Entrepreneur - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2012
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Rival Visions

long-term business confidence, setting the stage for the release of immense economic energy. His programs had helped to shape the distinctive American balance between political stability on the one hand and capacity for economic growth on the other. They had made it... View Details

01 Dec 2010
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Innovation Takes Center Stage

“business is an extraordinary force for good.” While Nohria earned a chemical engineering degree from prestigious IIT Bombay, he harbored a dream of becoming an entrepreneur even as he applied to a doctoral program at MIT. At MIT, he... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson

28 Sep 2021
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Alumni Connections Drive Career Opportunities for Students

again should a move to Brazil be in his future. Dzodan encourages other alumni and entrepreneurs to bring on interns. “It can be scary to think about using your time to build an internship program as time is our most valuable resource,... View Details

Keywords: Becca Carnahan

01 Jun 2004
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Luxe Redux

refreshing their product lines and extending their brand to more affordable items. Pressure to innovate is intense, says HBS professor Nancy F. Koehn, a business historian and author of Brand New: How Entrepreneurs Earned Consumers’ Trust... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; luxury; Retail Trade

19 Dec 2024
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The Musts of 2024

what are venture investments that get to the right point in the power law. In VC, it's the one investment in Facebook, Google, Amazon that returns the fund. So Maples talks about what are the characteristics of those investments. And his advice to an View Details

11 Jun 2021
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The Power of Resilience

now channel that in a different way? That’s what led me to this realization that public speaking and experience sharing could actually be my mission. Instead of being employed by someone else, I could be an entrepreneur and spread my own... View Details

21 May 2018
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Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area

informal, interactive setting. They get real insights on how to build a brand and how to inspire people to believe in a brand.” For a decade, the HBSAB has partnered with Boston-based brand strategist and entrepreneur Larry Gulko to... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 1997
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Blockbuster Deals

those who were usually called 'raiders' in the eighties - entrepreneurs who were putting their own money and reputations on the line." Jensen believes that most current mergers undertaken to reduce excess capacity and combine related... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry

01 Mar 2005
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Venture Capital’s Comeback

senior partners from two dozen top-tier VC firms, who visited with government officials and entrepreneurs in each country. Hardymon ranks the trips as “among the biggest recent events in the VC world.” SVB’s Wilcox says the trips helped... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

01 Sep 2009
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Read All About It!

situations. The author of Brand New: How Entrepreneurs Earned Consumers’ Trust from Wedgwood to Dell and The Power of Commerce: Economy and Governance in the First British Empire, she has also contributed to many other books and written... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Sep 2011
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Extraordinary People

Business Administration (SBA), she regularly visits companies across the country, often holding discussions with business owners and local bankers. After successful roles in consulting and venture capital, she is well versed in the issues of View Details

Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Mar 2019
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Building a Movement

questions that we have to address. SEI has been one of the pioneers in the research field, trying to push for studies on how to scale impact. Social entrepreneurs all over the world are asking for that. We’ve made some progress, but we... View Details

01 Jun 2019
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City on a Hill

initiative will partner with the school and other regional nonprofits to recruit and develop entrepreneurs and business owners. It’s the ideal position for a guy who is equal parts educator and entrepreneur. “If you rely on manufacturing... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Clay Cook

20 Jul 2022
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Wired to be Inspired

their deep purpose? And where does it come from? Gulati: One of the questions people ask is that, well, maybe if I’m a startup and I’m just starting out, I just got to get my business idea together and I need to get funding and then we’ll think about it. But think... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

28 May 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2019

him through life—as an undergraduate at Texas A&M, a graduate student at Harvard, and a once-young entrepreneur himself. As he and Dell created the foundation of what would become one of the most successful companies in the world, Walker... View Details

01 Sep 2010
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Fair Trade

physical perfection that traps women in an endless spiral of hope, self-consciousness, and self-hatred. Yet beauty is also an industry in which women have been unusually prominent as entrepreneurs and business leaders. The list of... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Chemical Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Health and Personal Care Stores; Retail Trade

18 Aug 2021
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Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

Entrepreneurs (HAE) podcast, HAE Invites. Whitlow, who is CEO of Hudson Strategic Group, discussed his experiences as a Black MBA. “I learned a lot at Harvard,” he says, including how to speak up—a lesson that has served him well by... View Details

08 Jun 2018
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My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses

that for projects that I have. The rest of it, we're doing a turnaround of an 8,000-person company, and I need people who can add value. So I had this amazing job for two years where I had to figure out my own job inside this company. I learned how to be an View Details

26 May 2022
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Northern California Club Honors Noom; LGBTQ Alumni Share HBS Stories

50 years from now?” Both Druyan and Hao say the award has become quite prestigious among the world’s top entrepreneurs and venture capital firms, and winners are excited to be honored by HBS alumni. The event, which is open to the public,... View Details