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Shana Hoffman
overall power of the HBS experience,” Shana says. The courses, too, complement her plans, with The Entrepreneurial Manager proving especially helpful in its ideas for creating practical revenue models. “I... View Details
- 30 Jan 2019
- What Do You Think?
Who Will Measure up to These Two Remarkable Leaders?
mention” candidates, Tony Hsieh, Jack Ma, and Richard Branson. Musk did his undergraduate work at Wharton and completed a graduate degree in physics at Stanford. Hsieh displayed entrepreneurial skills as a student at Harvard College where... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
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New Economy Notables: Thomas S. Volpe
Hambrecht & Quist. Within six years, he found himself leading the firm, but his own entrepreneurial aspirations were too powerful to ignore. In 1986, he launched an investment firm that specialized in rapidly growing companies. After... View Details
- 15 Dec 2015
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Jacek Makowski (MBA 1960)
says he hopes it will “enable young, entrepreneurial managers from Poland to lead even more business growth in the years ahead.” Educated as an engineer in England, where his father led a Polish squadron of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
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Ticktock
The cases deal with universal entrepreneurial consumer product questions: Should the product be sold at big-box stores or through upscale specialty boutiques? (In the beginning, Nanda stuck with small museum shops and specialty catalogs,... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
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Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong
obliterates all competitors, fall so precipitously? Other minicomputer firms were suddenly failing too. How could good managers seemingly turn bad so fast? That was the puzzle. Colleagues suggested exploring the disk-drive industry... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
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McCance First to Serve as Entrepreneur in Residence
McCance: A veteran of venture capital shares his expertise with HBS faculty and students. Courtesy Greylock When Henry McCance (MBA ’66) joined Boston-based Greylock Management Corporation in 1969, venture capital was a cottage industry.... View Details
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C.D. Spangler | Baker Library
also had a large investment in RJR Nabisco. From 1986 to 1997, he served as president of his alma mater, the University of North Carolina. Today Dick manages a diverse portfolio of investments and philanthropic donations, and is head of... View Details
- 19 Jun 2014
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Turning "Black Gold" to Green
two oil fields, have contracts to manage as much CO2 as is produced by a small city, and we have the financial backing to finish the job," Dawe says. "That's about as tangible as it gets." Dawe is the president and cofounder of Berkeley,... View Details
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Max Wibaux
you. They offer a lens or filter that helps you develop an intuition as to why specific transactions are structured in a certain way. It’s much more fascinating than I expected." Through The Entrepreneurial View Details
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- 07 Jan 2009
- What Do You Think?
Is the World Really Flat?
this month's column. Bruce Bockmann stated the case for the "flat-worlders" in reminding us that "it is the responsibility of government to support technology in its own country. If government does that, the capital and entrepreneurs will follow ...... View Details
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HBS Online Entrepreneurship Essentials
Master a proven framework for building and financing new ventures and learn to speak the language of the start-up world. Program Dates: August 21, 2019 - September 18, 2019 View Details
- 9 AM – 10 AM EST, 23 Jan 2019
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HBS Online Entrepreneurship Essentials
Master a proven framework for building and financing new ventures and learn to speak the language of the start-up world. Program Dates: January 23, 2019 - February 20, 2019 View Details
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Eligibility | New Venture Competition
Eligibility Social Enterprise Track Course Listing Business at the Base of the Pyramid (HBS) Data for Impact (HBS) Education Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship in Comparative Perspective (HGSE) Entrepreneurial Solutions (HBS)... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
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Lerner Honored for Research
Said Lerner: “Research in entrepreneurship has made great strides, and I am fortunate to be part of the HBS Entrepreneurial Management Unit, whose more than thirty faculty members have led the School to a... View Details
Shirish Nimgaonkar
entrepreneurial companies with significant growth and successful exits. Shirish was also a Managing Director at a global investment bank, where he advised several leading high growth technology companies... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
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Perception versus Reality
foundation for the Entrepreneurial Management Unit, now home to 35 faculty members whose intellectual output over the past decade notably includes 102 books and 1,231 cases. (For more HBS entrepreneurship... View Details
- 19 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Expensing Options Won’t Hurt High Tech
hardship for entrepreneurial high-tech firms that do not have the cash to attract and retain the engineers and executives who translate entrepreneurial ideas into profitable, long-term growth. This argument... View Details
- 15 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Founding CEO’s Dilemma: Stay or Go?
Noam Wasserman is an assistant professor and MBA Class of 1961 Fellow in the entrepreneurial management unit at Harvard Business School. His paper "Founder-CEO Succession and the Paradox of View Details
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Pato Bichara
What’s the one thing you’re most excited about learning at HBS? I love my Entrepreneurial Manager class. We get to see a ton of different cases about how people start and grow companies – we see the... View Details
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