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And thanks for listening. Welcome to the HBR Idea Cast from Harvard Business Review. I'm Sarah Green Carmichael

and I'm here today with Amy Bernstein, the editor of our magazine.

Amy, thank you so much for joining us.

Great to be here.

So as usual, today we are giving the executive summaries

of some of the features in our March 2016 issue.

And let's start with the spotlight. This is a collection of articles on a theme, every issue always has a theme.

This month it's entrepreneurship. This continues to be a very trendy topic in a lot of business

thinking and commentary. So what's new to say? a very

So what's new to say here? What's going on here now? Yeah, so what we're trying to focus on this month and this issue is

Startups that last you know how do you preserve your startup

mojo while creating a company sort of built for the long haul that turns out to be

an incredibly difficult transformation.

We have three articles in the package that look at that question from different perspectives.

The first one is called Startups that Last, and it's a report on a very rigorous set of research

into about 75 years of history looking at how startups actually become companies that last and it looks at

who you should hire, how you should organize the company,

and the kinds of processes you need to put in place.

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