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- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Fast Forward
productivity, Professor Mihir Desai addressed a Senate finance committee in July 2014 and again in March 2015, offering lawmakers an action plan. “This combination of reforms has the potential of addressing significant changes in the... View Details
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Entrepreneurs Promise Signers - Alumni
right for them. This commitment is an affirmation of the importance of HBS in their entrepreneurial journey and of their desire to ensure that the School remains the preeminent institution for educating leaders. Kavikrut (MBA 2013), OYO... View Details
- 21 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales
senior executives specializing in everything except sales. “The number of executives reporting to the CEO in the average S&P 500 company has doubled in the last 20 years,” says Frank V. Cespedes, a senior lecturer in the View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
potential to return their entire fund through acquisition or IPO. In the process, she says, VCs can be “forced to make investment decisions that don’t benefit the company, the entrepreneur, or the entrepreneurial landscape.” For example,... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 11 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 11, 2009
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-006.pdf Banking Deregulations, Financing Constraints and Firm Entry Size Authors:William R. Kerr and Ramana Nanda Abstract We examine the effect of U.S. branch banking deregulations on the entry size of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Lerner Honored for Research
Said Lerner: “Research in entrepreneurship has made great strides, and I am fortunate to be part of the HBS Entrepreneurial Management Unit, whose more than thirty faculty members have led the School to a preeminent position in this... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
An Rx for Small Business Recovery
disruptions and revenue losses will require even more transformational thinking.” Mills believes three important lessons from the pandemic can help point the way. FINANCE AND THE ECONOMIC RECOVERY READ MORE STORIES View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Unlocking mobile money in emerging markets
Monique Maddy (MBA 1993) is focusing her entrepreneurial energies on connecting the world's poor to global commerce through their cell phones. In 2007 she launched Ezuza, a Mexico City–based mobile money company that focuses on the... View Details
- 02 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Networked Incubators: Hothouses of the New Economy
mechanisms of a properly designed incubator transcend any individual's capacity to network. To summarize, networked incubators provide value through preferential network access while fostering entrepreneurial drive and offering economies... View Details
- 19 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Handicapping the Best Countries for Business
(Italy), demographic and entrepreneurial problems (Japan), or excessive consumption and debt problems (USA). Q: One of the surprises I had in reading the book was your bullishness on Russia. Why the optimism? A: I am bullish on Russia... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
the impact on national prosperity that a vital entrepreneurial climate can have. In the long run, the significance of these policies looms much larger. Much of the discussion in the book has focused on specific policies and analyses. From... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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The Founder Mindset - Course Catalog
and Pandora. We will try to tease apart the business model and financing choices that contributed to the outcome. In most cases, the pivotal choices these founders made have their roots in “people decisions.” Yet most founders (and VCs)... View Details
- 05 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
2022 Climate Symposium: Tackling Climate Together
discussions featuring industry experts in the following areas: Energy Transition; Ag-Tech Innovations; Consumer Driven Sustainability; Living with Climate Change; Early Stage Climate Investing; Scaling Carbon Markets; Climate Mitigation & Adaptation in the Built... View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
New Releases
the investment and financing decisions that are made during the development of entrepreneurial ventures? How about success factors for women managers, or the psychological factors that influence risk-taking?... View Details
- 13 Dec 2018
- Blog Post
"I Wanted to Move from Analyzing Results to Creating Them": Cynthia Samanian, MBA 2012
Cynthia Samanian came to HBS with a clear sense of purpose, in her words, "to pave a path to entrepreneurship." She had been working in finance at General Electric but wanted to be more involved in the creative side of business.... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
In the business of empowering women entrepreneurs
firm’s fiduciary responsibility to investors. Dodi’s past entrepreneurial experiences as cofounder of MTV Europe and CEO of AOL’s Entertainment Asylum keep her focused on the bottom line. She points to research that indicates gender... View Details
- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: “The Architecture of Innovation”
jobs are considerably harder. Not only are corporate venture investors responsible for managing the tricky interface between entrepreneurial firms and an often slow-moving corporation, but they are also typically asked to be their firms'... View Details
- 22 Jan 2019
- News
Remembering Walter Shipley
endorsing employee well-being and diversity long before those topics became fashionable. Beginning in 1996, the Financial Times reports, he asked business units to submit plans on diversity, including the advancement of women. When JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon (MBA 1982)... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Up to the Challenge: Martin Gonzalez - Quiet Courage
member of Chile's national volleyball team, the trilingual Gonzalez had traveled widely, graduated from Catholic University in Santiago with a degree in industrial engineering, weathered a failed entrepreneurial venture, and worked in... View Details
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Launching Tech Ventures - Course Catalog
design and run as well as the organizations they build. LTV has a tactical, implementation bias rather than a strategic one. There is a modest overlap with Product Management and Entrepreneurial Sales, but LTV is solely focused on... View Details