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Field Course: Venture Capital Journey - Course Catalog

Fundraising with high net worth and institutional Limited Partners (LPs) and how funds evolve over time. Recent innovations, including the role of incubators and accelerators, investor/operator funds, rolling funds, the globalization of the industry, and specific... View Details

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Motivation and Incentives - Course Catalog

frontier topic in the broad area of motivation in organizations. Examples: students might present a “mini-case” on a company that uses innovative incentive practices; students might report the results of a laboratory-style experiment... View Details

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Rock 100: The Summit - Entrepreneurship

Mel Tukman Faculty Fellow Richard Hame rmesh , MBA Class of 1961 Professor of Management Practice Felda Hard ymon , MBA Class of 1975 Professor of Management Practice Gordon Jones , Director, Harvard View Details

01 Jun 2017
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Supercharged

research fellow at Professor Clay Christensen’s Forum for Growth and Innovation, thinks that the smaller, scrappier Chinese automakers may turn out to be the true disruptive innovators of the global EV... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustrations by Tavis Coburn

01 Dec 2015
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015

already decided upon and try to question the advisability of that decision. 8. Advocate caution and urge fellow conferees to avoid haste that might result in embarrassments or difficulties later on. 9. Be worried about the propriety of... View Details

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Online Entrepreneurial Marketing Course | HBS Online

This course is part of the Entrepreneurship & Innovation and Marketing track. Introduction to Entrepreneurial Marketing ENROLL NOW No application needed for our certificate programs. Start your journey today! New Entrepreneurial Marketing... View Details

01 Dec 2019
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Capitalizing the Corner Shop

Amazon of Africa”; at the time of its IPO last April, it was valued at $1.3 billion. A year later, Kehinde and fellow Jumia executive Ercin Eksin went on to found Africa Courier Express (ACE), a logistics company meant to meet the growing... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

06 Nov 2007
First Look

First Look: November 6, 2007

match was abandoned. This provides an opportunity to study the effects of a match, by observing the differences in the outcomes and organization of the market when a match was operating and when it was not. After the GI match ended, programs hired View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Dec 2015
First Look

December 8, 2015

which diversified into dried fruit processing and a cab service, against a background of some economic and social progress, but also continuing economic, social, and security challenges in the country. In October 2014 President Ghani asked Kamila to become View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Apr 2024
Blog Post

New Venture Competition 2024: Business and Environment Ventures

support 10k+ social intrapreneurs to drive sustainability and equity initiatives within their corporations. We have completed our first pilot program supporting 21 fellows from 11 countries through capacity building and community... View Details

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Systems for Scaling Ventures (SSV) - Course Catalog

course is to expose you to management systems used by ventures to overcome tradeoffs between scale and agility. By ventures, we mean entrepreneurial organizations prioritizing innovation and employee empowerment, rather than... View Details

01 Apr 1998
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Plunging Into the Net

Technology has a way of seeping into our lives. On our first encounter with a microwave, an answering machine, an ATM, a cellular phone, or a video camera, each of these innovations probably seemed foreign, odd, perhaps unnecessary. But... View Details

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Crafting Your Life: The First 10 Years Post MBA (LIFE) - Course Catalog

practices to enable you to live consistently with what matters most to you. In addition, you will consider how to adapt along the way when life inevitably does not go according to plan. A unique feature of the course is the emphasis on community – with your View Details

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Harvard Business School

being named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and receiving the Robert F. Greenhill Award for outstanding service to HBS. Dr. Cash earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Texas Christian University, where his... View Details

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Educating Leaders - Georges F. Doriot:Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Education Alumni Baker Library Historical Collections MORE EXHIBITS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS RESEARCH LINKS SITE CREDITS GEORGES F. DORIOT Introduction EDUCATION Early Years at HBS Educating Leaders INNOVATION & VC Wartime View Details

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Doing Business with China 2035: Navigating Uncertainty - Course Catalog

Independent Project are encouraged to reach out to Prof. Kirby at term start. By 2035 China will be the largest economy in the world and an innovation superpower. Engagement with China—as entrepreneurs, investors, or partners—is part of... View Details

01 Jun 2018
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Floor It

leading from the street to the house itself. That insight, coupled with the radical nature of precision medicine, led to a realization: A “business as usual” approach wouldn’t do the trick; a different way of fighting cancer required an equally View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li

29 Apr 2020
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The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages

Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

30 May 2007
Research & Ideas

Health Care Under a Research Microscope

including Bohmer, a physician; Bill George, former chairman and CEO of Medtronic; Raymond Gilmartin, former chairman, president, and CEO of Merck & Co.; Robert Huckman, a former health care consultant and now Faculty Research Fellow... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health; Biotechnology

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Cristina Ros Blankfein

more from a wishful conversation over cocktails than the classic Aha! moment often associated with compelling concepts. Being part of the Millennial generation that has embraced craft beers and innovative cocktails, the pair wondered... View Details

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