Austin - Publications - Faculty & Research

March 2001
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July–August 2025
Article

How to Identify the Perfect Cofounder

By: Julia Austin

One of the first and most important decisions entrepreneurs make is whether to go it alone or bring on cofounders. Many investors favor startups with multiple founders, believing that a team reduces business risk by diversifying skills, sharing responsibilities, and... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Partners and Partnerships; Experience and Expertise

16 Jun 2025
News

Does Your Startup Set Employees Up to Fail?

07 Sep 2021
News

Supporting Students on Their Journeys

Illustration by Mike Austin The rich discussions and debates in the MBA classroom, which are essential to HBS’s peer-to-peer learning model, depend on bringing together students representing a diversity of backgrounds and perspectives.... View Details

01 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

A Latin American Vision: New HBS Research Center Opens

relationships, building acommunity that will help us pursue the great mission to educate leaders." HBS Professor and conference co-chair James E. Austin referred to his own personal experience in the area as well. When he got on the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

05 Nov 2013
News

Start-Ups Get a Start in New Orleans

Kevin Wilkins by Constantine von Hoffman Just eight years after New Orleans was devastated by Hurricane Katrina, Kevin Wilkins (MBA 1992) says the city is poised to join Silicon Valley, Boston, and Austin (Texas) as one of the nation's... View Details

Keywords: New Orleans; Advertising, Public Relations, and Related Services; Professional Services

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Football/Soccer Club | MBA

HBS community and to facilitate a fun, competitive and social club. Annual Events Fall Graduate School League Yale Cup UT Austin Tournament Winter Indoor Tournament MBA Soccer World Cup Pick-Up Matches Club Email Address... View Details

01 Dec 2002
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Building a Network for Social Enterprise in Latin America

the participating universities, with Austin chairing the project for the initial two-year period. “Our goal is not only to generate intellectual capital through field-based research that will produce books, cases, and courses, but also to... View Details

01 Feb 1998
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Short Takes

Who Does Good and Why While it's common knowledge that business leaders often serve on nonprofit boards, there has been little formal information about the characteristics and motivations of such individuals. In a 1997 working paper series on social enterprise,* HBS... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact One Long 72-Hour “Aha” Moment Austin Martin 22 Jan 2024 Austin... View Details

Research Summary

Corporate Social Entrepreneurship

By: James E. Austin

This research is examining the process by which companies engage in strategic corporate social responsibility as an integral part of their enterprise strategy and operations. The research has conceptualized this process as entreprenurial in nature and defined it as... View Details

Research Summary

Business Leaders and the Social Sector

By: James E. Austin

This research involed a multifaceted, multi-year study of corporate and business leader involvement in the social sector. This examined: the extent and nature of, and motivation for, Harvard Business School graduates' involvement with nonprofit and social-sector ... View Details