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    Launching New Ventures: Jump-Starting Innovation for Entrepreneurs and Business Owners

    Launching New Ventures: Jump-Starting Innovation for Entrepreneurs and Business Owners
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    Summary

    Successful entrepreneurship takes more than an innovative idea—it also requires the right mindset and skillset. Whether you're developing new business, launching new ventures, or building an entrepreneurial culture within a larger organization, this program prepares you to develop new strategies for transforming disruptive innovation into competitive advantage and a profitable business.

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    Summary

    Successful entrepreneurship takes more than an innovative idea—it also requires the right mindset and skillset. Whether you're developing new business, launching new ventures, or building an entrepreneurial culture within a larger organization, this program prepares you to develop new strategies for transforming disruptive innovation into competitive advantage and a profitable business.

    Key Benefits
    Bringing you together with other entrepreneurial executives, this program examines the unique challenges that confront early-stage ventures. You will gain the analytical, financial, and managerial skills needed to make sound investment decisions, manage rapid change, and ensure the success of your new enterprise throughout its lifecycle.

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    Conceive, launch, and grow a successful new ventureConceive, launch, and grow a successful new venture
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    • Analyze, prioritize, and determine the feasibility of new product and business ideas
    • Pitch your business to potential investors and other stakeholders
    • Evolve your leadership approach to manage ongoing innovation, radical change, and growth
    • Address competitive challenges
    Make sound investment and resource allocation decisionsMake sound investment and resource allocation decisions
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    • Determine the risks of starting a new venture
    • Assess the required resources and support
    • Recruit and develop the talent needed to support an entrepreneurial mindset and effort
    • Balance vision and pragmatism as you pursue growth
    Expand your personal and professional networkExpand your personal and professional network
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    • Extend your network by living and working with accomplished executives from various backgrounds, industries, and countries across the globe
    • Build relationships with a diverse group of peers who can provide wide-ranging insights into your business challenges and career decisions

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    Bringing you together with other entrepreneurial executives, this program examines the unique challenges that confront early-stage ventures. You will gain the analytical, financial, and managerial skills needed to make sound investment decisions, manage rapid change, and ensure the success of your new enterprise throughout its lifecycle.
    Details

    Conceive, launch, and grow a successful new venture

    • Analyze, prioritize, and determine the feasibility of new product and business ideas
    • Pitch your business to potential investors and other stakeholders
    • Evolve your leadership approach to manage ongoing innovation, radical change, and growth
    • Address competitive challenges

    Make sound investment and resource allocation decisions

    • Determine the risks of starting a new venture
    • Assess the required resources and support
    • Recruit and develop the talent needed to support an entrepreneurial mindset and effort
    • Balance vision and pragmatism as you pursue growth

    Expand your personal and professional network

    • Extend your network by living and working with accomplished executives from various backgrounds, industries, and countries across the globe
    • Build relationships with a diverse group of peers who can provide wide-ranging insights into your business challenges and career decisions

    Who Should Attend

    • Entrepreneurs launching their own startup
    • Executives responsible for jump-starting innovation in established firms

    Program for Leadership Development participants earn 6 PLDA Points on completion of this program.

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    Inside the Classroom
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    We Celebrate New Ways of Thinking. Are You Ready?
    Thrive in a learning environment that welcomes diverse ideas and perspectives.
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    Discover more about business. And yourself.
    Global perspectives > Leadership growth > Organizational impact.
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    Who Should Attend

    • Entrepreneurs launching their own startup
    • Executives responsible for jump-starting innovation in established firms

    Program for Leadership Development participants earn 6 PLDA Points on completion of this program.

    Dive Deeper into the Experience
    Play video
    Play video
    Inside the Classroom
    See how exchange with faculty and peers yields new insights into critical business trends.
    Watch the VideoWatch the Video
    Play video
    Play video
    We Celebrate New Ways of Thinking. Are You Ready?
    Thrive in a learning environment that welcomes diverse ideas and perspectives.
    Watch the VideoWatch the Video
    Play video
    Play video
    Discover more about business. And yourself.
    Global perspectives > Leadership growth > Organizational impact.
    Watch the VideoWatch the Video

    Complementary Program

    Advance your learning through Foundations of Private Equity and Venture Capital, offered the week following Launching New Ventures, which delves into entrepreneurial finance and offers advice for navigating the world of private equity and venture capital. Together, these programs provide you with essential skillsets for exploring investment opportunities and leading a successful enterprise.

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    Complementary Program

    Advance your learning through Foundations of Private Equity and Venture Capital, offered the week following Launching New Ventures, which delves into entrepreneurial finance and offers advice for navigating the world of private equity and venture capital. Together, these programs provide you with essential skillsets for exploring investment opportunities and leading a successful enterprise.

