Entrepreneurial Management - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Why Companies Fail—and How Their Founders Can Bounce Back

Ghosh says, if start-ups often manage to secure a good team and good financing, they face dozens of lower-cost competitors and fragmented customer demand.) Funding has the potential to turn a little failure into an enormous one. "The... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

25 Nov 2014
First Look

First Look: November 25

effectively, where they can be damaging, and where additional complementary mechanisms to spur innovation may be appropriate. Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/tnicholas/patents_creative_destructive.pdf Working Papers Does View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Mar 2024
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3-Minute Briefing: Ilana D. Weinstein (MBA 1995)

Weinstein: Standing tall and seeing all of the strategic possibilities in a highly competitive industry. I grew up in New York City and worked in every store along our 10-block radius. I learned how to sell and negotiate at a young age. There’s a scrappiness and View Details

Keywords: Edited by Julia Hanna; Photo by Chris Sorensen; search firm; entrepreneurship; hedge funds

01 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 1

opportunistic low-ball offers. Working Papers The Effect of Management Control Elements on Coordination By: Bormann, Sara, Jan Bouwens, and Christian Hofmann Abstract—This study examines how control elements of a firm affect... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Middle East & North Africa - Global

The event began with welcome remarks by Vai Schierholtz and Alpana Thapar, followed by an introduction to the Case Method by Prof. Andy Zelleke , Senior Lecturer of Business Administration and Faculty Chair of the MENA Research Center. Hisham El Khazindar (MBA 2003),... View Details

Program

OPM Renew

Summary Whether you attended the Owner/President Management (OPM) program at Harvard Business School last year or many years ago, the excitement of learning and growing at HBS—and collaborating and networking with other View Details

September 2019 (Revised August 2020)
Case

Engineering an Inclusive Bioeconomy

By: Tarun Khanna, Raffaella Sadun and Susie L. Ma

In 2019, entrepreneur Juan Carlos Castilla-Rubio was developing a project he hoped could generate and share wealth from the natural resources of the Amazon without destroying those resources. His idea, called Earth Bank of Codes (EBC), would create a library of the... View Details

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Marketing Curriculum - Faculty & Research

2025 Q4 1.5 Creating Brand Value Michael Moynihan Fall 2024 Q2 1.5 Julian de Freitas Spring 2025 Q4 1.5 Digital Marketing Workshop Jacob Cook Fall 2024 Q1 1.5 Field Course: Business of the Arts (also listed under General Management and... View Details

Career Coach

Phil Wong

welcomes the opportunity to partner with students and alumni on making family-focused career choices, navigating dual careers with your partner, executing on career pivots, forging an entrepreneurial path, and View Details

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05 Jan 2017
Blog Post

Crossing the River: The HBS/HKS Joint Degree Program

lacking private sector experience, I was also pushed to develop more effective strategies for translating the business case for equity and inclusion. My final year provided opportunities for synthesis, as I enjoyed electives across both campuses including View Details

30 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 30

Authors:Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf Publication:NBER Innovation Policy & the Economy (MIT Press) 10 (2010) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Book: http://www.nber.org/books/lern09-1 Working PapersInternational Financial Integration and View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Is 'Gut Feel' a Good Reason to Invest in a Startup?

associate professor of business administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. And yet, investors take chances over and over often with great success when they hit it big with a game-changing View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

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About | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

classroom, school, and district levels. Emily has a B.A. from the University of Miami and Masters degrees from Queens College and Pace University. Sarah Appleby Assistant Director Sarah Appleby manages an array of Social Enterprise... View Details

December 2021
Case

Green Monday

By: José B. Alvarez, Billy Chan and Dawn H. Lau

This case describes the entrepreneurial journey of David Yeung, from campaigning for plant-based diets to building Green Monday, a purpose-driven business and an ecosystem based in Hong Kong comprising a retail platform, an alternative meat brand (“OmniPork”), a... View Details

Keywords: Agribusiness; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Social Enterprise; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Business Model; Mission and Purpose; Growth and Development Strategy; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Retail Industry; Hong Kong; China; Asia

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03 May 2004
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Business History around the World

While many history departments of American universities prefer to keep business as a separate discipline, HBS entrepreneurship professor Geoffrey Jones encourages the examination of history as a way to better understand contemporary View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

24 Oct 2016
Research & Ideas

Bernie Madoff Explains Himself

brokerage business though, in his growing investment management practice, Madoff started to feel greater strain in generating profits. He began “naked shorting” to clients. Another controversial but legal practice, this involved... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

23 Jul 2024
In Practice

The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities

Iyoha are assistant professors in the Business, Government, and International Economy and Entrepreneurial Management Units, respectively. Meg Rithmire: Prepare to adapt to the policy backlash For at least a... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Manufacturing; Retail; Fashion; Industrial Products; Consumer Products; Steel; Transportation; Telecommunications

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Entrepreneurs-in-Residence - Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurs-In-Residence Entrepreneurs-in-Residence Venture Capital Advisors Lawyers-in-Residence Rock Executive Fellows Executive Fellows are non-faculty affiliates and practitioners who will support and contribute to the extensive programming of the View Details

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California - Global

Bergendahl expressed optimism about progress, Core’s managing partner, Arjan Schütte, had to weigh the firm’s stricter follow-on investment criteria against the risk of diluting ownership if Hugo succeeded. October 2024 Teaching Material... View Details

27 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

Hard Work Isn't Enough: How to Find Your Edge

potential by focusing on what made her stand out: her research into the previously unanswered question of how gut feelings figure into entrepreneurial investment decisions. Much to her surprise, the Wharton School at the University of... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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