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- 26 Apr 2022
- Blog Post
How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Vasilis Mornto
and so the final step of my pre-HBS journey was interning with a global private equity firm which had just opened an office in my hometown of Athens, Greece. It was a fantastic experience because it combined learning about finance and the... View Details
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Visionary, Innovator, Educator - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Education Alumni Baker Library Historical Collections MORE EXHIBITS HISTORICAL COLLECTIONS RESEARCH LINKS SITE CREDITS GEORGES F. DORIOT Introduction EDUCATION Early Years at HBS Educating Leaders INNOVATION & VC Wartime Innovation ARD DEC View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Giving Advice
key impact and operational milestones will need to include the ability to adapt your strategy as you learn more about what is actually creating impact and what will appeal to future rounds of funders. Private philanthropists will often invest risk capital in an View Details
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
economics, in the sections that follow, we review three sets of possible interpretations for understanding the empirical facts related to the entry into, and persistence in, entrepreneurship. Differences in risk aversion provide a plausible and intuitive interpretation... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship in Asia and Foreign Direct Investment
industries, and foreign firms will think twice before entering into such a market." "My question is why FDI finances 40 percent of investment in Malaysia vis-à-vis Hong Kong where FDI finances... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969
graduating from Harvard Business School, Ronnie Cohen made a smooth transition to the high-powered world of McKinsey & Company. Thus, it came as a surprise to his colleagues when he decided to depart two years later to cofound a firm that would advise View Details
- 14 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom
By 2050, the Earth's population will likely exceed 9 billion people, up 30 percent from 6.9 billion today, according to projections from both the US Census Bureau and the United Nations. What's more, the population in the world's cities is expected to increase by 3... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
his way to meet a class, places like Payatas, or the teeming streets of Calcutta, or the favelas of Rio de Janeiro — places where only the entrepreneurial survive — are never far from his mind. According to the World Bank, nearly half the... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
New Ventures New Gains
to the first contest. The climate was ripe in 1997. Enrollment in courses like Entrepreneurial Finance and Entrepreneurial Management was way up; the Internet revolution — with... View Details
- 10 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 10, 2015
attribution and dynamics. Although display benefits from attribution, the strong dynamic effects of search call for an increase in search advertising budget share by up to 36% in our empirical context. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 25
evidence that this effect is driven by psychological reactance rather than by overcompensation for potential bias. We discuss both the theoretical and practical implications of our findings. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2280370 The View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 02 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Success of Persistent Entrepreneurs
capitalists influences their investment success. We are trying to understand the drivers of success in new ventures and venture firms more generally. On the first front, we are exploring questions such as what makes up an effective board of directors for an View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
tasks like perfecting their technology, learning how to manufacture it, and financing the needed investments in research, development, and marketing through a combination of product sales and venture funding. And so emerged several... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 16 Jul 2021
- Op-Ed
For Entrepreneurs, the Benefits of Slowing Down
class=infogram-embed data-id=_/UddyZtUFxQwXnFZ7mkNa][/div] I was reminded of the value of slowing down during the last few days by one of my founders who is in the midst of closing a massive financing at a "unicorn" valuation. The company... View Details
Keywords: by Jeffrey Bussgang
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
when the costs of financing a reorganization are greater than financing costs to a potential acquirer. Consistent with a senior creditor liquidation bias, the greater use of secured debt leads to more sales... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
Local Expressions Author:Geoffrey Jones Abstract This working paper examines the creation of the global natural food and beauty categories before 2000. This is shown to have been a lengthy process of new category creation involving the exercise of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing
of 1949 Adjunct Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. "The team discovered that having access to laptops and finding uses for them wasn't the main problem. A greater problem was financing the purchase and... View Details
- 31 Oct 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017
of the finance and insurance sector. We provide the first large-scale study that documents the economy-wide extent of misconduct among financial advisers and the associated labor market consequences of misconduct. Seven percent of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Beyond Heroic Entrepreneurs
number of entrepreneurial applicants. It's a highly competitive process: of the more than 2,500 applications the organization receives for the annual competition, only 12 to 24 fellowships are awarded. To get a broad sense of social... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 03 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 3
812-098 Provides practical guidelines for conducting customer visits to explore and validate demand for an entrepreneurial offering. Reviews conditions under which visits will yield superior insights, compared to other research methods.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel