Business Ecosystems - Publications - Faculty & Research

July 2020 (Revised September 2020)
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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

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09 Mar 2021
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Bridging the Gap

yet, the crisis has shed light on areas where business leaders can make an important difference, such as supporting schools and programs that enable students to gain skills and talents for productive employment and create a foundation for... View Details

24 Apr 2014
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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 Jun 2017
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The Exchange: Venture Forth

and its place in the business ecosystem has changed significantly in the intervening decades. Two recent working papers explore those changes—Gompers’s survey of decision-making at hundreds of VC firms and... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Sep 2004
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Books

future success. The Keystone Advantage by Marco Iansiti and Roy Levien (Harvard Business School Press) Professor Iansiti and his coauthor argue that business ecosystems work in... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

19 Apr 2017
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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

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Emmanuel

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About Baker Library | Baker Library

About Baker Library We advance the mission of the Harvard Business School by providing distinctive information services, resources and expertise so that our community excels. Strategic Plan Policies Staff Directory 1474 Year of... View Details

01 Jun 2022
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Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students

and even a required course, The Entrepreneurial Manager? William Kerr is the Dimitri V. D’Arbeloff-MBA Class of 1955 Professor of Business Administration, unit head of Entrepreneurial Management, co-director of HBS’s Managing the Future... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

28 May 2019
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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

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Offices of Other Holding Companies; Management

14 May 2013
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MBAxAmerica Update: Week 6, New Orleans

the $1million revenue mark are usually beyond the scope of Idea Village’s work, we determined that providing strategic help to some of these companies is crucial both to get these businesses to the next level and to provide powerful proof... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship

01 Sep 2024
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Fueling Innovation

continual support provided by HBS Fund donors. HARVARD INNOVATION LABS The Harvard Innovation Labs have helped 9,000+ founders from all 13 Harvard schools turn their ideas into impact. This innovation ecosystem has expanded since its... View Details

Career Coach

Juan Pablo Botero

transition into the entrepreneurial world. Juan Pablo can help students navigate the entrepreneurial ecosystem and resources available at HBS, offering practical advice on which resources are most useful given a student's particular... View Details

01 Jun 2018
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The Importance of Philanthropy

opening of the i-lab in Batten Hall has blossomed into an innovation ecosystem of programs and facilities well situated on Harvard’s expanding campus in Allston. Reaching New Audiences HBX: Launched in 2014, the School’s online platform... View Details

28 Oct 2021
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Capital Considerations for Black Entrepreneurs; Pivoting for Gender Equity

Fellow at HBS and the former Secretary of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA), opened the case discussion by asking what the BNVC creators had done well, and what they could do better. This sparked a robust conversation that... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

06 May 2019
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Startup Talk in Chicago

venture community and startup ecosystem.” The HBSCC hosts a wide variety of business and civic leaders for the benefit of alumni, according to Club President Steve Wasko (MBA 1986). “Penny Pritzker is at the pinnacle of both of these... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Pritzker; Air Transportation; Transportation

26 Apr 2022
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Leading on Climate Change

Harvard Business Publishing (HBP), attracted 225 alumni, with club board members joining Almheiri in-person at the Etihad Museum in Dubai, while Polman and the majority of alumni attended the event virtually. “The Harvard ThinkTank series... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Dec 2020
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The Digital Transformation Of Health Care

innovation in health care. HBS faculty, through their research and teaching, are examining all aspects of this digital ecosystem and sharing their findings with students and practitioners around the world. Annual giving to the HBS Fund... View Details

15 Dec 2024
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On The Case

Professor Linda Hill first met Tom Mihaljevic (GMP 15, 2013) when he came to campus to participate in a fireside chat that Hill unexpectedly wound up facilitating. At that time, he was the CEO of Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi, and the pair found they had a lot to talk... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

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Cissy Chen Archives | Social Enterprise

Filter Results: (1) Submit Author Types Alumni HBS Staff SE Practitioners SEI Faculty SEI Team Students Topics Alumni for Impact Alumni Programs Arts Business for Social Impact Business School Executive... View Details

01 Jun 2018
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Up by the Roots

to realize its potential as a fintech hub is a blueprint—offering concrete lessons about how cities can build their own entrepreneurial ecosystem from scratch. On paper, New York City should have dominated fintech from day one. It has a... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustrations by Dan Page

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