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  • 03 Oct 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Why a Failed Startup Might Be Good for Your Career After All

the VC firm risk supporting an entrepreneur with a questionable track record? A recent paper might contain the answer. Entrepreneurs coming off an initial VC-backed failure often see their careers accelerate... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Jun 2024
  • In Practice

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2024

As the vacation season looms, Harvard Business School faculty members share recommendations for a little light reading. Spoiler alert: Lessons in Chemistry tops two of their beach-read lists. For those whose brains can’t—or won’t—turn off, HBS faculty also suggest some... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 14 Nov 2023
  • What Do You Think?

Do We Underestimate the Importance of Generosity in Leadership?

column Do Leaders Learn More From Success or Failure? If memorability is a measure, leaders appear to learn more from failure than from success. Dan Wallace emailed me about a case he remembered in an HBS class about an entrepreneur who... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • Web

Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship - Health Care

closely with leading biotech industry and biomedical authorities, receive programmatic guidance and mentorship, and join a community of entrepreneurs shaping the future of science. “ Bringing life science innovations to the global... View Details
  • TeachingInterests

Digital Innovation and Transformation – MBA Elective Curriculum

By: Feng Zhu
 

Digital Innovation and Transformation is designed to equip students to confidently help conceive, lead and execute digital innovation initiatives and develop new business models for existing and insurgent organizations. The basic premise of the course... View Details

  • August 2008 (Revised March 2010)
  • Case

Finland's S Group: Competing with a Cooperative Approach to Retail

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Tarun Khanna, Samuli Skurnik and Jordan Mitchell
The case looks at the two dominant Finnish retailers: S Group and Kesko. S Group is a customer-owned cooperative, which has a unique holding structure whereby 1.7 million residents (or 70 percent of Finnish households) own 22 regional cooperatives. In turn, the... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Cooperative Ownership; Public Ownership; Competitive Advantage; Retail Industry; Finland
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  • March 2006 (Revised May 2009)
  • Case

Entrepreneurial Insights

By: Joseph L. Bower and Sonya Hout
Presents a matrix of 42 video clips of interviews with seven entrepreneurial managers answering the same six questions about their experiences building their companies. The individual entrepreneurs (Vittorio Merloni, Merloni Elettrodomestici; Alex d'Arbeloff, Teradyne,... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Leadership; Business or Company Management; Managerial Roles; Personal Characteristics
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    GUINNANE, T.; MARTÍNEZ-RODRÍGUEZ, S. (2018) “Choice of Enterprise Form: Spain, 1886-1936.” Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization, 34(1), 1-26.

    Every new firm selects a legal form. Organizing as a corporation, a limited company, or a partnership shapes the firm’s access to capital markets, its governance arrangements and tax liabilities, and its treatment in bankruptcy. We use multinomial choice models... View Details
    • Research Summary

    Bringing Individuals Back In: The Effects of Career Experience on New Firm Founding (forthcoming Industrial and Corporate Change, 2003)

    By: Rakesh Khurana
    In this paper (with Scott Shane) the link between the career experiences of potential entrepreneurs and the decision to found a new firm is explored. Because of methodological and theoretical obstacles, sociological research on organizational foundings has largely... View Details
    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    Business Experiments as Persuasion

    By: Orie Shelef, Rebecca Karp and Robert Wuebker
    Much of the prior work on experimentation rests upon the assumption that entrepreneurs and managers use—or should optimally adopt—a "scientific approach" to test possible decisions before making them. This paper offers an alternative view of experimental strategy,... View Details
    Keywords: Experimentation; Entrepreneurship; Strategy; Decision Making; Innovation Strategy
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    • 2004
    • Working Paper

    The Accidental Entrepreneur: The Emergent and Collective Process of User Entrepreneurship

    We develop a process model of how users, an understudied source of entrepreneurship, create, evaluate, share, and commercialize their ideas. We compare and contrast our model to the classic model of the entrepreneurial process, highlighting the emergent and collective... View Details
    Keywords: Customers; Commercialization; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention
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    • September 2015
    • Supplement

    Kaweyan: Female Entrepreneurship and the Past and Future of Afghanistan (B)

    By: Geoffrey Jones and Gayle Tzemach Lemmon
    This (B) case takes up the story of the Afghan female entrepreneur Kamila Sidiqi between 2009 and 2015. The case opens with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry praising her achievements at a State Department dinner in March 2015 for the newly elected President of... View Details
    Keywords: Business or Company Management; Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career; Gender; Afghanistan
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    • 06 Jul 2010
    • Research & Ideas

    Renewable Energy: Winds at Our Back?

    When American energy entrepreneur Jim Gordon envisioned the first offshore wind farm lining the horizon a few miles off the coast of the eastern United States, he perhaps did not factor in blowback from almost every angle. Gordon's nearly 10-year battle to gain... View Details
    Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities
    • March 2016
    • Teaching Plan

    Emaar: The Center of Tomorrow, Today

    By: Sid Yog, Esel Cekin and Marc Homsy
    Starting in 1997, Mohammad Alabbar, Chairman of Emaar, has been largely associated with Dubai's most renowned real estate projects: the world's tallest building, largest mall and biggest fountain show. Emaar's pioneering success attracted a large number of private... View Details
    Keywords: Middle East; United Arab Emirates; Egypt; Dubai; Real Estate; Finance; Emaar; Public Real Estate Company; Market Entry and Exit; Competitive Strategy; Financial Condition; Entrepreneurship; Global Strategy; Real Estate Industry; Dubai
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    • 2014
    • Working Paper

    Finance and Social Responsibility in the Informal Economy: Institutional Voids, Globalization and Microfinance Institutions

    By: Hao Liang, Christopher Marquis and Sunny Li Sun
    We examine the heterogeneous effects of globalization on the interest rate setting by microfinance institutions (MFIs) around the world. We consider MFIs as a mechanism to overcome the institutional void of credit for small entrepreneurs in developing and emerging... View Details
    Keywords: Institutional Voids; Microfinance Institutions; Economic Globalization; Social Globalization; Microfinance; Globalization; Developing Countries and Economies
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    • 11 Apr 2023
    • Op-Ed

    The First 90 Hours: What New CEOs Should—and Shouldn't—Do to Set the Right Tone

    for Entrepreneurs Preparing for the Next Stage Want to Build Better Leaders? Focus on Mindset, Skills, Knowledge Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image: iStockphoto/FatCamera View Details
    Keywords: by John Quelch
    • Web

    Research Areas - Doctoral

    international ventures; the environments in which entrepreneurs make decisions; and social entrepreneurship. 4. Performance Measurement and Outcomes scholars study drivers and effectiveness of performance measurement and management... View Details
    • 23 Jul 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    Sam Walton: Great From the Start

    "done everything right," yet his reward was exile. Many another great entrepreneur suffered similar setbacks. Many made mistakes for which they had only themselves to blame. Many encountered situations in which their failure to... View Details
    Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow; Retail
    • Teaching Interest

    Transforming Education through Social Entrepreneurship

    By: John Jong-Hyun Kim

    This course is designed for students who want to understand the central role that education plays in our economy and society and who may want to play an active role (e.g., as entrepreneur, board member, etc.) in shaping the future workforce, bringing about a more... View Details

    Keywords: Education Entrepreneurship; Entrepreneurship; Education; Education Industry
    • Research Summary

    Overview

    By: Natalia Rigol
    My research focuses primarily on how to design, target, and deliver financial products to the poor, and, in particular, how financial inclusion can improve the socio-economic position of women. My projects have analyzed how the design and delivery of microfinance... View Details