Jul 25, 2026
Business schools were originally created to train professional managers, not startup founders.
When Harvard Business School opened in 1908, its mission was to prepare leaders for large, established companies.
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Entrepreneurship, customer discovery, product-market fit, and Lean Startup methods emerged decades later as startup creation became its own discipline.
Today, business schools increasingly teach both, but their historical foundation was management, not venture creation.
