Entrepreneurial Gap - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Oct 2021
Blog Post

Mobilizing Private Sector Action For Racial Equity in Milwaukee: SE Summer Fellow Zach Komes (MBA 2022)

tailoring solutions to the local context and end-user needs, rather than necessarily “copying and pasting” others’ efforts. The “lean startup” hypothesis-driven entrepreneurship toolbox from The Entrepreneurial Manager (TEM) course and... View Details

26 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

Why Great Ideas Get Stuck in Universities

considering the average likelihood of finding an acquisition partner is 8 percent. No more or less likely to go through an IPO. Landing funding and finding a buyer are considered key milestones of entrepreneurial success, making those... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Biotechnology; Health

20 Feb 2006
HBS Case

Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive

idea for using Winfrey as the basis for one of HBS' hallmark case studies began simply enough. In the spring of 2002 when Koehn was teaching the first-year MBA course, The Entrepreneurial Manager, student Mia Mends approached Koehn... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Media & Broadcasting; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation

29 Apr 2020
Book

The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages

Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

03 Dec 2019
News

Two Tales of Connection: Over Meals and Mentoring

Suchita Prasad (MBA 2011), the HBSCS Mentorship Program pairs HBS alumni in Singapore with students from five polytechnics—trade or professional schools—and two universities to help provide guidance and bridge the gap between academics... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

22 Jun 2010
First Look

First Look: June 22

questions of how entrepreneurial leadership and strategy formulation can leverage the opportunities represented by the gaps between what the law says and what the market needs. It provides an opportunity to... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Web

Past Issues - Alumni

record-breaking work be a template for combatting future pandemics? Comeback Trail What history can teach us about navigating the economy’s post-COVID recovery We Rise HBS alumnae and faculty weigh in on what it would take to close venture capital’s long-standing... View Details

21 Nov 2016
Research & Ideas

It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales

senior executives specializing in everything except sales. “The number of executives reporting to the CEO in the average S&P 500 company has doubled in the last 20 years,” says Frank V. Cespedes, a senior lecturer in the View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Sep 2020
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020

sexual harassment and double standards, the gender gap continues to hinder the advancement of women in the professional world. In Digital Goddess, Victoria Montgomery-Brown shares her story in an entertaining and educational light. Told... View Details

25 Nov 2014
First Look

First Look: November 25

Sweden, Canada, and the U.S. obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to Italy, Brazil, and then finally India. We also show that autonomous government schools (i.e., government funded but with... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

Web

Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Meaningful progress on complex social issues depends in part on the entrepreneurial ideas and energy of the next generation. In recent years, we have seen a sustained increase in HBS students launching social impact ventures. In response... View Details

01 Sep 2020
News

In My Humble Opinion: Screen Tested

it’s a good thing to do, but because it makes good business sense,” she says. “We’re addressing a massive gap in content.” Aussie advantage: “The general perception of Australians is that we’re easygoing and approachable. And the accent... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; women in business; COVID-19; film; media; television; Arts, Entertainment

12 Mar 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019

explanations for entrepreneurial success in nascent markets but leaves a key imperative unexplored: the business model. By studying five ventures in the same nascent market, we develop a novel theoretical framework for understanding how... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

14 Oct 2020
Blog Post

Creating the Minority Renaissance for Venture Capital: Interview with Henri Pierre-Jacques and Jarrid Tingle, Managing Partners at Harlem Capital

At the onset, he was heavily leaning towards the private equity option. However, for Pierre-Jacques it quickly became obvious in his early days at HBS that there was a gap in venture capital that the fund he and Tingle had created would... View Details

05 Aug 2016
News

Accelerating Change on Medicine’s Final Frontier

fewer than 5 percent of neuroscience-related patents are successfully commercialized. Amadio, currently chief resident in the seven-year neurological surgery residency program at Emory University, in Atlanta, was troubled by the gap... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

01 Jun 1997
News

Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference

understand and respect the complexities inherent in the culture. Striking, too, were the gaps between myth and reality that emerged at a number of the forum's concurrent panel discussions. At HBS associate professor Debora L. Spar's... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes

01 Jun 2019
News

City on a Hill

Education Leadership Project (PELP), a collaborative effort with the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) that employs management concepts and entrepreneurial strategies to improve student performance in large school districts. But... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Clay Cook

19 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy

to fill little gaps in the literature, and I continue to think that was excellent advice.” Just as researchers in the life sciences often target their work to tackle the most dangerous diseases, so argues Moss, social scientists can make... View Details