Institutional Entrepreneurship - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2018
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HBS Fellowship Furthers Entrepreneurial Dreams

internship at the Harvard Stem Cell Institute during the summer before his senior year prompted Okeke to consider how he could broaden his impact in health care through business. He applied to, and was accepted into, HBS’s 2+2 Program,... View Details

01 Oct 2001
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Making a World of Difference

touch with our shared humanity." It was a lack of such shared humanity, in fact, that motivated Slifka to establish The Abraham Fund after visiting Israel and finding that his Jewish friends there did not know any Arabs. "I discovered that there was no mainstream... View Details

Keywords: Young, Susan; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

01 Jun 2018
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Up by the Roots

coupled with an established venture capital community and a vast pool of potential customers in the form of major financial firms hungry for fresh tech. “Large financial institutions are technology companies that happen to move money,”... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustrations by Dan Page

01 Feb 2001
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High Stakes: Springboard 2000 Comes to HBS

women-owned firms participate in only 9 percent of institutional equity deals, receiving just 2.3 percent of venture-capital dollars. Springboard is working to correct that gender disparity. HBS Dean Kim B. Clark, speaking at the opening... View Details

Keywords: Singleton, Laura; Springboard 2000

24 Aug 2017
News

Unlocking Potential

Vocational and academic education programs in US correctional institutions have been around for more than a century. They have also achieved some success. In fact, a 2013 study by the Rand Corporation found that prison education helped... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli; Community Partners; Legal Services; Professional Services

29 Jul 2008
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An Educational Start-Up

Technoloy, Maastricht University it was a bit like sitting in on a session of the United Nations, although the participants were primarily from Europe. This was, after all the (deep breath) European Entrepreneurship Colloquium on... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

11 Oct 2024
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Highlights from the Fall 2024 Alumni Board Meeting

Harvard Business School hosted its annual fall Alumni Board Meeting in late September, bringing together its members for a three-day event that included interactive sessions with faculty and HBS leadership on the School and its programs, a dinner and reception with MBA... View Details

01 Feb 1998
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New Global Research Site Announced in Hong Kong

that solid foundation to ensure that Harvard Business School in the 21st century will be an institution where our interests, activities, faculty, and commitment are truly global in nature." Modeled on the recently launched California... View Details

Keywords: Audrey Snee; photographs by Graham Uden

01 Jun 2024
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Decoding the Promise and Perils of Generative AI

ChatGPT burst into the public consciousness on November 30, 2022. Within two months, the generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) software, which leverages a large language model (LLM) to produce human-like, text-based conversations, had reached an estimated 100... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Dec 2002
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Faculty Updates

also devote time to the Center for Organizational Fitness, an organization he cofounded that helps senior managers enable a strategic change process. William J. Poorvu, the MBA Class of 1961 Adjunct Professor in Entrepreneurship, Emeritus, has retired. An authority on... View Details

10 Apr 2012
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A Winning Formula

that says a lot about what drives his company: “Life is too short to work in a dysfunctional organization.” Dashboard specializes in analyzing why an organization’s growth may have slowed, and then works with management to institute... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

28 Jun 2024
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Honoring Leadership in New York; PRIDE Alumni Share HBS Stories

the Lifetime Achievement Award, given to The Honorable W. Mitt Romney (MBA 1974/JD 1975), United States Senator; the Entrepreneurship Award, given to Ilana D. Weinstein (MBA 1995), founder and CEO of The IDW Group LLC; the John C.... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Sep 2003
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Dean Clark Reflects on the School’s Key Initiatives

passionate teaching, the building of intellectual capital, and the broad communication of ideas, we are advancing knowledge of how organizations and institutions can perform more effectively and, ultimately, benefit people in every sphere... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Sep 2013
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Alumni News | Book Briefs

Cyril Taylor (MBA 1961) (Amberley Publishing) As a social entrepreneur and education reformer, Taylor helped establish 3,000 specialist schools and over 1,500 academies in the UK as well as founding and working as chairman of the American View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 1996
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Faculty Symposium Honors McArthur

A faculty symposium, "Breaking New Ground: Initiatives in Management Education, 1980 - 1995," was held October 9-11 at HBS to honor former Dean John H. McArthur for the many initiatives in research and course development he instituted... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

04 Dec 2019
News

Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders

have to avoid. You know, it's sort of like affirmative action for lack of a better word. So the institutions do not have the mandate to invest in anything that might look as if they’re investing for anything other than returns. Flint: So... View Details

01 Sep 2016
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Charting Alumni Impact

The impact of an educational institution is often measured anecdotally, using the achievements of its alumni. In late 2015, Harvard released the results of the inaugural University-wide research study to quantify the “economic and social... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

01 Sep 2018
News

Your Keyboard Is Listening

looking for for many, many years,” says Bob Mahley, president emeritus of the Gladstone Institute of Neurological Disease. Samzelius, who had no knowledge of neurological diseases, first sought out Mahley for advice shortly after that... View Details