Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders
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Tom Eisenmann is the Howard H. Stevenson Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School; Peter O. Crisp Chair of Harvard Innovation Labs; and faculty co-chair of the HBS Rock Center for Entrepreneurship, the Harvard MS/MBA Program, and the Harvard College Technology Innovation Fellows Program. In this conversation with Stanford professor Tom Byers, he shares insights from his book “Why Startups Fail: A New Roadmap for Entrepreneurial Success” (Currency, March 2021), which analyzes common patterns that sink both early- and late-stage startups, and also proposes a road map for deciding when to pull the plug and how to fail better.
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Sam Altman (OpenAI) - The Possibilities of AI
Qasar Younis (Applied Intuition) - Radically Pragmatic Insights
Sharon Prince (Grace Farms Foundation) - Designing From Values
Sophia Edelstein and Nathan Kondamuri (Pair Eyewear) - From Stanford Students to Co-CEOs
Clara Shih (Salesforce AI) - What No One Tells You About Entrepreneurship
Shiza Shahid (Our Place) - A Meaningful Entrepreneurial Path
Daniela Amodei (Anthropic) - ‘Helpful, Honest, Harmless’ AI
Ernestine Fu (Brave Capital) - Taking Action for Startup Success
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Jessica Jackley (Kiva and Untapped Capital) - ‘What If?’ Changes the World
Sarah Lamaison (Dioxycle) - Climate Tech Insights
Michelle Lee (Medra) - From Conviction to Company
Andy Dunn (Bonobos) - Mental Health for Entrepreneurs
Kathleen Eisenhardt (Stanford) - Strategy for New Companies
Andrew Ng (AI Fund) - The Near Future of AI
Garry Tan (Y Combinator) - Unconventional Advice for Founders
Cody Coleman (Coactive AI) - Starting from ‘Why’
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