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  • 13 Nov 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Corporate Venturing: Entrepreneurship on the Inside

Can big companies ride the entrepreneurial tiger to transformation and renewal? Yes, said participants in the panel discussion "Corporate Venturing: Entrepreneurship on the Inside" at the HBS Entrepreneurship Conference. But... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
  • 21 Nov 2016
  • Research & Ideas

It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales

senior executives specializing in everything except sales. “The number of executives reporting to the CEO in the average S&P 500 company has doubled in the last 20 years,” says Frank V. Cespedes, a senior lecturer in the View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 05 Nov 2009
  • Research & Ideas

A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?

allows programs to compete for donations and sell their services to specimen users. In the past decade, legal for-profit or non-profit entrepreneurial ventures alongside traditional procuring programs in... View Details
Keywords: by Michel Anteby; Health
  • 26 Mar 2013
  • First Look

First Look: March 26

  Publications International Marketing Review Achievement Motivation, Strategic Orientations and Business Performance in Entrepreneurial Firms: How Different Are Japanese and American Founders? By: Deshpandé, Rohit, Amir Grinstein, Elie... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Nov 2010
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Connecting Goals and Go-To-Market Initiatives

development, incentives, people management, developing a performance culture, and sustaining that culture in the face of inevitable market changes that are often outside the control of the selling company. And it's increasingly a bigger... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
  • 16 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: October 16, 2007

firms aim to replicate success, and how they find, foster, and sell potential blockbuster products. Also illustrates how similar efforts by competitors increase each firm's dependence on a handful of hits. Contains detailed unique... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Jan 2014
  • First Look

First Look: January 21

Benjamin G., and Michael Luca Abstract—Online marketplaces often contain information not only about products, but also about the people selling the products. In an effort to facilitate trust, many platforms encourage sellers to provide... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Oct 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: The Good Struggle: Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World

reactions in the markets for funding, talent, partners, and meaning. Evolving commitments have always been central to entrepreneurial success. Leaders of new organizations have never been able to see very far into the future. They have... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph L. Badaracco
  • 13 Aug 2014
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Managing the Family Business: Entrepreneurs Needed for Long-Run Success

regularly change what you make and sell, and probably how you make and sell it. You must be nimble and, as certain lines of business wane, be able to identify growth opportunities in and out of the core industry and pursue them in... View Details
Keywords: by Michael J. Roberts
  • 21 Dec 2015
  • Op-Ed

Without Immigrants, We Wouldn't Have Google

Fisher, Jurvetson, can serve as an example. In 1995 he and his partners heard a proposal from two coworkers who aspired to be entrepreneurs, Sabeer Bhatia, a native of India, and Jack Smith. Though lacking any entrepreneurial experience,... View Details
Keywords: by Shane Greenstein; Information Technology
  • 03 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 3

the economic consequences of clusters. We identify and discuss policies that are being pursued in the United States to encourage local entrepreneurship and innovation. While arguments exist for and against policy support of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Oct 2014
  • Research & Ideas

The Coffee Economy That Bloomed Out of Nowhere

her academic career studying the coffee economy of southern Mexico in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. While her geographical focus is narrow, her research yields insights into export economies—and broad lessons for anyone building an View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Food & Beverage; Agriculture & Agribusiness
  • 13 Jan 2015
  • First Look

First Look: January 13

highlight the traits of cities (e.g., size, industrial diversity) that theoretical and empirical work link to innovation, and we discuss factors that help sustain these features (e.g., the localization of entrepreneurial finance).... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Apr 2011
  • First Look

First Look: April 12

assignment of students into business school sections that have varying numbers of classmates with prior entrepreneurial experience. We find that the presence of entrepreneurial peers strongly predicts... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Dec 2006
  • First Look

First Look: December 5, 2006

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=107028 The Virtual Entrepreneurial Team Exercise—VETE; Overview and Instructions for Participants Harvard Business School Note 806-158   PublicationsCRM Implementation:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Nov 1999
  • Research & Ideas

The Future of the Venture Capital Cycle

magnitude of fundamental technological innovation in the economy, the presence of liquid and competitive markets for venture capitalists to sell their investments (whether markets for stock offerings or acquisitions), and the willingness... View Details
Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner; Financial Services
  • 23 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 23

presents first-person accounts from employees regarding their reasons for resigning, and then asks whether CloudFlare's cofounders should take any corrective actions. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/813145-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 813-155 The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Mar 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]

Faced with accepting $20 million less than anticipated from the stock offering, she told the class, the company never hesitated. It had chosen to go public in mid-2000—after two years of existence and two quarters of selling its Visor... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
  • 26 Nov 2012
  • Research & Ideas

New Winners and Losers in the Internet Economy

including Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo!, saw slower job growth than did smaller entrepreneurial ventures. Sole proprietors and super-small firms enjoyed some of the biggest employment gains: For example, as many as 35,000 full-time... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Publishing
  • 26 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019

strategies aimed at improving working conditions in global supply chains. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51347 Harvard Business School Case 919-411 AIME High: A Social Entrepreneur's Moon Shot Describes the View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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