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- April 2014 (Revised January 2015)
- Background Note
Note on Mobile Healthcare
By: John A. Quelch and Margaret L. Rodriguez
Delivering health care to the global population was a challenge. Health care costs accounted for ten percent of world GDP by 2013. In the U.S., health care costs were expected to top $3.1 trillion in 2014. New technologies, shortages of trained personnel and... View Details
Keywords: Health Care; Mobile; Mobile App; Public Health; Startups; Hardware; Software; Telemedicine; Global; Medical Devices; Medical Services; Medical Solutions; Entrepreneurs; Government And Business; Technological Change; Health Care and Treatment; Entrepreneurship; Government and Politics; Technological Innovation; Applications and Software; Information Infrastructure; Health Industry; Technology Industry
Quelch, John A., and Margaret L. Rodriguez. "Note on Mobile Healthcare." Harvard Business School Background Note 514-122, April 2014. (Revised January 2015.)
- 2019
- Book
Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream: How Technology Is Transforming Lending and Shaping a New Era of Small Business Opportunity
By: Karen G. Mills
Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream describes the needs of small businesses for capital and demonstrates how technology—novel data sources, artificial intelligence, machine learning—will transform the small business lending market. This market has been... View Details
Keywords: Fintech; Big Data; Data; Technology; Artificial Intelligence; Great Recession; Regulation; Innovation; Banks; Lending; Loans; Access To Capital; American Dream; Community Banking; Small Business Administration; Entrepreneur; Government; Public Policy; API; Policy Making; Small Business; Financing and Loans; Technological Innovation; Financial Crisis; Banks and Banking; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; AI and Machine Learning; Analytics and Data Science; United States
Mills, Karen G. Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream: How Technology Is Transforming Lending and Shaping a New Era of Small Business Opportunity. Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
- 16 Jun 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
Government Incentives for Entrepreneurship
Keywords: by Josh Lerner
- 2014
- Discussion Paper
The Promise of Microfinance and Women's Empowerment: What Does the Evidence Say?
By: Dina D. Pomeranz
The microfinance revolution has transformed access to financial services for low-income populations worldwide. As a result, it has become one of the most talked-about innovations in global development in recent decades. However, its expansion has not been without... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship In Emerging Markets; Entrepreneurship; Women's Empowerment; Entrepreneurs; Saving; Savings; Credit; Credit Supply; Insurance; Development Economics; Development Finance; Behavioral Economics; Gender; Microfinance; Social Entrepreneurship; Developing Countries and Economies; Public Administration Industry; Public Administration Industry; Public Administration Industry; Public Administration Industry; Latin America; Kenya; Chile; India; Asia; Africa
Pomeranz, Dina D. "The Promise of Microfinance and Women's Empowerment: What Does the Evidence Say?" EY Thought Leadership Series, February 2014.
- 03 Dec 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Performance Persistence in Entrepreneurship
- 31 May 2022
- Cold Call Podcast
Corruption: New Insights for Fighting an Age-Old Business Problem
Keywords: Re: Tarun Khanna & Geoffrey G. Jones
- 2008
- Book
Social Entrepreneurship: A Modern Approach to Social Value Creation
By: Arthur C. Brooks
This text brings together the established pedagogy of entrepreneurship with cutting edge nonprofit and public management tools.
Measuring social value, earned income, donations and government income, entrepreneurial fundraising and marketing, and social... View Details
Measuring social value, earned income, donations and government income, entrepreneurial fundraising and marketing, and social... View Details
Brooks, Arthur C. Social Entrepreneurship: A Modern Approach to Social Value Creation. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2008.
- 2022
- Chapter
Capitalism and the Environment
By: Geoffrey Jones
Capitalism drove the environmental decimation of the planet. The environment was seen as a free good, while the consequences of dirty industrial and agricultural processes were seen as external to the firm. Public policies largely allowed this to happen, as politicians... View Details
Keywords: History; Environment; Sustainability; Capitalism; Ethics; Business History; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology; Pollution; Climate Change
Jones, Geoffrey. "Capitalism and the Environment." Chap. 8 in Evolutions of Capitalism: Historical Perspectives: 1200–2000, edited by Catherine Casson and Philipp Robinson Rössner, 187–211. Bristol, United Kingdom: Bristol University Press, 2022.
