public entrepreneurs - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2009
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One Man Crime Wave

newspaper column, he wrote, “No matter how much feeling of public obligation the executive staff of any corporation might possess, the corporate entity is involved in maximizing short and long run profit .The old yardstick is deadly but... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; fiction writing; Arts, Entertainment; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Sep 2013
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Shining Knight

Shining Knight OGDEN: An entrepreneur takes up educational philanthropy. The life of Sir Peter Ogden (MBA 1973), declared Singapore's Business Times (May 25, 2013), "reads like an improbable adventure novel, spanning the worlds of... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services; Finance

01 Mar 2010
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Faculty Research Online

Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success? Call them next-generation driverless taxis or people movers, the age of personal rapid transport is just around the bend. Could PRT change the face of public... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

05 Nov 2013
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Start-Ups Get a Start in New Orleans

the pension firm State Street Research. Although the family moved because Wise got a job at Tulane, Wilkins quickly saw opportunities in the city's burgeoning business scene. "I'm an entrepreneur at my core, and after Katrina everyone... View Details

Keywords: New Orleans; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services

29 Jun 2019
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Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem in Africa

regional trade and regional integration by facilitating connections between entrepreneurs from the various countries and also helping them expand more easily to other markets. “And the third priority at Suguba is really to enhance and... View Details

22 Feb 2022
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3-Minute Briefing: Burunda Prince (MBA 1987)

My parents were both public school teachers, but they also owned a repair shop called Satellite TV. After school and on Saturdays we’d all go over to the family business. That was my first insight into the hard work of entrepreneurship.... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; leadership; Black; African American

01 Oct 2002
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Steven C. Watson

Two years ago, if you bet me five bucks that I was going to be a school-teacher, I would have taken that bet in a heartbeat.” When his students question the relevance of precalculus to their future lives, entrepreneur turned high-school... View Details

02 May 2016
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Motivating Middle-Schoolers to Get up to Speed with Math

Veteran entrepreneur and public education innovator Bill Daugherty (MBA 1991) is on a mission to get kids excited about math. In addition to his profit-sector job as executive chairman of ANC Sports... View Details

10 Aug 2015
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Giving Kids Tech Tools to Make an Impact

digital media leaders and experts. “It’s about inspiring youth to see themselves as makers instead of as users, and to create with technology to make a positive impact,” she says. A serial entrepreneur who most recently founded ROKO Labs,... View Details

01 Sep 2009
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Faculty Books

entrepreneurial activities so that the mistakes of earlier efforts are not repeated. He looks at the ways governments have supported entrepreneurs and venture capitalists across decades and continents, explains why some View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Jun 2009
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Social Innovation Goes Mainstream

Ten years ago, social enterprise pioneer Linda Rottenberg wasn’t taken seriously when she pitched established foundations to fund her upstart organization, Endeavor, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting high-impact entrepreneurs in... View Details

Keywords: Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

01 Sep 2003
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Andrea Silbert

people, including thousands of women entrepreneurs in southern New England, are better off because of it. As founder and CEO of the Center for Women & Enterprise, the energetic Silbert has followed her parents’ example of helping others,... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

23 Mar 2023
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SVB Crash Analysis

HBS faculty members and other experts across Harvard reflect on the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and the state of the banking industry. How ‘Payment Banks’ Could Prevent the Next Bank Collapse Professor Mihir Desai writes in Harvard Business Review that to shore up... View Details

01 Jun 2013
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Revitalizing America

help address urgent priorities that the public cares about and bring communities together for the common good. An early slogan for AmeriCorps, the lead program of America's Corporation for National and Community Service, was "getting... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 2024
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Decoding the Promise and Perils of Generative AI

ChatGPT burst into the public consciousness on November 30, 2022. Within two months, the generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) software, which leverages a large language model (LLM) to produce human-like, text-based conversations, had reached an estimated 100... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Mar 2015
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Faculty Q&A: Less Risk, More Reward

Your research explores entrepreneurship and the social safety net. What is the connection between those two things? I look at whether stronger social safety net benefits make it more likely for people to start a business. For instance, there’s this large View Details

Keywords: April White; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Private Households; Personal Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

13 Feb 2020
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Honoring a Legend

Atlanta Entrepreneurs Honor Nussey’s Impacts on Tech and Solar Catherine Cates (MBA 1983) & Bill Nussey (MBA 1996) Steve Kirschner (MBA 1986), Bill Nussey (MBA 1996), & John Yates (event host) Nussey presenting to HBS alumni Nussey and... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Dec 2015
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Golden State of Mind

pitch a room full of VCs, Draper included. Students also test their mettle by breaking boards with their bare hands, building boats, and competing in paintball. The residential program, which has included visits from entrepreneurs such as... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

07 Sep 2021
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September 2021 Alumni Books

entrepreneurs is Mary Kay Ash, a legend as a glass-ceiling breaker and a woman who built a very successful business with a go-to-market strategy of direct selling. Unlike Mary Kay Ash, however, not all aspiring business owners are willing... View Details