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December 2019
Background Note

An (Abbreviated) Perspective on Entrepreneurship

By: Mitchell Weiss and Benjamin Henkes

Among the many competing definitions of entrepreneurship, the one adopted in “The Entrepreneurial Manager” at HBS was authored by Howard Stevenson in the 1980s and elaborated on in the decades since. Stevenson provided a managerial take on the term—he described... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurial Managers; Entrepreneurship

Educators

2024
Article

The Sociology of Entrepreneurship Revisited

By: Tristan Botelho, Ranjay Gulati and Olav Sorensen

Over the last two decades, the sociology of entrepreneurship has exploded as an area of academic inquiry. Most of this research has been focused on understanding the environmental conditions that promote entrepreneurship and processes related to the initial formation... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Entrepreneurship; Business Ventures

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurship in Europe

entrepreneurial communities and four recent trends in entrepreneurial activity. The characteristics that make entrepreneurship thrive, said Stevenson, include: resource mobility; reinvestment in the community; joy in the success of... View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

August 2018 (Revised February 2019)
Case

Alvogen: Scaling Entrepreneurship

By: Daniel Isenberg, William R. Kerr and Alexis Brownell

Keywords: Pharmaceutical Companies; Scaling; Generic Drugs; Entrepreneurship; Leadership; Pharmaceutical Industry; Asia; Europe; United States; Iceland

Educators

2007
Book

Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector

By: Jane Wei-Skillern, James Austin, Herman Leonard and Howard Stevenson

"Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector provides an excellent overview of the many tools available to... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Society

31 Jan 2008
Working Paper Summaries

Peer Effects and Entrepreneurship

Keywords: by Ramana Nanda & Jesper B. Sørensen

2015
Other Teaching and Training Material

Entrepreneurship Reading: Launching Global Ventures

By: William R. Kerr

Core Curriculum in Entrepreneurship is a series of Readings that cover fundamental course material in Entrepreneurship. Readings include Interactive Illustrations which help students master complex concepts quickly.
Global ventures are those that weave... View Details

February 2018
Teaching Plan

Entrepreneurship for All

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Julia Kelley

Teaching Note for HBS No. 818-007. View Details

Article

Caste and Entrepreneurship in India

By: Lakshmi Iyer, Tarun Khanna and Ashutosh Varshney

It is now widely accepted that the lower castes have risen in Indian politics. Has there been a corresponding change in the economy? Using comprehensive data on enterprise ownership from the Economic Censuses of 1990, 1998, and 2005, we document substantial caste... View Details

Keywords: Equality and Inequality; Income; Entrepreneurship; Rank and Position; India

2009
Chapter

Entrepreneurship and the History of Globalization

By: G. Jones and R. Daniel Wadhwani

In this article, we build on the recent efforts of scholars to reintroduce entrepreneurship into the research agenda of business historians. We examine the value and limitations of adapting recent social scientific theories and methods on entrepreneurship to research... View Details

Keywords: History; Multinational Firms and Management; Resource Allocation; Research; Entrepreneurship; Cognition and Thinking; Growth and Development Strategy

July 2019
Teaching Note

Alvogen: Scaling Entrepreneurship

By: William R. Kerr and Daniel Isenberg

Teaching Note for HBS No. 819-038. View Details

2009
Working Paper

Clusters of Entrepreneurship

By: Edward L. Glaeser, William R. Kerr and Giacomo A.M. Ponzetto

2002
Working Paper

Entrepreneurship in Equilibrium

By: David S. Scharfstein and Denis Gromb

August 2011
Module Note

Assessing the Legal Climate for Entrepreneurship

By: Lena G. Goldberg

This module note briefly reviews several approaches to assessing the link between law and specific rules and regulations and a favorable climate for entrepreneurship and economic growth. View Details

Keywords: Economic Growth; Entrepreneurship; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Law

10 Nov 2011
Working Paper Summaries

Spatial Determinants of Entrepreneurship in India

Keywords: by Ejaz Ghani, William R. Kerr & Stephen O'Connell

Research Summary

Corporate Social Entrepreneurship

By: James E. Austin

This research is examining the process by which companies engage in strategic corporate social responsibility as an integral part of their enterprise strategy and operations. The research has conceptualized this process as entreprenurial in nature and defined it as... View Details

October 1986 (Revised September 1987)
Background Note

Start-up and Entrepreneurship

By: James L. Heskett