- March 2022
- Case
The Future of Start-Up Chile
By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Ruth Costas and Pedro Levindo
In 2021, public accelerator program Start-Up Chile, which ten years earlier had created a global buzz, might be losing its competitive edge to similar programs or one-year visas for digital nomads offered by other countries. The case follows SUP’s CEO, Angeles Romo, as... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Cultural Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation Leadership; Disruption; Knowledge Dissemination; Knowledge Sharing; Business Education; Emerging Markets; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Global Strategy; Globalized Economies and Regions; Globalized Markets and Industries; Government Administration; Recruitment; Job Design and Levels; Human Capital; Leading Change; Business and Government Relations; Groups and Teams; Networks; Social and Collaborative Networks; Public Administration Industry; Latin America; Chile
Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Ruth Costas, and Pedro Levindo. "The Future of Start-Up Chile." Harvard Business School Case 622-080, March 2022.
- 18 Oct 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Venture Capital’s Disconnect with Clean Tech
MBA students often fall into one of two categories—those hungry to rush into careers as venture capitalists, and those eager to found a venture-funded start-up. For all of them, Harvard Business School professor Joseph Lassiter has some intriguing advice: Spend a few... View Details
- 17 Jan 2007
- Op-Ed
Learning from Private-Equity Boards
requirements pertaining to independent directors. First, public companies need to consider a different population of directors to include the large pool of former executives and successful entrepreneurs who... View Details
- 01 Nov 2022
- What Do You Think?
Why Aren’t Business Leaders More Vocal About Immigration Policy?
(iStockphoto/Sundry Photography) Most people agree that US immigration policy is a mess. At times, it is hard to even know what it is. Immigration policy differences divide us as a nation and produce a great deal of misinformation. They have resulted in more than 10... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Dec 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Clocky, the Runaway Alarm Clock
In the spring of 2005, media outlets from Gizmodo to Good Morning America were buzzing about Clocky, an alarm clock that jumped off the nightstand and rolled away chirping and beeping, forcing its owner to get out of bed to turn it off and stop the cacophony. The View Details
- 2014
- Working Paper
Waste, Recycling and Entrepreneurship in Central and Northern Europe, 1870–1940
By: Geoffrey Jones and Andrew Spadafora
This working paper examines the role of entrepreneurs in the municipal solid waste industry in industrialized central and northern Europe from the late nineteenth century to the 1940s. It explores the emergence of numerous German, Danish, and other European... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Entrepreneurship; Business History; Entrepreneurship; Health; History; Green Technology Industry; Germany; Denmark; Hungary; United Kingdom
Jones, Geoffrey, and Andrew Spadafora. "Waste, Recycling and Entrepreneurship in Central and Northern Europe, 1870–1940." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-084, March 2014.
- 29 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
For Entrepreneurs, Blown Deadlines Can Crush Big Ideas
One might expect first-time entrepreneurs to pick up speed as they churn out more products, but new research finds that nascent firms typically launch second products six weeks later than originally planned. What’s more, with each... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
Dot Public Schools: To Collaborate or Compete? Harvard Business School Case 307-086 In order to execute a strategy to transform the entire 768-school Los Angeles public school district, Green Dot View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- February 2011 (Revised September 2013)
- Case
Sarvajal: Water for All
By: John D. Macomber and Mona Sinha
Entrepreneur wrestles with business model using SMS and RFID technology, franchising, and leasing to rapidly grow off-the-grid water purification business without subsidies. The company seeks to provide potable water services to rural and urban India where the public... View Details
Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Business Model; Communication Technology; Private Sector; Social Entrepreneurship; Cost Management; Rural Scope; Emerging Markets; Infrastructure; Problems and Challenges; Information Infrastructure; India
Macomber, John D., and Mona Sinha. "Sarvajal: Water for All." Harvard Business School Case 211-028, February 2011. (Revised September 2013.)
- 21 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 21, 2006
Working PapersThe Performance of Reverse Leveraged Buyouts Authors:Jerry Cao and Josh Lerner Abstract Reverse leveraged buyouts (RLBOs) have received increased public scrutiny but attracted little systematic study. We collect a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
initially lower profitability but higher growth potential. This sample-selection effect determines the secular trend in U.S. public firms’ cash holdings. A stylized firm industry model allows us to analyze two competing changes to the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Research Summary
Overview
The focus of my research is on the systems of social innovation. How small groups of individuals come up with new products and services targeting important problems; how they finance these initial efforts, and convert prototypes into viable organizational strategies;... View Details
Keywords: (General) Management; Social Business; Non-profit Management; Entrepreneur; Entrepreneurial Ecosystems; Entrepreneurial Finance; System Dynamics; Non-profit; Evaluation; Impact Investing; Venture Philanthropy; Social Enterprise Initiative; Advanced Leadership Initiative; Investment; Innovation and Invention; Organizations; Social Enterprise; Civil Society or Community; System; Public Administration Industry; Public Administration Industry; Public Administration Industry; Public Administration Industry; Public Administration Industry; Public Administration Industry; Public Administration Industry