Entrepreneurial Organizations - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Apr 2023
News

A Kick Start for Latin American Startups

performance data, options that so far have not reached their full potential in Latin American countries. Another startup, Diferente, tackles food waste. According to Forbes, the region's annual loss in food supplies represents 6 percent of the global total. Diferente... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

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Nonprofit Strategy & Governance | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Expanding its early focus on helping nonprofits operate more efficiently to the emerging space of social enterprises and the challenges of measuring social impact, our faculty have developed a body of knowledge that encompasses leadership, strategy, and governance of... View Details

12 Mar 2021
News

My Favorite Case

manufacturing business with my family since 1997. —Julie Lopez Santiago (MBA 1994) Back to top “Danaher Corporation” In 2008, the industrial conglomerate Danaher Corporation confronts various challenges that threaten its impressive historical performance. Can it... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

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Your Social Entrepreneurship checklist | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

The Social Enterprise Initiative has long supported students and alumni starting organizations with a social impact focus. Our curriculum, career support, community building, and funding supports students in exploring social... View Details

01 Nov 2011
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First Look: Nov. 1

firms would organize to fund the deal following a successful bid. The plaintiffs asked the court to delay the shareholder vote on the merger to solicit additional bidders. Purchase this... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Funding Opportunities - Business & Environment

organization focused on environmental issues. HBS Forward Fellowship: Helps support students from lower-income backgrounds who have carried significant financial burdens or obligations. It helps ensure that students from all socioeconomic... View Details

25 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Beauty Entrepreneur Madam Walker

Katherine Miller. When Koehn recently taught "Madam C.J. Walker" in her MBA course Entrepreneurial Leadership: Past, Present, and Future, her students in turn discussed Walker's rise against a historical backdrop dominated by... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Beauty & Cosmetics

01 Jun 1998
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Simmons Family Endows Professorship

six Simmons siblings graduated from the University of Utah. Entrepreneurial Spirit Perseverance in the face of adversity and an entrepreneurial spirit are the hallmarks of the Simmons family's success. Roy... View Details

01 Dec 2023
News

Case Study: Staking a Claim

Illustration by Nhung Lê Kate Terry (MBA 2005) knows that no one attends their fifth-grade career fair and comes home hoping to pursue a career in insurance—but that’s exactly where she wound up. “I really fell in love with it,” she says. As cofounder and CEO of... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Insurance Carriers and Related Activities; Finance

30 Aug 2018
Blog Post

My Difficult Decision to Leave Google for HBS

covered the main points. Then, we were introduced to a guest: the case protagonist and business owner. He told us that the most important priority in his business, hands down, had been to learn to talk to, energize, and organize the... View Details

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Entrepreneurship Course Online | HBS Online

framework for building and financing new ventures, and make your entrepreneurial dreams a reality. 4 weeks 6-8 hours per week 4 modules Self-Paced with regular deadlines This course earns you a Certificate of Completion from HBS Online.... View Details

20 Aug 2008
Op-Ed

The Time is Right for Creative Capitalism

deal with what is in front of us today. Yes, all these other players matter, in some cases a great deal. But not as much as business matters—in the form of both large global corporations and small-scale entrepreneurial enterprises. This... View Details

Keywords: by Nancy Koehn

12 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019

successful dual-purpose companies build a commitment to creating both economic and social value into their core activities. This approach, which they call hybrid organizing, includes: setting and monitoring social goals alongside financial ones, structuring the View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Sep 2023
News

Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint

1,300 MBA students traveled abroad to 20 countries this year for hands-on, immersive learning experiences. The centers’ primary focus has been on case writing and facilitating faculty research, explains Executive Director Victoria Winston. Additionally, they View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Dec 1997
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Multimedia Martha: Sharon Patrick Cooks Up A Winner

Inc. When did you first meet Martha Stewart? Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro in 1993. I had completed my time at McKinsey and Rainbow, where I had become a startup and turnaround person. I was finishing a year off, and I was undertaking View Details

14 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 14

help-friendly organization has to be actively nurtured, however, because helpfulness among colleagues does not arise automatically: competition, pride, or distrust may get in the way. The trickiness of this management challenge-to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Design Thinking Course | HBS Online

Concepts Idea Selection and Evaluation Defining and Refining Your Prototype Plan Prototyping: From Exploration to Validation Leading Concept Development Featured Exercises Concept Poster: Organize all information about an innovation... View Details

03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009

Authors:Joseph Rhatigan, Sachin H. Jain, Joia S. Mukherjee, and Michael E. Porter Abstract The care delivery value chain is a framework that can help conceptualize the organization and structure of care delivery for medical conditions. We... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

28 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

development of new products, but was also indispensable for the constant upgrading and renewal of brands. Unilever's main problem was the time it took to turn scientific knowledge into successful branded products. It entered the 1960s with an View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products

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Faculty - Race, Gender & Equity

at the Harvard Business School. His recent books include Complicit; Decision Leadership (with Don A. Moore); Better, Not Perfect; The Power of Experiments (with Michael... Anke Becker Assistant Professor of Business Administration Anke Becker is an Assistant Professor... View Details

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