreneurial ventures to life. Successful ventures like RapidSOS—a startup that has... View Details
- May 2019
- Supplement
Amazon's HQ2 (C): Choices
By: Karen Mills and Jan W. Rivkin
This supplement discusses Amazon’s 2018 decision to split its HQ2 between two locations--Long Island City in New York and National Landing outside Washington, DC—as well as the ensuing response from local politicians and the public. View Details
Keywords: Economic Development; Headquarters; Local Government; Incentives; Business Headquarters; Business and Government Relations; Development Economics
Mills, Karen, and Jan W. Rivkin. "Amazon's HQ2 (C): Choices." Harvard Business School Supplement 719-465, May 2019.
- 03 Nov 2016
- News
17 Ventures Join the Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab
The Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab officially opened its door at 127 Western Avenue, Allston today with 17 ventures among the inaugural cohort of businesses to occupy the space. As the latest addition to the Harvard Innovation Labs, the Life... View Details
- 23 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
One More Way the Startup World Hampers Women Entrepreneurs
new apps and other products, offering feedback to help entrepreneurs refine their ideas. However, there’s a caveat to this feedback: 90 percent of users on Product Hunt are men, according to a recent working paper by a trio of Harvard View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 21 Nov 2013
- News
Case Study: BlackBerry and Thorsten Heins
effect from the Apple and then the Google Android ecosystems had overwhelmed them. Alan D. MacCormack, MBA Class of 1949 Adjunct Professor of Business Administration: Blackberry was in a jam well before... View Details
- Web
Global Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog
emerging ecosystems are likely to be sustainable provides a roadmap for expanding an investment footprint. Finally, for those interested in evaluating economic and business environments generally, EOV... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
HBX: Expanding Our Reach
business education and pedagogy.” — Professor Bharat Anand, HBX Faculty Chair The strategic focus of HBX centers on the potential for impact. For new audiences, this will equate to transformational educational experiences delivered around... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Preserving Patagonia
Warren Adams (MBA 1995) is making conservation a for-profit business with his company, Patagonia Sur, which merges conservation and capitalism seamlessly and symbiotically. Founded in 2007, Patagonia Sur purchases and permanently protects... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Nimble, Quick, and Adaptable
active gateway to entrepreneurial ecosystems around the world; and to evangelize about entrepreneurial management and thinking. Those priorities are evident in events such as the Rock 100 Entrepreneurs’ Summit, a gathering held earlier... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 19 Apr 2017
- News
Chicago Becomes a Hub of Startup Action
Silicon Valley’s name is dominant in the history of entrepreneurship. So where does that leave other cities that want to get in on the action? On April 13 in Spangler Auditorium, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and a panel of area business... View Details
- July 2020 (Revised September 2020)
- Case
MobSquad
By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, William R. Kerr and Susie L. Ma
Irfhan Rawji (MBA 2004) launched MobSquad in October 2018 to help American tech start-ups retain hard-to-find talent, many of whom struggled with U.S. work visa issues, such as software engineers with experience in artificial intelligence, machine learning, or data... View Details
Keywords: Work Visas; H1-B; Business Ventures; Business Startups; Labor; Human Capital; Human Resources; Crisis Management; Employment Industry; Canada; United States
Choudhury, Prithwiraj, William R. Kerr, and Susie L. Ma. "MobSquad." Harvard Business School Case 821-010, July 2020. (Revised September 2020.)
- 20 Nov 2014
- News
Strengthening America's Public Education System
“playbook” highlighting ways in which business partnerships can help educators lay the policy foundations for innovation, expand programs that boost student outcomes, and reinvigorate the entire education View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Family Dynamic
my own.” Kamdani integrated all the businesses into the newly named Sintesa Group (“sintesa” translates to “synergy” in Indonesian) and shook up the organizational structure, establishing an executive committee and shifting from a family... View Details