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  • 06 Jan 2010
  • What Do You Think?

Is a Stringent Climate Change Agreement a Pot of Gold?

financing, a socially positive attitude toward entrepreneurship and the failure that it often entails, and a market for new ideas). If that's the case, countries that should be at the forefront in advocating... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Energy; Utilities
  • 10 Dec 2007
  • HBS Case

One Laptop per Child

great gadget" and improve the educational possibilities for children in impoverished environments? Tech-savvy people as well as the socially conscious have been intrigued by the idea of "one laptop per child" since it made... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Computer
  • October 2023
  • Supplement

Rheaply: Circularity For Every Business Supplement 1

By: Rembrand Koning and Alicia Dadlani
Pitch deck explaining the early vision of the company that was presented by the CEO to potential investors. View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Social Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurial Finance; Mission and Purpose; United States; Chicago; Illinois
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  • 06 Jan 2016
  • Cold Call Podcast

A Microchip in Your Medicine

Keywords: Re: Richard G. Hamermesh
  • 25 Jun 2019
  • Research & Ideas

The Powerful Strategic Tool Companies Should Not Try to Control

their fan groups stand to gain valuable insights and build loyalty at a much lower cost, according to Harvard Business School’s Frank Nagle, an assistant professor of strategy, and Sonali K. Shah, associate professor of strategy and View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 12 Apr 2004
  • Research & Ideas

What Great American Leaders Teach Us

at six contextual factors that shaped business during the last century and continue to shape it in our present century: government regulation, labor, globalization, technology, demography, and social mores. Within each decade of the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 2013
  • Article

Achievement Motivation, Strategic Orientations and Business Performance in Entrepreneurial Firms: How Different are Japanese and American Founders?

By: Rohit Deshpandé, Amir Grinstein, Elie Ofek and Sang-Hoon Kim
Purpose: There is lack of research on the link between the personal disposition of an entrepreneurial firm's founder, the firm's strategic orientation, and its performance outcomes. Also, there is lack of cross-national research on entrepreneurial firms' strategic... View Details
Keywords: Motivation; Entrepreneurs; Japan; Motivation and Incentives; Entrepreneurship; Japan; United States
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  • 15 Oct 2019
  • Cold Call Podcast

Goldman Sachs’ $500 Million Bet on Small Businesses

Keywords: Re: Leonard A. Schlesinger; Financial Services
  • March 2008 (Revised November 2009)
  • Case

New Schools for New Orleans 2008

Founded in the wake of Hurricane Katrina as a catalyst for the transformation of the public education system in New Orleans, President Sarah Usdin and CEO Matt Candler must adapt their strategy to respond to a continuously shifting local context. By 2008, conditions on... View Details
Keywords: Transformation; Education; Social Entrepreneurship; Situation or Environment; Adaptation; Value Creation; Education Industry; New Orleans
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  • 29 Jul 2020
  • Working Paper Summaries

Two Case Studies on the Financing of Forest Conservation

Keywords: by Andrew Baxter, Connor Cash, Josh Lerner, and Ratnika Prasad
  • 12 Feb 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Creating Value Across Borders

Development Corp. in 1946, there's a history of the venture capital industry. Not many other countries have this history nor the large-scale investment role models. But now with the Internet wave, it's as if entrepreneurship has become... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • August 2022
  • Supplement

NOW PT (B): Should We Invest?

By: George A. Riedel, Amy Klopfenstein and Mel Martin
This (B) case examines the results of the HBS Impact Investment Fund student team’s diligence on Neurologic Optimal Wellness Physical Therapy (NOW PT). After examining Springfield’s demographics, anticipated PT demand, local competition, and NOW PT’s financial... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship; Finance; Investment; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Medical Specialties; Buildings and Facilities; Health Industry; Financial Services Industry; North and Central America; United States; Massachusetts
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  • October 2019
  • Case

Street Symphony: Making Human Connections Through Music

By: Rohit Deshpandé
To Vijay Gupta, music was sacred. A highly accomplished and renowned violinist with The Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gupta believed the act of making and performing music was a deeply spiritual practice — one that had the power to heal audiences and musicians... View Details
Keywords: Arts; Cultural Entrepreneurship; Nonprofit Organizations; Social Issues; Business and Community Relations; Music Entertainment; Human Needs; Music Industry; Los Angeles; California; United States
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  • 05 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 5

August 2013 Edward Elgar Publishing Entrepreneurship and Multinationals: Global Business and the Making of the Modern World By: Jones, Geoffrey Abstract—This book examines the history of entrepreneurship and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Aug 2005 - 2005
  • Conference Presentation

The Innovative Capacity of Institutional Entrepreneurs: Mechanisms for Generating Alternative Ideas

By: Julie Battilana and E. Boxenbaum
Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Entrepreneurship; Cognition and Thinking
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  • 16 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History

history to the future improvement of business management, HBS on Thursday announced the creation of the Business History Initiative, a multidisciplinary research and teaching effort that will take its place alongside five other Initiatives: View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman
  • January 2022
  • Article

Who Creates New Firms When Local Opportunities Arise?

By: Shai Benjamin Bernstein, Emanuele Colonnelli, Davide Malacrino and Timothy McQuade
We examine the characteristics of the individuals who become entrepreneurs when local opportunities arise. We identify local demand shocks by linking fluctuations in global commodity prices to municipality level agricultural endowments in Brazil. We find that the firm... View Details
Keywords: Firms; Entrepreneurs; Demand Shocks; Entrepreneurship; Personal Characteristics; Demographics; Opportunities; Brazil
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  • 06 Nov 2012
  • First Look

First Look: November 6

dishonesty as morally acceptable and thus feel less guilty about benefiting from cheating. We discuss the implications of these results for collaborations in the social realm. License to Cheat: Voluntary Regulation and Ethical Behavior... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2013
  • Case

Advanced Leadership Pathways: David Weinstein and Write the World

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Juliane Calingo Schwetz and Patricia Bissett Higgins
David Weinstein, a lawyer and former Chief Administrative Officer of mutual fund giant Fidelity Investments, launched Write the World, a proprietary online platform that included a writing curriculum, essay prompts in distinct subject matter, and access to expert... View Details
Keywords: Writing; Online Platform; Social Entrepreneurship; Education; Internet and the Web; Competency and Skills; Change Management; Leadership
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  • 17 Mar 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook

Confined to specialist journals and books, business history research too often lacks the impact it should have on the research and practice of business management and the social sciences, according to the editors of the newly published... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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