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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
Jones, Geoffrey, and Andrea Lluch, eds. 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]. Buenos Aires, Argentina: Temas Grupo Editorial, 2011, Spanish ed.
- 13 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Does Business Get Done the Same Way in Emerging and Developed Countries?
On September 12, 1980, the military launched a coup on the government in Turkey. For many executives, such instability is the worst nightmare of doing business in a developing country. But for Turkish entrepreneur Hamdi Akin, usually on... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Oct 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
Self-Employment Dynamics and the Returns to Entrepreneurship
- 22 Oct 2014
- News
HarvardX course closes in on global view
- 25 Apr 2014
- Video
Stever Robbins - Making A Difference
- Video
Mohammed Al Barwani
Mohammed Al Barwani, founder of the Oman-based diversified group MB Holding Company, shares his advice to young entrepreneurs starting a business, including the need for simplicity.
View Details- 07 Aug 2015
- Video
Starting a for-profit social enterprise at HBS
- 14 Feb 2019
- Video
Blavatnik Fellow Liz Kwo is Changing the Way Systems Work
- 07 Jun 2014
- Video
Thomas Scambos - Making A Difference
Trust
Entrepreneurial ventures often fail in the developing world because of the lack of something taken for granted in the developed world: trust. Over centuries, the developed world has built customs and institutions such as enforceable contracts, an impartial legal... View Details
- 02 Aug 2024
- HBS Case
How a Mission to Cut Food Waste Launched a Multimillion-Dollar Venture
example of the growing number of social entrepreneurs whose credo is “putting purpose before profit,” as Harvard Business School Senior Lecturer and serial entrepreneur Reza Satchu chronicles in a 2024 case... View Details
- 2022
- Working Paper
When the Journey—And Not Just the Destination—Matters: How Internationalization Shapes Entrepreneurial Experimentation
By: Nataliya Langburd Wright and Laura Huang
Internationalization—gaining exposure to cross-border markets—is often the result of an entrepreneur’s experimentation and strategy around their core business. Scholars have shown how entrepreneurs develop products or services, and after achieving some traction, turn... View Details
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Start Up Strategy and Management
Bussgang’s research focuses on applying Lean Startup principles to early-stage technology companies as well as the challenges and opportunities when scaling startups. His work led to the creation of the MBA elective course... View Details
- February 2024
- Case
Tony Elumelu Foundation: Democratizing Luck Across Africa
By: Paul A. Gompers and Samir Saxena
Founded in 2010, The Tony Elumelu Foundation is Africa’s leading philanthropy working to support entrepreneurs in Africa with access to seed capital, business management training, mentorship, and access to networks. Through a $100 million commitment by its founder,... View Details
- 25 Mar 2022
- News
Assistant Professors Natalia Rigol and Ben Roth: Empower
- Article
Sizing Up Entrepreneurial Potential: Gender Differences in Communication and Investor Perceptions of Long-Term Growth and Scalability
By: Laura Huang, Priyanka D. Joshi, Cheryl J. Wakslak and Andy Wu
Female entrepreneurs have been found to face disadvantages as compared with male entrepreneurs, especially in acquiring the financial resources they need to sustain and grow their ventures. Across three studies, we examine how disparities in funding outcomes may be due... View Details
Huang, Laura, Priyanka D. Joshi, Cheryl J. Wakslak, and Andy Wu. "Sizing Up Entrepreneurial Potential: Gender Differences in Communication and Investor Perceptions of Long-Term Growth and Scalability." Academy of Management Journal 64, no. 3 (June 2021): 716–740.
- 06 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 6
embellishments, rather than innovative, modern cuts and designs—was not a function only of something inherently and ineffably Indian (as opposed to a modern, Western sensibility), or purely cultural. Rather, it was the result of the actions of early View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- March 2003 (Revised November 2003)
- Case
Resourcery, Ltd.
By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Feyi A. Boroffice
Recounts the story of how a successful Nigerian entrepreneur has expanded his systems integration/networking business. He now faces the problem of raising growth capital in a developing country. View Details
- 01 Nov 2019
- Video
Jaithirth Rao
Jerry Rao, serial entrepreneur and founder of the India-based Value and Budget Housing Corporation, describes his company's innovative strategies for building affordable housing and competing in India's real estate market. View Details
- 02 Jul 2009
- Research Event
Business Summit: The Role of Social Entrepreneurship in Transforming American Public Education
like lack of political will to drive change. Yet amid these formidable barriers, a set of passionate social entrepreneurs are disrupting the status quo in education with innovative and effective approaches that are producing measurable... View Details
Keywords: Education