Entrepreneurial Financing - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2024
News

Game On

It’s raining in Sarasota. And not a light sprinkle but a proper, Florida drenching, so the outdoor courts at the Pickleball Club’s Lakewood Ranch location are deserted. Inside is a different story. Most of the 12 courts are in play. With four people to a court, all... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Edward Linsmier; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

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Courses - Private Capital Project

and real estate. The curriculum includes modules on alternative investments, various types of alternative investments and their characteristics, and methods for evaluating investment opportunities to enhance portfolio value. MBA Courses View Details

26 May 2023
Blog Post

Bringing Space Tech Back to Earth

struggled to manage its finances in order to scale up. Those two jobs spurred Sweeney to join the M.S./M.B.A. program in order to add entrepreneurship to her engineering skills. “I realized I didn’t want to just assume that if someday I... View Details

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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Leadership - Faculty & Research

Corporate Strategy ; Transformation ; Finance ; Leading Change ; Organizational Culture ; Organizational Structure ; Alignment ; Health Industry ; Germany ; United States Citation Educators Purchase Related Collis, David J., Benjamin C.... View Details

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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Business History - Faculty & Research

management education. In 1927, the School created the first endowed professorship in the field. It also founded the field’s first journal, the Business History Review . Since the work of Joseph Schumpeter at Harvard's Center for View Details

21 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 21

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

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

01 Mar 2023
News

Step Change

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

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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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

2008
Working Paper

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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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

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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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Online Entrepreneurship & Innovation Courses | HBS Online

months, 5-6 hrs/week Enroll by June 2 $6,500 Credential Certificate Courses (9) Entrepreneurship Essentials Professor William Sahlman Master a proven framework for building and financing new ventures, and make your View Details

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General Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research

Equity Projects and Ecosystems (also listed under Finance and Entrepreneurial Management) John Dionne Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 IFC: Cape Town; Africa Rising Hakeem I. Belo-Osagie January 2026 J 3.0 IFC: India;... View Details

03 Nov 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Adding Value Through Venture Capital in Latin America and the Caribbean

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

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Events - Business & Environment

Entrepreneurial Finance and Tough Tech Ventures and is a faculty affiliate of BEI. He has been working in climate tech entrepreneurship and venture capital for a number of years, and he is an active... View Details

07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7

Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/212031-PDF-ENG Social Finance, Inc Shawn Cole, Rawia Abdel Samad, Matt Berner, and Raluca DragusanuHarvard Business School Case 212-055 Social Finance attempts to design and launch... View Details