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- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
yourself,” says Arthur C. Brooks, Arthur C. Patterson Faculty Fellow. “You're not going to be a good entrepreneur unless you see that your life is your enterprise; your life is your startup.” Here’s what Brooks and four other HBS experts... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
- 19 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy
agencies, including the FCC to analyze digital merger deals. Oftentimes, he finds that while government officials understand business concerns, they don’t appreciate the nuances of large businesses versus small entrepreneurs in the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
staggered. These findings indicate that welfare beneficiaries consume welfare-related income quickly and then attempt to supplement it with criminal income. Download the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1089576 Pioneering View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 22, 2008
limited-liability firms in China, using the example of the Dasheng cotton mills in Nantong near Shanghai. Dasheng, one of the earliest and most successful industrial enterprises in pre-war China, was founded by the famous entrepreneur... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society
and information, and reconfigure activities and industries that today are separated by artificial boundaries. We have already seen entrepreneurs explore some of this territory with ventures aimed at home delivery, portals, concierge... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016
Cagé, and William R. Kerr Abstract—We build an endogenous growth model to analyze the relationships between taxation, corruption, and economic growth. Entrepreneurs lie at the center of the model and face disincentive effects from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 8
failure rate may indicate that the fund is playing it too safe. Stick to your commitments. If a company is seen as a fickle investor, professionals will be wary of joining its venture unit, entrepreneurs will be reluctant to accept its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
What does a career path for a public entrepreneur actually look like? In which sector (private vs. public) should I start? Should I run for elective office? What does that imply for how I pursue my career? And often, and perhaps... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
Afghan female entrepreneur Kamila Sidiqi between 2009 and 2015. The case opens with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry praising her achievements at a State Department dinner in March 2015 for the newly elected President of Afghanistan,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 8
Publications 2014 AMACOM Own Your Future: How to Think Like an Entrepreneur and Thrive in an Unpredictable Economy By: Brown, Paul B., Charles F. Kiefer, and Leonard A. Schlesinger Abstract—It used to be that if you studied and worked... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 18
positions ranged from lawyer, judge, preacher, entrepreneur to the first African American commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and to the head of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 24, 2007
Successes and Failures of a Global Entrepreneur Harvard Business School Case 807-165 Bert Twaalfhoven (70; HBS '54) is faced with two offers to acquire the manufacturing holding company he had built up over 40 years. Despite the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
high-impact entrepreneurs for mentoring and aid in scaling up their businesses from committed local business leaders. In summer 2012, Endeavor received an invitation to replicate its model in Miami, Florida, and the Endeavor board was... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 25, 2007
Tornquist: Making a Fortune on the Pampas Harvard Business School Case 807-155 Examines the career of Ernesto Tornquist, a cosmopolitan financier considered to be the most significant entrepreneur in Argentina at the end of the 19th... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
lot of opportunity to be a fast follower: kind of troll the market, see what's successful. Then as soon as you see a successful business model, go copy it. There are entrepreneurs out there right now who are doing that for a living. But... View Details
- 30 Jan 2018
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January 30, 2018
entrepreneurs as they pursue impact or scale, or both. In our framework, scale can be interpreted at two levels: either as operational efficiency, which is achieved by minimizing unit costs, or expanding reach to cover a large proportion... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 29
http://hbr.org/product/the-weather-company/an/314083-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 814-055 Strava Strava is a new fast-growing social network for the avid cyclist and runner. The Strava case traces the entrepreneurial journey of two serial View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55597 2019 Academy of Management Annals Turning Lead into Gold: How Do Entrepreneurs Mobilize Resources to Exploit Opportunities? By: Clough, David R., Tommy Pan Fang, Balagopal Vissa, and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman