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  • 30 Oct 2019
  • News

How to Recover Gracefully After Shutting Down Your Startup

  • 05 May 2016
  • News

HBS Opens A Startup Hub In NYC

  • November 10, 2022
  • Article

5 Ways Startups Can Prepare for a Recession

By: Lou Shipley
Startups face unique challenges during economic downturns. They typically aren’t yet profitable and so are reliant on outside funding—and therefore are especially exposed when macroeconomic conditions change. To make it through a recession, startup CEOs should hit the... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Organizational Culture; Sales; Customer Focus and Relationships; Decisions; Inflation and Deflation; Financial Crisis; Employee Relationship Management; Business Startups; Credit
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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
Keywords: All Industries; Entrepreneurship
  • 2021
  • Article

Venture Capital Booms and Startup Financing

By: William Janeway, Ramana Nanda and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
We review the growing literature on the relationship between venture capital booms and startup financing, focusing on three broad areas: First, we discuss the drivers of large inflows into the venture capital asset class, particularly in recent years—which are related... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Business Startups; Innovation and Invention; Policy
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  • 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... View Details
Keywords: High-tech; H1-B; Immigration; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention; Business Startups; Venture Capital
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  • 01 Jun 2021
  • News

Running a Consumer Fintech Startup within Goldman Sachs

  • 2021
  • Book

Why Startups Fail: A New Roadmap for Entrepreneurial Success

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann
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... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Failure; Success; Framework
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  • January 2025
  • Teaching Note

AGENTS.inc: Pathways to Growth at an AI Startup

By: Frank Nagle and Susan Pinckney
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 724-444. In 2024, AI agent startup company AGENTS.inc faced multiple strategic decisions that could shape the company’s ability to grow into the future AI agent market leader. View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; AI and Machine Learning; Growth and Development Strategy; Open Source Distribution; Entrepreneurial Finance; Competition; Computer Industry; Technology Industry; Europe; Germany
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  • 11 Jan 2013
  • News

No Room for Weakness at a Startup

  • 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
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
  • 11 Jan 2016
  • News

Startup Studio Launched in New York City

  • May 2024 (Revised March 2025)
  • 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,... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Distribution Industry; Technology Industry; Africa; Côte d'Ivoire
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  • April 2018 (Revised February 2019)
  • Case

Gimlet Media: A Podcasting Startup

By: John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld
When digital distribution becomes an option for an analog industry, the effects on incumbents can be devastating. Is podcasting the beginning of the end of radio? Can it do what streaming video did to television and websites did to print? Two former public radio... View Details
Keywords: Podcasting; Business Ecosystem; Business Startups; Media; Disruption; Strategy
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  • 04 Dec 2017
  • News

Pittsburgh's Legendary Straight-Talking Startup Advisor

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 14 Nov 2022
  • News

Startups Need an ESG Strategy

Keywords: ESG
  • 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... View Details
  • 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... View Details
Keywords: Bulletin Staff; Alumni New Venture Contest
  • 26 Jun 2013
  • News

Upstarts Raise Money for Startups

Keywords: Finance; Educational Support Services; Educational Services
  • 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... View Details