Entrepreneurial Managers - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Oct 2020
Book

Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time

socialize and exercise rather than work longer hours, add up to a lot of time. And our choices powerfully shape whether we’re happy or not.” Here, Whillans shares six research-based strategies for managing the minutes on the clock, all... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Nonprofit Strategy & Governance | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

across the spectrum, from entrepreneurial ventures to more established firms. Publications Ming Min Hui at Boston Ballet By: Edward H. Chang, David Allen and Annelena Lobb September 2024 | Faculty Research This case asks how Ming Min Hui,... View Details

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Globalization - Faculty & Research

competition, and earnings management affect mean reversion in accounting return on assets. Using a sample of 48,465 unique firms from 49 countries, we find that accounting returns mean revert faster in countries where there is more... View Details

09 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Where Will You Be in 30 Years: Behind the Scenes of the 5 Big Life Decisions Documentary

to do everything twice as well. In addition, John Rice’s (MBA 1992) experience as a Black professional led him to create Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT), a national non-profit organization that fights racial and economic... View Details

09 Dec 2008
First Look

First Look: December 9, 2008

interest in a concept of competitive strategy more closely grounded in industrial organization economics; and third, with the development of a new course in entrepreneurial management more closely linked to... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 May 2020
Blog Post

Leaving a Career in Tech for Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship

thinking about the next step of my career. I’d learned a lot at Google while working on some of the biggest mobile apps and products in the world, getting exposure to thinking strategically, managing teams and having impact. However, I... View Details

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Business Insights Blog | HBS Online

Marketing Strategy Disruptive Strategy Economics for Managers Entrepreneurial Marketing Entrepreneurship Essentials Financial Accounting Global Business Launching Tech Ventures Leadership Principles... View Details

14 Jun 2021
Op-Ed

When Your Nerves Get the Best of You, Change the Narrative

focus on all the ways we fall short—we allow our true selves to shine. This authenticity makes us more likely to secure jobs, higher ratings in our presentations, and money for entrepreneurial ventures or deals. There’s a video I like to... View Details

Keywords: by Francesca Gino

04 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Shackleton: An Entrepreneur of Survival

the entrepreneurial journey—which can apply to a manager at a small company or in a large, established organization—we say that entrepreneurs are made, not born, and that entrepreneurship is a way of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Your Social Entrepreneurship checklist | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

registration takes place in the fall and spring. Spring Take required first year course: The Entrepreneurial Manager: All students take the Required Curriculum course, The Entrepreneurial View Details

30 Aug 2018
Blog Post

My Difficult Decision to Leave Google for HBS

year at Google, and it still felt like a dream. I loved my role. My coworkers and managers were expert mentors. I felt like the company’s top priority (so did everyone else!). I played soccer twice a week on Google’s idyllic Mountain View... View Details

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Our Team - Social Impact Collaboratory

Administration Vikram S. Gandhi is a Senior Lecturer in the General Management Unit and Entrepreneurial Management Unit. He has developed and teaches a new course, Sustainable... View Details

25 Apr 2024
News

Origin Stories

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Where we come from and how we were raised has a profound effect on who we become. The recipients of this year’s Alumni Achievement Award grew up... View Details

15 Oct 2019
News

Bridging Business and Engineering

Erez Perelson (MS/MBA 2020) hopes to build on his technical background and hone his entrepreneurial and management skills in the new joint degree program. (photo by Susan Young) Erez Perelson (MS/MBA 2020)... View Details

21 Dec 2010
First Look

First Look: December 21

the period from 1996 to 2005 to test the hypothesized relationships. How Managers Use Multiple Media: Discrepant Events, Power and Timing in Redundant Communication Authors:P.M. Leonardi, T.B. Neeley, and E.M. Gerber... View Details

09 May 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 9

organization during “bad times”? Using two large micro datasets on firm decentralization from U.S. administrative data and 10 OECD countries, we find that firms that delegated more power from the Central Headquarters to local plant View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Research - Race, Gender & Equity

Applegate Entrepreneurial Management , General Management 8 results Jill J. Avery Marketing Julie Battilana Organizational Behavior 21 results Max H. Bazerman Negotiation,... View Details

01 Dec 2023
News

Case Study: Staking a Claim

Illustration by Nhung Lê Kate Terry (MBA 2005) knows that no one attends their fifth-grade career fair and comes home hoping to pursue a career in insurance—but that’s exactly where she wound up. “I really fell in love with it,” she says. As cofounder and CEO of... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Insurance Carriers and Related Activities; Finance

02 Aug 2022
Blog Post

From HBS to Cutting-Edge Tech

tech industry. In the immersive Startup Bootcamp program, I joined a small team to take an idea from scratch and build a minimum viable product (MVP). Courses like The Entrepreneurial Manager, Launching Tech Ventures, Founder’s Journey,... View Details

01 Sep 2023
News

Case Study: The Home Team

Illustration by Jon Krause Illustration by Jon Krause Brendan Kennealey (MBA 2006) wasn’t even searching for a business idea. A couple of years ago, the Wilmington, Delaware, native met up with an old friend who’d bought a new house. Over dinner this friend enumerated... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Real Estate

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