Shaping The Waves: A History Of Entreprenuership At Harvard Business School - Hardcover

Cruikshank, Jeffrey L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1591398134 ISBN 13: 9781591398134

Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press, 2005

Synopsis

In Shaping the Waves, Jeffrey L. Cruikshank recounts the evolution of entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School and among its graduates-a journey going back more than fifty years and involving many of the most influential business players of the second half of the twentieth century. Detailing dozens of stories of remarkable entrepreneurial ventures and the individuals behind them, Cruikshank describes the unique and powerful network that exists among HBS alumni-an active connection that bridges generations, fields of interest, and wide geographic boundaries.

Through these stories, the book illuminates the growth of entrepreneurship at HBS from sideline elective to influential management program, the waves of change leveraged by opportunistic alumni, the classic attributes of entrepreneurial success, and the many facets of the entrepreneurial process, from raising and deploying capital to managing and developing a business.

Offering a unique lens on an institution that has sown the seeds of entrepreneurship for decades, Shaping the Waves is a powerful testament to the many who have spotted, shaped, and harnessed change to improve our world.

About this title

About the Author:

Jeffrey L. Cruikshank is President of the Cruikshank Company, Inc., and the author or coauthor of numerous business books, including several published by HBS Press.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvard Business Review Press
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1591398134
• ISBN 13: 9781591398134
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 371