Entrepreneurs - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Counting Up the Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley

thoughtful and allow for experimentation and performance measurement. We can't have a knee-jerk reaction and leave it only to political entrepreneurs to create the law." View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Accounting; Banking

16 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 16, 2007

user's entrepreneurial process. Users are often "accidental" entrepreneurs who happen upon an idea through their own use and then share it with others; more specifically, the development of an idea and subsequent... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Dec 2006
Research & Ideas

The Money Connection—Understanding VC Networks

recognizing entrepreneurial opportunities to raising capital to growing a business," he says. "It will also look at how the very same networks that enable some individuals to become entrepreneurs can constrain others—some women,... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services

24 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018

social impact frames on venture evaluations did not apply to men, was not due to perceptions of increased competence, and was not conditional on the gender of evaluators. Taken together, our findings demonstrate that social impact framing increases attributions of... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

20 Mar 2017
Book

Why Companies Are Placing Users at the Core of Their Innovation Strategies

software. It becomes, thirdly, a marketing mechanism, as well. You have 100, 1,000, or 10,000 people who are ready to take your product to market and evangelize for it. It’s helpful for companies and entrepreneurs to use as a mechanism to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

22 Jul 2014
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Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=47651 August 2013 Harvard Business Review Where to Launch in Africa? By: Soltes, Eugene F. Abstract—A case study in the management of new business enterprises in developing countries is examined. A... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 20

Lauder, L'Oreal, and Shiseido, have imagined beauty for us. This book provides the first authoritative history of the global beauty industry from its emergence in the nineteenth century to the present day, exploring how today's global giants grew. It shows how... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

27 Apr 2009
Research & Ideas

Building Businesses in Turbulent Times

Launching New Ventures: Jump-Starting Innovation for Entrepreneurs and Business Owners. Staff: Why is innovation important today? Lynda Applegate: The global financial crisis we are experiencing provides a sobering reminder of what... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

31 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It

book value, it is seeing something of greater worth than the physical assets recorded in financial accounts. Though the dot-com bubble burst, the exuberant and often irrational funding of technology-savvy entrepreneurs pointed to the same... View Details

Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal

20 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

Maybe Uber isn't God's Gift to Mankind

says. “Suddenly entrepreneurship is not about who can build a better mousetrap, but who can better ignore the law and develop a corporate advantage for ignoring the law. So what advice do we give students, friends, and entrepreneurs about... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Transportation; Insurance

06 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

Who Will Give You the Best Professional Guidance?

most entrepreneurs and leaders dealing with the stress of scaling their companies and balancing life’s demands. Therapists are medical professionals with extensive training who focus on an individual’s psychological, emotional, and... View Details

Keywords: by Julia B. Austin

04 Apr 2018
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Why Private Investors Must Fund 'New Nuclear' Power Right Now

Drbouz In June 2016, I gave a TED Talk called We Need Nuclear Power to Solve Climate Change. The talk discussed the world’s realistic options for reducing fossil CO2 emissions soon enough to contain climate change’s more severe effects. To my surprise, that talk has... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Lassiter; Energy; Green Technology

24 Jul 2014
Op-Ed

Reform Tax Law to Keep US Firms at Home

a) incorporation decisions by entrepreneurs that anticipate the burdens of being a US corporation, b) merger patterns that reflect the penalties of being domiciled in the US and the importance of offshore cash for US corporations, c)... View Details

Keywords: by Mihir Desai; Pharmaceutical

08 Jan 2014
What Do You Think?

Do Productivity Increases Contribute to Social Inequality?

in his book, The End of Work. More recently, Jaron Lanier concluded that job-destroying productivity leading to inequality occurs when all of us contribute information about ourselves gratis on the Internet to a few high-tech View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

02 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

Do Online Dating Platforms Help Those Who Need Them Most?

in-your-face," Piskorski explained. "Guys who are short and a little overweight are also shying away from this feature, suggesting that the feature is not helping those who search for others most." Piskorski hopes that View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology

05 Aug 2002
Research & Ideas

Are Consumers the Cure for Broken Health Insurance?

Just as we saw with the securities industry, entrepreneurs will respond to the unleashing of consumer demands with clearly differentiated products featuring various combinations of benefits, levels of insurance coverage, payment systems... View Details

Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger

15 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Rethinking E-Leadership

era are especially in need of this kind of updating. 1. Forgo stewardship for entrepreneurship. A steward, writes Robert Hargrove, co-CEO of Masterful Coaching, based in Brookline, Mass., in E-Leader, is someone who conserves the existing business. An View Details

Keywords: by Melissa Raffoni

25 Jan 2000
Research & Ideas

Strategic Alliances

frequently of paramount importance in the creation and development of cross-sector alliances. Strategic unions "need champions, or internal entrepreneurs (intrapreneurs), at high levels on both sides [who] largely determine the acceptance... View Details

Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry

04 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

Why dot.coms Will Rise Again

commonly reach into their network of contacts for the expertise they need for a given company, she observed. Based on her interviews with around seventy people—VCs, MCs, and entrepreneur teams they were coaching—and several HBS case... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

12 May 2009
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First Look: May 12, 2009

http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=409107 Dave and Millie: A Tale of Two Entrepreneurs Harvard Business School Case 809-109 Two entrepreneurs have just been told by their venture... View Details