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Faculty & Research | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

social impact, the HBS faculty has developed a body of knowledge that encompasses leadership, strategy, and governance of mission-driven organizations across the spectrum, from entrepreneurial ventures to... View Details
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Curriculum - Business & Environment

Entrepreneurial Finance is primarily designed for students who plan to get involved with a new venture at some point in their career -- as a founder, early employee, advisor or investor. However, the course... View Details
  • 2025
  • Working Paper

Bringing Science to Market: Knowledge Foundations, Inventor-Founders, and Performance

By: Justine Boudou and Maria Roche
In this paper, we examine how a startup’s knowledge foundations—embedded in its core technology—influence its performance in the exit market. Using a dataset of 1,006 biomedicine startups founded between 2005 and 2015, we focus on two key factors: (1) the degree of... View Details
Keywords: Firm Performance; Knowledge Foundations; Exits; Academic Startups; Inventor-founder; Specialized Scientific Knowledge; Competitive Advantage; Value Creation; Research; Information Publishing; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship
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  • 01 Dec 2023
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In My Humble Opinion: Plugged In

disrupting the tech world’s status quo. A Silicon Valley venture capitalist who has been pioneering new technology for more than two decades, Lambert recently accepted the challenge of running a company herself, becoming founder and... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research

others who earn a higher pay rate. Our results suggest that low pay rates are, in and of themselves, unlikely to promote dishonesty. Instead, it is the salience of upward social comparisons that encourages the poorly compensated to cheat. 2014 Article Investors Prefer... View Details
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For Alumni - Entrepreneurship

Competition offers aspiring entrepreneurial alumni with high potential new ventures a launching pad for continued development and an opportunity for valuable feedback and prize money. Rock Entrepreneurship... View Details
  • February 2010
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Shurgard Self-Storage: Expansion to Europe (Abridged)

By: Richard G. Hamermesh
Shurgard, a U.S.-based firm that rents storage facilities to consumers and small businesses, is considering financing options for rapid expansion of its European operations. Five years after entering Europe, Shurgard Europe has opened 17 facilities in Belgium, France,... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Business Growth and Maturation; Multinational Firms and Management; Logistics; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Trade; Equity; Corporate Finance; United States; Europe
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  • 13 Nov 2023
  • Blog Post

HBS Veteran Spotlight: Lindsey Chrismon (MBA 2025)

School's emphasis on ethical leadership and social responsibility resonated deeply with my own values of being a good person and leading with integrity. This environment was instrumental in shaping my ambition to pursue entrepreneurship. The school's View Details
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Academics - Health Care

entrepreneurial health care ventures that respond to the massive opportunities created by the escalating cost and uneven quality and access of health care systems globally. Students prepare a business plan,... View Details
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Hiring at HBS: How Summer Interns Make an Impact at Bridges Fund Management - Recruiting

Insights & Advice 21 Feb 2024 Hiring at HBS: How Summer Interns Make an Impact at Bridges Fund Management Becca Carnahan Author HBS Team tag All Locations Company Perspectives Recruiting Strategies Summer Internships Venture Capital /... View Details
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Online Entrepreneurship & Innovation Courses | HBS Online

months, 5-6 hrs/week Apply by November 3 $6,500 Credential On Demand Launching Tech Ventures Professor Jeffrey Bussgang Gain proven frameworks to build a viable, valuable tech venture that can profitably... View Details
  • 13 Dec 2019
  • Blog Post

All Is Well in Texas: How Julia Cheek Founded Her At-Home Lab Testing Startup, EverlyWell

HBS, Julia was fortunate to have Professor Toby Stewart for the required course called The Entrepreneurial Manager (TEM). She also particularly enjoyed an Elective Curriculum (second-year) class called Founder’s Dilemma, taught by... View Details
  • 23 Dec 2019
  • Blog Post

Taking the Risk to Start a Company at Business School

part due to the case method.  When she started looking at impact funds, it led her down the path to Venture Capital. She worked at Qualcomm Ventures in the summer between her first and second year, where her... View Details
  • March 2023 (Revised June 2025)
  • Case

Close Concerns: Diabetes Research and Advocacy

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Brian L. Walker
This case describes the Exit considerations of Kelly Close, HBS MBA, and founder of the primary distributor of diabetes newsletters. It is part of the fourth module in the Innovating in Health Care HBS MBA course, which contains cases of other health care firms that... View Details
Keywords: Diabetes; Health; Health Care; Health Care And Treatment; Health Care Outcomes; Health Care Industry; Knowledge Dissemination; Outcome or Result; Equality and Inequality; Business Model; Entrepreneurship
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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

Managing the Future of Work initiative, and faculty chair of the Launching New Ventures executive education program. Bill is a recipient of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation’s Prize Medal for Distinguished Research in Entrepreneurship... View Details
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Events - Business & Environment

Join small group chats with Professor Jim Matheson to discuss careers in sustainability. Jim joined the HBS Faculty in 2019 and teaches the EC courses Entrepreneurial Finance and Tough Tech Ventures and is a... View Details
  • 19 Apr 2010
  • Research & Ideas

The History of Beauty

not take a great deal of capital nor technological expertise to launch an entrepreneurial venture in many beauty products—although for such a venture to have any hope of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics
  • March 2004 (Revised May 2005)
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Shurgard Self-Storage: Expansion to Europe

By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Indra Reinbergs
Shurgard, a U.S.-based firm that rents storage facilities to consumers and small businesses, is considering financing options for rapid expansion of its European operations. Five years after entering Europe, Shurgard Europe has opened 17 facilities in Belgium, France,... View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Valuation; Business Model; Governing and Advisory Boards; Entrepreneurship; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Service Industry; Belgium; France; Sweden; United States; Europe
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  • January 2008
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Entrepreneurship and Urban Success: Toward a Policy Consensus

By: Zoltan J. Acs, Edward L. Glaeser, Robert E. Litan, Lee Fleming, Stephan J. Goetz, William R. Kerr, Steven Klepper, Stuart S. Rosenthal, Olav Sorenson and William C. Strange
Like all politics, all entrepreneurship is local. Individuals launch firms and, if successful, expand their enterprises to other locations. But new firms must start somewhere, even if their businesses are conducted largely or exclusively on the Internet. Likewise,... View Details
Keywords: Business Headquarters; Business Startups; Development Economics; Economy; Entrepreneurship; Policy; Taxation; Growth and Development Strategy; Product Development; Business Processes; Expansion; Internet
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Faculty & Research - Business History

Manufacturing, Inc. (NUMMI) was a joint venture between Toyota and General Motors. It was an opportunity for GM to learn about the Toyota Production System, which was quite different from the mass production processes American automakers... View Details