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How Social Entrepreneurs Zig-Zag Their Way to Impact at Scale
By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Tricia Gregg
This article provides guidance to social entrepreneurs and their funders as they seek to advance the enterprise from startup to scale. It focuses on the evolution of four social entrepreneurs and their decision-making paths as they attempt to scale their respective... View Details
Keywords: Systemic Impact; Scaling; Strategy Process; Nonprofit Organizations; Social Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy
Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Tricia Gregg. "How Social Entrepreneurs Zig-Zag Their Way to Impact at Scale." California Management Review 62, no. 1 (November 2019): 53–76.
Impact Entrepreneur Fireside Chat: Teaching Impact Investing at Harvard
Harvard Business School Professors Vikram Gandhi and Shawn Cole weigh in on teaching Impact Investing at Harvard Business School. The Impact Entrepreneur Luminarias Series is a live video webinar series featuring the leading lights in impact investing and... View Details
- June 2024 (Revised August 2024)
- Technical Note
Web3 Business Model Design for Entrepreneurs
By: Shikhar Ghosh and Liang Wu
Ghosh, Shikhar, and Liang Wu. "Web3 Business Model Design for Entrepreneurs." Harvard Business School Technical Note 824-177, June 2024. (Revised August 2024.)
- July 2003 (Revised June 2004)
- Supplement
Mercy Corps Interviews with Social Entrepreneurs
Bartlett, Christopher A. "Mercy Corps Interviews with Social Entrepreneurs." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 304-801, July 2003. (Revised June 2004.)
- September 1997 (Revised October 1997)
- Case
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
Nanda, Ashish, Ed Zschau, and Georgia Levenson. "Emmet Stephenson: Profile of an Entrepreneur." Harvard Business School Case 898-049, September 1997. (Revised October 1997.)
- 05 Aug 2014
- News
Venture Capitalists Coddle Entrepreneurs as Royalty
- 21 Mar 2010
- News
The rise of the app entrepreneur
- 13 Jan 2017
- News
The Content Trap: Lessons for Entrepreneurs
- 28 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Billions of Entrepreneurs in China and India
same is true when we look at India with China as a backdrop. That's why I wrote a comparative book." In our interview Khanna outlines the business landscape in both countries. He also describes how indigenous and foreign View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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The Rise of the Urban Entrepreneur
By: M. E. Porter
Porter, M. E. "The Rise of the Urban Entrepreneur." Special Issue on The State of Small Business. Inc. 17, no. 7 (May 16, 1995).
- 05 Dec 2014
- News
Ernest Shackleton: The Entrepreneur of Survival
- 10 Jul 2023
- Video
Raising Capital as an Underestimated Entrepreneur
- 12 Mar 2015
- News
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
- 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
- 20 Feb 2019
- News
Building an Ecosystem for African Entrepreneurs
Bank estimated that 40 percent of the country’s population lacked access to electricity in 2016—“but we hope it encourages and inspires other leaders,” he adds. Entrepreneurs are key to Africapitalism, says Elumelu. That’s why the Tony... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 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
- 1999
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New Business Ventures and the Entrepreneur
By: H. Stevenson, H. Irving Grousbeck, M. J. Roberts and Amar V. Bhide
Stevenson, H., H. Irving Grousbeck, M. J. Roberts, and Amar V. Bhide. New Business Ventures and the Entrepreneur. 5th ed. Irwin/McGraw-Hill, 1999.
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
John Kotter's Urgent Message for Entrepreneurs
- 21 Dec 2011
- News
How Immigrant Entrepreneurs Turbocharge U.S. Trade
- 16 Jun 2016
- Blog Post
Why Entrepreneurs Should Consider Business School
Before I came to HBS, I bootstrapped a software company, Proximate, for three years.* We make social-media marketing software for alumni and trade associations. In many ways, HBS made starting my own business possible. I was a 2+2 admit, which meant I always had the... View Details