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- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS
Last issue, the Bulletin undertook a survey of fifty years of entrepreneurship at HBS, beginning with the School's first course on the subject introduced in 1947. In this edition, we pick up in the early 1980s, when renewed interest in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Spring Renewal
Choosing between faculty presentations ranging from entrepreneurship to Enron, from health care to international real-estate finance, close to 2,800 alumni and guests attended spring reunions June 3–6. Graduates from the MBA Classes of... View Details
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation
changing corporate world beset by reorganization, downsizing, and recession. Of that group, the Bulletin asked four members of the class to share some of their views on sizing up and seizing opportunity. Their discussion gives insights... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 18 Feb 2014
- News
Stick with Plan A
and many other emerging markets, and know the nature of mobile money — a network business in the nexus of two highly regulated industries, banking and telecoms — this is understandable." With a father who had abandoned corporate... View Details
- February 2014 (Revised December 2015)
- Supplement
Mara Group (B)
By: Eugene Soltes and Sara Hess
Mara Group is a rapidly growing Pan-African conglomerate run by its entrepreneurial CEO Ashish Thakkar. The case explores Thakkar's decision on which African markets to expand operations into. View Details
Keywords: Telecommunications Manufacturing; Business Ventures; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Pulp and Paper Industry; Real Estate Industry; Shipping Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Africa
Soltes, Eugene, and Sara Hess. "Mara Group (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 114-061, February 2014. (Revised December 2015.)
- 2005
- Other Unpublished Work
Institutions, Capital Constraints and Entrepreneurial Firm Dynamics: Evidence from Europe
Desai, Mihir, Paul Gompers, and Josh Lerner. "Institutions, Capital Constraints and Entrepreneurial Firm Dynamics: Evidence from Europe." NBER Working Paper Series, June 2005.
- 26 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
SEI25 Series: Misan Rewane, MBA 2013, CEO, WAVE
would still be true in spite of the worst case scenario occurring (e.g., xyz lives impacted in abc way, xyz skills, networks and experiences acquired, and consequently an increased ability to get a corporate job etc.). If the positives... View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
Building a Movement
fall short, but it’s an important idea that resounds to this day. One of the particular things that the founders did back in the 1990s that turned out to be very important was to put focus on social entrepreneurship—which is about adapting the skills and techniques of... View Details
- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Becoming the Next Real Estate Mogul
Potential real estate moguls at the 2001 Harvard Business School Entrepreneurship Conference received an earful about profiting in a down market, creating value where there is none, and the addiction of playing in a deal-driven industry.... View Details
- October 2014
- Case
CreditEase: Providing Credit and Financial Services for China's Underclass
By: Lena G. Goldberg, Paul Healy and Nancy Hua Dai
In 2013 Ning Tang, who in 2006 founded CreditEase as a broker of P2P loans to unbanked individuals and small businesses in China, confronts the challenges of rapid growth and expansion in a changing regulatory environment. CreditEase needs to develop technology to... View Details
Keywords: P2P Lending; HNW Products And Services; Business Growth; Business Start-ups; Government Regulation; Change Management; Credit; Microcredit; Banking; Innovation And Management; Developing Countries And Economies; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship; Law; Financing and Loans; Change; China
Goldberg, Lena G., Paul Healy, and Nancy Hua Dai. "CreditEase: Providing Credit and Financial Services for China's Underclass." Harvard Business School Case 315-027, October 2014.
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
The American Dream
part of a field study, she worked out an idea for a digital library for users of computer-aided design (CAD). That became InPart Design, a company she sold to Parametric Technology for a reported $60 million two years after founding it. After success as a View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
potential employees and investors as well as to customers." Your Inner Entrepreneur But if entrepreneurship is, as Professor Howard Stevenson defines it, truly "a way of managing" rather than a specific set of activities or personality... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
An Entrepreneurial Journey
It has been said that because of the case method, entrepreneurship has always been at the core of a Harvard Business School education. The case method, after all, teaches students to analyze problems, think creatively, and be alert for... View Details
- 02 Dec 2015
- Blog Post
Alumni: Where Are They Now? Featuring: Laura Mackay...
career with NeoCare Solutions – a mobile engagement platform that helps parents of NICU babies navigate the NICU and transition home. Interestingly, the business was incubated and is run as a start-up within Healthagen, the innovative technology and services arm of... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Making History, Starting Over
At age 26, Ronald Cohen (MBA ’69) planted the seed of a great idea in inhospitable British soil. With three HBS classmates, he cofounded a consulting firm to advise entrepreneurial businesses. Admittedly, it was a risk. Entrepreneurship... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Faculty Books
Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed — and What to Do about It by Josh Lerner (Princeton University Press) As governments worldwide seek to spur economic growth in ever more aggressive ways, Professor Lerner offers an... View Details
- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
pointillist painter, and it's easy to imagine Bill Gates or Oprah Winfrey humming the same tune. But if creativity is integral to business, and to entrepreneurship in particular, how exactly does it occur? Where does this unicorn-like... View Details
- Career Coach
Oscar Mak
Oscar is currently a Senior Director at NORD/LB, a leading bank in financing renewable energy and infrastructure projects. He previously led strategic investments (e.g., M&A, corporate VC, joint ventures) in North America for Toyota... View Details
- 05 Nov 2013
- News
Start-Ups Get a Start in New Orleans
says Carol Markowitz (MBA 2003), a corporate finance expert from Los Angeles whom Wilkins recruited to work at Idea Village. "The alumni network has also been very helpful." After serving as Idea Village's COO, he left in May to start... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Ideas: Books
Case Studies in International Entrepreneurship by Walter Kuemmerle (McGraw-Hill) This collection of 29 cases based on real situations compares opportunities, financing contexts, valuation approaches, and entrepreneurial styles in the... View Details