Startup - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2019
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Accelerating a Gas-on-demand Startup

Service with a Smile: Classmates Nick Alexander (left) and Bryan Frist with one of Yoshi’s service-on-demand vehicles. (photo by Cayce Clifford) The first purpose-built, drive-in gas station opened in Pittsburgh in December 1913. The gleaming Gulf station finally made... View Details

Keywords: April White; startups; on-demand economy; entrepreneurship; Personal Services

20 May 2014
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HBS Startup Turns Unused Gift Cards Into Cash

Keywords: entrepreneurship; startups; Retail Trade

20 Aug 2021
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Why Startups Fail

02 Nov 2023
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Seeding Startups

solution.” Nadkarni joined TiE Seattle when it launched in 2000. The chapter was focused on promoting networking and the growth of the startup ecosystem in the Northwest, especially among the Southeast Asian community. For Nadkarni, who... View Details

Keywords: April White

13 Apr 2015
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Startup Stars

15 Feb 2024
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Startup Shepherds

By their count, Catalina Daniels and Jim Sherman (both MBA 1991) listened to approximately 300 startup pitches in 2016, the first year the HBS classmates worked side by side as angel investors in New York. “You meet a lot of very smart... View Details

Keywords: April White

23 Oct 2020
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Two MBA Startups Cited as “Most Disruptive”

business born from the concept, recently made the list of Poets and Quants “Most Disruptive MBA Startups of 2020.” Now national, LeverEdge has 20,000 members and $2.5 million in investment. Classmate Tess Michaels (MBA 2020) also made the... View Details

Keywords: disruptive innovation; startups; student loans; entrepreneurship; i-Lab; entrepreneur in residence; Finance

03 Aug 2021
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Why do startups fail?

01 Sep 2005
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Upstart Startup

In 1999, Wall Street bankers Randy Altschuler (MBA ’98) and Joseph Sigelman (MBA ’97) founded OfficeTiger in Madras, India, to serve as an outsourcing shop to perform secretarial services for Wall Street financial firms. Today, the company has five Indian operations,... View Details

26 Jul 2021
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The Best Business Startup Ebooks

24 Feb 2014
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Fighting co-founders doom startups

01 Oct 2022
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Startup Chemistry and the Coworking Environment

22 Nov 2022
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Why Startups Should Embrace Radical Transparency

01 Apr 1997
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An Orchestral Startup

with Yoo hiring topflight young musicians and Lim handling the business end, Metamorphosen came to life with a startup budget of $75,000 raised from charitable donations (the orchestra is a tax-exempt entity), corporate sponsors, program... View Details

Keywords: Linda Goodspeed

17 Mar 2016
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The 124-Year-Old Startup

Fifteen years after taking over the top spot from “Neutron Jack” Welch, Jeff Immelt (MBA 1982) talks to Bloomberg Businessweek for a wide-ranging consideration of his tenure at the $122 billion giant, including the company’s latest retooling as a software View Details