Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 30, 2012

There are two views on entrepreneurship in America: the first (largely feigned), that it is a pure virtue like freedom of speech or religion, and the second (real) attitude that it is largely a game for the naïve. Entrepreneurship is a deviation, an occupation for heroes, heroic for the reasons it can't be recommended: it's just too unsafe.

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InnovationManagement

MARCH 19, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic is turning out to be an international economic crisis, with ramifications for all industries and markets, similar to the crisis of 2008. A cross-border economic crisis affects companies large and small, challenging an organization's management and its employees.

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Tips Industry Marketing Management 59

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 9, 2011

During the 2008 Summer Olympics, China dazzled the world with Beijing's posh athletic venues and revamped urban landscapes. An absence of disruptive innovation and entrepreneurship is suffocating China's future growth potential. But there are many reasons to be skeptical.

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Matthew Griffin

MAY 5, 2015

In 2008 banks were considered to big to fail but seven years on it’s looking increasingly likely that they’re not too big to disrupt. Technology is having a democratising effect on Entrepreneurship – it’s lowered the bar to entry and it’s shifted the power away from the corporations and into the hands of the individual.

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ImagineNation

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

After reading and digesting these two articles, I realised that my ongoing personal entrepreneurship story, that I have shared in my last two blogs, have landed in this exact same space. The third ten years 2008-2018. Including the importance of; Making fundamental change choices. The power of team cohesion & collaboration.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 3, 2016

This perspective is less prevalent when talking about startups, however, because the rate of entrepreneurship has declined significantly in the U.S. But to harness immigrant entrepreneurship for better growth and job creation, we need more hard facts. One argument you tend to hear in the immigration debate in the U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 5, 2012

It's becoming ever clearer that entrepreneurship is the answer to the vexing economic questions facing Africa today: job creation, capital formation, skills acquisition, taxation-based self-sufficiency, quality of governance-demand, and of course social inclusion. I will call them hyper-entrepreneurship and excess diversification.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 18, 2013

There are many ways that live "corporate whales" can cultivate entrepreneurship ecosystems — as investors with capital for ventures to grow, as customers who buy innovative products, or as marketing partners to give the small dynamic firms global reach.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 7, 2015

Typically, tourism involves guided tours, pitch events, conferences with lots of panels, and well-planned visits to companies, universities, and government agencies tasked with increasing entrepreneurship and innovation. In 2009, I took 42 Harvard Business School students to Israel for a week of entrepreneurship exploration.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2011

At first blush, it would appear that entrepreneurship is alive and well in health care. What we lack is the entrepreneurship needed to make the best care the norm. And that's true in many areas: New devices, pharmaceuticals, and surgical techniques regularly get developed and incorporated into practice. Will it come?

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

A little-recognized NSF report released in September 2010, the 2008 Business R&D and Innovation Survey (BRDIS) , said that only 9% of public and private companies engaged in either product or service innovation between 2006 and 2008. And Big Business did not even make those bets. That's before the Great Recession.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 3, 2011

Blue), Australian (Green), and Canada (Red) — show each country's predicted patents per capita three years hence (so the most recent number for 2008 is a prediction for 2011). Joshua Gans will take up the Skoll Chair in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto in July.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

If you want general hustle, do they have a track record of entrepreneurship, or at least holding a series of jobs? According to figures compiled by Jared Bernstein , while median income for two-parent, two-child families went up by 20% between 1990 and 2008, the cost of a four-year public college education went up by three times that amount.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2016

Entrepreneurship for the Long Term. based accelerators really took off after 2008, as it did for startups, early-stage capital, and venture investment more broadly. based accelerators increased by an average of 50% each year between 2008 and 2014. Quality matters. Insight Center. Sponsored by Northern Trust. Growth in U.S.-based

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 17, 2011

Hyundai captured market share and quickly increased its market share in part because of its Hyundai Assurance program in 2008 (the program offered to take the car back with no damage to the credit report in case of job loss).

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 30, 2013

The world has changed a lot over the last five years, and events have occurred that changed the course of history for millions of people — the financial crisis of 2008, the Arab Spring, and the ongoing civil war in Syria, to name just a few. This year the Prosperity Index offers five consecutive years of comparable data.

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Change Entrepreneurship Trends Tools 15

Matthew Griffin

MAY 26, 2015

Many bystanders are more likely to view these two giants emergence onto the global stage as business evolution rather revolution and while Samsung declared their competitive intentions in 2008 Foxconn has only recently reached the starting line of its long journey.

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Technical Review Software Review Competition Course 40

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 9, 2014

Greece is finally showing signs of recovering from its 2008 crash. High-quality science needs to align with technology-based entrepreneurship. However, as much as macroeconomic reforms are needed, the future of the Greek economy will be determined by its competitiveness, which concerns costs, but is also measured by innovation.

