Why Startups Fail feat. Tom Eisenmann

unSILOed with Greg LaBlanc · May 9, 2022 · 48m

Some philosophers of science would say that, if you can't fail, you can't learn. If you've got a theory of how the world's going to work, and the world works that way, you haven't learned anything new. And this idea of emphasizing and embracing failure is important in the business world as well. Tom Eisenmann is the Howard H. Stevenson Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School.Here, Tom heads up many entrepreneurial initiatives, teaches the MBA elective Entrepreneurial Failure, and the MS/MBA core courses Technology Venture Immersion and Launch Lab. In recent years…