entrepreneur in residence - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Jan 2018
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The Only 3 Career Steps that Matter

28 Jan 2020
Book

Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking

entrepreneurs who think they can defy the rules and trample on communities and also lacking in command-and-control hierarchical types of officials. Like companies, universities can get stuck inside their... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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For MBA Students - Entrepreneurship

and get quality feedback, mentorship and a chance at $150,000 in prize money for your venture. Rock Summer Fellows Secure funding for a summer well spent between your RC and EC years developing your own new venture or joining an... View Details

16 Oct 2023
HBS Case

Advancing Black Talent: From the Flight Ramp to 'Family-Sustaining' Careers at Delta

“birthplace of the Civil Rights Movement.” “And only 2 percent of the poorest residents ever managed to get out of poverty,” Hill recalled discussing in her conversations with Delta employees when... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Air Transportation

24 Oct 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

Startup or Established Company? Which Is Best for You?

to get your foot in the door. (c) 2018 Julia B. Austin Leadership One thing often overlooked when considering a new job is the leadership of your prospective company. Serial entrepreneurs will have a very... View Details

Keywords: by Julia B. Austin

26 Feb 2013
First Look

First Look: Feb. 26

call in sick to retain eligibility. Second, employees with perfect pre-program attendance or high productivity suffered a 6% to 8% productivity decrease after program introduction, suggesting they were demotivated by awards for good... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Oct 2023
News

Spreading the Words

internal combustion engine did for transportation—propel it to new heights that were unimaginable earlier.” Khan and cofounder Imran Sayeed, an entrepreneur and senior lecturer at MIT Sloan School, started their work View Details

Keywords: April White

January 2015 (Revised April 2015)
Case

Zeal: Launching Personalized and Social Learning

By: John J-H Kim and Christine S. An

Set in 2014, this case follows John Danner and his team at Zeal as they consider their product development strategy. In February 2013, serial entrepreneurs John Danner and Sanjay Noronha co-found Zeal, an education technology start up providing a web-based, mobile... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Education Technology; MVP; Product Development; Product Market Fit; Monetization Strategy; SaaS Business Models; Education; Personalized Learning

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01 Sep 2023
News

Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees

For 17 years, Andre Kearns (MBA 1999) has been tracing his family tree. One by one, he has added branches, grounding himself in a long and sometimes complicated lineage. Through family stories, forgotten heirlooms, and vital records, Kearns has traveled back through... View Details

Keywords: April White; Illustrations by Fabio Consoli; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

09 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 9

International ICST on Auctions, Market Mechanisms, and Their Applications (AMMA 2011) held in New York, August 22-23, 2011. The 22 revised full papers presented were carefully selected from numerous submissions covering topics such as... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

Background Note Raising Startup Capital By: Jeffrey Bussgang Entrepreneurs typically focus their full energies on business-building. But raising capital is a core part of building a valuable business. Developing expertise View Details

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Soltan Bryce

The evolution of Soltan Bryce’s early career path – health care and agriculture – have their roots in his experiences as a Palestinian refugee in rural North Carolina. “The first health care we received... View Details

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Profiles - MBA

high-quality datasets. Professional goals I’m an entrepreneur at heart. To me, the best way to improve the world and love what you do is to build a tangible product that excites you. My short-term focus is on absorbing cutting-edge... View Details

02 Nov 2023
News

Seeding Startups

product, the company was acquired by RIM, the company behind BlackBerry, in 2002. But that’s not why he tells the story to the fledgling entrepreneurs he mentors through TiE Seattle, a regional chapter of... View Details

Keywords: April White

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Lawyers-in-Residence - Entrepreneurship

Entrepreneurs-In-Residence Entrepreneurs-in-Residence Venture Capital Advisors Lawyers-in-Residence Rock Executive Fellows The Lawyers in Residence (LiR) Program was established to provide students starting... View Details

03 Sep 2013
Working Paper Summaries

How the Zebra Got Its Stripes: Imprinting of Individuals and Hybrid Social Ventures

Keywords: by Matthew Lee & Julie Battilana

23 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

8 Strategies to Sustain Business Innovation

fail to meet their projected targets and 75 percent of new products fail.” McDonald and co-author Christopher Bingham explore eight central tensions in the new book, Productive Tensions: How Every Leader Can Tackle Innovation’s Toughest... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

07 May 2013
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First Look: May 7

given to applications, the coarseness of rating patterns, and the sellers' dynamic certification strategies. In the model, certifiers respond to the sellers' desire to get a chance to be highly rated and to limit the stigma from... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

related to the workforce, including the skills gap, degree inflation, care economics, the role of artificial intelligence in employment outcomes, the effectiveness of social entrepreneurs View Details

01 Dec 2023
News

Thinking Ahead

HBS faculty members and a bonus Blavatnik Fellow to bring you the latest ideas on these topics and some time-honored challenges such as delighting (and keeping) your customer. Want to dig into the nitty-gritty of retaining workers in a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Illustrations by Chris Gash; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

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