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  • 01 Jun 2005
  • News

School’s Entrepreneurial Spirit Runs Deep

entrepreneurs. “Many HBS alums graduate with a certain attitude and inclination toward entrepreneurship and wind up as self-employed — starting, growing, and selling businesses, and starting over again,” he explains. His book chronicles... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; Shaping the Waves; A History of Entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 01 Mar 2015
  • News

Faculty Q&A: Less Risk, More Reward

it’s an extremely high risk. So people with children were in this tough spot: They wanted to start a firm, but they were constrained because of this risk. Making a household eligible for SCHIP actually made them about 20 to 25 percent more likely to have a View Details
Keywords: April White; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Private Households; Personal Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance
  • 01 Sep 2011
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Letters to the Editor

joined a start-up in Seattle, the Rocket Research Corporation, where I was VP in charge of all business activities for 6 years. Then I became self-employed for 38 years as an expert witness in finance and economics in Washington and... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 01 Apr 1998
  • News

Microfinance's Big Payoff: Michael Chu and ACCION International

short-term business loans to the self-employed poor. Chu, a native of China, grew up in Montevideo, Uruguay. After graduating from Dartmouth and HBS, he held senior management positions with several firms, including The Boston Consulting... View Details
  • 01 Oct 2002
  • News

Class Notes Extra

she hasn't been a regular contributor to Class Notes, but the Crestone, Colorado, resident is more than willing to catch up over the phone. She speaks candidly about acting as her ailing mother's primary-care manager and the path from Parker Brothers marketing... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2012
  • News

50 Years & Counting

developing world as well. With HBS associate professor Mukti Khaire and doctoral student Alexandra Feldberg, McGinn is looking at a 30-year period of change in India driven, in part, by self-employed women entering into the country's... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 01 Apr 2000
  • News

Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti

individual taxpayers with wage and investment income; small business and self-employed taxpayers; large business taxpayers; and exempt organizations, such as nonprofits and state and local governments. Each unit will focus on... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • 01 Sep 2007
  • News

Riding It Out

set of ground rules limit the discussion of work matters at home) but claim their experience attending HBS as a married couple prepared them well: During their time at Soldiers Field, they had a “no discussing cases in bed” mandate. “One of the best things about being... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; dog food; pets; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade
  • 01 Jan 2003
  • News

Charles O. Rossotti, MBA 1964

and self-employed taxpayers; large businesses; and exempt organizations such as nonprofits and state and local governments. But Rossotti regards the most important accomplishment of his five-year tenure at the IRS-he stepped down in... View Details
  • 01 Feb 1997
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Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS

cited skills developed at HBS as critical to their entrepreneurial success. The survey also showed that alumni who were self-employed had often followed a traditional career path in the first decade after earning an MBA and only later had... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry and Susan Young; profiles by Garry Emmons
  • 01 Mar 2023
  • News

March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books

become an independent self-employed income earner. Also examined is how education for a career is becoming more important than ever, but it may not necessarily be a college degree. Why and how higher education is having to evolve as a... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 01 Feb 1997
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Doing It Your Way

by a vision of creating something in particular." Although self-employed women accounted for most of the new women-owned firms from 1987 to 1992, during that same period the number of women-owned firms with employees increased by 32... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso (profiles by Linda Goodspeed, Elaine Gottlieb, Nancy O. Perry, and Judith A. Ross)
  • 12 Jul 2021
  • News

Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

hearing loss. AUGUST 27 A startup founded by second-year MBA students Shrey Kapoor and Chrys Nikopoulos (both MBA 2021) has helped over 500 self-employed Americans access federal dollars during the pandemic. The pair launched FinGig this... View Details
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