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Strategy for Entrepreneurs - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Strategy for Entrepreneurs Course Number 1257 Associate Professor Rembrand Koning Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits 27 Sessions Paper (formerly Strategy for Entrepreneurs and Startups) Overview of... View Details

13 Jun 2011
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Five Tough Questions Every Entrepreneur Must Ask about Growth

30 Mar 2015
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An education reformer and social entrepreneur

Sir Cyril Taylor (MBA 1961) is a social entrepreneur and British educator who served 10 successive secretaries of state for education. “I love my work helping young people get a good education,” he says. Taylor had a successful career at... View Details

18 Oct 2016
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Leading the Way for Women Entrepreneurs

paused in describing herself and her role in founding her company, settling on “business strategy customer leadership person.” Barna urged her to call herself a visionary. The crowd of burgeoning entrepreneurs erupted in applause. Hyman... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers; Birchbox; Rent the Runway; Hello Alfred; Retail Trade; Finance

09 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

The Entrepreneurs Who Invented Economic Forecasting

In the severe economic, social, and scientific turbulence churning at the dawn of the twentieth century, people were eager for any semblance of stability and predictability. From this need for certainty emerged a group of entrepreneurs... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

02 Mar 2010
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Entrepreneurs Prefer to Keep Staffs Lean

09 Jan 2014
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Africa's Entrepreneurs and Fear of Failure

Keywords: entrepreneurship; Africa; government policy; higher education, teaching, china, social entrepreneurship; safety net

14 Dec 2009
Research & Ideas

Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?

Imagine you've arrived for a meeting at a corporate campus. But now you discover that the conference room is in another building a quarter mile away. Sure, you could walk there but in the rain? Up purrs an automated people mover, a vehicle shaped like a segment of a... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Transportation

June 2024 (Revised August 2024)
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Web3 Business Model Design for Entrepreneurs

By: Shikhar Ghosh and Liang Wu

Keywords: Web3; Internet and the Web

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July 2003 (Revised June 2004)
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Mercy Corps Interviews with Social Entrepreneurs

By: Christopher A. Bartlett

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September 1997 (Revised October 1997)
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Emmet Stephenson: Profile of an Entrepreneur

By: Ashish Nanda

Profiles the career of a Emmet Stephenson, the founder of over a dozen successful companies, as a model of entrepreneurship and management. View Details

Keywords: Business or Company Management; Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career

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05 Aug 2014
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Venture Capitalists Coddle Entrepreneurs as Royalty

21 Mar 2010
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The rise of the app entrepreneur

13 Jan 2017
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The Content Trap: Lessons for Entrepreneurs

15 Jul 2020
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The HBS Health Minute: A Tool Kit for Entrepreneurs

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The Rise of the Urban Entrepreneur

By: M. E. Porter

Keywords: Urban Scope; Entrepreneurship

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05 Dec 2014
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Ernest Shackleton: The Entrepreneur of Survival

10 Jul 2023
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Raising Capital as an Underestimated Entrepreneur

12 Mar 2015
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Recognizing women as the new entrepreneurs

Edith Dorsen (MBA 1984, MPA 1985), managing director and cofounder of the Women’s Venture Capital Fund, provides funding to early stage capital-efficient companies with gender diversity. (Published March 2015) View Details