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Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 2, 2011

As in 2008-2009 when excessive pay was seen as linked to excess risk-taking, the issue — and the broader role of business in society — is under heightened scrutiny and needs to be addressed by the business community. At a minimum, the report should be carefully scrutinized by U.S.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2014

A 2008 paper looked at a random sample of more moderately successful founders (sales in excess of $1 million and 20+ employees) and found an average and median age at founding of 39, with only 31% under 35. Entrepreneurship Tech industry' By way of comparison, the average age of an incoming CEO to an S&P 500 company was 52.9

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 17, 2015

Innovation & Entrepreneurship Book. After building credibility inside and outside the organization, in 2008 Mendiola created a broad initiative to remake Florida as a triple-bottom-line business devoted to profit, planet, and people. When William Clay Ford Jr. Excerpted from. Changing Your Company from the Inside Out. Add to Cart.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2013

In 2008, Coca-Cola, after six months of studying the needs of Brazil's growing lower-middle-class population, identified a core social issue — skills development among low-income young people — as a strategic focus that could improve the company's profitability. Reassess the Concept and Identify New Value.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 19, 2014

That choice cuts to the heart of Alibaba, according to Porter Erisman, who served as a vice president at the company from 2000 to 2008, and whose documentary on his time there debuted in 2012. Entrepreneurship Innovation' Jack Ma’s First Day Speech in Alibaba Apartment from Taluswood Films on Vimeo.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

In 2008, under the National Framework for Innovation and Enterprise (NFIE), the government launched the Early Stage Venture Investment Fund program. Entrepreneurship Disruptive innovation Emerging markets East & Southeast Asia' Serious government skin in the game.

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Disruption Entrepreneurship Marketing Software 15

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 6, 2016

Furthermore, the amount of venture capital bears a zero correlation to the amount of startup activity, and is strongly negatively correlated with the presence of mid-market firms ($10 million to $1 billion), which according to a recent Dun and Bradstreet study have created over 90% of jobs since 2008.

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Harvard Business Review

MARCH 1, 2012

It will make up 90% of the increase in the labor market between 2008 and 2018, with significant numbers of older Americans spurred by the need for supplemental income, given the bleak financial future they face in retirement. Statistics tell the story. Grey labor is the single largest cohort of the labor force and growing exponentially.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 15, 2014

Founder Bill Drayton led the way in fostering collaborative entrepreneurship for collective social change. In 2008, Pfizer was struggling with an unwieldy and costly model of obtaining outside legal help. Leaders of many nonprofits have shown themselves to be adept at this kind of community building.

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Harvard Business Review

JULY 16, 2013

In a 2008 New York Times interview , he said, "If I am going to be at the top of the car company, I want to be the owner-chef — with knowledge not just of its vehicles but their ingredients. Many organizations are developing strategies to increase their UX capacity and promote product-centric entrepreneurship.

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Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 30, 2013

Moore left his practice in 2008 to help build a movement around what is called the Ideal Medical Practices or IMP. Entrepreneurship Health Managing yourself' Not limited to solo practitioners, IMP rests on the pillars of access to care, time for relationship to build, and comprehensive, coordinated care and services.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 23, 2013

The percentage of all companies founded in 2008, 2009, and 2010 located in California, Massachusetts, or New York who have received a second round of funding is 10-15% higher than what you’d expect based on who received an initial round of funding. Entrepreneurship Venture capital'

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Harvard Business Review

MAY 23, 2014

After all, India’s growth has slowed to a crawl, with GDP expanding by less than 5% in the last two years compared to 9% per annum in the five years before 2008. China has been a growth engine for the past 20 years for many multinational companies, and many are now looking for the next China. Global business India Politics'

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Policies Technical Review Entrepreneurship Competition 13

Harvard Business Review

JULY 11, 2014

In 2008, I was on the business team at OnLive—a high-flying start-up in search of huge amounts of cash to turn a big idea into reality. Entrepreneurship Innovation Sales' Whatever the specific reason for endorsing a deal, the common thread is that champions are at a point in their career where they are willing to take a risk.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Spun out of Carnegie Mellon’s materials science research department in 2008, Aquion now employs 130 workers, manufacturing batteries to store electricity generated by intermittent renewable resources. Economic development National competitiveness Entrepreneurship'

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Industry Training Competition Entrepreneurship 12

Harvard Business Review

DECEMBER 14, 2015

In the fall of 2007 and winter of 2008, two Harvard Business School colleagues and I held four forums with groups of about fifteen business leaders each in Europe, Asia, Latin America, and the U.S. The recession had not yet begun, and after the crash in the fall of 2008, the popular view was that no one had seen it coming.

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Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 11, 2013

If that seems counterintuitive, consider the “fundamental tension” that Wasserman presents in his book (and in a 2008 article for HBR) : founders can choose to be “rich” or to be “king.” Entrepreneurship Leadership transitions Tech industry'

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Leadership Entrepreneurship Case Study Study 9

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 13, 2013

The financial crisis of 2008 and the Great Recession caused a crisis of public confidence in business and American-style capitalism, with its focus on maximizing shareholder value. In this fascinating read, global entrepreneurship expert Daniel Isenberg illustrates the new rules of starting and growing a business.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 26, 2013

Instead of focusing on oft-discussed public debts, Kuttner shows how private debts set off the 2008 financial crisis and continue to hamper the economy, and he argues that both the U.S. and the EU should be helping people refinance and get out of their “metaphoric debtors'' prison.”

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