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- 11 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
10 Rules Entrepreneurs Need to Know Before Adopting AI
Although adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) for the enterprise is still in the early days, the technology has matured enough for entrepreneurs to start gathering inspiration and evaluating opportunities for... View Details
Keywords: by Rocio Wu
- 12 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurs have an incredible backstop of management experience and wisdom available to them that, too often, they ignore. Why don’t startup founders make more use of their investors? Many entrepreneurs... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- June 2017
- Case
Guillermo Jaime—An Endeavor Entrepreneur
By: Lynda M. Applegate, Sarah Mehta and Aldo Sesia
Guillermo Jaime was the founder and CEO of Mejoramiento Integral Asistido (MIA), a for-profit company providing affordable housing to low-income Mexicans living at the base of the pyramid (BOP). This case tells the story of Jaime and Endeavor, a nonprofit dedicated to... View Details
Keywords: Base Of The Pyramid; Social Capitalism; Housing; Emerging Markets; Social Enterprise; Society; Wealth and Poverty; Social Entrepreneurship; Construction Industry; Mexico
Applegate, Lynda M., Sarah Mehta, and Aldo Sesia. "Guillermo Jaime—An Endeavor Entrepreneur." Harvard Business School Case 817-084, June 2017.
- October 1985
- Background Note
Compensation Planning for Entrepreneurs
Stevenson, Howard H. "Compensation Planning for Entrepreneurs." Harvard Business School Background Note 386-090, October 1985.
- 11 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
Women Entrepreneurs Usher in the Next Generation
Spontaneous responses can often be quite telling. As a member of a panel discussion at the Women, Money, and Power conference, entrepreneur Joline Godfrey posed two simple questions to the mostly-female audience. "How many of you had... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Sep 2018
- Cold Call Podcast
Did Entrepreneur Ernesto Tornquist Help or Hurt Argentina?
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs
A few years ago anyone could become an entrepreneur. All you needed was a half-baked idea and a phone to hear offers from salivating venture capitalists. Now the environment is much more difficult. Question: Do you have what it takes to be an View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- 16 Aug 2022
- Op-Ed
Now Is the Time for Entrepreneurs to Play Offense
For the past six months, there has been a lot of handwringing about the market downturn. Most everyone has been advising entrepreneurs to marshal their capital, cut costs, and extend their runway. In essence, play defense. Many investors... View Details
Keywords: by Jeffrey Bussgang
- April 2009 (Revised March 2011)
- Case
Dave and Millie: A Tale of Two Entrepreneurs
By: G. Felda Hardymon and Ann Leamon
Two entrepreneurs have just been told by their venture capital backer to prepare a list of possible cuts to help them weather the 2008–2009 economic downturn. The impact on each firm is very different: one is a later-stage company with revenues in excess of $100... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Decision Choices and Conditions; Financial Crisis; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Cost Management; Growth and Development Strategy
Hardymon, G. Felda, and Ann Leamon. "Dave and Millie: A Tale of Two Entrepreneurs." Harvard Business School Case 809-109, April 2009. (Revised March 2011.)
- 21 Jun 2017
- Book
Meet the Oddball Entrepreneurs Who Invented Green Businesses
- 06 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Should Entrepreneurs Pitch Products or Ideas for Products?
itself. ©iStock/Nina Piatrouskaya Pitching an idea before actually producing a product can be advantageous to an entrepreneur because of the possibility of early and ongoing feedback from a seasoned buyer. By using this approach, the... View Details
- May 13, 2015
- Article
America's Transportation Infrastructure Needs Entrepreneurs
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. "America's Transportation Infrastructure Needs Entrepreneurs." Harvard Business Review (website) (May 13, 2015).
- July 2009
- Teaching Note
Frank Addante, Serial Entrepreneur (TN)
By: Noam T. Wasserman and Lisa Brem
Teaching Note for [809046]. View Details
- 2007
- Chapter
U.S. Ethnic Scientists and Entrepreneurs
By: William R. Kerr
Kerr, William R. "U.S. Ethnic Scientists and Entrepreneurs." In Cleveland Federal Reserve Board Commentary, 1–4. Progressive Management, 2007.
- Research Summary
The Venture Capitalist as Entrepreneur
Noam's dissertation, entitled The Venture Capitalist as Entrepreneur, won Harvards George S. Dively award for dissertation research. In the dissertation, Noam examined the organizational dynamics and characteristics within venture capital firms themselves, viewing... View Details
- March 2014
- Teaching Plan
Kazuo Inamori, A Japanese Entrepreneur
By: Anthony Mayo
Mayo, Anthony. "Kazuo Inamori, A Japanese Entrepreneur." Harvard Business School Teaching Plan 414-073, March 2014.
- November 1978
- Background Note
Thoughts on Becoming an Entrepreneur
Thurston, Philip H. "Thoughts on Becoming an Entrepreneur." Harvard Business School Background Note 679-050, November 1978.
- August 1988 (Revised April 1998)
- Case
IBM 360: Giant as Entrepreneur
By: Joseph L. Bower
Presents the ingredients that went into a major entrepreneurial shift by IBM--investing $5 billion into a new product line that would obsolete any existing computer product line offered by the competition, or by IBM itself. The economic and technical challenges of this... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Financial Management; Investment; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Problems and Challenges; Competitive Strategy; Information Technology Industry
Bower, Joseph L. "IBM 360: Giant as Entrepreneur." Harvard Business School Case 389-003, August 1988. (Revised April 1998.)