Institutional Entrepreneurship - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 Feb 2020
News

Filling the White Space

companies involved in research into psychedelic compounds for medical use. (Compass has been granted a US patent that covers a method of obtaining psilocybin to treat drug-resistant depression; the treatment is in a phase IIb clinical trial.) “Most View Details

Keywords: venture capital; pharmaceutical research; innovative investing

01 Sep 2012
News

An Intellectual Capital: Some Influential HBS Ideas, at a Glance

Civilization (1933) and Roethlisberger’s Management and the Worker (1939) document. 1948 Research Center in Entrepreneurial History launched at HBS by Harvard economist Joseph Schumpeter and Baker Librarian Arthur Cole. 1953 More than 30 foreign educational View Details

Keywords: Professor Elton Mayo: Professor Fritz Roethlisberger; George M. Moffett Professor of Agriculture and Business, Professor Emeritus Ray A. Goldberg; Professor Abraham Zaleznik; Professor Alfred Chandler; Professor Michael Porter; Professor Robert S. Kaplan; Professor Michael C. Jensen; Professor C. Roland Christensen; Professor Robert Menton; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

Profile

Casey Gerald

Brothers in the summers of 2007 and 2008, he got an inside view of the firm’s dramatic collapse. “It’s the story of my generation,” Casey says. “No one thought an institution like that would come tumbling down. But we all saw how fragile... View Details

01 Sep 2003
News

Dean Clark Reflects on the School’s Key Initiatives

passionate teaching, the building of intellectual capital, and the broad communication of ideas, we are advancing knowledge of how organizations and institutions can perform more effectively and, ultimately, benefit people in every sphere... View Details

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

29 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

Pride Goeth Before a Profit

respect. While the prestige and group identity that spring from working for a particular institution can be a motivating force for employees, it's pride in what they do—recognition of the intrinsic value of a job well done, whatever the... View Details

Keywords: by Theodore Kinni

08 Jun 2021
News

New Funding for Female Founders

respective ventures. Assaf is co-founder and CEO of the CBD-infused beauty brand The Uplifters’ Prima, which raised $9.2 million in a seed-plus funding round to support its retail expansion, according to coverage in the Los Angeles Business Journal. The round was led... View Details

Keywords: Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

21 Sep 2015
News

Funding Progress Back Home

global and sovereign institutional investors Homestrings, launched in 2011, draws on lessons learned in those roles, plus Guichard’s own awareness that “those of us who have found success far from family and friends are looking for... View Details

November 2000
Case

Wit Capital: Evolution of the Online Investment Bank (B)

Describes the evolution of Wit Capital from its origins as a small brewery to an online investment bank advising both small technology-based companies seeking to raise capital and large companies seeking to acquire Internet companies, as well as offering retail... View Details

Keywords: Internet and the Web; Disruptive Innovation; Service Delivery; Investment Banking; Entrepreneurship

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Educators

Purchase

16 Feb 2016
First Look

February 16, 2016

mortgages, accumulating twice the holdings of more seasoned managers. Moreover, inexperienced managers who personally experienced severe or recent adverse investment outcomes behaved more like seasoned managers. Training and institutional... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Feb 2010
First Look

First Look: Feb. 9

Public Education: Cases in Education Entrepreneurship Author:Stacey Childress Publication:Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Education Press, 2010 Abstract Based on a popular education entrepreneurship course at... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Profile

Justine Lelchuk

Philippines. There, she worked with the International Institute for Rural Reconstruction, counseling women in the fine points of business: "business plans, financial statements, how to work with local governments, plus rudimentary... View Details

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Black History Month | Baker Library

Entrepreneurship Dive into Mintel for Black-focused consumer research reports: Black Americans and Symbols of Identity - US - 2024 Marketing to Black Millennials and Gen Zs - US - 2024 Look at EMARKETER's reports related to Black... View Details

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DEC - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy... View Details

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Lessons from History - Creating Emerging Markets

a forum designed specifically for academics and archivists. Prof. Jones kicked off the session with a discussion of business history at HBS and the popularity of the School’s history elective courses, Creating Modern Capitalism and View Details

24 May 2017
News

John H. McArthur, MBA 1959, DBA 1963

differences in status,” notes Professor Emeritus Howard Stevenson, whom McArthur recruited to develop the School’s entrepreneurship program. “You simply cannot survive as Dean unless you keep the faculty engaged in something that is... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Mar 2016
News

Ink

will get you 80 percent of the results, and forget the rest.” —Laurie Stach (MBA 2011), founder and executive director of MIT Launch, an entrepreneurship program for high-school students, discussing startup time management during a TEDx... View Details

04 Dec 2019
News

Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders

have to avoid. You know, it's sort of like affirmative action for lack of a better word. So the institutions do not have the mandate to invest in anything that might look as if they’re investing for anything other than returns. Flint: So... View Details

10 Feb 2022
Blog Post

African American Student Union Spotlight on HBCUs

leaders in the Black community. I chose to attend Spelman College in particular because after attending majority-white institutions my whole life, it was a welcome reprieve and an opportunity to not feel different based on my race or my... View Details

07 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

The Rise of Personalized Entrepreneurial Finance and Other VC Trends

industries in different ways. Venture capital, for example, was once mostly reserved for institutional investors backed by endowments and pension funds. Today, it increasingly includes individual investors who are using technological... View Details

Keywords: Re: Josh Lerner; Financial Services; Banking

19 Jan 2016
First Look

January 19, 2016

market as a whole experienced high returns relative to Treasury bills. In the spirit of Fischer Black’s 1993 article “Beta and Return,” published in this journal, the author takes seriously the idea that this evidence reflects a risk anomaly—a mispricing of risk for... View Details