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- 28 May 2019
- News
Rise in Unruly Behavior on Planes Is Tied to Stress of Flying
- 21 Jun 2016
- News
As Airbnb Grows, So Do Claims of Discrimination
- 05 May 2016
- News
HBS Opens A Startup Hub In NYC
- 14 Apr 2016
- News
Why Women Can't Negotiate Their Way Out of the Wage Gap
- 07 Apr 2016
- News
Sanofi Genzyme Donates Corporate Archives to Harvard Business School
- 27 Sep 2019
- Video
Ronnie Screwvala
Ronnie Srewvala, who founded the Indian media conglomerate UTV in 1990, talks about the origins of his first entrepreneurial venture a decade earlier, a cable company called Network. He describes the challenge...
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Professor Jones researches the history and impact of global firms. In recent years he has prublished extensively on the ecological and social responsibility of business leaders. He has a strong interest in the business history of emerging markets. He founded and...
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- 17 Aug 2012
- News
Scaling is Hard, Case Study: TripAdvisor
- 19 Aug 2011
- News
Managing Multiple Bosses
- 27 Nov 2018
- News
HBS is New Home for Digital DNA
- 27 Sep 2018
- News
Why Mentoring Matters, and How to Get Started
Hakeem I. Belo-Osagie
Hakeem Belo-Osagie is an accomplished Nigerian professional and entrepreneur. He earned a degree in Political Philosophy and Economics from Oxford University as well as a law degree from Cambridge University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
He is the... View Details
Sara McKinley Torti
Sara Torti is a senior product and operating executive who has focused extensively on creating and scaling technology-based businesses that require a combination of detailed execution, business insight and technical acumen. She has grown products... View Details
- March 2017
- Article
Entrepreneurial Beacons: The Yale Endowment, Run-ups, and the Growth of Venture Capital
By: Y. Sekou Bermiss, Benjamin J. Hallen, Rory McDonald and Emily Cox Pahnke
This paper investigates the social context of entrepreneurship in organizational sectors. Prior research suggests that firm foundings are driven by collective patterns of activity—that is, by patterns of prior foundings—including support from related markets as well as...
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Keywords:
Signals;
Social Salience;
Venture Capital;
Higher Education;
Organizations;
Entrepreneurship;
Investment
Bermiss, Y. Sekou, Benjamin J. Hallen, Rory McDonald, and Emily Cox Pahnke. "Entrepreneurial Beacons: The Yale Endowment, Run-ups, and the Growth of Venture Capital." Strategic Management Journal 38, no. 3 (March 2017): 545–565.
- December 2001
- Case
Sarah Vickers-Willis: Career Decisions (A)
By: Myra M. Hart, Lynda M. Applegate, Sarah Harden and Susan Saltrick
Sarah Vickers-Willis, HBS MBA 1999, faces a critical career decision: Does she redirect the Internet start-up she helped found or join in shaping a for-profit firm with a social mission? Sarah, a young Australian business executive, has always strived to "find space"...
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Keywords:
Decisions;
Leadership;
Internet and the Web;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Personal Development and Career;
Gender;
Business Startups
Hart, Myra M., Lynda M. Applegate, Sarah Harden, and Susan Saltrick. "Sarah Vickers-Willis: Career Decisions (A)." Harvard Business School Case 802-111, December 2001.
- 07 Feb 2017
- News
How Immigrants Have Contributed to American Inventiveness
- October 2010 (Revised April 2013)
- Case
Bridge International Academies: A School in a Box
By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Katharine Lee
Bridge International was founded in 2007 as a for-profit social enterprise to address the educational needs of poor children in Africa. Ten schools were operational in Kenya by 2010. The plan was to franchise nearly 3,000 schools all over Africa. The case is meant to...
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Keywords:
Business Model;
Education;
Growth and Development;
Franchise Ownership;
Strategic Planning;
Problems and Challenges;
Social Enterprise;
Segmentation;
Education Industry;
Africa;
Kenya
Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Katharine Lee. "Bridge International Academies: A School in a Box." Harvard Business School Case 511-064, October 2010. (Revised April 2013.)
- August 2010 (Revised December 2016)
- Case
Kaweyan: Female Entrepreneurship and the Past and Future of Afghanistan
By: Geoffrey Jones and Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
Explores the challenges of female entrepreneurship in Afghanistan through the case of Kemeli Sediqi, who built a business under the Taliban, and founded a consultancy in 2004. The case positions Sediqi's experiences against the background of Afghanistan's turbulent...
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Keywords:
Opportunities;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Problems and Challenges;
Welfare;
Gender;
Afghanistan
Jones, Geoffrey, and Gayle Tzemach Lemmon. "Kaweyan: Female Entrepreneurship and the Past and Future of Afghanistan." Harvard Business School Case 811-023, August 2010. (Revised December 2016.)
- 15 Oct 2015
- News