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  • 17 Mar 2016
  • News

The 124-Year-Old Startup

Fifteen years after taking over the top spot from “Neutron Jack” Welch, Jeff Immelt (MBA 1982) talks to Bloomberg Businessweek for a wide-ranging consideration of his tenure at the $122 billion giant, including the company’s latest retooling as a software View Details
  • 20 Aug 2021
  • News

Why Startups Fail

  • November 2013
  • Article

Investment Cycles and Startup Innovation

By: Ramana Nanda and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
We find that VC-backed firms receiving their initial investment in hot markets are more likely to go bankrupt, but conditional on going public are valued higher on the day of their IPO, have more patents, and have more citations to their patents. Our results suggest... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Market Cycles; Financing Risk; Risk and Uncertainty; Venture Capital; Investment; Innovation and Invention
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  • 17 Apr 2017
  • Video

HBS Startup Bootcamp

  • 11 Jan 2021
  • News

Is A/B Testing Effective? Evidence from 35,000 Startups

  • 2025
  • Working Paper

Code-Washing: Evidence from Open-Source Blockchain Startups

By: Ofir Gefen, Daniel Rabetti, Yannan Sun and Che Zhang
This study examines startups' management of source code repositories, distinguishing authentic developers ("code-producers''), from those inflating activity to mislead investors ("code-washers''). Using global blockchain startup and GitHub data, we find that... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Finance; Open Source Distribution; Business Startups
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  • Working Paper Summaries

Determinants of Early-Stage Startup Performance: Survey Results

Keywords: by Thomas R. Eisenmann
  • Forthcoming
  • Article

Beefing IT Up for Your Investor? Engagement with Open Source Communities, Innovation, and Startup Funding: Evidence from GitHub

By: Annamaria Conti, Christian Peukert and Maria P. Roche
We study the engagement of nascent firms with open source communities and its implications for innovation and attracting funding. To do so, we link data on 160,065 U.S. startups from Crunchbase to their activities on the open source software development platform... View Details
Keywords: Startups; Knowledge; Open Source Communities; GitHub; Machine Learning; Innovation; Business Startups; Venture Capital; Information Technology; Strategy
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  • 07 Nov 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

Investment Cycles and Startup Innovation

Keywords: by Ramana Nanda & Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
  • 07 Mar 2019
  • News

Digital-Health Startup Livongo Eyes 2019 IPO

  • 06 Sep 2021
  • News

Tom Eisenmann: Startups and their Wrong Decisions

  • 06 May 2019
  • News

Startup Talk in Chicago

venture community and startup ecosystem.” The HBSCC hosts a wide variety of business and civic leaders for the benefit of alumni, according to Club President Steve Wasko (MBA 1986). “Penny Pritzker is at the pinnacle of both of these... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; Pritzker; Air Transportation; Transportation

    Startup or Established Company? Which Is Best for You?

    What are the tradeoffs between going to a startup versus joining a mature company? Having done both, several times, I get this question all the time. There are many things to consider and lots of “it depends” when it comes to where you are in your career, where... View Details
    • 01 Jun 2014
    • News

    Spring Training for Startups

    April was a good month for startups at HBS, with three events connecting expert entrepreneurs with student and alumni founders. The HBS Rock 100 Entrepreneurs' Summit featured conversations with industry leaders like Care.com founder and... View Details
    • 22 Nov 2010
    • News

    The World's Smartest Startup

    Keywords: parking; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government
    • January 2012
    • Background Note

    Assembling the Startup Team

    By: Noam Wasserman
    Keywords: Business Startups; Management Teams
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    • 07 Apr 2021
    • News

    Why Do Startups Fail?

    • 27 Mar 2019
    • News

    Life Is a Startup

    Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes In 2010, Noam Wasserman (MBA 1999, PhD 2002) was teaching a course he developed at HBS called Founder’s Dilemmas, which focused on the challenges that young startups face.... View Details
    • 13 Oct 2017
    • News

    So, You Want to Join a Startup

    • 07 Feb 2018
    • News

    Helping Startups Give Back

    “If you really want your company to be associated with giving back and having a social mission,” says Janie Goldstein (MBA 1991), “it needs to be baked in from the start.” But while most startups want to be philanthropic, Goldstein, the... View Details