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New Founder Series Lessons from Entrepreneurial Failure

  • 15 Aug 2019
  • Blog Post

The Social Enterprise Initiative at HBS

HBS—each MBA can “choose her own adventure” and “create his own path”. Our students and alums are asking big questions about how to have an impact—which looks very different for different people. I’ve been heartened to learn the extent to which every View Details
  • 2009
  • Other Unpublished Work

When Does Industrial Policy Work? Evidence from the Brazilian Ethanol Fuel Industry

By: Santiago Mingo and Tarun Khanna
What is the impact of a state-led industrial policy program on entrepreneurial activity, industry evolution, and firm competitiveness? How and when is industrial policy an effective tool to spur the development of an emerging industry? To address these questions, we... View Details
Keywords: Economic Growth; Entrepreneurship; Policy; Industry Growth; Business and Government Relations; Competition; Energy Industry; Brazil
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    Gerald C. Chertavian

    Gerald Chertavian is the Founder of Year Up, one of the nation’s largest and most effective youth workforce development programs. Chertavian was a successful technology entrepreneur and Wall Street banker, but it was through his many years as a Big Brother... View Details

    • September 1989
    • Case

    Steve Shirley

    By: Shoshana Zuboff
    Traces the career development of a well-known British entrepreneur who, as a young girl, was forced to flee the Nazi's occupation of Central Europe. Details her early work experiences in the heavily male dominated workplace of post-war Britain and follows the... View Details
    Keywords: Work-Life Balance; Entrepreneurship; Gender; Great Britain
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    • February 1989
    • Background Note

    Note on Attracting Stakeholders

    By: Amar Bhide and Howard H. Stevenson
    Acquiring resources--or to put it more broadly, attracting stakeholders--is a basic entrepreneurial task. While every enterprise needs employees, customers, suppliers, and financiers who are willing to risk their time and money, attracting these "stakeholders" to an... View Details
    Keywords: Business Ventures; Customers; Entrepreneurship; Investment; Human Resources; Organizational Design; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Risk and Uncertainty
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    • 02 Feb 2018
    • Video

    HBX Live Case Discussion w/ Professor Steven Rogers

    • 12 Nov 2020
    • Video

    New Founder Series: Lessons from Entrepreneurial Failure

    • Web

    Faculty & Advisors | MBA

    is a physician-scientist and life sciences entrepreneur currently serving as President and Head of Corporate Strategy and Business Development for Scorpion Therapeutics, an oncology-focused precision medicine biotechnology company. He... View Details
    • Other Article

    My Favorite Slide: The Entrepreneurial Gap Applied to Health Care

    By: Robert S. Kaplan and Robert Simons
    Value-based health care increases physicians’ accountability for patient outcomes. Many have resisted, claiming that patient outcomes are influenced by many forces outside their control, such as patient’s compliance with post-acute and rehab care. The difference... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Outcome or Result; Motivation and Incentives
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    • November 2016 (Revised November 2016)
    • Case

    Radial Analytics Probes Post-Acute Care

    By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Olivia Hull
    Thaddeus Fulford-Jones and Eric Weiss, founders of healthcare technology startup Radial Analytics, have been busy developing a software program designed to save hospitals money and improve patient outcomes by producing customized care plans for patients leaving the... View Details
    Keywords: Electronic Medical Records; Electronic Health Records; Data Science; Entrepreneurship; Health Care and Treatment; Business Model; Business Startups; Innovation and Invention; Growth Management; Marketing Strategy; Product Launch; Product Positioning; Science-Based Business; Business Strategy; Health Industry; Technology Industry; Cambridge; Massachusetts
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    • August 2013
    • Case

    Desi Shack: Location Choice in the Big Apple

    By: William R. Kerr and Alexis Brownell
    Desi Shack is a “fast casual” restaurant, started by two HBS alumni, that serves Indian and Pakistani cuisine in midtown Manhattan. The founders are looking to expand into a second location and also plan to hire a COO, and there is very little room for error in the... View Details
    Keywords: Restaurant; New York City; Location Choice; Entrepreneurship; Food; Geographic Location; Food and Beverage Industry; New York (city, NY)
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    • September 1999
    • Case

    Trisha Wilson of Wilson & Associates

    By: Teresa M. Amabile and Sarah S. Khetani
    Texan entrepreneur Trisha Wilson has founded an interior design firm and watched it grow into one of the most successful firms in the hospitality design services industry. After 20 years of building a company that is truly a reflection of her own personality, Wilson... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Employees; Innovation and Management; Management; Business or Company Management; Management Succession; Organizational Culture; Strategy; Service Industry; Texas
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    • May 1992
    • Case

    Sunday River Ski Resort

    By: Leonard A. Schlesinger and Martha Epstein
    Sunday River is a ski area in Bethel, ME which has been run by entrepreneur Les Otten since 1980. The year before Otten purchased the area, it posted a loss of $235,000 on revenues of $541,000. Under Otten's leadership, however, Sunday River posted year after year of... View Details
    Keywords: Service Delivery; Competitive Advantage; Entrepreneurship; Success; Transformation; Tourism Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Maine
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    • 18 Mar 2009
    • News

    How to Innovate in a Downturn

    • 22 Feb 2022
    • News

    When Losing Money Is Strategic—and When It Isn’t

    • September 2016
    • Case

    Hotel Vertu: Analyzing the Opportunity in the Boutique Hotel Industry

    By: Howard H. Stevenson and Michael J. Roberts DBA
    Two soon-to-be MBA graduates are considering a business opportunity in the boutique hotel industry. Having found a seemingly attractive property in Savannah, Georgia, Yvonne D'Arcy and Elisabeth Whiting face questions about career issues, planning, financing, and the... View Details
    Keywords: Business Ventures; Entrepreneurship; Planning; Accommodations Industry
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    • 09 Jul 2024
    • Cold Call Podcast

    Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) and Brand Building

    Keywords: Re: Scott Duke Kominers; Technology
    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    Immigrant Entrepreneurship: New Estimates and a Research Agenda

    By: Saheel Chodavadia, Sari Pekkala Kerr, William R. Kerr and Louis Maiden
    Immigrants contribute disproportionately to entrepreneurship in many countries, accounting for a quarter of new employer businesses in the US. We review recent research on the measurement of immigrant entrepreneurship, the traits of immigrant founders, their economic... View Details
    Keywords: Immigrant Employment; Immigration; Entrepreneurship; Demographics; Innovation and Invention
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    • 2020
    • Article

    Immigrant Entrepreneurship in America: Evidence from the Survey of Business Owners 2007 & 2012

    By: Sari Pekkala Kerr and William R. Kerr
    We study immigrant entrepreneurship in 2007 and 2012 using the Survey of Business Owners. First-generation immigrants create about 25% of new firms in America, but this share exceeds 40% in some states. Immigrant-owned firms tend to create fewer jobs than native-owned... View Details
    Keywords: Job Creation; Employee Benefits; Owner Demographics; Exports; Outsourcing; Immigration; Entrepreneurship; Ownership; Demographics; Jobs and Positions; Compensation and Benefits; United States
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