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- 02 Oct 2015
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The ‘F’ Word
business plans in my career, but only the last one worked exactly as planned and in many respects exceeded my expectations. My takeaway? Every failed startup effort has the potential to be a valuable...
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- 01 Dec 2022
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Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us
If you’ve ever tried to call an airline or almost any service business of a certain size, you’re probably familiar with the problem: After navigating a seemingly endless set of options, you’re asked by an automated message to share information, but it fails to...
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- 22 Feb 2022
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March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
to survive in new economy. The Metail Economy provides innovative methods for connecting with the Me-centric consumer and shows how to thrive in this consumer revolution. Joel Bines provides examples of companies that have failed to...
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- 01 Mar 2019
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The One That Got Away
percent or more. But VCs and entrepreneurs are human—and with the US startup failure rate hovering at around 60 percent (according to a 2015 Cambridge Associates study) those home runs are far from the norm. That makes it even more...
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- 14 Oct 2010
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Jobs Bill Misses Mark
recent book, Boulevard of Broken Dreams, is the first in-depth examination of failed government efforts to support entrepreneurs. So what should government do? Lerner has this advice for policy makers. If you really want to create jobs,...
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- 06 Dec 2021
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New Wave
harvest the kinetic energy of tides and waves without falling to pieces or costing an arm and a leg is tricky business, and many have failed in the attempt. “Plenty of systems have ended up on the floor of the ocean,” says Rahul Shendure...
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- 01 Jun 2024
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Quantum Leap
“This is the first new kind of computer in 75 years,” says John Levy (MBA 1979), CEO of the quantum computing startup SEEQC. “And we’re building it on a chip!” Strolling through his company’s design and testing facility in Elmsford, New...
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- 18 Apr 2022
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Home Grown
it might be a career path he could follow, too—but his father, knowing him well, suggested he work in a field where the results were more immediate. That guidance set Tewari on an entrepreneurial journey with no guarantees and plenty of ups and downs. With one View Details
- 17 Apr 2019
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Give It to Me Straight
confident enough to give praise. MORE Read about "Radical Candor" in action at a high-growth EdTech startup in this 2018 HBS case study (purchase required) MORE Read about "Radical Candor" in action at a high-growth EdTech View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
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Faculty Research Online
fast-food formula for the local market. Teaching a ‘Lean Start-Up’ Strategy Most start-ups fail because they waste too much time and money building the wrong product before realizing too late what the right product should have been, says...
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- 01 Mar 2016
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Ink
will get you 80 percent of the results, and forget the rest.” —Laurie Stach (MBA 2011), founder and executive director of MIT Launch, an entrepreneurship program for high-school students, discussing startup time management during a TEDx...
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- 10 Mar 2021
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New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
money out there looking for interesting new businesses. On the face of it, it’s a match made in heaven, with lots of positives; but beware the negatives. Those investment decisions will shape the future of your business. The standard models that investors impose on...
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- 01 Dec 2016
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Alumni Books of 2016
Making Strategy Work Using the Balanced Scorecard by Sanjiv Anand (AMP 163, 2002) (Wiley) This is a hands-on guidebook for making strategy work with effective Balanced Scorecard design, deployment, and maintenance. It outlines the ways in which firms commonly View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
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Good Investments
inside the booth owned by tech startup Barared to do everything from place phone calls to pay bills, deposit money, and buy minutes for their mobile phones. It’s a convenience for her customers, Reyes says: Chimalhuacán has only two bank...
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- 06 Dec 2018
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Source Code
about a dog, and they even generalize to an amazing extent. If they see a cartoon image of a purple dog, even though they’ve never seen a real purple dog in their life, they still know that it’s a dog. Whereas a Google engine may fail on...
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- 01 Jun 2011
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The Best-Laid Plans
failed companies. When Potentia Pharmaceuticals won the contest in 2001 with Alec Machiels (MBA 2001) at the helm, its plan hinged on a mechanism created by a team of Harvard and MIT scientists that used atomic force microscopy in drug...
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- 07 Sep 2021
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September 2021 Alumni Books
entrepreneurs is Mary Kay Ash, a legend as a glass-ceiling breaker and a woman who built a very successful business with a go-to-market strategy of direct selling. Unlike Mary Kay Ash, however, not all aspiring business owners are willing or able to invest their...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2016
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
Buckley (Profile Books) Beginning in the mid-1990s, Sabis, a private, for-profit education provider, transformed the Alfred Glickman School from a failing school in one of America’s most violent cities into a silver medalist in U.S. News...
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- 31 Jul 2019
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Skydeck Live: The Rise of the FOMO Sapiens
maybe you should take your next vacation there. If you see your friend that started their startup and you're working in investment banking, maybe you should get involved as an investor, or maybe you should try to start something, right?...
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- 01 Dec 1997
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A Piece of the Action
their predecessors (Intel, Apple, and Oracle, to name a few), in the last fifteen years, Valley startups such as Sun Microsystems, Netscape, Yahoo!, and Adobe have changed the way the world works, thinks, plays, communicates, and does...
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Susan Young