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- 18 Sep 2019
- Op-Ed
WeWork—The IPO That Shouldn’t?
No IPO in recent memory has received as much negative pre-public publicity as WeWork, which provides shared workspaces and services for startups and other enterprises. The outpouring of criticism has focused on a number of items including... View Details
- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
IPO or M&A? How Venture Capital Shapes a Startup's Future
Entrepreneurs rarely consider who will ultimately own their startups—and what that means for founders—when they court venture capitalists. New research suggests they should. A startup funded by VCs who tend to work with the same group of... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 18 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Eliminating Non-Competes Could Reshape Tech
curtailing the use of such agreements. Andy Wu, an assistant professor in the Strategy Unit at Harvard Business School, is an entrepreneur and startup advisor who now researches how technology firms organize and mobilize resources to grow... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
“This is the first new kind of computer in 75 years,” says John Levy (MBA 1979), CEO of the quantum computing startup SEEQC. “And we’re building it on a chip!” Strolling through his company’s design and testing facility in Elmsford, New... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Case Study: The Home Team
“Here’s a smart guy who had an actual home inspection, so why didn’t he have visibility that these systems were about to fail on him?” It’s standard practice in commercial transactions, and there also are capital reserve requirements for... View Details
- 04 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Founders Recruit Friends and Family as Investors
Editor's note: Seasoned entrepreneurs know that a great idea for a new company is no guarantee of a successful exit. Startups fail more often than not, largely due to hubris-fueled mistakes by an... View Details
Keywords: by Noam Wasserman
- 23 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
8 Strategies to Sustain Business Innovation
fail to meet their projected targets and 75 percent of new products fail.” McDonald and co-author Christopher Bingham explore eight central tensions in the new book, Productive Tensions: How Every Leader Can Tackle Innovation’s Toughest... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 12 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities
to scale simply because they did not have big-company DNA or because the company did not ensure they were in roles in which they could continue to thrive. Think about who on your team has real startup DNA–do they thrive with ambiguity and... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- Portrait Project
Sylvester Wee
"You’ll never make it." I’ve heard that same line too many times growing up, but never once succumbed to it. I started competitive tennis late at the age of 12 but trained hard to eventually become the top ranked player in Singapore. I View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
over a cup of coffee. Starting a business is hard. Seventy percent of startups today fail after their seed round, and less than ten percent achieve success for founders and investors. Faced with such a... View Details
Keywords: podcasts
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
absent from the largest retail markets. Moreover, every retailer that has ventured overseas has failed as often as it has succeeded. On average, the extent of internationalization doesn't have a significant effect on either retailers'... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 27 May 2022
- Blog Post
Q&A with the HBS Armed Forces Alumni Association, MBA Class of 2023
true to who I was helped me stand out during the application process. Often, we fixate on trying to be the complete package, however, some of the greatest lessons I have learned come from my weaknesses and failures. It is not if you fail... View Details
- 02 Nov 2018
- Blog Post
When Ideas Become Reality: Entrepreneurship at HBS
having the confidence to say, "I'll be fine in middle school; I'm a great student," I started worrying that I was going to fail out of middle school. Every stage of life has been like that for me: not being sure I'll be able to... View Details
- Web
Baker Library / Bloomberg Center | About
conservative management, the institution remained financially sound throughout the panics of the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Baker’s business acumen extended to serving on the boards of more than 40 corporations, including several View Details
- 31 Jan 2014
- News
Body, Heal Thyself
itself. It's all very exciting in theory, but moving a company from a one-man, one-patent startup to an organization that could change the face of therapy takes some business strategy. "We have a big sense of responsibility to make this... View Details
- 11 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Branding Sells Cereal, Handbags, and Vacations. Can It Sell a Country?
complicated history still dominate public consciousness. Memories of failed peace talks tend to loom larger than Israel’s image as a startup nation. Thousands of Instagram posts from Tel Aviv’s gay pride... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
the job done. Shaich offers clear-headed lessons for the entire life cycle of an enterprise, from bootstrapping a startup to going public to managing large companies to selling a business. And the relevance of his message doesn’t end in... View Details
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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
Why Startups Fail Professor Thomas R. Eisenmann (MBA 1983, DBA 1998) + More Info – Less Info Most startups fail. About two-thirds of venture capital investments do not earn a... View Details
- Web
Launching Tech Ventures | HBS Online
Stories FAQs Coming Soon Key Concepts Master frameworks and tools to execute a high-quality, profitable business model Discover how to conduct experiments to determine your venture’s value proposition, go-to-market strategy, and profit formula Understand and learn how... View Details
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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory
investment fails to meet the IMM threshold, Rise will not invest in it. As the Rise team considers making its first investment in EverFi, an educational technology company, McGlashan wonders: will his attempt to insert scientific rigor... View Details