    Learning and Living at HBS

    When you participate in an Executive Education program on the HBS campus, you enter an immersive experience where every aspect of the learning model has been carefully designed to facilitate your growth. Your learning will take place on your own, in your living group, and in the larger classroom, driven by the renowned HBS case method.

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    Learning and Living at HBS

    When you participate in an Executive Education program on the HBS campus, you enter an immersive experience where every aspect of the learning model has been carefully designed to facilitate your growth. Your learning will take place on your own, in your living group, and in the larger classroom, driven by the renowned HBS case method.

    Admissions Criteria and Process

    We admit candidates to specific sessions on a rolling, space-available basis, and encourage you to apply as early as possible. Although most programs have no formal educational requirements, admission is a selective process based on your professional achievement and organizational responsibilities.
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    Answering Your Questions

    Our Program Advising team can help you at any stage of the admissions process—starting with identifying the program that best addresses your learning and development goals. Contact a program advisor via email or call 1.800.427.5577 (outside the U.S., call +1.617.495.6555).

    Application Submission

    We recommend that you apply at least four weeks before the program start date. You may use our online form or download an application. HBS maintains all application information in strict confidentiality. We acknowledge receipt of applications via email. In the unlikely event that you do not receive an acknowledgment, please email us at exed_admissions@hbs.edu or call us at +1.617.495.6226.

    Application Review

    To optimize the learning experience and maximize the exchange of ideas, our Admissions Committee makes selections that balance each participant's experience, scope of current responsibilities, and type of organization. HBS seeks candidates who reflect a broad range of industries, functions, countries, and backgrounds. We review applications monthly and will contact you via email with the Admissions Committee's decision.

    Fee, Payment, and Cancellations

    The program fee covers tuition, books, case materials, accommodations, and most meals. No payment is necessary until you have been accepted. Payment is required prior to the program start date. If you need to cancel or defer participation, you must submit your request in writing more than 30 days before the start of the program to receive a full refund. Cancellations or deferrals received 14 to 30 days prior to the start of the program are subject to a fee of one-half of the program fee. Requests received within 14 days are subject to full payment.

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    Admissions Criteria and Process Dropdown down

    We admit candidates to specific sessions on a rolling, space-available basis, and encourage you to apply as early as possible. Although most programs have no formal educational requirements, admission is a selective process based on your professional achievement and organizational responsibilities.

    Answering Your Questions

    Our Program Advising team can help you at any stage of the admissions process—starting with identifying the program that best addresses your learning and development goals. Contact a program advisor via email or call 1.800.427.5577 (outside the U.S., call +1.617.495.6555).

    Application Submission

    We recommend that you apply at least four weeks before the program start date. You may use our online form or download an application. HBS maintains all application information in strict confidentiality. We acknowledge receipt of applications via email. In the unlikely event that you do not receive an acknowledgment, please email us at exed_admissions@hbs.edu or call us at +1.617.495.6226.

    Application Review

    To optimize the learning experience and maximize the exchange of ideas, our Admissions Committee makes selections that balance each participant's experience, scope of current responsibilities, and type of organization. HBS seeks candidates who reflect a broad range of industries, functions, countries, and backgrounds. We review applications monthly and will contact you via email with the Admissions Committee's decision.

    Fee, Payment, and Cancellations

    The program fee covers tuition, books, case materials, accommodations, and most meals. No payment is necessary until you have been accepted. Payment is required prior to the program start date. If you need to cancel or defer participation, you must submit your request in writing more than 30 days before the start of the program to receive a full refund. Cancellations or deferrals received 14 to 30 days prior to the start of the program are subject to a fee of one-half of the program fee. Requests received within 14 days are subject to full payment.
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    Program content, dates, schedule, fees, technology platforms, and faculty are subject to change. In accordance with Harvard University policy, Harvard Business School does not discriminate against any person on the basis of race, color, sex or sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, age, national or ethnic origin, political beliefs, veteran status, or disability in admission to, access to, treatment in, or employment in its programs and activities.
    stages of a plant growth
    The Soul of a Start Up
    An HBS professor's perspective on maintaining the start-up spirit.
    Learn More
    Apply
    Download Brochure
    Program Finder
    Need Help? Contact Us:
    Program Advising team
    Email: executive_education@hbs.edu
    stages of a plant growth
    The Soul of a Start Up
    An HBS professor's perspective on maintaining the start-up spirit.
    Learn More
    Need Help? Contact Us:
    Program Advising team
    Email: executive_education@hbs.edu
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