Why Startups Fail with Tom Eisenmann (HBS Professor) || Harvard Alumni Entrepreneurs

As a Harvard Business School professor for the past 24 years, Tom Eisenmann has guided over 1,000 Harvard Business students and alumni as they launched new ventures—many, to massive success, including Stitch Fix, Cloudflare, and Oscar Health. According to Tom, “If you want a startup to succeed, you need to understand why startups fail.” Tom will Join HAE for a fireside chat to discuss the many reasons startups fail and how you can avoid these pitfalls in your entrepreneurial pursuits. ABOUT TOM EISENMANN Tom Eisenmann is the Howard H. Stevenson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School (HBS) and the faculty co-chair of the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship. Since joining the HBS faculty in 1997, he’s led The Entrepreneurial Manager, an introductory course taught to all first-year MBAs, and launched fourteen electives on all aspects of entrepreneurship, including one on startup failure. Eisenmann has authored WHY STARTUPS FAIL: A New Roadmap for Entrepreneurial Success along with more than one hundred HBS case studies, and his writing has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, and Forbes. OUR MISSION: The Harvard Alumni Entrepreneurs (HAE) is dedicated to the advancement of entrepreneurship, the promotion of innovation, and the ideals of leadership and learning. We are a 501(c)3, volunteer-run, Shared Interest Group of the Harvard Alumni Association. Since our beginnings in 2000, HAE has served as a meeting place for entrepreneurial alumni, students, faculty and staff from all of Harvard's schools. The most important opportunity available we offer is the HAE membership itself. Join HAE and you join an extensive network of both aspiring and accomplished entrepreneurs. *We are the only official Harvard alumni organization recognized by the Harvard Alumni Association for the promotion of entrepreneurship in Harvard alumni across the world. Required Listening: Enjoy our latest HAE Invites Podcasts https://www.harvardae.org/podcast