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- 07 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Rediscovering Schumpeter: The Power of Capitalism
smart people of that time believed that technology had reached its limits and capitalism had passed its peak. Schumpeter believed the exact opposite, and of course he was right. Q: Schumpeter introduced the term “creative destruction” and championed the role of the... View Details
- 20 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
Rocket-tunity: Can Private Firms Turn a Profit in Space?
is on Commercial space ventures have received more than $18.4 billion of investment since 2000, according to the Start-Up Space 2018 report from research firm Bryce Space and Technology. Weinzierl says recent progress by two of the most... View Details
- 23 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Three-Dimensional Strategy: Winning the Multisided Platform
When start-up thredUP launched its peer-to-peer online exchange for used children's clothes two and a half years ago, its creators were the latest generation of entrepreneurs competing online as multi-sided platforms (MSPs), alongside... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 02 Mar 2012
- HBS Seminar
Joe Lassiter/Gordon Jones, Harvard Business School/Harvard University
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
broadened to include management dynamics in entrepreneurial and venture capital firms. Despite attention from the media, relatively little hard information exists on these companies; Wasserman is using data collected from two hundred View Details
- 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... View Details
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Mohammed Al Barwani
Mohammed Al Barwani, founder of the Oman-based diversified group MB Holding Company, shares his advice to young entrepreneurs starting a business, including the need for simplicity.
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Melek El Nimer
Melek El Nimer, founder of the Social Support Society and Unite Lebanon Youth Project in Lebanon, outlines how she developed educational programs and scholarships for Palestinian refugees. View Details
- Profile
Jamira Cotton
about my plans until I took a trek to Silicon Valley with professors and students from across the university in January. It only lasted a week, but spending time with so many amazing entrepreneurs, investors, and start-up enthusiasts was... View Details
- 21 Sep 2020
- Video
Pedro Gómez
Pedro Gómez, who founded the construction company Pedro Gómez y Cia in Colombia in 1968, discusses how he built the first shopping mall in Bogotá by visiting foreign projects and contacting an old friend to secure finance. View Details
- 05 May 2020
- Video
Narayana Murthy
Narayana Murthy, who co-founded the India-based software company Infosys in 1981, discusses how he founded the firm with six other like-minded software professionals who pooled their capital
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Sizwe Nxasana
Sizwe Nxasana, the founding partner of SizweNtsalubaGobodo, the largest Black accounting firm in South Africa, as well as the former CEO of Telkom and FirstRand Group,describes the growth of... View Details
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Fadi Ghandour
Fadi Ghandour, founder of Dubai-based courier company Aramex and a leading entrepreneur in the Gulf, discusses how he entered the courier industry as an "accidental entrepreneur."
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Eva Muraya
Eva Muraya describes the challenges she faced launching Kenya-based Brand Strategy and Design, an advertising and marketing start-up, emphasizing the importance of patience amidst on-going cash... View Details
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Badreddine Ouali
Badreddine Ouali, Founder and Co-CEO of Vermeg, details critical moments in his career which led him to start a banking software company in Tunisia. View Details
- 26 Jun 2020
- Video
Peter Vundla
Peter Vundla, who co-founded the first Black-owned advertising agency in South Africa in 1991, discusses how the business started by exploiting the fact that White-owned companies had no understanding of Black... View Details
- 12 Nov 2019
- Video
Christoph Schiess
Christoph Schiess, President of TANICA, a Chilean business group with diversified activities in real estate, tourism and hotels, mineral water, and other activities,... View Details
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Brinda Somaya
Brinda Somaya, founder and principal architect of Somaya and Kalappa Consultants, shares the story of her first project for the Chembur Golf Club in Mumbai, which introduced her to the Parle Group. View Details
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Neveen El Tahri
Neveen El Tahri, Chairperson of Egypt-based Delta Shield for Investment, outlines her transition from banking to entrepreneurship as she built a diverse portfolio of brokerage companies. View Details
- 06 Sep 2019
- Video
Mo Ibrahim
Mo Ibrahim, the founder of the African telecommunications company Celtel and later a major corporate philanthropist, describes his decisions to leave the large telecommunications company British Telecom and... View Details