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  • 02 Feb 2007
  • What Do You Think?

Is There Too Little “Know Why” In Business?

can be found in: (1) discovery, the challenge of adventure and innovation characterized by dot-com entrepreneurs willing to work 24/7 in search of the new or unknown, (2) excellence, View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

A lifetime investment in the entrepreneurial spirit

changed in the Valley during his 50-year career, the passion of those starting new ventures remains the same. Said Bowes, “It's the entrepreneurs who keep this business new and fresh, every day.” (Published... View Details
  • 10 Mar 2015
  • News

Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling

and was on track to generate $75 million in revenue. Kraus then cofounded and sold the high-end travel website Spire. Now Kraus is examining the place of women entrepreneurs as a scholar. During her time at... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 09 Jul 2018

HBS Entrepreneurship Information Session in San Francisco

This event is designed for prospective MBA candidates who are interested in entrepreneurship. During the session attendees will learn about the resources at HBS for aspiring and current entrepreneurs and our... View Details
  • 11 Mar 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

years. The British merchants also sometimes formed locally registered firms, especially in British colonies where the company legislation was modelled on Britain, which mobilized the pools of capital accumulated by View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
  • 18 Jul 2019

HBS in NYC: The Ecosystem of Entrepreneurship

This event is designed for prospective students who want to learn about the extensive entrepreneurship resources and vibrant community of entrepreneurs at HBS. View Details
  • 11 Feb 2015
  • Video

The Serial Entrepreneur: From E-Readers to Nuclear Fission

  • 28 May 2019
  • News

The Physical Campus in a Virtual World

an immersive educational experience. I am convinced that if our MBA students were strewn about Boston in apartments, or if our Executive Education students resided in hotels,... View Details
Keywords: Nitin Nohria
  • 2011
  • Other Unpublished Work

From Farms to Fuel Tanks: Collective Actors and New-Venture Innovation in the U.S. Biodiesel Fuel Sector

By: Shon R. Hiatt
Little is known about the influence of collective actors on innovative technological recombinations by new ventures. Using data from U.S. biodiesel producers, I examine how the efforts of multiple collective actors (farm associations) to promote varying types of... View Details
Keywords: Alliances; Agribusiness; Energy Sources; Innovation and Invention; Biotechnology Industry; Green Technology Industry; Energy Industry; United States
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  • 12 Nov 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

Finance and Social Responsibility in the Informal Economy: Institutional Voids, Globalization, and Microfinance Institutions

Keywords: by Hao Liang, Christopher Marquis & Sunny Li Sun
  • 21 May 2024
  • Research & Ideas

What the Rise of Far-Right Politics Says About the Economy in an Election Year

sometimes leads to a shift to the left and other times to a shift to the right is a puzzle that we are still trying to understand. Context and the role of political entrepreneurs are important pieces in this... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 2011
  • Book

El impacto histórico de la globalización en Argentina y Chile: Empresas y empresarios [The Historical Impact of Globalization in Argentina and Chile: Enterprises and Entrepreneurs]

By: Geoffrey Jones and Andrea Lluch
This book presents new research on the historical impact of globalization on Argentina and Chile. The authors focus on the role of entrepreneurs and firms. View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Globalized Firms and Management; Business History; Research; Argentina; Chile
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  • 15 Dec 2023
  • News

Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem

Norwegian investment fund for developing countries which has committed 60 percent of its portfolio to sub-Saharan Africa. Fynn asked the panelists why they’re investing and building businesses in Africa; why they believe companies,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 01 Aug 1998
  • News

A Roaring Success in the Windy City

the second?" Johnson shared this and other tales of "active patience" with an audience of some six hundred HBS alumni at the 1998 HBS Global Alumni Conference held in Chicago June 16-19. A lifelong View Details
  • October 2013
  • Article

With a Little Help from My (Random) Friends: Success and Failure in Post-Business School Entrepreneurship

By: Josh Lerner and Ulrike Malmendier
To what extent do peers affect our occupational choices? This question has been of particular interest in the context of entrepreneurship and policies to create a favorable environment for entry. Such influences, however, are hard to identify empirically. We exploit... View Details
Keywords: Behavior; Entrepreneurship; Attitudes; Relationships; Cognition and Thinking
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  • 2014
  • Contribution

Entrepreneurship in Emerging Markets: Contextual Intelligence for the Study of Two Thirds of the World's Population

By: Tarun Khanna
In this paper, I review the concept of "institutional voids" that provides a way to understand the structure of emerging markets. These voids impede would-be buyers from getting together with would-be sellers, and hence compromise the functioning of markets.... View Details
Keywords: Emerging Markets; Entrepreneurship
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  • October 2020
  • Case

Israelis, Palestinians and the Technology Bridge Between Them: A Work in Progress

By: Elie Ofek and Lia Weiner
In Israel of 2020 the demand for software engineers was endless. Meanwhile just miles away, Palestinian universities were graduating 3,000 engineers a year, and many of them could not find jobs in the still nascent Palestinian tech sector. Could these dots be... View Details
Keywords: Geopolitics; Technology Ecosystem; Software Engineers; Information Technology; Applications and Software; Business Startups; International Relations; Cooperation; Opportunities; Problems and Challenges; Technology Industry; Israel; Palestinian state
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  • Winter 2022
  • Article

Leading Disruption in a Legacy Business: A Compelling Growth Ambition Is a Critical Enabler for New Ventures

By: Andy Binns, Michael Tushman and Charles O'Reilly
Leading innovation in established corporations is difficult. Active inertia and dynamic conservatism are real. Still, leaders can drive disruptive ventures from inside large corporations. These leaders ideate, incubate, and scale innovations, much as an entrepreneur... View Details
Keywords: Disruptive Innovation; Innovation and Management; Leading Change; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business Model
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  • June 2023
  • Article

Gaining Organizational Adoption: Strategically Pacing the Deployment of Digital Innovations

By: Rebecca Karp
Scholars have long suggested that to foster adoption for their innovative products and services, entrepreneurs should engage with customers to better understand their unmet needs. Yet, customers frequently reside in organizations, and organizational members may not be... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship And Strategy; Digital Innovation; Healthcare; Work And Organizations; Organizational Adoption; B2B; Customers; Technology Adoption; Innovation Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation
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  • 01 Apr 2000
  • News

HBS Global Conference Set for Berlin in June

exchange of ideas about the evolution of the European Union." Held at the Estrel Residence and Congress Hotel -- Germany's largest hotel -- the conference will also feature social events and tours, as well as an opportunity for small... View Details