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  • 12 Oct 2022
  • Video

Laura N Montoya: The Global Cultural Lens of AI

    The Everything Token: How NFTs and Web3 Will Transform the Way We Buy, Sell, and Create

    A Harvard Business School professor and a16z crypto research partner and a career marketer and Web3 entrepreneur demystify the coming digital revolution, showing how NFTs will transform our online and offline... View Details
    • August 2022 (Revised November 2024)
    • Case

    Sweet Teez Bakery: Projecting the Dough's Rise

    By: Emily R. McComb, Mel Martin and Amy Klopfenstein
    In 2021, the HBS Impact Investment Fund student team met with entrepreneur Teresa Maynard, who had applied for a $25,000 impact investment loan. The students thought the former Harvard Data Scientist’s bakery business, Sweet Teez Bakery, showed promise. Maynard had... View Details
    Keywords: Impact Investment; Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship; Finance; Investment; Goods and Commodities; Financial Reporting; Small Business; Food and Beverage Industry; United States; Massachusetts
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    • Fall 2017
    • Article

    The Alternative Business History: Business in Emerging Markets

    By: Gareth Austin, Carlos Davila and Geoffrey Jones
    This article suggests that the business history of emerging markets should be seen as an alternative business history rather than merely adding new settings to explore established core debates. The discipline of business history evolved around the corporate strategies... View Details
    Keywords: Globalization; History; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Developing Countries and Economies; Business History; Asia; Latin America; Africa
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    • April 2009 (Revised May 2017)
    • Case

    Skyhook Wireless

    By: Shikhar Ghosh and Thomas R. Eisenmann
    Ted Morgan, the founder of Skyhook Wireless just received a call from Steve Jobs of Apple asking for a meeting. Ted must decide how to prepare for a meeting that could finally give Skyhook an anchor customer. Ted and his team have worked for three years to build a new... View Details
    Keywords: Mobile and Wireless Technology; Information Technology; Business Ventures; Business Startups; Technology Industry
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    • January 2002
    • Article

    Organizational Endowments and the Performance of University Start-ups

    By: Scott Shane and Toby E. Stuart
    The question of how initial resource endowments—the stocks of resources that entrepreneurs contribute to their new ventures at the time of founding—affect organizational life chances is one of significant interest in organizational ecology, evolutionary... View Details
    Keywords: Resource Allocation; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Research; Company History; Initial Public Offering; Venture Capital; Financing and Loans
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      Risks, Opportunities, And Investments In The Era Of Climate Change (ROICC)

      The MBA course on "Risks, Opportunities, and Investments in an Era of Climate Change" is ideal for students who aspire to become entrepreneurs by starting their own company or joining a start-up that is driving innovation and solving challenges posed by climate change.... View Details
      • January 2025 (Revised April 2025)
      • Case

      Blue Frontier: Disrupting Air Conditioning

      By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jacob A. Small
      Serial entrepreneur Daniel Betts founded Blue Frontier in South Florida to offer a climate-friendly solution to increase air conditioning efficiency and dehumidify using new technology he developed. Backed by significant venture capital, Blue Frontier had to choose... View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Technological Innovation; Market Entry and Exit; Performance Efficiency; Business Strategy; Florida
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      • 07 Mar 2011
      • Research & Ideas

      Why Companies Fail—and How Their Founders Can Bounce Back

      Most companies fail. It's an unsettling fact for bright-eyed entrepreneurs, but old news to start-up veterans. But here's the good news: Experienced entrepreneurs know that running a company that eventually fails can actually help a... View Details
      Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
      • Web

      Programs & Resources - Entrepreneurship

      Programs & Resources For MBA Students Successful entrepreneurs understand the essential value of experience, both inside and outside the classroom. Discover programs, courses, and resources to help guide you through your HBS... View Details
      • November–December 2019
      • Article

      Pivoting Isn't Enough? Managing Strategic Reorientation in New Ventures

      By: Rory McDonald and Cheng Gao
      New ventures often experience deviations from their plans that oblige them to reorient in pursuit of better fit between their evolving products and their target customers. Yet research is largely silent on how managers explain such changes and justify their ventures in... View Details
      Keywords: Strategic Reorientation; Technology Entrepreneurship; Innovation; Product Development Processes; Organizational Adaptation; Qualitative Methods (General); Entrepreneurship; Information Technology; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Strategy; Innovation and Invention; Product Development; Communication Strategy
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      Seeking the Roots of Entrepreneurship: Insights from Behavioral Economics

      By: Thomas Astebro, Holger Herz, Ramana Nanda and Roberto A. Weber
      There is a growing body of evidence that many entrepreneurs seem to enter and persist in entrepreneurship despite earning low risk-adjusted returns. This has lead to attempts to provide explanations—using both standard economic theory and behavioral economics—for why... View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Personal Characteristics; Attitudes; Behavior
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      • 12 Oct 2022
      • Video

      Candice Morgan: Navigating Inclusive Strategy in Tech

        The Money of Invention: How Venture Capital Creates New Wealth

        When the economy was booming and dot-coms were flying high, venture capitalists were admired as impresarios of innovation. Then the market tanked, start-ups fizzled, and those same deal-makers were rebuked as predators out for a quick score. So... View Details
        • 17 Jan 2023
        • In Practice

        8 Trends to Watch in 2023

        As 2023 begins, businesses and employees face an uncertain economy and labor market, as the twin dilemmas of inflation and interest rates weigh on forecasts. Harvard Business School faculty share the top trends that they believe will shape the workplace and markets... View Details
        Keywords: by Avery Forman
        • 25 May 2010
        • First Look

        First Look: May 25

        provides students an opportunity to discuss how entrepreneurs create markets for novel products, and how they can consolidate their position. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/810091-PDF-ENG CityCenter (C): Turmoil... View Details
        Keywords: Martha Lagace
        • Web

        MBA Experience | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

        a social entrepreneur different from a traditional entrepreneur? At HBS Social Enterprise Initiative, we’ve continued to explore this question—and now, through a new free online HarvardX course developed... Meet the 2025 New Venture... View Details
        • 06 Jun 2024
        • Research & Ideas

        How Younger Immigrants Gain an Edge in American Business

        they have a particular type of early career experience?” You Might Also Like: Why Progress on Immigration Might Soften Labor Pains How Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric Crushed Crowdfunding for Minority Entrepreneurs Why Aren’t Business... View Details
        Keywords: by Rachel Layne
        • TeachingInterests

        Investing for Impact

        By: Archie L. Jones

        The Field Course: Investing for Impact was born out of the efforts of HBS students and faculty in the spring of 2020 and offered for the first time in fall semester of 2021.

        This course seeks to help students understand why certain... View Details

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        Enduring Success

        By: Howard H. Stevenson
        Harvard Business School graduates have achieved many different kinds of success as leaders of businesses, as entrepreneurs and in their public and private lives. After authoring or co-authoring 150 cases, serving on many corporate and non- profit boards, Howard... View Details