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- May–June 2021
- Article
Why Start-ups Fail
If you’re launching a business, the odds are against you: Two-thirds of start-ups never show a positive return. Unnerved by that statistic, a professor of entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School set out to discover why. Based on interviews and surveys with hundreds...
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Eisenmann, Thomas R. "Why Start-ups Fail." Harvard Business Review 99, no. 3 (May–June 2021): 76–85.
- Profile
Michael R. Bloomberg
the most important to me is that life expectancy in New York City has grown three years since I took office in 2002 and is now 2.2 years greater than the national average.” As an entrepreneur, Bloomberg took particular interest in New York’s View Details
- March 2022 (Revised August 2022)
- Case
Swvl: Smart Mobility for the Masses
By: Krishna Palepu, Esel Çekin and Menna Hassan
The case focuses on strategy and governance issues at Swvl, a tech-enabled mass mobility marketplace. It describes the journey of CEO and Chairman Mostafa Kandil on his journey from founding the company to its listing on Nasdaq. Since its founding in Egypt in 2017,...
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Corporate Governance;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Initial Public Offering;
Innovation and Invention;
Business Startups;
Transportation Industry;
Technology Industry;
Middle East;
North Africa
Palepu, Krishna, Esel Çekin, and Menna Hassan. "Swvl: Smart Mobility for the Masses." Harvard Business School Case 122-097, March 2022. (Revised August 2022.)
- October 2009 (Revised July 2012)
- Case
Emotiv Systems Inc.: It's the Thoughts that Count
By: Elie Ofek, Jason Riis and Paul Hamilton
Emotiv is getting ready to launch its innovative brain-computer interfacing (BCI) technology. The company has developed a special headset, called EPOC, and highly sophisticated software that can translate a person's emotions, cognitive thoughts, and facial expressions...
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Keywords:
Technology Adoption;
Sales;
Technological Innovation;
Demand and Consumers;
Marketing Strategy;
Partners and Partnerships;
Entrepreneurship;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Product Launch;
Business Startups;
Technology Industry
Ofek, Elie, Jason Riis, and Paul Hamilton. "Emotiv Systems Inc.: It's the Thoughts that Count." Harvard Business School Case 510-050, October 2009. (Revised July 2012.)
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Launching Tech Ventures | HBS Online
Squire’s Unit Economics Experimentation at Ovia Health Featured Exercises Practice the key steps of the lean startup methodology Identify and calculate the key metrics for determining if you’ve achieved...
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Curriculum - MBA
startup concepts and on problems provided by instructors to build skills with human-centered design and lean experimentation methods. Spring Term HBS MBA Required Curriculum Harvard Business School Fall and...
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Hiring Organizations
L'Oreal L.E.K. Consulting Larsen Lazard Lean Technologies Leaps by Bayer Learnie AI Lee Equity Partners, LLC LegalOn Technologies LesserEvil Brand Snack Co. Levi Strauss & Co. LEXEO Therapeutics LFM Capital Lightbank Lightbridge Academy...
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Courses - Entrepreneurship
for making those decisions. We will also introduce a range of specific tools—including business model design, lean testing, and customer and channel analytics—that are particularly relevant to entrepreneurs, as well as introduce students...
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Careers Opportunities | Harvard Business School Online
Current Openings HBS Online is a fast-paced online learning initiative launched by Harvard Business School. To support our mission, we need people who want to dedicate their lives to the passionate pursuit of excellence in technology, teaching, and learning. While we...
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Students on the Job Market - Doctoral
developing countries, where conventional mechanisms such as augmenting budget allocations for enforcement or leaning on third-party reporting on firms’ transactions often fall short due to weak institutions and limited resources. Using a...
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- 02 Mar 2012
- HBS Seminar
Joe Lassiter/Gordon Jones, Harvard Business School/Harvard University
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Rock Summer Fellows - Entrepreneurship
based on the clarity and strength of the problem hypothesis, evaluation of current status and milestones, strength of customer discovery findings, clarity and strength of key assumptions, and evidence of commitment. You can lean more...
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Organizational Behavior - Faculty & Research
external innovation partnerships by building an ICL ecosystem, launching the company’s agri-food tech startup hub (ICL Planet Startup Hub), collaborating with Israeli and non-Israeli startups, and exploring...
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- 17 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
How Entrepreneurs Can Find the Right Problem to Solve
learn by doing. These tests lean toward solution building, but the idea is that you’re doing tests without building anything, or building very little, to get clarity on the problem and the customer. Common forms of these tests include:...
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by Julia Austin
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
note:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/812100-PDF-ENG Hypothesis-Driven Entrepreneurship: The Lean Startup Thomas Eisenmann, Eric Ries, and Sarah DillardHarvard Business School Note 812-095 Firms that...
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Carmen Nobel
- 17 Jan 2023
- In Practice
8 Trends to Watch in 2023
As 2023 begins, businesses and employees face an uncertain economy and labor market, as the twin dilemmas of inflation and interest rates weigh on forecasts. Harvard Business School faculty share the top trends that they believe will shape the workplace and markets...
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by Avery Forman
- 11 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 11
technological improvements to the original product. Publisher's link: http://hbr.org/2013/04/in-search-of-a-second-act/ar/1 2006 Harvard Business Review How to Profit from 'Lean Advertising' By: Teixeira, Thales S. Abstract—This article introduces the concept of View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Thinking Ahead
news you can use to bring yourself and your business up to speed in the year ahead. Fundraising Forecast: Continued Clouds, Some Sun It isn’t news that the fundraising climate has cooled considerably in the past year. But as a startup...
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- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Wide Horizon
startup that was developing a treatment for some rare condition, with the directive to “get smart” on it before a Friday meeting. He knew how and where to look for answers. As he started to read more of the research, he did indeed find...
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Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
transpires within the larger, corporate context of Intuit, where founder Scott Cook has been attempting to transform the enterprise into a leaner, more innovative company. The case describes in detail the lean View Details
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Carmen Nobel