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- 04 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Founders Recruit Friends and Family as Investors
have enough career experience? (About 5 percent of students at HBS decide to leap into entrepreneurship immediately upon completing the MBA program, but up to 50 percent will have founded a company within a decade of graduation, according to Wasserman, who teaches in... View Details
Keywords: by Noam Wasserman
- 11 May 2022
- Blog Post
MoMBAs: The Inspiring Student Mothers of HBS
here will make the MBA experience very different from many of the students, but as long as your priorities are clear you can make it work and you will likely find more people around to help than you imagine. HBS mama memory? I started having contractions in a The View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
At Consoleya, a coworking space in Cairo’s former French Consulate, multiple levels of meeting rooms and workspaces operate at capacity, from a ground-floor café to a rooftop deck. The scene—coders bent over laptops, concepts scrawled on whiteboards, clusters of people... View Details
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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online
Essentials for Business Alternative Investments Business Analytics Business and Climate Change Business Strategy Creating Brand Value Design Thinking and Innovation Digital Marketing Strategy Disruptive Strategy Economics for Managers Entrepreneurship Essentials View Details
- 16 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow
competitors rather than potential partners. The people who were suffering were the visually impaired. There was huge duplication of services in some areas, large gaps in others, and a waste of resources. "Peacock raised the capacity... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Nov 2016
- News
Field Course Helps Nascent Entrepreneurs Connect with Customers
Entrepreneurial Sales and Marketing (ESM), a field course that debuted in spring 2016. “To a greater degree than in established firms, marketing and selling in entrepreneurial ventures are linked to product... View Details
- 13 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
Cash and the Woman-Owned Business
fund the launch of nearly all start-ups. The founders' current income, cash reserves, credit card capacity, and "mortgagable" assets account for most of the early stage capital in the United States.2 Other forms of non-cash View Details
- Fast Answer
Entrepreneurship by country
How can I find data on entrepreneurial activity in different countries? Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM): GEM is a consortium of academic institutions responsible for collecting data and producing reports. ... View Details
- Profile
Max Wibaux
firefighting while managing two or three challenges simultaneously. This was attractive to me!" Yet the concentration on marketing left Max with gaps in some of the fundamentals of business such as finance and entrepreneurship. In... View Details
Keywords: CPG
- Profile
Giuseppe Morgana
What’s the one thing you’re most excited about learning at HBS? The number-one thing is the ability to participate in different entrepreneurial ventures. Since coming to HBS, I’ve been able to fulfill that passion through a combination of... View Details
- Profile
Eric Sonnier
in New Orleans and Austin. “We see a gap in funding and networks that the three major entrepreneurial centers – Silicon Valley, Boston, and New York – already have. We want to build better models for smaller... View Details
- 05 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Venture Capital Goes Boom—or Bust?
Ninety percent of new entrepreneurial businesses that don't attract venture capital fail within three years. A software engineer at the government contractor EG&G, Don Brooks had been working on computer systems for the Idaho National... View Details
Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
They Call Him Mr. China
management gap he both anticipated and greatly underestimated. Against all odds, and the advice of many, Perkowski ditched his high-flying investment career and relocated to China in 1992 to chase his View Details
- 13 Jun 2017
- Blog Post
Benefits of the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program
like Launching Tech Ventures, Strategy & Technology, Scaling Tech Ventures, and Entrepreneurial Sales and Marketing. He also spent much of his two years at HBS working on his own startup and taking advantage of the school’s View Details
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Josh Solera
says Josh, “were transferable whatever they were doing. I saw a lot of gaps in my own business know-how. I was good at reading financial statements, but not at understanding why things are the way they are.” Josh chose HBS for its... View Details
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Ann Chao
In her previous HBS profile, Ann Chao, MBA 2013, said she hoped to be one of those people who "can bridge the gap between creativity and business." She didn’t waste time. "After graduation," Ann says, "I didn’t... View Details
- 13 Jun 2017
- Blog Post
What is the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program? A Q&A with Professor Tom Eisenmann
Entrepreneurial Manager, taught to all 900 first-year MBA students. Here’s what Professor Eisenmann had to say about the new joint degree. Why is Harvard launching this program now? “The world needs more leaders with a deep... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Fast Forward
welfare,” Desai noted. Middle-Skills Gap Senior Lecturer Joe Fuller worked with consulting firm Accenture and workforce analytics company Burning Glass Technologies to produce a report highlighting the ways employers can foster the... View Details
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Matthew Boys
“best combination” of three things he wanted: a strong peer network, foundational business skills, and “an environment conducive to the entrepreneurial spark.” Matt believes the fixed curriculum of the RC year enhances... View Details
- 27 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
HBS Summer Fellows Respond to COVID-19
volunteers, we aggregate high-quality support resources, use targeted digital advertising to get the right resources to the right people, and build solutions for communities when one doesn’t already exist. Raquel and HBS sectionmate Brendan Lind launched in March to... View Details