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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
In 1947, Professor Myles Mace, a pioneer in the study of entrepreneurship and corporate governance, introduced a unique offering into the MBA curriculum called The Management of New Enterprises. Believed to be the first View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 10 May 2015
- Blog Post
Brand Strategist Turns Entrepreneur
off last spring. What did you do before coming to HBS? Before HBS I served as a brand strategy and market research consultant for retail, media and technology firms. For about five years, I thoroughly enjoyed advising clients on topics... View Details
- 15 Apr 2014
- News
Bertarelli Foundation Gift Names Deans' Health & Life Sciences Challenge Prize
Dean Nitin Nohria has announced that the Bertarelli Foundation of Switzerland, cochaired by Ernesto Bertarelli (MBA 1993), has established the Bertarelli Foundation Health & Life Sciences Entrepreneurship Fund with a generous gift to... View Details
- Career Coach
Sasha Grinshpun
Sasha (HBS '02) combines her gift for quickly gauging life passions of HBSers with her experience in formulating effective job searches for them to score their dream jobs. Her eclectic background spanning consulting, design thinking, and entrepreneurial ventures puts... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Business Plan Contest Winners
and technology taught by HBS professors Vicki Sato and Lee Fleming. DFA also won MIT’s $100K Entrepreneurship Competition, the first nonprofit to do so; it is also the first team to win both the Harvard and... View Details
- 11 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
Guts and Bliss: The Entrepreneur’s Journey
layoffs, though, only one person among the six panelists had retreated to a traditional consultancy in 2001. The rest—who started everything from a women-centric financial services group to a natural products company that grew from a candle business—said that they had... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Who is Boss in the Sharing Economy?
than traditional businesses that employ their workers. And so it seemed until June, when the California Labor Commission disrupted the sharing economy when it declared that an Uber driver was an employee, not an independent contractor. Far from being a "neutral View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
A Growing Drumbeat
Issue Focus: Entrepreneurship Strength In Numbers: Andrew Rosenthal, Jess Bloomgarden, and Dan Rumennik of the HBS Start-Up Tribe, a student-led group with the goal of increasing the number of successful new businesses launched from HBS.... View Details
Keywords: Contests
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
aware of the links between entrepreneurship and technological progress. He saw the work of his company as bringing together two elements of enormous significance. "One of these elements," he said in 1966,... View Details
- 16 Sep 2024
- News
Life Preserver
funding for research into cryopreservation and connect scientists in the field. After leaving the Alliance, he founded two venture capital–backed, public benefit corporations—Ossium Health, a bone marrow bank (which he left in 2018), and Sylvatica Biotech, which... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Ghosh Is Entrepreneur in Residence
Shikhar Ghosh (MBA ’80) has been named the HBS entrepreneur in residence for 2005–06. A veteran of the technology sector, he was chosen by BusinessWeek and Forbes as one of the leading Internet and View Details
- November 2022
- Case
Para: Pay Transparency and Gig Drivers' Rights
By: Christopher Stanton and George Gonzalez
The case presents the founding vision and early days of a young startup that seeks to empower delivery drivers with tools and transparency. The company's flagship mobile app has been taken up by tens of thousands of delivery drivers across major U.S. cities who use it... View Details
Keywords: Gig Workers; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Applications and Software; Disruptive Innovation; Compensation and Benefits; Technology Industry; San Francisco
Stanton, Christopher, and George Gonzalez. "Para: Pay Transparency and Gig Drivers' Rights." Harvard Business School Case 823-072, November 2022.
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
A Message from Dean Clark
technology will play a role in a new initiative that has grown out of the strong interest many of our students have in entrepreneurship and high tech-businesses. This January, our Intensive Field Study... View Details
Keywords: Educational Services
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
To Market, to Market
donor), the Blavatnik Biomedical Accelerator identifies early-stage, highly promising technologies developed by Harvard University faculty, then helps those selected navigate the early stages of development so that they can go to market... View Details
- October 2016 (Revised October 2023)
- Case
Bootstrapping at Lightricks
By: Robert White, Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Christine Snively
By August 2015, two-year-old mobile imaging software startup Lightricks had developed and released two best-selling paid mobile apps, grown to a team of 30, earned a revenue run rate of nearly $10 million, and achieved modest profitability. The bootstrapped company had... View Details
Keywords: Business Startup; Information Technology; Internet and the Web; Entrepreneurship; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Information Infrastructure; Business Startups; Digital Marketing; Finance; Strategy; Technology Industry; Israel
White, Robert, Jeffrey J. Bussgang, and Christine Snively. "Bootstrapping at Lightricks." Harvard Business School Case 817-051, October 2016. (Revised October 2023.)
- October 2019 (Revised January 2020)
- Background Note
Evolution of the Drone Industry
By: Rory McDonald, Andy Wu, Emilie Billaud and Ryan Bayer
This note focuses on the development of the drone industry in recent years and provides insights on the drone technology, regulations, applications, market size, top players, and ecosystem. This note was written in conjunction with the case study “Parrot: Navigating... View Details
Keywords: Drones; Information Technology; Disruption; Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Engineering; Product Development; Technology Industry; Asia; Europe; North America; United States
McDonald, Rory, Andy Wu, Emilie Billaud, and Ryan Bayer. "Evolution of the Drone Industry." Harvard Business School Background Note 620-053, October 2019. (Revised January 2020.)
- 18 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Unseen Link Between Savings and National Growth
It is commonly accepted in economic circles that a country can grow faster by making key investments in sectors such as technology and in R&D and human or physical capital. But can a country also grow by saving more? A recent working... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Vision: Sound Science
at HBS.” Simons saw entrepreneurship as “the best path to translate breakthrough research into something that can help people.” He launched Akouos (Greek, for “to listen”) with a realistic attitude about risk and a flexible definition of... View Details
Keywords: Deb Blagg
- 11 Dec 2014
- News
Fashion's Retail Revolution
making entrepreneurship in fashion retail more possible and more attractive: globalization and the digital disruption of the shopping experience,” says Khaire, who studies entrepreneurship in creative... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Creating connections among consumers
embraced technology and tools that make it easier for members to access reviews and deals. “Our members want help with hiring decisions that have a high cost of failure if done improperly, so they’re happy to pay for reliable... View Details