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Curriculum - Business & Environment

diversity, board leadership, executive compensation, environmental and social factors in governance, hostile takeovers, and the market for corporate control. For the full listing, click here . Entrepreneurial View Details

23 Dec 2019
Blog Post

Taking the Risk to Start a Company at Business School

“For me, attending HBS was about choosing a time to take a risk on myself. It sets you up to take a chance and start a company,” says Julie Johnson, Co-Founder and CEO Armored Things, HBS 2017. When Julie Johnson applied to Harvard Business School (HBS), she was far... View Details

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Academics - Health Care

MBA Experience Academics Why HBS for Health Care? Harvard Business School The first-year “required curriculum” (RC) incorporates health care cases and topics in many courses ranging from Marketing and Finance to Entrepreneurship and... View Details

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Online Entrepreneurship & Innovation Courses | HBS Online

Essentials Professor William Sahlman Master a proven framework for building and financing new ventures, and make your entrepreneurial dreams a reality. 4 weeks, 6-8 hrs/week Pay by August 21 $1,850... View Details

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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

Applegate Baker Foundation Professor, Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration, Emerita Lynda M. Applegate is a Baker Foundation Professor at HBS and is Chair of the Advisory Committee for Harvard University’s Masters Degree of Liberal Arts in View Details

2008
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The Future of Social Enterprise

By: V. Kasturi Rangan, Herman B. Leonard and Susan McDonald

The Future of Social Enterprise considers the confluence of forces that is shaping the field of social enterprise, changing the way that funders, practitioners, scholars, and organizations measure performance. We trace a growing pool of potential funding sources to... View Details

Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Investment; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Performance Effectiveness; Social Enterprise; Consolidation; Value

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21 Aug 2012
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entrepreneurial human capital across several generations. We test this idea by looking at the spatial location of past mines across the United States: proximity to historical mining deposits is associated with bigger firms and fewer... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 22

Justifying and Rationalizing Questionable Preferences Authors:Zoë Chance and Michael I. Norton An abstract is unavailable at this time. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-018.pdf The Financing of R&D and Innovation... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Faculty - Private Capital Project

Finance at the Graduate School of Business, the University of Chicago where he created a new course entitled 'Entrepreneurial Finance and Management.' His course development efforts at Harvard Business... View Details

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General Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research

Emily R. McComb , Brian Trelstad , Gerald Chertavian Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Field Course: Private Equity Projects and Ecosystems (also listed under Finance and Entrepreneurial Management) John Dionne Spring 2026... View Details

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Health Care - Faculty & Research

Entrepreneurship ; AI and Machine Learning ; Technology Adoption ; Health Care and Treatment ; Innovation and Management ; Entrepreneurial Finance ; Business Strategy ; Science-Based Business ; Technology... View Details

01 Mar 2023
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different in this sprawling city of 20 million than it is in Silicon Valley or any other entrepreneurial hot spot. Yet, 10 or 11 years ago, incubators and accelerators were only emerging concepts in Egypt. An Arabic word for entrepreneur... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Abdelrahman Gabr – Koree; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

07 May 2013
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First Look: May 7

during peaks of the private equity market, when the parent banks arrange more debt financing for in-house transactions yet have the lowest exposure to debt. Using financing terms and ex-post performance, we... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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Events - Business & Environment

Join small group chats with Professor Jim Matheson to discuss careers in sustainability. Jim joined the HBS Faculty in 2019 and teaches the EC courses Entrepreneurial Finance and Tough Tech Ventures and is a... View Details

01 Jun 2011
Working Paper Summaries

The First Deal: The Division of Founder Equity in New Ventures

Keywords: by Thomas F. Hellmann & Noam Wasserman

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Leadership - Faculty & Research

of “David vs. Goliath” battle included BlueBell Capital successfully removing Danone’s CEO in March 2021 and Engine No. 1 winning three board seats at ExxonMobil in May 2021. Keywords: Corporate Finance ; Capital Budgeting ; Corporate... View Details

03 Nov 2014
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Adding Value Through Venture Capital in Latin America and the Caribbean

Keywords: by Josh Lerner, Ann Leamon, James Tighe & Susana Garcia-Robles; Financial Services

02 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Four VCs on Evaluating Opportunities

What makes for the ideal entrepreneurial opportunity? To learn about the frameworks firms use when evaluating potential venture opportunities, Mike Roberts, executive director of the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship, and HBS senior... View Details

Keywords: by Lauren Barley

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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog

Management) Michael S. Kaufman Andy Pforzheimer Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 The Coming of Managerial Capitalism Tom Nicholas Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Entrepreneurial Finance (also listed under Finance) Sabrina Howell... View Details

13 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

Do Private Equity Buyouts Get a Bad Rap?

Lerner, the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking at Harvard Business School, who leads the Entrepreneurial Management Unit. “Our paper reveals some very attractive and socially beneficial aspects of the private equity industry,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services; Banking

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