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  • 06 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

chain services have the highest wages and intensity of STEM jobs in the U.S. and have experienced rapid growth in employment and wages in the last two decades. However, supply chain industries face unique challenges that may require new policy solutions from the View Details

    Myra M. Hart

    Myra Hart's research focus is high potential entrepreneurship.  She has taught MBA and executive programs, co-chaired the entrepreneurship unit, and led several HBS initiatives. As a founding memberView Details

    Keywords: consumer products; e-commerce industry; education industry; real estate; retailing
    • August 2020 (Revised July 2021)
    • Case

    From Farm Boy to Financier: Eiichi Shibusawa and the Creation of Modern Japan

    By: Geoffrey Jones, Gabriel Ellsworth and Ryo Takahashi
    This case describes the career of Eiichi Shibusawa (1840-1931), a serial entrepreneur who is widely known as the “father of Japanese capitalism” and as a pioneer of socially responsible investment. Born in feudal Edo Japan, following the Meiji Restoration in 1868... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career; Business History; Ethics; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Economy; Society; Japan
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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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    • 25 Oct 2016
    • First Look

    October 25, 2016

    New York: Springer Building a Culture of Health: A New Imperative for Business By: Quelch, John A., and Emily C. Boudreau Abstract—This ambitious volume sets out to understand how every company impacts public health and introduces a... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 2011
    • Teaching Note

    Juner New Materials: On the Road to IPO (TN)

    By: F. Warren McFarlan, Donglin Xia, Ning Jia and Ziqian Zhao
    Juner New Materials (Juner) is a private China-based company that develops, produces, and distributes modified plastic compounds. Founded in 1995 by female serial entrepreneur Xiaomin Chen, Juner has exhibited strong performance and growth potential in the past fifteen... View Details
    Keywords: Emerging Markets; Entrepreneurship; Financial Statements; IPO; Valuation; Women Executives; China; Plastics; China
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    • 05 Nov 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?

    Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health 33:166-167. Anteby, Michel, and Mikell Hyman. 2008. "Entrepreneurial Ventures and Whole-Body Donations: A Regional Perspective from the United States." Social... View Details
    Keywords: by Michel Anteby; Health
    • 23 Feb 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn

    tempered with great caution," says Chakravorti. "The entrepreneurs who can capture the limited resources have the potential to do well. Shortage and adversity are powerful stimuli for focusing the mind." At HBS, Chakravorti... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • 30 Jun 2014
    • Blog Post

    Cambridge to Nairobi

    I’m sitting in the outdoor veranda of an upscale café, sipping a perfectly made cappuccino and digging into a vegetarian quesadilla for lunch. It’s a pleasant 70 degrees and sunny, and all around me, young entrepreneurs are lost in their... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Nonprofit / Government; Technology
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    Creating Emerging Markets (Business History)

    By: Tarun Khanna

    Professor Tarun Khanna is faculty co-chair of the Creating Emerging Markets (CEM) Project. The project provides a unique research and teaching resource on business leadership in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East over recent decades.... View Details

    • 11 Oct 2016
    • First Look

    October 11, 2016

    support, delivered by a separate, independently funded staff, which builds public will, advances policy, and mobilizes resources. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51710 forthcoming Organization Science The... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 18 Jan 2021
    • Book

    How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems

    chapters how entrepreneurs both inside and outside of government can tackle problems by viewing them as opportunities, trying new ideas, scaling them up, and improving public life. “I’m not saying we should... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • Research Summary

    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
    • 18 Oct 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Historical Trajectories and Corporate Competences in Wind Energy

    Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Loubna Bouamane; Energy; Utilities
    • August 2017 (Revised November 2021)
    • Case

    Ryan Greene at Rainier Wearables

    By: Shikhar Ghosh, Thomas R. Eisenmann and Christopher Payton
    This case provides a platform for discussing mental health and depression in entrepreneurship. Why do entrepreneurs have more mental health issues than other professions? What can an entrepreneur do if they face a situation where their mental well-being is being... View Details
    Keywords: Mental Health; Depression; Entrepreneurship; Well-being; Personal Development and Career
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    • 09 Mar 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    Education, Technology, and Business: What’s the Catch?

    was what led Ira Fishman in this direction. Fishman worked in the Clinton administration as Counsel and Director of the Task Force on Education at the Federal Communications Commission and founding CEO of the nonprofit E-Rate program that provides money to connect... View Details
    Keywords: by Carla Tishler; Education
    • November 2019 (Revised February 2020)
    • Case

    Starbucks: Reaffirming Commitment to the Third Place Ideal

    By: Francesca Gino, Katherine B. Coffman and Jeff Huizinga
    On April 12, 2018, two African American entrepreneurs had scheduled a business meeting at a Starbucks in Philadelphia’s Rittenhouse Square neighborhood. They sat without ordering, waiting for a local businessman to show up for the meeting. The store manager called 911... View Details
    Keywords: Mission and Purpose; Values and Beliefs; Prejudice and Bias; Crisis Management; Employees; Training
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      Reza R. Satchu

      Reza Satchu is a Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurship Management Unit at the Harvard Business School where he teaches The Entrepreneurial Manager and The Founder Mindset. He is also the Founder, Managing Partner and majority shareholder of Alignvest Management... View Details

      • 21 Feb 2012
      • First Look

      First Look: Feb. 21

      such as performance-based promotion. Big BRICs, Weak Foundations: The Beginning of Public Elementary Education in Brazil, Russia, India, and China Authors:Latika Chaudhary, Aldo Musacchio, Steven Nafziger, and Se Yan... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

        Regina E. Herzlinger

        Regina E. Herzlinger is the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. She was the first woman to be tenured and chaired at Harvard Business School and serve on many established and start-up corporate health care/medical... View Details

        Keywords: health care; insurance industry; medical devices; retailing; digital health