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- 02 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
6 Strategies for Building Socially Responsible—and Profitable—Companies
A dozen years ago, Harvard Business School Professor George Serafeim wondered why some companies operated with an eye toward the greater good, while most did not. Back then, he always got the same response: Corporate leaders thought social and environmental practices...
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by Lane Lambert
- 01 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 1
he contemplated the position his business unit found itself in: a latecomer. As a state-owned enterprise, Dongfeng had entered into numerous joint ventures to produce automobiles under foreign brands, but its foray into selling vehicles...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
Since taking over as CEO of Tata Steel in 2013, T. V. Narendran had sought to transform India’s oldest steel manufacturing firm to ready it for a rapidly evolving business world. He instilled financial discipline, acquired new businesses, and launched digital...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 28 Jan 2020
- Book
Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking
change. Look at how we personify buildings: “Headquarters wants . ” “The Pentagon says ....” In today’s fast-paced world, fixed structures can weigh you down, can make agility and resilience very difficult, and can stifle the View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Simmons Family Endows Professorship
six Simmons siblings graduated from the University of Utah. Entrepreneurial Spirit Perseverance in the face of adversity and an entrepreneurial spirit are the hallmarks of the Simmons family's success. Roy...
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- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Doing It Your Way
right out of business school," Sahlman says. "They don't yet know enough about hiring and firing or managing. They don't know enough about selling and marketing or production and operations." He advises freshly minted MBAs with View Details
- 16 May 2024
- News
On the Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. We all have early memories of on-the-job learnings—those moments that had a lasting impact on how we see the world of work and our place in it. This...
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first job;
leadership;
life experience;
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Finance;
Oil and Gas Extraction;
Mining;
Retail Trade
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Robert Reiss | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
opportunities to explore in games like chess and magic. Eventually he sold that enterprise to a needlecraft company and founded R&R to focus on creating and selling games, including the TVGuide Trivia game produced during the Trivial...
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- 05 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?
allows programs to compete for donations and sell their services to specimen users. In the past decade, legal for-profit or non-profit entrepreneurial ventures alongside traditional procuring programs in...
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- 12 Dec 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Clocky, the Runaway Alarm Clock
designing, positioning, marketing, and selling the animated snooze-button thwarter, as well as the challenge of expanding the company's product line. The cases deal with universal entrepreneurial consumer...
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- 09 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Entrepreneurs Should Go Work for Government
of," says Weiss. A new Harvard Business School course inspires students to be entrepreneurial leaders in government. Pictured: Government Center in Boston. ©iStock.com/gregobagel Not that producing such results comed easy. As One...
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by Michael Blanding
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
http://hbr.org/search/613073-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 813-140 18 Months in a Startup: Zaggora.com The founders of Zaggora reflected back on a tumultuous year and a half in which they had generated, from just $40,000 in personal savings, a multi-million...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2015
- News
Warrior Spirit
of technology, order, and modernity, not ancient disciplines involving hand-to-hand combat. At the time, Sityodtong was setting up the Asian office of Izara Capital Management, the $500 million hedge fund he founded in New York; Evolve was an interesting View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Joseph J. O'Donnell, MBA 1971
Overseers; and benefactor to many good causes. Not bad for a "cop's kid" who grew up nearby in the blue-collar city of Everett. O'Donnell's entrepreneurial streak started early. "I always wanted to have some degree of independence," he...
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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
A Sustainable Solution for Fashion
sell toothpicks; you can just follow a linear regression line. But if you are trying to sell a three-quarter-length floral print dress that’s only available for one season, you need more sophisticated models...
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April White
- 16 Aug 2022
- Op-Ed
Now Is the Time for Entrepreneurs to Play Offense
teams, customer bases, and platforms. "There is a ton of money out there looking for great companies to invest in." One of my portfolio companies has executed three acquisitions in the last six months at prices that are 2-3 times lower than what the View Details
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by Jeffrey Bussgang
- Research Summary
Research
The founding and expansion of new firms is central to innovation and economic growth, but the determinants of a new idea’s success are difficult to ascertain. The decision to form a new firm and its ultimate outcome are impacted by ownership structure, financing... View Details
- 04 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Founders Recruit Friends and Family as Investors
have enough career experience? (About 5 percent of students at HBS decide to leap into entrepreneurship immediately upon completing the MBA program, but up to 50 percent will have founded a company within a decade of graduation, according to Wasserman, who teaches in...
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by Noam Wasserman
- 16 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Luxury Isn’t What It Used to Be
entrepreneurial ventures. It's a field in constant change, which often creates significant opportunity." The Evergreen Challenge Heritage and prestige are the hallmarks of many luxury brands, some of which are hundreds of years old....
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- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Task Force
eyeglasses. They took a selfie. But it wasn’t until the second-year MBA course Entrepreneurial Finance that they discovered another similarity: Each was passionate about starting a business. “We got coffee in Spangler Grille one day after...
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