Entrepreneur - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2002
News

Up to the Challenge: Ipsita Dasgupta - Global Perspective, Local Results

helps bridge the education gap by giving entrepreneurs access to capital regardless of the level of their formal schooling. While her interests are clearly international in scope, Dasgupta has also devoted much of her time to activities... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; development; leadership; social issues; management; technology; Finance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

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Climate Impact - Business & Environment

“Piva Capital is an early-stage Venture Capital firm focused on investing in hard-to-decarbonize sectors. We are backing entrepreneurs focused on the future of work, resource efficiency, circular economy, food and alternate proteins,... View Details

14 Feb 2008
Working Paper Summaries

Laws vs. Contracts: Legal Origins, Shareholder Protections, and Ownership Concentration in Brazil, 1890-1950

Keywords: by Aldo Musacchio

October 2013
Article

Corporate Venturing

By: Josh Lerner

For decades, large companies have been wary of corporate venturing. But as R&D organizations face pressure to rein in costs and produce results, companies are investing in promising start-ups to gain knowledge and agility. The logic of corporate venturing is... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital; Knowledge Acquisition; Corporate Strategy; Research and Development; Business Startups; Innovation and Invention

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On October 7, 2020, Bespoken Spirits publicly announced it had received $2.6 million of seed funding for its “sustainable maturation process,” a process that could produce award-winning whiskeys in just days rather than years using a novel technology and data... View Details

09 Jun 2023
News

9 Alumnae Named to Inc's Female Founders 200

including financial success, novel campaigns, and "programs offering to aid fellow entrepreneurs and women in a major way." The full list is below: Geeta Aiyer (MBA 1985) Boston Common Asset Management Meridith Cass (MBA 2010) Company:... View Details

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Commodities, Currencies, and Balancing of the Trade Deficit - A Chronicle of the China Trade

possible and return home. In the insular treaty port communities and mercantile mindset in which they lived, they held themselves to a different standard regarding the moral implications of the opium trade. “China traders were rational, profit-maximizing View Details

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Howard E. Cox | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Skip to Main Content HBS Entrepreneurs Collection Profiles About This Collection Contact Us Special Collections Search Paul Baier PurchasingCenter.com/Excara Frank Batten Weather Channel Steven B. Belkin Trans National Group (TNG) Hakeem... View Details

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Entrepreneurship Course Online | HBS Online

idea and assess the market Explore the risks and rewards of entrepreneurship Leverage experiments to validate concepts and refine your business strategy Discover the key financial decisions entrepreneurs must make in the early stages of a... View Details

12 Mar 2021
News

My Favorite Case

have automated things, and the old-timers who had it all in their heads leave. Vital human resources that disappear, and they scramble to figure out what to do. So I think that automation comes with its risks.” —Richard G. Linowes (DBA 1984) There was a case about an... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

18 Feb 2019
Book

What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology

many entrepreneurs in action and to follow their thinking as it has evolved. Some entrepreneurs conceptualize their new business model all at once, in a single, grand epiphany. They proceed intuitively,... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Beauty & Cosmetics; Insurance; Service; Retail

01 Sep 2023
News

Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint

learned by Chinese companies going global, and leading through uncertainty. In addition, Professor Benjamin Esty, faculty chair of the Asia-Pacific Research Center, provided a School update to regional alumni that was followed by keynote speeches and panels by local... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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History - Entrepreneurship

intricacies of finance to the art of leadership, and I am delighted to be able to support those efforts both now and for the future." Historically, approximately 50% of HBS graduates become entrepreneurs by the time they are 15 years out... View Details

12 May 2020
Blog Post

Leaving a Career in Tech for Venture Capital and Entrepreneurship

entrepreneur and I knew I needed something more fulfilling and challenging like that again. Being in Silicon Valley, I was fortunate to find mentors who helped me do some soul searching on the path ahead. After a period of... View Details

02 Nov 2018
Blog Post

When Ideas Become Reality: Entrepreneurship at HBS

If entrepreneurs are born that way, then I must be the weird one out. Last weekend I was back in Wisconsin for a wedding, and my aunt asked me, "what's the hardest thing about starting your own company?" There were many ways I... View Details

22 Apr 2002
Research & Ideas

Does Spirituality Drive Success?

successful entrepreneurs discussed the role beliefs and values play in keeping grounded among the turbulence and long hours that surround new ventures. Jim Sharpe (HBS MBA '76) , CEO of Extrusion Technologies, said he lives his values,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace, Sean Silverthorne & Wendy Guild

02 May 2019
Sharpening Your Skills

How To Ask Better Questions

financial support? Fundraisers and entrepreneurs must be prepared to answer these four questions. Resolve Your Toughest Work Problems with 5 QuestionsAsk yourself these 5 questions to find the best decision. Seven Strategy Questions: A... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

10 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

Key to Doing Your Best at Work? Be Yourself

more likely to get the job. We have data on entrepreneurs pitching ideas to venture capitalists: If your pitch is more genuine and authentic, you’re three times more likely to get money for your venture. So there’s good evidence that... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

01 Jun 1998
News

Simmons Family Endows Professorship

entrepreneur who founded a major ranching enterprise, a sugar factory, a flour mill, a bank, and a general store. Tibby's father, Laurence, headed one of E.P.'s many successful endeavors, the First National Bank of Layton. Roy and Tibby... View Details

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Shira Asa-El

which ultimately led me to where I am today. What is your favorite childhood memory? My first summer at MEET (Middle East Entrepreneurs of Tomorrow) when I was 15. Marina, who lived in Ramallah, and I struggled together in front of a... View Details

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