New York Times - Small Business

Being a successful self-starter doesn’t mean pulling yourself up by your bootstraps.

Ben Shattuck, the proprietor of Davoll’s in coastal Massachusetts, yearns for a retail world before chain stores and online shopping.A quiet moment at Davoll’s.

To create a new $699 bootcamp for entrepreneurs, Harvard Business School made A.I. versions of its faculty.The Foundry Bootcamp includes interactive A.I. video avatars of Harvard Business School instructors, like this one of the venture capitalist Jeff Bussgang.