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- 08 Mar 2016
- News
More Work to Do
to small business owners. In a free-ranging interview with Texas Monthly, Gerald talks about the role that college athletics and early mentors played in his life, including “the old women” who helped hone... View Details
- 25 Jan 2012
- News
Is Tax Reform Viable?
My Beautiful Capital Gain An investor ponders taxes and the 99 Percent Will President Obama succeed in passing the "Buffett Rule"? This past year was a very good one for me: a large media company purchased the View Details
- 25 Aug 2015
- News
Sunset in the East?
business to take on more debt, but small businesses—and especially family businesses, the historically strongest and now again fastest-growing segment—are unlikely to go over this cliff. A substantial part... View Details
- 17 Dec 2024
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Solving the Underemployment Crisis
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, it’s Dan. Today, we are sharing a brief excerpt from Managing the Future of Work, the critically-acclaimed podcast from my colleagues at Harvard Business School. Each episode, HBS professors Bill Kerr... View Details
- 02 Jun 2015
- News
Pointing the Way to a Better World
start in school. They then show how these problems are being met with innovative solutions that can be supported by everyone. WuDunn took time away from her “day job” as managing director at Mid-Market Securities, a small New York... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Entrepreneurship at HBS
small companies alike now need to be versed not only in running the established enterprise but also in entrepreneurial action, which embraces change and seizes opportunities.... View Details
- 25 Mar 2016
- News
Putting Faith in a Good Education
president and CEO of COMPS InfoSystems between 1992 and 2000. During his leadership, the small regional print-publishing firm that covered commercial real estate became a... View Details
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Trade Catalogs - The Art of American Advertising
of particular products such as fabric swatches or small sheets of wallpaper. A corps of traveling salesmen, known as “drummers,” circulated trade catalogs to potential customers along with product samples. 14 Trade catalogs were also... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
An SUV Built for African Roads—by African Workers
“At Mobius, we get to play a part in the emergence of a stronger manufacturing base.” As Mobius scales up, the team envisions producing a no-frills platform that can be tailored for cargo delivery, public transportation, or emergency vehicles—giving entrepreneurs View Details
Keywords: Amy Yee
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Is Cash the Best Form of Charity?
(Illustration by Edmon de Haro) (Illustration by Edmon de Haro) When Michael Faye (PhDBE 2009) and his cofounders—including Harvard grad students Paul Niehaus and Rohit Wanchoo—first proposed the model for... View Details
Keywords: April White
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Rawiah Abdallah
even before I graduated." A campus presentation introduced her to the school, the case method, and the Social Enterprise Initiative, which especially impressed her. "My friends at NGOs felt they... View Details
- 26 Mar 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Disaster!
hardships? Professor Nancy F. Koehn discusses lessons for leaders. Key concepts include: As the ship froze into place, Shackleton quickly overcame his own ego to reset the enterprise to focus on survival. Shackleton played to his strong... View Details
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Robert Reiss | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
and soon recognized opportunities to explore in games like chess and magic. Eventually he sold that enterprise to a needlecraft company and... View Details
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ARD - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
proposals but invested in only a small percentage of them. The firm's prized portfolio companies included Circo Products (automobile tools); High Voltage Engineering Corp (high-powered generators and nuclear... View Details
- 22 Apr 2021
- News
Leading for a Better World in Boston; Virtual Event Showcases Japan Fellowship
Appalachian Community Capital, a small business lender for underserved communities; and Genevieve Martin, Executive Director of Dave’s Killer Bread Foundation, which works on second-chance employment for... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
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Online Entrepreneurial Marketing Course | HBS Online
Intrapreneurs Small- to Medium-Sized Business Owners Establish your venture’s go-to-market strategy and learn how to evolve it over time to achieve scale. "The course’s content View Details
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Winners & Success Stories | New Venture Competition
Play Video duration: 2:05 2024 New Venture Competition Winner, Social Enterprise Track: Solara Solara provides an on-demand solar irrigation service to Indian farmers, increasing their access to affordable, reliable, View Details
- 14 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 14
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52406 January–March 2017 Enterprise & Society Creating Ecotourism in Costa Rica, 1970–2000 By: Jones, G., and Andrew Spadafora Abstract—Between the 1970s... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Nov 2024
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Latino Alumni Banquet Marks 20th Year, Atlanta Club Celebrates 90 Years of Connection
HBS Latino Alumni Association Banquet Marks 20 Years The HBS Latino Alumni Association (HBSLAA) held its 20th Annual Banquet on October 5, bringing together 80 alumni, guests, and current HBS students for dinner and a panel discussion at the New England Aquarium in... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 25 Jun 2019
- News
After the Storm
communities are going through, and then see the hope our teams are bringing back in very tangible, small ways to help families on an individual basis on that long path to recovery. You can’t do that View Details
Keywords: Paul Flannery