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  • 31 Aug 2016
  • News

Obama to guest-edit Wired magazine's November issue

  • Video

Geoffrey Jones, Author of Beauty Imagined, Part 1

  • February 2021
  • Article

A Dynamic Theory of Multiple Borrowing

By: Daniel Green and Ernest Liu
Multiple borrowing—a borrower obtains overlapping loans from multiple lenders—is a common phenomenon in many credit markets. We build a highly tractable, dynamic model of multiple borrowing and show that, because overlapping creditors may impose default externalities... View Details
Keywords: Commitment; Multiple Borrowing; Common Agency; Misallocation; Microfinance; Investment; Mathematical Methods
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  • February 2008
  • Case

SPECIALISTERNE: Sense & Details

Three-quarters of Specialisterne's expert software testing staff are diagnosed with some form of Autistic Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Usually a handicap, ASD conveys talents especially suited to software testing and other highly repetitive tasks that require very high... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Health Disorders; Employees; Performance Evaluation; Quality; Software; Information Technology Industry
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  • September 2005 (Revised May 2006)
  • Case

iMergent (A)

iMergent's core business consists of proprietary virtual storefront software aimed at small businesses and entrepreneurs. For idea-rich entrepreneurs who lack technological skills, iMergent provides an all-inclusive program that covers all needs from order processing... View Details
Keywords: Analysis; Financial Statements
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  • 16 Dec 2014
  • News

The Power of Market Creation

  • 21 Aug 2023
  • Book

You’re More Than Your Job: 3 Tips for a Healthier Work-Life Balance

this can feel, there’s also an amount of agency and growth that I think is really freeing.” You Might Also Like: When a Vacation Isn’t Enough, a Sabbatical Can Recharge Your Life—and Your Career Time to Move On? Career Advice for View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
  • February 2010
  • Case

Go Mobile: The Phirbol Franchise

By: Rajiv Lal and Natalie Kindred
To grow Phirbol, a telecom retail franchise chain in Delhi, India's underdeveloped markets, its founders were exploring ways to offer more value to the franchisees. In mid-2009, the Phirbol franchise was comprised of some 150 franchisees that had converted their small... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Business Startups; Innovation and Management; Brands and Branding; Service Operations; Franchise Ownership; Value Creation; Telecommunications Industry; Delhi
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  • 2016
  • Working Paper

Alternative Paths of Green Entrepreneurship: The Environmental Legacies of The North Face's Doug Tompkins and Patagonia's Yvon Chouinard

By: Geoffrey Jones and Ben Gettinger
This working paper examines the impact of two entrepreneurs who offered alternative paths to reach their shared goal of a more sustainable world. Yvon Chouinard and Doug Tompkins were respective founders of the prominent outdoor apparel brands Patagonia and The North... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Entrepreneurship; Environmental Sustainability; Apparel and Accessories Industry
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  • 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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    Myra M. Hart

    Myra Hart's research focus is high potential entrepreneurship.  She has taught MBA and executive programs, co-chaired the entrepreneurship unit, and led several HBS initiatives. As a founding memberView Details

    Keywords: consumer products; e-commerce industry; education industry; real estate; retailing
    • January 2024
    • Article

    Fencing Off Silicon Valley: Cross-Border Venture Capital and Technology Spillovers

    By: Ufuk Akcigit, Sina T. Ates, Josh Lerner, Richard Townsend and Yulia Zhestkova
    The treatment of foreign investors is a contentious topic in U.S. entrepreneurship policy. We model a setting where foreign corporate investments in Silicon Valley may allow U.S. entrepreneurs to pursue technologies that they could not otherwise, but may also lead to... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation; Corporate Venture Capital; Knowledge Spillovers; Foreign Direct Investment; Innovation and Invention; Venture Capital; Entrepreneurship; Policy
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    • May 2021
    • Article

    Mutual Funds as Venture Capitalists? Evidence from Unicorns

    By: Josh Lerner, Sergey Chernenko and Yao Zeng
    The past decade saw the rise of both “founder-friendly” venture financings and non-traditional investors, frequently with liquidity constraints. Using detailed contract data, we study open-end mutual funds investing in private venture-backed firms. We posit an... View Details
    Keywords: Investment Funds; Investment; Business Startups; Venture Capital; Private Equity; Governance
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    • September 2019
    • Article

    Household Matters: Revisiting the Returns to Capital Among Female Microentrepreneurs

    By: Arielle Bernhardt, Erica Field, Rohini Pande and Natalia Rigol
    Multiple field experiments report positive financial returns to capital shocks for male and not female microentrepreneurs. But these analyses overlook the fact that female entrepreneurs often reside with male entrepreneurs. Using data from experiments in India, Sri... View Details
    Keywords: Capital Return; Entrepreneurship; Gender; Household; Capital
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    • 2015
    • Case

    Advanced Leadership Pathways: Howard Fischer, Eric Jacobsen, and Gratitude Railroad's Impact Investing

    By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Daniel Lennox-Choate
    In 2013, Howard Fischer (hedge fund founder) and Eric Jacobsen (serial entrepreneur and private equity investor) established Gratitude Railroad as a community of impact investors in nine different "tracks." Each track represented a different concept for using... View Details
    Keywords: Impact Investing; Environmental And Social Sustainability; Social Change; Sustainable Business And Innovation; Investment; Social Issues; Environmental Sustainability; Venture Capital; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Leadership; United States
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    • May 2010
    • Article

    Managing the New Primary Care: The New Skills That Will Be Needed

    By: Richard Bohmer
    Developing new models of primary care will demand a level of managerial expertise that few of today's primary care physicians possess. Yet medical schools continue to focus on the basic sciences, to the exclusion of such managerial topics as running effective teams.... View Details
    Keywords: Higher Education; Health Care and Treatment; Management Skills; Managerial Roles; Service Delivery; Practice; Health Industry
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    • 22 Oct 2010
    • News

    Harvard Business School Launches Second Annual Alumni New Venture Contest

    • 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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