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  • 12 Dec 2022
  • News

Why Some Startups Fail to Scale

  • August 2015 (Revised February 2017)
  • Case

Bridj and the Business of Urban Mobility (A): Developing a New Model

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Daniel Fox
Bridj, a Boston startup that provides Big Data-powered, "pop-up" bus routes that respond to transportation demand, has been in operation for a little over a year and has recently launched service in Washington, D.C., its second market. Despite media acclaim and... View Details
Keywords: Startup; Startup Management; Big Data; Smart Transit; Stakeholder Engagement; Stakeholder Management; Urban Vehicle; Mobility; Mass Transit; Uber; Government Relations; Technological Innovation; Analytics and Data Science; Entrepreneurship; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Transportation; Business Startups; Management; Business and Government Relations; Transportation Industry; Boston; District of Columbia
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Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Daniel Fox. "Bridj and the Business of Urban Mobility (A): Developing a New Model." Harvard Business School Case 316-025, August 2015. (Revised February 2017.)
  • August 2015 (Revised June 2016)
  • Supplement

Dinr: My First Start-up (B)

By: Shikhar Ghosh and Kristina Maslauskaite
Keywords: Business Exit; Business Startup; Business Exit or Shutdown; Business Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Food
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Ghosh, Shikhar, and Kristina Maslauskaite. "Dinr: My First Start-up (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 816-025, August 2015. (Revised June 2016.)
  • 07 Mar 2012
  • News

Fashion Tech Startups Emerge from HBS

Keywords: online retail; online shopping; fashion; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade
  • 28 Jun 2022
  • News

Are Former Startup Founders Less Hireable?

  • 24 Jun 2015
  • HBS Case

Upgrading School with a Startup Mentality

It used to be that you risked detention for disrupting an elementary school classroom. Nowadays, disrupting the entire school system can earn you millions of dollars in startup funding. Consider AltSchool, the idea of entrepreneur Max... View Details
Keywords: Re: John Jong-Hyun Kim; Education
  • 15 Oct 2019
  • News

Innovative Thinking Fuels Nascent Startup Scene

Amira Rashad (MBA 1998) Amira Rashad (MBA 1998) When Amira Rashad (MBA 1998) cofounded the grocery delivery platform BulkWhiz in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in spring 2017, she joined a nascent startup scene in the Middle East and... View Details
  • 31 Jan 2015
  • News

The Boston Startup Scene's Superbowl Vet

  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Digital Experimentation and Startup Performance: Evidence from A/B Testing

By: Rembrand Koning, Sharique Hasan and Aaron Chatterji
Recent work argues that experimentation is the appropriate framework for entrepreneurial strategy. We investigate this proposition by exploiting the time-varying adoption of A/B testing technology, which has drastically reduced the cost of experimentally testing... View Details
Keywords: Experimentation; A/B Testing; Data-driven Decision-making; Entrepreneurship; Strategy; Business Startups; Information Technology; Performance
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Koning, Rembrand, Sharique Hasan, and Aaron Chatterji. "Digital Experimentation and Startup Performance: Evidence from A/B Testing." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-018, August 2019. (Revised September 2020. SSRN Working Paper Series, No. 3440291, August 2019)
  • 04 Oct 2019
  • Blog Post

Finding My Passion in the Startup Space

you believe in the company and whether you would like to work with the people that are sitting across the table. In my case, I had to speak with about 40 people before I found a startup that was a good fit for me, only to have an offer... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2018
  • News

Making Sense of the Modern Startup

at Fidelity Investments to launch a venture aimed at providing analytical information to bond traders. He showed Sahlman his business plan for a company that he was calling Technical Data Corporation. Basically, Parker had figured out a... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
  • 25 Sep 2015
  • Blog Post

4 Challenges All Early-Stage Startups Face

diversity of skill-sets on the team. Through the process, we tackled four challenges that every early stage startup will face. Here's how we approached each of them.  1. Choosing a team Choosing a team can be difficult because there are... View Details
  • 04 Mar 2016
  • News

Startups Can’t Revolve Around Their Founders If They Want to Succeed

  • 13 Jun 2012
  • HBS Case

HBS Cases: A Startup Takes On the Credit Ratings Giants

including several instances where the highest rated securities (AAA) defaulted. The resulting financial meltdown pushed the US and the rest of the world economy into recession. In the recent case "Kroll Bond Rating Agency," Bo Becker, an assistant professor... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Banking; Financial Services
  • 11 Dec 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Economic Jitters Push Pandemic Job Seekers to Big Companies, Not Startups

The coronavirus pandemic is spurring job applicants to seek positions at big companies and avoid startups in what new research calls an economic “flight to safety.” Job applicants using AngelList Talent, the largest online recruitment... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • February 2025
  • Case

Hyperscaling Dreams: Ualá's Path from Startup to Fintech Champion

By: Juan Alcácer and Manuel Franck
Ualá, a fintech startup founded in Argentina in 2017 by Pierpaolo Barbieri, aimed to increase financial inclusion in Latin America through a digital platform linked to a prepaid card. After rapid success in Argentina, it expanded into Mexico and Colombia, acquiring... View Details
Keywords: Banks and Banking; Leadership; Venture Capital; Talent and Talent Management; Strategy; Credit; Business Startups; Profit; Growth and Development Strategy; Banking Industry; Argentina; Mexico; Colombia; Latin America
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Alcácer, Juan, and Manuel Franck. "Hyperscaling Dreams: Ualá's Path from Startup to Fintech Champion." Harvard Business School Case 725-408, February 2025.
  • 2022
  • Interview

Prime Venture Partners Podcast: #104 Tarun Khanna, Professor, Harvard Business School, on Creating the Conditions to Create, The Value Of Trust & The Power of Diversity

By: Tarun Khanna and Shripati Acharya
Tarun Khanna, Professor at the Harvard Business School chats with Shripati Acharya, Managing Partner Prime Venture Partners regarding: Creating the Conditions to Create, State of Entrepreneurship: India vs China, The Value of Trust in Entrepreneurship, Working with... View Details
Keywords: Startups; Entrepreneurship; Business and Government Relations; Trust
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"Prime Venture Partners Podcast: #104 Tarun Khanna, Professor, Harvard Business School, on Creating the Conditions to Create, The Value Of Trust & The Power of Diversity." Prime Venture Partners Podcast, Prime Venture Partners, 2022.
  • 30 Oct 2020
  • News

Billion-Dollar Valuations and Exits for Harvard-born Startups

Lissy Hu (MBA 2014) Lissy Hu (MBA 2014) Two harvard-born startups announced big milestones this week. CarePort Health,a web-based health care software startup led bycofounder and CEO Lissy Hu (MBA 2014), was... View Details
  • 06 Sep 2022
  • Blog Post

To Go-Go: A Foodtech Startup Serves Up Scale in Latin America

it has been easy. While the pandemic boosted demand for home delivery, it also forced the fledgling startup to navigate a business environment that was suddenly characterized by fear and uncertainty. And... View Details
  • 20 Feb 2015
  • News

Revive the Balanced Scorecard for Your 21st-Century Startup

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