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  • 08 Oct 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Clusters of Entrepreneurship

Keywords: by Edward L. Glaeser, William R. Kerr & Giacomo A. M. Ponzetto
  • 29 Jan 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

An Exploration of the Japanese Slowdown during the 1990s

Keywords: by Diego A. Comin
  • October 2019 (Revised August 2020)
  • Case

Souqalmal: The Choice Is Yours (A)

By: V.G. Narayanan and Alpana Thapar
This case describes how Ambareen Musa, Founder and CEO of Souqalmal, a Dubai-based online comparison aggregator of banking and insurance products launched her business in 2011 and rapidly grew it over next couple of years. However, by 2017, the Mauritian entrepreneur... View Details
Keywords: Unit Economics; Finance; Accounting; Competitive Strategy; Financial Statements; Insurance Industry; Middle East
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  • Program

Launching New Ventures

backgrounds, industries, and countries across the globe Build relationships with a diverse group of peers who can provide wide-ranging insights into your business challenges and career decisions Who Should Attend Entrepreneurs launching... View Details
  • May 2020
  • Article

To Be or Not to Be Your Authentic Self? Catering to Others' Expectations and Interests Hinders Performance

By: Francesca Gino, Ovul Sezer and Laura Huang
When approaching interpersonal first meetings (e.g., job interviews), people often cater to the target’s interests and expectations to make a good impression and secure a positive outcome such as being offered the job (pilot study). This strategy is distinct from other... View Details
Keywords: Authenticity; Catering; Honesty; Selection; Impression Management; Interpersonal Communication; Behavior; Performance
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  • June 2017
  • Case

MIA: Profit at the Base of the Pyramid

By: Lynda M. Applegate, José Antonio Dávila Castilla, Sarah Mehta and Aldo Sesia
In January 2016, Guillermo Jaime had just returned home to Mexico City after attending a Harvard Business School executive education program. Jaime was the founder and CEO of Mejoramiento Integral Asistido (MIA), a company providing affordable housing to low-income... View Details
Keywords: Base Of The Pyramid; Social Capitalism; Housing; Emerging Markets; Social Enterprise; Society; Wealth and Poverty; Social Entrepreneurship; Construction Industry; Mexico
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  • 12 Apr 2022
  • Book

Racism, Colonialism, and Britain's Legacy of Violence

Britain’s 20th century empire was the largest in human history, with a quarter of the world’s land and nearly 700 million people. Yet the empire drew its strength from violence. That’s the conclusion Harvard Business School Professor Caroline Elkins draws in her new... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman

    Robert C. Merton

    Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

    Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

    Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
    • August 2018 (Revised September 2019)
    • Case

    Magnus Resch: Transforming the Art Market Through Transparency

    By: Henry McGee and Sarah Mehta
    Economist and entrepreneur Magnus Resch was on a mission to make the art market more transparent. To that end, in 2014, he began building the Magnus app, which catalogued the price and transaction history of millions of works of art. Users could download the app, take... View Details
    Keywords: Art Market; Transparency; Art Pricing; Business Startups; Decision Making; Innovation Strategy; Culture; Business Strategy; Mobile Technology; Fine Arts Industry; Information Technology Industry
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    • 16 Nov 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    Turning One Thousand Customers into One Million

    differently from the early adopters who had been acquired in bulk or by word of mouth. In particular, they were not as forgiving of lower-quality products and services, and not as willing to pay premium... View Details
    Keywords: by Thales S. Teixeira and Michael Blanding; Retail; Transportation; Accommodations
    • September 2017 (Revised January 2019)
    • Case

    Public Entrepreneurs? Picking a Path

    By: Mitchell Weiss and Matthew Segneri
    Direct entry into government remained an uncommon post-HBS path, with only 1%–2% of recent classes going directly into the public sector. But, for public-minded MBAs, government wasn’t the sole province for public problem-solving. MBAs could join or launch companies... View Details
    Keywords: Public Entrepreneurship; Careers; Tri-sector Athlete; Job Searching; Government Innovation; Govtech; CivicTech; Civic Technology; Civic Innovation; Government Technology; MBA Class Of 2017; Social Enterprise; Social Entrepreneurship; Public Sector; Government Administration; Job Search; Jobs and Positions; Innovation Leadership; Technology Industry; Public Administration Industry; United States
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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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    • 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
    • May–June 2020
    • Article

    The New-Market Conundrum

    By: Rory McDonald and Kathleen M. Eisenhardt
    Brand-new markets are like the wormholes of science fiction, where the usual rules of time and space do not apply. When a market has just been born, the forces of competition there are constantly in flux, it’s unclear who your customers really are, and conventional... View Details
    Keywords: New Markets; Markets; Business Model; Strategy; Framework; Innovation and Invention; Value Creation
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      Move Fast & Fix Things

      Speed has gotten a bad name in business, much of it deserved. When “move fast and break things” began to define the innovation economy, the mindset fueled a widely held belief that we can either make progress or take care of people, one or the... View Details

      • 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
      • Web

      Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

      highlights the diversity of players in the region including social enterprise organizations (in their many forms) and supporting agencies, funders, and regulators. The note also dives briefly into the demographics of social View Details
      • Program

      Senior Executive Leadership Program—China

      sharpen their management and leadership skills and are preparing to assume new responsibilities or drive growth initiatives Entrepreneurs with established start-ups and executives planning to establish or expand their presence View Details
      • Web

      Stories

      Stories Stories Forward Thinking Forward Thinking Saving Giraffes from Silent Extinction Mothers of Invention Mothers of Invention How three HBS alumnae are building a global community of women entrepreneurs For the Records For the... View Details
      • Program

      PLD Module 5

      +1.617.495.6555). English Proficiency Proficiency in spoken and written English is essential for active participation in fast-moving classes and small group discussions. Learning Commitment View Details