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- 01 Jun 1998
- News
John (“Bo”) Kemp
"That grew into a desire to save, invest, and make more" - a predilection that eventually led to an interest in private-equity investing. Kemp attended Yale, where he continued his entrepreneurial efforts by creating The Greek Shop, a... View Details
- 19 Jun 2014
- News
Turning "Black Gold" to Green
turns out it's tough—particularly a multi-billion-dollar market." Professors like Joseph Lassiter and William Sahlman, and their lessons about entrepreneurial finance and the diffusion of innovations,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
his way to meet a class, places like Payatas, or the teeming streets of Calcutta, or the favelas of Rio de Janeiro — places where only the entrepreneurial survive — are never far from his mind. According to the World Bank, nearly half the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Giving Advice
key impact and operational milestones will need to include the ability to adapt your strategy as you learn more about what is actually creating impact and what will appeal to future rounds of funders. Private philanthropists will often invest risk capital in an View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
Massachusetts. During the bubble, the most valued skill was the presumed ability to predict what hot concept could go public fast. Now the pendulum has swung back to valuing entrepreneurial skills first and foremost. There’s also a... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Broad Range of Interests Among Nine New Faculty
entrepreneurial management and strategy. Anette Mikes came to HBS in 2007 as a postdoctoral fellow after earning her Ph.D. from the London School of Economics. She’s now an assistant professor in the Accounting & Management unit with a... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Letters to the Editor
joined a start-up in Seattle, the Rocket Research Corporation, where I was VP in charge of all business activities for 6 years. Then I became self-employed for 38 years as an expert witness in finance and economics in Washington and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
McCance First to Serve as Entrepreneur in Residence
McCance also worked with HBS assistant professor Noam Wasserman on issues relating to founder-CEO succession in entrepreneurial start-ups. Their research resulted in a new case, “Founder-CEO Succession at Wily Technology,” which will... View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Ideas: Books
Case Studies in International Entrepreneurship by Walter Kuemmerle (McGraw-Hill) This collection of 29 cases based on real situations compares opportunities, financing contexts, valuation approaches, and View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
reflection, he adds genetic engineering, specialty retail outlets, catalogue companies, restaurants, and superstores. But when Sahlman's attention turns to the present day, his answer is immediate and unqualified: the Internet. "In many ways, everything that has gone... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Faculty Books
entrepreneurial activities so that the mistakes of earlier efforts are not repeated. He looks at the ways governments have supported entrepreneurs and venture capitalists across decades and continents, explains why some public initiatives... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Alumni Bookshelf
computer company back into an industry leader. The Entrepreneur’s Guide to Finance and Business by Steven Rogers (MBA 1985) (McGraw-Hill) Rogers, a professor at the Kellogg School of Management, provides practical insights about View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
New Releases
the investment and financing decisions that are made during the development of entrepreneurial ventures? How about success factors for women managers, or the psychological factors that influence risk-taking?... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Research Brief: A $1.6 Trillion Rainy-Day Fund?
companies. It stood to reason that private firms, which tend to be highly leveraged, would hoard even more cash as a precaution. But according to a first-of-its-kind study by Joan Farre-Mensa an assistant professor in the Entrepreneurial... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
From social media to the grocery store to the corner office and all the way to the stratosphere, the research and entrepreneurial adventures HBS faculty, doctoral students and alumni undertook this year have changed the way we understand... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
A Growing Drumbeat
professor Bill Sahlman recalls that there were only 4 faculty members devoted to entrepreneurship when he introduced the elective Entrepreneurial Finance in 1985. “Now we have 35. The View Details
Keywords: Contests
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Capitalism’s New Agenda
the urban poor (one of CEMEX’s accomplishments in Mexico). Based on our research, we believe the time has come for companies to accept the challenge to use their entrepreneurial skills on a broader canvas. Companies today complain that... View Details
- 05 Nov 2013
- News
Start-Ups Get a Start in New Orleans
Kevin Wilkins by Constantine von Hoffman Just eight years after New Orleans was devastated by Hurricane Katrina, Kevin Wilkins (MBA 1992) says the city is poised to join Silicon Valley, Boston, and Austin (Texas) as one of the nation's View Details
- 06 Mar 2019
- News
Making Sabbaticals Mainstream
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes After HBS, DJ DiDonna (MBA 2010) immediately launched a startup: The Entrepreneurial Finance Lab, a credit-testing firm for small businesses... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Professorship Brings Brierley's HBS Connection Full Circle
writing finance cases, Brierley also volunteered to help his college fraternity find a vendor to automate its 150,000 membership records. Failing to find a specialist in the membership record-keeping arena, and recognizing an opportunity,... View Details