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Digital Innovation and Strategy Design Thinking and Innovation Digital Marketing Strategy Disruptive Strategy Dynamic Teaming Economics for Managers Entrepreneurial Marketing Entrepreneurship Essentials Financial Accounting Global... View Details

29 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

For Entrepreneurs, Blown Deadlines Can Crush Big Ideas

out of cash before solving the problem, Harvard Business School researchers write in Entrepreneurial Learning and Strategic Foresight, recently published in the Strategic Management Journal. For startups trying to hang on until their next... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

01 Dec 1997
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Multimedia Martha: Sharon Patrick Cooks Up A Winner

Inc. When did you first meet Martha Stewart? Climbing Mount Kilimanjaro in 1993. I had completed my time at McKinsey and Rainbow, where I had become a startup and turnaround person. I was finishing a year off, and I was undertaking View Details

04 Sep 2017
Blog Post

HBS Startup Bootcamp and Founders Unfiltered

on data while exploring market fit. Faculty presented central themes of renowned HBS courses like Founders’ Journey and Entrepreneurial Finance. Industry experts offered their insights on how to effectively manage public relations, what... View Details

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William R. Kerr | About

faculty chair of the Launching New Ventures program. Bill served as Unit Head of the Entrepreneurial Management unit from 2020-2023. Bill is a recipient of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation’s Prize Medal... View Details

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Enrico Ferrari

own." Enrico is planning on testing the venture capital waters during his summer break. "I've been on the operational and execution side, now I want to see the investors' side for a complete picture before I launch my next... View Details

Keywords: Tech

16 Oct 2012
First Look

First Look: October 16

Goldberg and Annelena LobbHarvard Business School Supplement 313-019 The international joint venture that successfully bid for $6 billion in contracts to build LNG trains on Nigeria's Bonny Island became entangled in a widening bribery... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Jun 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

also identifies criteria that make a decision strategic and derives explanations why strategies often reflect the background of the strategist. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52726 And the Children Shall Lead: Gender Diversity and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Nonprofit Strategy & Governance | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

across the spectrum, from entrepreneurial ventures to more established firms. Publications How Do Nonprofits Use Cash Windfalls? Evidence from $5B in Unrestricted Donations By: Jennifer Walsh 2025 | Faculty... View Details

15 Feb 2024
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Startup Shepherds

would be a move to the corporate world, until she was presented with the opportunity to invest in and lead Sweetwell, a company developing low-calorie sugar replacement. Since leaving the company in 2011, she’s worked in the entrepreneurship space as a View Details

Keywords: April White

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Get Involved - Entrepreneurship

wide range of backgrounds and diverse skillsets. Meet them now New Venture Competition A year long entrepreneurial journey that culminates with a capstone event for students who have worked to develop new... View Details

18 Dec 2012
First Look

First Look: December 18

case:http://hbr.org/search/813020-PDF-ENG The Role of the Government in the Early Development of American Venture Capital Lerner, Josh, and Tom NicholasHarvard Business School Note 813-096 Whether the government or markets, or a mixture... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

29 May 2023
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Nurturing Breakthrough Ideas

As a center for creativity where innovation and entrepreneurship are intertwined, the Harvard Innovation Labs ecosystem encourages the development of novel ideas, approaches, and technologies that inspire new ventures or ways of thinking... View Details

16 May 2024
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On the Job

useful perspective later in her career as cofounder of Lighthouse Capital Partners, a venture capital firm with early investments in a number of health care companies. Gwill York: I started earning money when I was in fourth grade, and I... View Details

Keywords: first job; leadership; life experience; career lessons; Finance; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Retail Trade

01 Oct 1997
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Donald J. Chiofaro

"Usually I land on the other side of the canyon without a problem, but sometimes I've had to hang on by my fingertips." In making such entrepreneurial vaults, he draws on ample reserves of confidence, conviction, and foresight. Explains... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

04 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

When Founders Recruit Friends and Family as Investors

the book has received rave reviews. Publisher's Weekly called it a "seminal work on the startup phase of the entrepreneurial venture captivating," and Dharmesh Shah at OnStartups.com called it... View Details

Keywords: by Noam Wasserman

01 Sep 2023
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Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint

RESEARCH CENTER (Silicon Valley) Bringing insights from tech industry into the classroom As West Coast companies make game-changing technological advances in areas such as generative AI, the metaverse, and blockchain, the center develops cases that highlight the... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

05 Oct 2020
Book

Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time

right, don’t be afraid to speak up, Whillans suggests. “We forget that just as we can negotiate for a higher salary and other benefits, we can also negotiate for more time at work,” she says. 3. Throw money at the problem. Venture... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

18 Sep 2019
Op-Ed

WeWork—The IPO That Shouldn’t?

founder’s verbiage, speak for itself. About the Author Nori Gerardo Lietz is a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the Finance and Entrepreneurial Management Units at Harvard Business School. She presently teaches Real Estate... View Details

Keywords: by Nori Gerardo Lietz; Financial Services; Real Estate

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Judges - Alumni

Managing Partner, 2048 Ventures Malgorzata (Gosia) Karas, MBA 2017 General Partner, Actuator Capital Juan Leung Li, MBA 2014 Partner, Tectonic Ventures Donna Levin CEO, Arthur M. Blank School for View Details

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