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    William A. Sahlman

    William Sahlman is a Baker Foundation Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

    Mr. Sahlman received an A.B. degree in Economics from Princeton University (1972), an M.B.A. from Harvard University (1975), and a Ph.D. in Business... View Details

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    • 19 Nov 2013
    • News

    Q&A With Harvard’s Top Entrepreneurship Professor

    • 31 Jul 2020
    • Blog Post

    Building a DTC Brand Through COVID

    Retail & Luxury Goods Club, Entrepreneurship Club, and the iLab’s Venture Incubation Program. Farah attended HBS for their entrepreneurship programs at the Rock Center and at the Innovation Lab where she... View Details
    • Profile

    Minal Mehta

    effective workout, but you also walk out of the class literally feeling like a rock star. "It's incredible to fashion a fitness program based on Bollywood music and dance because the category itself is one that people of different... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Services
    • 04 Feb 2022
    • Blog Post

    Learning from the Entrepreneurs-in-Residence as a Harvard MS/MBA Student

    entrepreneurship, I took time over the previous semester to speak with and learn from the numerous Entrepreneurs-in-Residence (EiRs) at the HBS Rock Center. The EiRs are experienced founders and mentors who offer their time to coach... View Details
    • 02 May 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    Four VCs on Evaluating Opportunities

    What makes for the ideal entrepreneurial opportunity? To learn about the frameworks firms use when evaluating potential venture opportunities, Mike Roberts, executive director of the Arthur Rock Center for... View Details
    Keywords: by Lauren Barley

      Thomas R. Eisenmann

      Thomas R. Eisenmann is the Howard H. Stevenson Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School; Peter O. Crisp Faculty Chair, Harvard Innovation Labs; and Unit Head of the HBS Entrepreneurial... View Details

      Keywords: advertising; broadcasting; communications; computer; e-commerce industry; electronic publishing; electronics; entertainment; fiber optics; high technology; home video games; information technology industry; infrastructure industry; internet; journalism; media; motion pictures; music; publishing industry; semiconductor; software; telecommunications; television; video games
      • December 2012
      • Case

      Blink Booking

      By: William R. Kerr, Magnus Thor Torfason and Alexis Brownell
      Rebeca Minguela hopes to create an arbitrage platform, similar to Rocket Internet, that can bring start-up ideas and opportunities to Spain. However, Blink Booking, her first venture and proof of concept, is rocked by a co-founder's breach of confidence and departure.... View Details
      Keywords: Clones; Cloning; Rocket Internet; Start-up; Equity Split; Arbitrage; Incubator; Mobile App; Expansion; Spain; Europe; Entrepreneurship; Ethics; Internet and the Web; Information Technology Industry; Accommodations Industry; Travel Industry; Spain; Europe
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      • April 2023 (Revised September 2023)
      • Case

      Apple's iPhone Revolution: Pioneering the Circular Economy

      By: George Serafeim
      When asked to identify an example of a circular economy business model that has generated billions in revenues for a company, ChatGPT, the famous chatbot that in 2022 rocked the world with its ability to perform a variety of tasks, immediately identified and... View Details
      Keywords: Iphone; Smartphone; Waste Management; Recycling; Innovation; Product Upgrade; Product Life Cycle; Sustainability; Climate Impact; Digital; Business Model Innovation; Climate Change; Information Technology; Business Model; Electronics Industry; Information Technology Industry
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      • August 2010 (Revised October 2010)
      • Case

      Patagonia

      By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Hyunjin Kim and Forest L. Reinhardt
      Patagonia was deeply committed to the environment. This commitment, at times, conflicted with the company's goal to create the most innovative products in its industry. Patagonia's founder and executives welcomed imitation of both its environmental commitment and its... View Details
      Keywords: Business History; Environmental Sustainability; Business Model; Business Strategy; Expansion; Consumer Products Industry
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        Shikhar Ghosh

        Shikhar Ghosh is a Professor of Management Practice in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit. He currently teaches in the elective curriculum and is the course head for 3 Technologies that will Change the World. Shikhar received the Apgar Award for innovation in... View Details

        • 20 Feb 2020
        • Blog Post

        Black Visionary Leadership and Redefining What's Possible

        (DEI) and I’m the co-president of AASU. After we graduate, we’re going to work in those spaces in finance and tech—I’m going into Venture Capital (VC) at Goldman Sachs, and Tyler is heading to Facebook. The statistics regarding black... View Details
        • 25 Feb 2025
        • Blog Post

        Making a broader impact with multiple disciplines: Santosh Iyer (MBA 2020)

        Santosh Iyer (MBA 2020) is originally from Toronto, Canada, where he earned undergraduate and graduate degrees in Engineering Science and Biomedical Engineering from the University of Toronto. Today, he serves as a Venture Partner at... View Details
        • 02 Nov 2020
        • Blog Post

        WE RISE

        When Hayley Barna (MBA 2010) launched the beauty startup Birchbox in 2010, she expected fundraising would be a challenge. Every entrepreneur knows the long odds: By some estimates, less than 1 percent of new companies receive that coveted View Details
        Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity; Venture Capital / Private Equity; Venture Capital / Private Equity
        • 18 Jan 2023
        • Blog Post

        Career Planning and Development: Interview with Career Coach Wendi Zhang (MBA/MPP 2013)

        more. We caught up with Wendi Zhang (MBA/MPP 2013), an HBS career coach with over 15 years of professional experience in high tech - including big tech, startups, and venture capital—to learn more about career coaching at HBS. Among her... View Details

          Satish K. Tadikonda

          Satish Tadikonda is a Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School. In the MBA program, Satish teaches The Entrepreneurial Manager, a required first-year MBA course, and Entrepreneurship in Life Sciences, an elective course for... View Details

          • 23 Nov 2020
          • Blog Post

          We Rise

          When Hayley Barna (MBA 2010) launched the beauty startup Birchbox in 2010, she expected fundraising would be a challenge. Every entrepreneur knows the long odds: By some estimates, less than 1 percent of new companies receive that coveted View Details
          • 13 Jun 2017
          • Blog Post

          Benefits of the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program

          Rock Accelerator Program and the Harvard Innovation Lab’s Venture Incubation Program; and pursued an Independent Project—a second-year faculty-supervised project for academic credit—focused on the... View Details
          • January 2024 (Revised June 2024)
          • Case

          School of Rock: Tuning into Structured Empowerment (A)

          By: Tatiana Sandino, Jeffrey Rayport, Samuel Grad and Stacy Straaberg
          In summer 2021, School of Rock was a youth-oriented music education company with 291 franchise- and company-owned schools globally. Before CEO Rob Price’s hire in 2017, School of Rock’s nonconformist rock ‘n’ roll culture led to variability in teaching styles,... View Details
          Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Plan; Change Management; Transformation; Communication Strategy; Decisions; Curriculum and Courses; Teaching; Employee Relationship Management; Knowledge Sharing; Leadership Style; Business or Company Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Style; Marketing Strategy; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Franchise Ownership; Performance Expectations; Performance Improvement; Strategic Planning; Attitudes; Conflict Management; Corporate Strategy; Applications and Software; Technology Adoption; Education Industry; Music Industry; Massachusetts; United States
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          • 10 Jul 2015
          • Blog Post

          Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught?

          challenges for founders. At HBS, Professor Bussgang has taught the Launching Technology Ventures course. ----------------- I came to HBS six years ago at a time when the school was ramping up its entrepreneurial programs on all fronts.... View Details