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- March 2019
- Article
When Does Advice Impact Startup Performance?
By: Aaron Chatterji, Solène Delecourt, Sharique Hasan and Rembrand Koning
Why do some entrepreneurs thrive while others fail? We explore whether the advice entrepreneurs receive about managing their employees influences their startup's performance. We conducted a randomized field experiment in India with 100 high-growth technology firms... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Management; Field Experiment; Peer Effects; Entrepreneurial Ecosystems; Advice; Management Style; Management Practices and Processes; Knowledge Dissemination; Entrepreneurship; Performance; India
Chatterji, Aaron, Solène Delecourt, Sharique Hasan, and Rembrand Koning. "When Does Advice Impact Startup Performance?" Strategic Management Journal 40, no. 3 (March 2019): 331–356.
- 23 Jun 2015
- News
Upgrading School with a Startup Mentality
- Web
Avoiding Startup Failure - Course Catalog
HBS Course Catalog Avoiding Startup Failure Course Number 1740 Senior Lecturer DJ DiDonna Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits 27 Sessions Exam Career Focus Avoiding Startup Failure will be of interest to students who:... View Details
- 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
- 31 May 2012
- News
Three Pitfalls Startup Founders Must Avoid
- 13 Aug 2014
- News
Startup Gives Local Businesses a Lift
- 31 Mar 2020
- News
How To Recover Gracefully After Shutting Down Your Startup
- 23 Jun 2021
- News
One More Way the Startup World Hampers Women Entrepreneurs
- 13 Jan 2017
- News
Fidelity funds high on hot startups
- 23 Jul 2014
- News
Meal-Delivery Startups Look for Winning Recipe
- 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
- 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
Alcácer, Juan, and Manuel Franck. "Hyperscaling Dreams: Ualá's Path from Startup to Fintech Champion." Harvard Business School Case 725-408, February 2025.
- 13 Jun 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: A Startup Takes On the Credit Ratings Giants
For most of the 20th century, three bond ratings agencies—Moody's, Fitch, and Standard & Poor's—dominated the credit ratings industry, recently controlling 97 percent of the market. But the status quo was disrupted by the 2008 global economic recession, an event... View Details
- October 2019 (Revised April 2020)
- Background Note
Note on Funding Deep Tech Startups
By: Karim Lakhani, Peter Barrett and Noubar Afeyan
This Background Note provides essential information on funding deep technologies—those technologies that were inherently capital intensive, time consuming, risky, and potentially disruptive. Both dilutive and non-dilutive sources of investment are highlighted, along... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Energy; Venture Capital; Corporate Finance; Initial Public Offering; Investment; Health Testing and Trials; Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Intellectual Property; Product Design; Product Development; Information Technology; Research and Development; Risk and Uncertainty; Technology Industry; Biotechnology Industry; United States; North America; Europe; Asia
Lakhani, Karim, Peter Barrett, and Noubar Afeyan. "Note on Funding Deep Tech Startups." Harvard Business School Background Note 620-029, October 2019. (Revised April 2020.)
- 15 Feb 2011
- News
Startup America: A Venture Capital Bailout?
- 28 Apr 2016
- News
Health Care Dominates HBS Startup Comp
- 30 Apr 2015
- Video
Working on a Startup at HBS
- 12 PM – 1 PM EST, 19 Jan 2017
- Webinars: Trending@HBS
Public Entrepreneurship: Can Startups Help Solve our Biggest Public Problems?
There is a new generation of inventors, inside government and outside of it, turning problems into opportunities. The webinar will provide a sense for how public entrepreneurship can be deployed in companies and in government, and for how to tackle its trickier... View Details