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Corporate Social Entrepreneurship
By: James E. Austin
This research is examining the process by which companies engage in strategic corporate social responsibility as an integral part of their enterprise strategy and operations. The research has conceptualized this process as entreprenurial in nature and defined it as...
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- February 2004
- Case
Aspire Public Schools
Set in the fall of 2003, covers managerial challenges facing the CEO and COO of Aspire Public Schools, a nonprofit charter school management company. In operation since 1999 and funded by prominent national foundations and venture philanthropies, Aspire operates 10...
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Keywords:
Business Model;
Business or Company Management;
Expansion;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Education;
Education Industry;
California
Leschly, Stig. "Aspire Public Schools." Harvard Business School Case 804-114, February 2004.
- Research Summary
Entrepreneurship in Education Reform
This work explores two questions in the US public education system. First, is there a correlation between improved leadership and management practices and increased student outcomes? And second, can the introduction of market forces such as customer choice among...
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- December 2014
- Case
DaVita HealthCare Partners and the Denver Public Schools: Creating Connections
By: John J-H Kim and Christine S. An
In 2011, DaVita HealthCare Partners (DaVita)—a Fortune 500 healthcare services company specializing in kidney dialysis services—and the Denver Public Schools (DPS)—the largest school district in Colorado—forged a plan to incorporate greater intentional focus on culture...
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Keywords:
Corporate-community Partnerships;
K-12;
School Districts;
DaVita;
Kent Thiry;
Tom Boasberg;
Denver Public Schools;
Wisdom Team;
DaVita Way;
Creating Connections;
Social Enterprise;
Community Impact;
Education Reform;
Public Schools;
Leadership Development;
Partners and Partnerships;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Education;
Business and Community Relations;
Culture;
Education Industry;
Health Industry;
Colorado
Kim, John J-H, and Christine S. An. "DaVita HealthCare Partners and the Denver Public Schools: Creating Connections." Harvard Business School Case 315-047, December 2014.
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship in Europe
entrepreneurial communities and four recent trends in entrepreneurial activity. The characteristics that make entrepreneurship thrive, said Stevenson, include: resource mobility; reinvestment in the community; joy in the success of...
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by Kenneth Liss
- 03 Dec 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Performance Persistence in Entrepreneurship
- 05 Sep 2006
- Working Paper Summaries
International Financial Integration and Entrepreneurship
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by Laura Alfaro & Andrew Charlton
- Teaching Interest
Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Combining the tools of philanthropy, business and advocacy (or mission, margin and mandate), social entrepreneurs have tackled long-standing societal issues like teacher training, college access, global public health, renewable energy and sanitation. Social...
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- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship in Asia and Foreign Direct Investment
research, the relationship that exists between FDI and local entrepreneurship in Asia may be one important reason why certain Asian countries developed differently from others, despite surface similarities. This angle on FDI may offer a...
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by Martha Lagace
- 25 Sep 2017 - 27 Sep 2017
- Lecture
Three-Day Series on Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Africa
By: Euvin Naidoo
Africa and the 4th Industrial Revolution: Innovation, leapfrogging and the promise and challenges of the Demographic Dividend
Optional pre-seminar viewing: 2017 MasterClass on Digital Innovation and the Fourth Industrial Revolution
Monday, September 25, ...
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Naidoo, Euvin. "Three-Day Series on Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Africa." Lecture at the M-RCBG Senior Fellow-Led Study Group, Harvard Kennedy School, Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government, Cambridge, MA, September 25–27, 2017.
- October 2015 (Revised September 2016)
- Technical Note
Flight: Now without Humans Aboard
By: Mitchell Weiss, Karim Lakhani, HT Kung and Kerry Herman
This note provides an overview of the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs, or drones) industry in September 2015. UAVs offered many potential applications in industries as diverse as aerial imaging and photography, agriculture, construction, infrastructure inspection and...
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- April 1985 (Revised September 1986)
- Case
CML Group, Inc.: Going Public (B)
Contains a description of some issues confronting management of CML Group as the company progresses toward making an initial public offering. Among the issues and topics addressed in the case are: considerations in choosing an underwriting team, the initial public...
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Keywords:
Business or Company Management;
Initial Public Offering;
Financial Markets;
Financial Strategy;
Planning;
Cost vs Benefits;
Strategy;
Entrepreneurship;
Consumer Products Industry;
Retail Industry
Sahlman, William A. "CML Group, Inc.: Going Public (B)." Harvard Business School Case 285-092, April 1985. (Revised September 1986.)
- 2009
- Book
Boulevard of Broken Dreams: Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed and What to Do About It
By: Josh Lerner
In response to the financial crisis, governments are being far more aggressive in intervening to promote economic activity, a trend that shows little tendency of alleviating. This book looks at the experiences of governments in encouraging entrepreneurs and venture...
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Keywords:
Economic Growth;
Financial Crisis;
Entrepreneurship;
Venture Capital;
Policy;
Business and Government Relations
Lerner, Josh. Boulevard of Broken Dreams: Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed and What to Do About It. Princeton University Press, 2009. (Winner of Axiom Business Book Award. Gold Medal in Entrepreneurship presented by Jenkins Group Inc. Winner of PROSE Award for Excellence in Business, Finance & Management “For Professional and Scholarly Excellence” presented by Association of American Publishers.)
- November 2019
- Teaching Note
Hacking Heroin
By: Mitchell Weiss and Sarah Mehta
This teaching note pairs with a case that is used in a course on Public Entrepreneurship, for a first module on "ideas." The case is designed to help students work through the question: where do new ideas to stubborn problems come from? And, in particular, the question...
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- June 2003 (Revised October 2004)
- Case
StorageNetworks: Restarting a Public Company (A)
By: Joseph B. Lassiter III and Todd H Thedinga
Peter Bell, founder and CEO of StorageNetworks, faces the problem of "restarting" a public company by changing its business model from being a storage-services provider to being a storage software developer. The task seems challenging, but surely doable, with $200...
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Keywords:
Business Model;
Diversification;
Change Management;
Cash;
Entrepreneurship;
Problems and Challenges;
Corporate Finance;
Information Technology Industry
Lassiter, Joseph B., III, and Todd H Thedinga. "StorageNetworks: Restarting a Public Company (A)." Harvard Business School Case 803-198, June 2003. (Revised October 2004.)
- 23 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn
tempered with great caution," says Chakravorti. "The entrepreneurs who can capture the limited resources have the potential to do well. Shortage and adversity are powerful stimuli for focusing the mind." At HBS, Chakravorti teaches and writes on View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 13 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Diagnosing the Public Health Care Alternative
U.S. Senator) Tom Coburn (R-OK) argue against a government-run public market for health insurance. Reform must include incentives for entrepreneurship and innovation, which only a private market could...
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- 07 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship
Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed—and What to Do about It. Government has played similar catalytic roles in creating hubs of innovation is places such as Tel Aviv and...
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- 2016
- Working Paper
College Tuition, Public Finance and New Business Starts
By: Gareth Olds
A growing public discourse cites the rising cost of education and student debt overhang as a contributor to slow economic growth. A parallel discussion explores the causes of the secular decline in business dynamism and entrepreneurship rates in the United States over...
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Olds, Gareth. "College Tuition, Public Finance and New Business Starts." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-145, June 2016.