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Harvard Can Count Its Unicorn Founders, But Can It Prove It Made Them?

For years, business schools have been good at counting the unicorns among their alumni. The next challenge is demonstrating the role they played in creating them. Maybe what matters is the ability to connect: management with engineering, ideas with capital, researchers with operators, people who want to start something with people who already have.

What Business Schools Are Learning About the Power of Starting Over

Reed Hastings described running his first company like, "Near-drowning." He got to start over as CEO of Netflix, and definitely enjoyed it more. The near-drowning had taught him how to swim. Business school students are learning that how you handle failure can define your future success.