HBS has an Entrepreneurial Management Unit faculty of over 30 members. These faculty teach the required first-year course, The Entrepreneurial Manager, the second-year electives and a variety of executive education programs. In addition to these faculty, there are over 45 affiliated faculty from other units whose work extends into the entrepreneurial domain, but who are formally part of other units.
Our faculty are not only distinguished teachers and renowned researchers and authors, but many also have vast personal experience as entrepreneurs. In the past ten years alone, Rock Center faculty have published 400 journal articles, 104 books, and 1,284 cases. Their biographies provide details on the entrepreneurial focus of many faculty members.
- Rock Center Faculty
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- Teresa Amabile Creativity in organizations; identification of daily events that influence work environment perceptions, motivation, behavior, and creativity.
- Lynda Applegate Impact of information technology on industries, markets, and organizations; building new ventures in a networked economy. The evolution of electronic commerce and the role of information technology as an enabler of flexible and adaptive organizational designs and innovative management control systems.
- Jeff Bussgang Entrepreneurial management.
- Timothy Butler Entrepreneurial management.
- Frank V. Cespedes Entrepreneurial management.
- John Davis Family business management: relationship and management issues faced by individuals in management, ownership and family roles in family companies.
- Thomas Eisenmann Management challenges in networked industries; the impact of accelerated growth strategies on firms' long term performance.
- Joan Farre-Mensa Entrepreneurial Management.
- Walter Friedman Business, labor and economic history; marketing and personal selling; the history of African American enterprise.
- Shikhar Ghosh Entrepreneurial Management.
- Richard Hamermesh Entrepreneurial Management.
- Felda Hardymon Venture capital and private equity.
- Robert Higgins Entrepreneurial management, venture capital, venture philanthropy, and entrepreneurship in health care.
- Geoffrey Jones Evolution of international business. Role and impact of multinational corporations in the global economy.
- William Kerr Entrepreneurship and macroeconomic growth. International scientific networks and technology transfer. Firm innovation and investment behavior.
- Mukti Khaire New venture growth; entrepreneurship in creative industries; challenges in founder-centric new ventures; intangible resources and firm performance.
- Elisabeth Köll Research focuses on the legal and managerial evolution of limited-liability firms in China in the early 20th century, particularly issues of control and accountability, and the process of industrialization and incorporation in comparative perspective.
- Janet Kraus Entrepreneurial Management.
- Joseph Lassiter High potential ventures including both those formed as new companies and those formed within existing organizations.
- Josh Lerner Structure and performance of venture capital; the nature and impact of intellectual property protection; and the nature of innovation in emerging industries.
- Ramana NandaUnderstanding regional variation in entrepreneurship and productivity growth; examining how capital markets impact the founding, growth and strategic direction of new ventures; and, studying how the organization of the financial sector impacts industry structure and economic growth in a region through innovation and entrepreneurship.
- Tom Nicholas Economic and business history of the United States and Europe with particular reference to entrepreneurship and wealth accumulation and technological change within firms.
- Dina Pomeranz Entrepreneurial Management.
- Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Entrepreneurial Management.
- Michael Roberts Entrepreneurial Management and Case Development.
- William Sahlman Investment and financing decisions made at all stages in the development of entrepreneurial ventures. The role of financial institutions in providing risk capital, and the role of government policy in influencing capital formation in the entrepreneurial sector.
- W. Earl Sasser Customer focus, customer relationship management, employee relationship management, service management, value profit chain.
- James M. Sharpe Entrepreneurial Management.
- Howard Stevenson The need for and consequences of predictability in entrepreneurial management. (Examining the roles played by organizations, cultures, and ethical systems in enabling individuals to predict the consequences of their own and others' actions.) Observing the patterns in people's lives that create enduring success.
- Magnus Thor Torfason How behavior is influenced by the social structure of individuals and organizations, including how social networks affect the emergence of organizational rules and adherence to those rules. The foundation patterns of organizations whose main purpose is to provide connections between others.
