Harvard University


Of Mice And Mettle

A stone's throw across the Charles River from our Boston offices lies Harvard University, home of the Harvard Business School, and a symbol of Establishme...  Read story

The Inc. 100 Portfolio;

Most INC. 100 companies are under a decade old, but the roots of Harvard Industries Inc. (#72), of St. Louis, go back to the last century. Thereby hangs ...  Read story

Back to School

Successful executives head back to business school for further education in management issues.  Read story

Counting Chairs

More universities are appointing endowed chairs in the field of entreprenuership.  Read story

Sole Survival

Company makes cushion insoles for sports shoes.  Read story

Young M.B.A. Seeks Attractive Company

There is a new tool that M.B.A.s can use to find a company they can own: a search fund.  Read story

Catching Up to the New Economy

For much of the past decade, Harvard University has seemed reluctant to acknowledge the new economy. But a few ambitious graduates are trying to change that.  Read story

Hall of Fame Profile: Jim Ansara

On the importance of growing with your company.  Read story

The Start-Up Diaries: The Player

Why would Richie Powell, a college student and talented athlete, ditch the sport he's worked his whole life to master? For the dream of an Internet start-up ...  Read story

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Poison ivy. Firms governed by their quarterly-earnings reports? Young Wall Street hotshots driven by greed? Harvard's business school has frequently be...  Read story

No Mbas Need Apply

I was very interested to read your cover story concerning venture capital companies ("Why Smart Companies are Saying No to Venture Capital" August 1984). ...  Read story

NFL Players Head Back to School

Some of the game’s big names are sharpening their business acumen at Harvard and Wharton this off-season.  Read story

GuruWatch

An IT expert talks to Inc. Technology about some issues important to growing businesses.  Read story

A Cash Literacy Deficit?

A recent survey finds many Americans don't understand basic financial concepts.  Read story

Harvard Discovers Entrepreneurship

The nation's leading business schools have traditionally directed most of their resources and attention to training managers for Fortune 500-type companie...  Read story

Recruiting;

If you're looking for bright, young managers, there's one source you probably haven't considered: the nation's elite business schools. It used to be that...  Read story

Upstarts: University Tournaments

University business-plan tournaments are spawning a variety of sophisticated start-up companies. Here's what students learn from these contests and why inves...  Read story

End of the World As We Know It

What will happen to your computer when the year 2000 is ushered in. Experts tell what to look for.  Read story

Naming Rights at Center of Entrepreneurs' Dispute

July 5, 2004 -- For every entrepreneur, there is no bigger nightmare than finding out that, halfway through the evolution of an idea into...  Read story

Dispute Over Bankruptcy Data

June 21, 2005 --A new study by professors from Harvard and the University of Nevada has concluded that official data from the Administrati...  Read story

Help Wanted: An Adult

Here's why the same Internet forces that boosted Eric Silberman's start-up are now pressing him to fill his own job as CEO of Idiom Technologies.  Read story

Fountain of Youth: The Under 30 Hall of Fame

Some of the biggest names in business got their start before their 30th birthday.  Read story

Bell Ringer

Koch's piece was the best damned business article I have ever read. And coming from an inveterate Harvard person, it's even better. The people I have mos...  Read story

The Dos and Don’ts of Dorm Room Enterprise , inc5000 Article - Inc. Article

The college dropout turned billionaire is a tale that's becoming stale. Sergey Brin and Larry Page famously dropped out of Stanford's Ph.D. program...  Read story

Investing For College

College degrees, you may have noticed, are not coming cheap these days. Costs at both public and private four-year colleges have more than doubled in the ...  Read story

Analyze Your Survey Results

You'll need to figure out what trends and issues the data you collect reflects. Survey software offers data analysis capability, and other good statistica...  Read story

A Chance to Be Heard

Info about the White House Conference on Small Business, to be held June 1995.  Read story

Dropping Back In

A few college students have special extracurricular activities: running their own companies. They're former dropouts dropping back in.  Read story

A Wide-awake Way To Rotate Work Shifts

Three health researchers have found a way to help workers adapt more sucessfully to rotating shifts. Last year, Charles A. Czeisler and Martin C. Moore-Ed...  Read story

Harvard Business School's 'Woman Problem'

News of sexual harassment of female students by male classmates surfaced recently at Harvard Business School. Is the HBS administration to blame for not disc...  Read story

Inner City 100

A look at the entrepreneurs who are leading the revival of America's urban neighborhoods.  Read story

Class Acts

Company owners are seeing to it that entrepreneurship is taught by the folks who practice it.  Read story

King Of Clubs

In an industry where the deck is stacked against success, Patrick Lyons keeps drawing a full house.  Read story

Student Uprising

A look at why, faced with poor job prospects, university students today are starting companies in record numbers.  Read story

Getting Money for Good Ideas

Business plan competitions are growing in popularity, with social entrepreneurship contests proving a particularly burgeoning niche. These reward business...  Read story

How I Did It: Laurel Touby, Mediabistro

New York Story: From poor, lonely writer to hostess with the mostest.  Read story

The Slide Rule

Quote from 'The Seven Cultures of Capitalism.'  Read story

Harvard to Offer Entrepreneurship Program

Harvard Business School has created an executive education program for entrepreneurs seeking to launch a start-up, school officials said this week. Read story

The Innovation Factor: Built to Invent

Part 1 of a three-installment series on hypercreative organizations and the strategies behind them.  Read story

Inc. 500 Contributors

A list of the authors of articles featured in the 1998 Inc. 500 issue.  Read story