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- 03 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
Hire an MBA: The Benefits and Misconceptions for Startups
Startups are exciting to HBS MBA students for many reasons, including the opportunity for impact, exposure to multiple functions, and the ability to practice skills they are learning at HBS. But, why should a View Details
- 01 Jun 2021
- News
Running a Consumer Fintech Startup within Goldman Sachs
- 2022
- Chapter
Immigration Policy Levers for U.S. Innovation and Startups
By: William R. Kerr and Sari Pekkala Kerr
Immigrants account for about a quarter of US invention and entrepreneurship despite a policy environment that is not well suited for these purposes. This chapter reviews the U.S. immigration policy environment that governs how skilled migrants move to America for...
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High-tech;
H1-B;
Immigration;
Entrepreneurship;
Innovation and Invention;
Business Startups;
Venture Capital
Kerr, William R., and Sari Pekkala Kerr. "Immigration Policy Levers for U.S. Innovation and Startups." In Innovation and Public Policy, edited by Austan D. Goolsbee and Benjamin F. Jones. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022.
- 2021
- Book
Why Startups Fail: A New Roadmap for Entrepreneurial Success
Why Startups Fail explores entrepreneurial failure, examining its predictable patterns, how to avoid them, and how to cope when failure does occur. Part I looks at three common failure patterns for early-stage startups, illustrating each with an anchor case...
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Eisenmann, Thomas R. Why Startups Fail: A New Roadmap for Entrepreneurial Success. New York: Currency, 2021.
- 21 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
How to Sink a Startup
When Noam Wasserman (HBS MBA 1999) spent his MBA summer internship working for a VC firm, he observed important universalities in the decisions that founders faced. He also saw that the "fundamental implications of those decisions were getting the View Details
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by Garry Emmons
- 11 Jan 2016
- News
Startup Studio Launched in New York City
- 11 Jan 2013
- News
No Room for Weakness at a Startup
- May 2024
- Case
MStudio and Djoli: Accelerating Startup Growth in Francophone Africa
By: Paul A. Gompers, Pippa Tubman Armerding and Temitayo Lawal
Djoli, a procurement platform, was one of the startups launched and supported by MStudio, a startup studio in Côte d'Ivoire, in 2023. After a year of operations, Djoli must look beyond MStudio, which had supported them financially and in kind in exchange for equity,...
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- 12 Apr 2012
- News
HBS Welcomes Eleven Alumni Startups
HBS Welcomes Eleven Alumni Startups With more than a 40 percent increase in Alumni New Venture Contest entries this year, our 11 finalists overcame stiff competition to win their local regions. On April 23, they travel to campus to...
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- 26 Jun 2013
- News
Upstarts Raise Money for Startups
- 04 Sep 2017
- Blog Post
HBS Startup Bootcamp and Founders Unfiltered
entrepreneurship a bit less intimidating for a first-timer like me. So with a renewed interest in startups, I registered for the 10-day HBS Startup Bootcamp scheduled for the January term. The aim of the program was to provide both...
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- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Student Startups Help Fight COVID-19
Pictured at right: Sanchay Gupta (MD/MBA 2022) is cofounder of Umbulizer Gifts to the HBS Fund support a wide range of people and programs like this. Since its launch in 2012, the Venture Program at Harvard Innovation Labs has helped students from across the University...
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- 06 Apr 2016
- News
How Axilor is grooming the next-gen of startups
- July–August 2019
- Article
The Soul of a Startup
By: Ranjay Gulati
There’s an essential, intangible something in start-ups—an energy, a soul. It inspires enthusiasm and fosters a sense of deep connection and mutual purpose. While this spirit persists, engagement is high and businesses keep their edge.
But all too often,... View Details
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Keywords:
Business Startups;
Mission and Purpose;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Employees;
Creativity;
Business Growth and Maturation
Gulati, Ranjay. "The Soul of a Startup." Harvard Business Review 97, no. 4 (July–August 2019): 85–91.
- 17 Sep 2024
- News
Is Startup Funding Coming Back?
- 18 Feb 2019
- News
Tracing Ridhi Tariyal's Startup Journey
- January 2020 (Revised December 2020)
- Technical Note
Unit Economics in Startup Settings
By: Stig Leschly
Leschly, Stig. "Unit Economics in Startup Settings." Harvard Business School Technical Note 820-092, January 2020. (Revised December 2020.)
- September 10, 2015
- Article
How Israeli Startups Can Scale
Keywords:
Entrepreneurship
Bussgang, Jeffrey J. "How Israeli Startups Can Scale." Harvard Business Review (website) (September 10, 2015).
- 28 Aug 2009
- News
Humility and the Successful Startup
- 10 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Amazon Web Services Changed the Way VCs Fund Startups
More entrepreneurs are receiving initial funding from VCs thanks to technologies such as the cloud. Source: PeopleImages As cloud technologies allow startups to build companies faster and cheaper than ever before, venture capitalists are...
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