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Courses - Entrepreneurship

total enterprise. There are a variety of entrepreneurship related elective courses to choose from. Course Title Faculty Name Term Quarter Credits 5 Technologies that Will Change the World Shikhar Ghosh Spring 2024 Q3Q4 3.0 The American Dream and US Higher View Details

February 2023
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Enstitute

By: Lindsay N. Hyde, Thomas R. Eisenmann, Kumba Sennaar and Sarah Mehta

Shaila Ittycheria (MBA ’10) founded the nonprofit organization Enstitute, in 2012 in New York City. Determined to challenge the status quo within higher education, Shaila and her cofounder sought to expand opportunities for talented young people by placing them in... View Details

Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Operations; Business Startups; Business Growth and Maturation; Education Industry; Education Industry; United States

21 Apr 2015
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competitive system. April 2015 Strategic Management Journal The Throne vs. the Kingdom: Founder Control and Value Creation in Startups By: Wasserman, Noam Abstract—Does the degree to which founders keep control of their View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne

January 2021 (Revised March 2021)
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Jumia's Path to Profitability

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Pippa Tubman Armerding and Gamze Yucaoglu

The case opens in September 2019 as Sacha Poignonnec and Jeremy Hodara, co-founders and co-CEOs of Jumia, the leading Pan-African e-commerce platform, are contemplating the company’s path to profitability in the aftermath of a fragile investor sentiment, as the company... View Details

November 2001
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Korea-Tender

By: Das Narayandas and Kate Attea

Korea-Tender is a closed-bidding auction company trying to break even and must select the best opportunity to increase membership and revenue. It can continue its current model with heavy advertising, try to modify its costs, or develop an additional business model... View Details

Keywords: Auctions; Business Model; Advertising; Business Startups; Problems and Challenges; Marketing Strategy; Revenue; Growth and Development Strategy

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Programs & Resources - Entrepreneurship

in innovative companies around the world. THE Rock 100 Alumni New Venture Competition Rock Entrepreneurship Advisor Program YouTube Channel Executive Education Given the importance of innovation and entrepreneurship within organizations,... View Details

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Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

Culture ; Technology Industry ; United States Citation Educators Purchase Related Groysberg, Boris, and Sarah L. Abbott. "Scale AI Scales Up." Harvard Business School Case 425-082, June 2025. After the Idea: What It Really Takes to Create... View Details

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Strategy for Health Care Delivery—Virtual

for health care, or other payor organizations Leaders from pharmaceutical companies, medical device companies, or other health care supply companies—including startups and established firms Leaders in Virtual Learning This program... View Details

Keywords: Health Care; Health Care

December 2001
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Sarah Vickers-Willis: Career Decisions (A)

By: Myra M. Hart, Lynda M. Applegate, Sarah Harden and Susan Saltrick

Sarah Vickers-Willis, HBS MBA 1999, faces a critical career decision: Does she redirect the Internet start-up she helped found or join in shaping a for-profit firm with a social mission? Sarah, a young Australian business executive, has always strived to "find space"... View Details

Keywords: Decisions; Leadership; Internet and the Web; Social Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career; Gender; Business Startups

20 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 20

to have higher academic achievement and experience greater acceptance by their peers in adolescence. Despite this positive influence on educational outcomes, it is still unclear why some children are more prosocial than others in school.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Feb 2016
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February 2, 2016

Education By: Snook, Scott, and Rakesh Khurana Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50349 forthcoming Administrative Science Quarterly Environmental Demands and the Emergence of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Mar 2012
HBS Seminar

Joe Lassiter/Gordon Jones, Harvard Business School/Harvard University

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Podcast - Business & Environment

Addict TuneIn Pandora Audacy Deezer JioSaavn 30 Jul 2025 Climate Rising Designing for Resilience: with Alex Berkowitz of Coastal Protection Services This episode is another in our series on Climate Resilience featuring Alex Berkowitz, Founder and CEO of Coastal... View Details

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Organizational Behavior - Faculty & Research

(July–August 2025): 135–139. Greenwood Online: A Fin-Tech Service for Culture and Community By: James Riley and Bernal Cortés July 2025 | Teaching Note | Faculty Research In 2020, Ryan Glover and Paul Judge launched Greenwood, a fintech View Details

November 2019
Teaching Note

Magnus Resch: Transforming the Art Market Through Transparency

By: Henry McGee and Sarah Mehta

Teaching Note for HBS No. 319-002. This teaching note pairs with a case on economist and entrepreneur Magnus Resch, who is on a mission to make the art market more transparent. He has built the Magnus app, which catalogues the price and transaction history of millions... View Details

Keywords: Art Market; Transparency; Art Pricing; Business Startups; Innovation Strategy; Culture; Business Strategy; Mobile Technology; Fine Arts Industry; Information Technology Industry