- Noam Wasserman Founder and top-management-team issues within entrepreneurial firms, with particular emphasis on the roles played by founders, top executives, outside investors, and board members. Dynamics and organizational issues within venture capital firms.
- Additional Faculty associated with Entrepreneurship
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- Regina M. Abrami, Business, Government and International Economy Unit
- Malcolm P. Baker, Finance Unit
- Julie Battilana, Organizational Behavior Unit
- Clayton M. Christensen, Technology and Operations Management Unit
- Michael Chu, General Management Unit
- Arthur A. Daemmrich, Business, Government and the International Economy Unit
- Mihir A. Desai, Finance Unit
- Lee O. Fleming, Technology and Operations Management Unit
- Frances X. Frei, Technology and Operations Management Unit
- John T. Gourville, Marketing Unit
- Allen S. Grossman, General Management Unit
- Boris Groysberg, Organizational Behavior Unit
- Brian J. Hall, Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit
- Rebecca M. Henderson, General Management Unit
- Regina E. Herzlinger, General Management Unit
- Marco Iansiti, Technology and Operations Management Unit
- Rosabeth M. Kanter, General Management Unit
- Robert Steven Kaplan, Organizational Behavior Unit
- Stephen P. Kaufman, Technology and Operations Management Unit
- Tarun Khanna, Strategy Unit
- Deishin Lee, Technology and Operations Management Unit
- Herman B. ("Dutch") Leonard, General Management Unit
- John D. Macomber, Finance Unit
- Christopher Marquis, Organizational Behavior Unit
- Youngme Moon, General Management Unit
- Das Narayandas, Marketing Unit
- Krishna G. Palepu, Accounting & Management, and General Management Units
- Leslie A. Perlow, Organizational Behavior Unit
- Mikolaj Jan Piskorski, Strategy Unit
- Jeffrey T. Polzer, Organizational Behavior Unit
- V. Kasturi ("Kash") Rangan, Marketing Unit
- David S. Scharfstein, Finance Unit
- Arthur I. Segel, Finance Unit
- Michael L. Tushman, Organizational Behavior Unit
- Belén Villalonga, Finance Unit
- Andrew Wasynczuk, Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit
- Yuhai Xuan, Finance Unit
- Entrepreneurs-in-Residence
Faculty Publications
Publications of Entrepreneurial Management UnitFaculty Interests
- Business History
- Corporate Entrepreneurship
- Entrepreneurial Finance
- Entrepreneurial Management
- Entrepreneurship
- Family Business
- Financing
- Growth Management
- Innovation
- International Entrepreneurial Finance
- International Entrepreneurship
- IPO
- Managing Growth
- Organizational Change and Transformation
- Patents
- Private Equity
- Technological Change
- Venture Capital
- Venture Creation/Development
Our approach to teaching entrepreneurship
View the three tenets devised by Professor Howard Stevenson which guide our teaching of entrepreneurship.
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Tenets
- First, entrepreneurship has been taught as a process, not as a person. There has been a tremendous emphasis on the nature of the network that people form. Throughout this whole history, there has been an emphasis that you're part of an ongoing process: It's not about the "I," it's about the "We."
- The second aspect is creating the belief within students that they can become entrepreneurs. It's important in an entrepreneurial culture to have good role models. One of the critical things we do in developing courses is to introduce people who aren't larger than life, with whom students can identify. Very early, we built cases around women and entrepreneurs of all types and all ages. The opportunity to provide a course where the students could identify with the protagonists in a case was an important part of the pedagogy.
- Third is the belief that entrepreneurial management is not simply inspiration: There's a lot of perspiration-you actually have to run the numbers. You learn to tell a bad deal from a good deal. You can't tell necessarily which one is going to work, but you can certainly look at a lot of deals and say, "Even if everything went right, it still wouldn't be worth doing."
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Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship
Harvard Business School
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Boston, MA 02163
Phone: 1.617.495.6218
Email:
rockcenter@hbs.edu