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01 Dec 2004
News

Retirement's Changing Face

transitioning to a different venue.” “Venue” doesn’t quite do justice to Bemis’s other pursuits, which include an ongoing interest in public service (he recently launched an unsuccessful third campaign as a Republican candidate for the... View Details

Keywords: Personal Services

21 Dec 2022
News

HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion

offering assistance to academics whose work has been impacted by Russia's war on Ukraine. The program, founded in 2001, is dedicated to helping scholars, artists, writers, and public intellectuals from around the world escape persecution... View Details

03 Dec 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Against the Grain

that economic tools of supply and demand can be applied to studying the phenomenon of corruption. On the demand side, it is true that corrupt government officials sometimes garner a degree of sympathy from the public, legitimizing their bribe-taking. View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Food & Beverage

01 Jun 2011
News

The Best-Laid Plans

experiences filter to the surface in conversations with past contest participants, whether their venture sells crème brÃ»lée or online video advertising. Foremost is the fact that the business is often quite different from what was first proposed. And therein lies a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; contests; Health, Social Assistance; Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Professional Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Mar 2005
News

Venture Capital’s Comeback

$18.9 billion in 2003, according to PricewaterhouseCoopers. From Boston to Silicon Valley, top firms are competing for deals again. And the initial public offering market — the favored exit for venture-capital investors — rallied last... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

11 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

How Hackathons Help Decide Platform Winners and Losers

Tommy Pan Fang and University of British Columbia business professor David Clough. Wu’s research centers on strategies used by technology entrepreneurs to achieve scale for competitive advantage. Platforms are prime real estate for such... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

04 Jun 2013
First Look

First Look: June 4

Publications 2006 O'Reilly Media, Inc. Managing Startups: Best Blog Posts By: Eisenmann, Tom, ed. Abstract—Harvard Business School Professor Tom Eisenmann annually compiles the best posts from many blogs on technology startup... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Feb 1997
News

Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management

and growing and sustaining the enterprise. "We can't teach people how to come up with ideas, but we can teach them how to analyze ideas already available to them," he explains. "We also teach that entrepreneurs must react quickly not only... View Details

19 Feb 2019
Blog Post

The First Five Years: '30 Under 30' Edition

life and career. Professionally, it is a team award for the various folks I work with at TPG Capital, who make showing up to work every day a great privilege and pleasure.” Gandhi: “I think when you’re doing things as an entrepreneur and... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Jun 2016
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016

Broughton (MBA 2006) (Harper) A compendium of practical knowledge, trivia, and worldly wisdom for boys of all ages, designed as an informal full-color family scrapbook treasured by generations of one fictional family at their Adirondack summer camp. How to Think Like... View Details

03 Nov 2009
First Look

First Look: Nov. 3

staggered. These findings indicate that welfare beneficiaries consume welfare-related income quickly and then attempt to supplement it with criminal income. Download the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1089576 Pioneering View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 Oct 2008
First Look

First Look: October 21, 2008

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=509022 Frank Addante, Serial Entrepreneur Harvard Business School Case 809-046 Frank Addante is a 28-year-old serial entrepreneur who is in the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Founders Forum The HBS New Venture Competition Social Enterprise Track or President’s Innovation Challenge HBS Elective Curriculum courses: Social Entrepreneurship and Systems Change, Public Entrepreneurship, or Transforming Education... View Details

01 Mar 2016
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016

Given success of this magnitude, why aren’t for-profit managed charter schools like Sabis in high demand? The authors rebut the charge that for-profits running charter schools are in it for the money, not the kids, and they explore the motives of those fighting... View Details

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Winners & Success Stories | New Venture Competition

Winners & Success Stories The New Venture Competition has been the launching pad for many ventures, and not just from the winning teams. With more than half of Harvard Business School alumni classifying themselves as entrepreneurs at some... View Details

14 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

Participation, Pluralism, and Public Ethics. Ebrahim teaches the required MBA course Leadership and Organizational Behavior, and chairs the Executive Education program Governing for Nonprofit Excellence. Q: Mario, tell us about Venture... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

01 Mar 2023
News

Clearing the Air

investor interest is rising in both the public and the private sector: In December, the US Department of Energy announced $3.7 billion worth of programs and prizes meant to further kick-start the industry; In April, payments giant Stripe... View Details

Keywords: April White and Dan Morrell; Illustrations by Richard Borge

01 Sep 2017
News

History’s Lessons

turbulent times. Ernest Shackleton Hire for Attitude, Train for Skill Today’s entrepreneurs would find the tasks involved in organizing and leading an Antarctic expedition in the early 20th century somewhat familiar. Koehn notes that the... View Details

Keywords: Abraham Lincoln; Ernest Shackelford; Rachel Carson

29 Sep 2015
First Look

September 29, 2015

powerful commercial engine it is today. This book describes how many of the key innovations that made this possible came from entrepreneurs and iconoclasts who were outside the mainstream—and how the commercialization of the Internet was... View Details