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  • 15 May 2012
  • First Look

First Look: May 15

Jon and Lawrence saw this chaotic space as fertile ground for entrepreneurship. But the routes these entrepreneurs chose to take were different. "Killing Craigslist" explores the business Jon and Lawrence built to improve the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 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
  • 11 Apr 2024
  • In Practice

Why Progress on Immigration Might Soften Labor Pains

every other developed country around the world has done it. And that's a huge missed opportunity for the US. Prithwiraj (Raj) Choudhury is the Lumry Family Associate Professor at HBS. You Might Also Like: How Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric Crushed Crowdfunding for... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • Web

Skydeck - Alumni

Achievement Award reflect on how family and where they grew up formed them—personally and professionally Mission Control Space entrepreneur Peter Platzer (MBA 2002) on the process of finding your purpose In Harmony Born in Korea, Michael... View Details
  • Research Summary

Investment and marketing strategies of American multinationals in Argentina (1890c-1939)

Andrea Lluch is undertaking a major research project on American business expansion in Argentina up to the beginning of World War II. The first part of the project focuses on the American companies investment strategies. The second part analyses of the evolution of... View Details
  • Article

How Venture Capitalists Make Decisions

By: Paul A. Gompers, Will Gornall, Steven Kaplan and Ilya Strebulaev
For decades now, venture capitalists have played a crucial role in the economy by financing high-growth start-ups. While the companies they’ve backed—Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and more—are constantly in the headlines, very little is known about what VCs actually... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Investment; Decision Making
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  • 2019
  • Chapter

The Great Divergence and the Great Convergence

By: Geoffrey Jones
This chapter provides a new lens to the extensive debate among economists and economic historians concerning why the West grew rich and the rest of the world lagged behind as modern industrialization took hold in the 19th century. The literature has focused heavily on... View Details
Keywords: Globalization; Growth and Development; History; Africa; Asia; Europe; Latin America; Middle East; North and Central America; Oceania
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  • Article

Business Groups, Entrepreneurship and the Growth of the Koç Group in Turkey

By: Geoffrey Jones and Asli M. Colpan
This article examines the emergence and development of what became the largest business group in Turkey, the Koç Group. This venture was an important factor in the emergence of modern business enterprise in the new state of the Republic of Turkey from the 1920s. After... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Governance; History; Strategy; Auto Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Service Industry; Turkey
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  • April 2009 (Revised May 2010)
  • Case

Urbi and the City Licensee Managers

By: John D. Macomber and Regina Garcia-Cuellar
A leading low income housing builder in Mexico decides which prospective new local partner best extends its advantages in managing twin production lines of homes and clients. URBI has built substantial competitive advantage in the technology and culture that matches... View Details
Keywords: Mortgages; Government and Politics; Housing; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Market Entry and Exit; Production; Supply Chain; Organizational Culture; Franchise Ownership; Partners and Partnerships; Competitive Advantage; Real Estate Industry; China; India; Mexico; United States
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  • Web

Spangler Center | About

daughters, Anna Spangler Nelson (MBA 1988) and Abigail Riggs Spangler. Dick Spangler was a successful entrepreneur in several industries, including construction, hospitality, and banking. In the early 1980s, he led the merger of Bank of... View Details
  • Web

Middle East & North Africa - Global

social enterprise organizations (in their many forms) and supporting agencies, funders, and regulators. The note also dives briefly into the demographics of social entrepreneurs in the region as well as the common social objectives they... View Details
  • 23 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 23

individual will perceive entrepreneurial opportunities as well as increase his or her motivation to pursue those opportunities. We find that an individual is more likely to become an entrepreneur if his or her co-workers have been View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Mid-US - Global

efforts. NOVEMBER 2024 SOCIAL ENTERPRISE INITIATIVE Upswell Forum: Accelerating the Impact of Social Entrepreneurs In November, the Social Enterprise Initiative hosted the second cohort of the Upswell Forum, a program designed to... 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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  • Web

2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

ventures. Professor Eisenmann discussed patterns that explain a large fraction of these failures and what entrepreneurs can do to anticipate patterns and reduce mortality risk. Participants learned how founders can decide whether to pull... View Details

    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
    • 25 Jan 2021
    • Book

    In a Nutshell, Why American Capitalism Succeeded

    How did the United States become the world’s center of business growth following its founding in 1776? Surely a number of nations had powerful natural resources, stable financial and legal institutions, and dynamic entrepreneurs over that same span. Why was American... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing