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The Questions Every Entrepreneur Must Answer
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleDiversify your product line. Stick to your knitting. Hire a professional manager. Watch fixed costs. Those are some of the suggestions that entrepreneurs... -
How Apple Is Organized for Innovation
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleWhen Steve Jobs returned to Apple, in 1997, it had a conventional structure for a company of its size and scope. It was divided into business units, each... -
Why the Lean Start-Up Changes Everything
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleIn the past few years, a new methodology for launching companies, called "the lean start-up," has begun to replace the old regimen. Traditionally, a venture's... -
Strategy for Start-ups
Competitive strategy SpotlightFirst answer two questions; then explore four paths. -
Everything You (Don't) Want to Know About Raising Capital
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleMany built-in problems and risks await the entrepreneur who is searching for capital. Being aware of the realities can help - realities like that raising... -
Your Strategy Needs a Story
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleA well-told story can help employees and other stakeholders understand how your business works and where it's heading. -
SPACs: What You Need to Know
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleSpecial purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs, have been around in various forms for decades, but during the past two years they've taken off in the... -
Entrepreneurs, Is a Venture Studio Right for You?
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleFounders often look to incubators and accelerators to grow their startups. But there’s another option. -
What Venture Trends Can Tell You
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleNew research from McKinsey suggests what the inevitable shakeout in the venture capital industry heralds for the broader business community. -
More and More Companies Want a Piece of the Next Snapchat
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleResearch suggests they're likely to be disappointed. -
Dear Entrepreneur: Think Cash, Not Ideas
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleLast week NBA legend-turned-entrepreneur Magic Johnson sold his Starbucks franchises back to the corporation for a reported $75 million. Rumor has it,... -
The Barriers Big Companies Face When They Try to Act Like Lean Startups
Experimentation ResearchAccording to a survey of executives. -
Making the Leap to Entrepreneurship
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleLessons from the founder of Schmidt's Naturals. -
How to Profit from “Lean Advertising”
Advertising Magazine ArticleOnline video offers a way to achieve higher engagement with consumers for far less money. -
In Big Companies, Lean Is Only One Piece of the Puzzle
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleAt mature companies, it’s tougher to turn on a dime. -
Should You Give Up on Your New Dream?
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleHow to know if it's time to fold 'em. -
Don't Take Money from VCs Until You've Asked 4 Questions
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleDue diligence should go both ways. -
Transient Advantage
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleFor decades, the business world has been fixated on achieving sustainable competitive advantage, a position within an industry that allows a company to... -
Corporate VCs Are Moving the Goalposts
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleIn the traditional approach to venture capital, an investment firm parcels out funds to a portfolio of start-ups, knowing that most will fail but that... -
When Your Business Needs a Second Growth Engine
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleTraditionally, the most reliable way for a firm to find its next wave of growth was to apply the capabilities of its core business in an adjacent market....
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MOVE Guides (C)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details Having decided to go where her customers wanted to take her, CEO Brynne Kennedy had led MOVE Guides into the managed-moves market segment, in addition... -
Honest Tea
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This case examines the decisions of Seth Goldman and Barry Nalebuff, founders of Honest Tea. Honest Tea is a start-up in the ready-to-drink tea market.... -
PAIRING THE FASHION INDUSTRY WITH THE SHARING ECONOMY - A CASE STUDY OF HOW STYLE THEORY ENTERED SINGAPORE'S FASHION RENTAL INDUSTRY
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Founded in 2016 and headquartered in Singapore, Style Theory has successfully paired the sharing economy with the fashion industry by improvising its... -
Savage Beast (A)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details For several months, things had been spiraling downwards at Savage Beast, the music-recommendation company started three years before by Tim Westergren.... -
Note on Valuing a Biotech Company
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This technical note discusses the methods and factors that investment bankers and venture capitalists take into account when placing a value on the shares... -
Village Ventures
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Matt Harris, general partner and founder of Village Ventures, a nationwide umbrella organization for VC firms in secondary cities, is about to negotiate... -
edocs, Inc. (A)
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Describes the development of edocs, an Internet company aimed at revolutionizing the on-line bill presentment market. Kevin Laracey must negotiate a venture... -
Zee Entertainment and Essel Group: A Quest for Legacy and Beyond (A)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details The case traces the entrepreneurial journey of Indian media baron Subhash Chandra. It starts with his entry into a struggling family business in 1967... -
Equilibrium Capital Group: Investing in Energy Efficiency
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Venture capitalists Bill Campbell and Kipp Baratoff have a decision to make. They can either invest their hard-earned capital in one of two existing energy... -
Chrysalis Capital: Venture Capital in an Emerging Market
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details Examines the founding and early development of an Indian venture capital firm. Focuses on the opportunity in the Indian high-technology sector, how the... -
Amanda and Kristen: Mented Cosmetics
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details The co-founders (Black HBS alumnae) of an e-commerce beauty startup explore the unmet needs within the beauty industry. This case study examines the entrepreneurial... -
The Business Model of a University Research Lab
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details This case study teaches students how to think through the management of open innovation in the context of a different setting such as a university research... -
Aspect Ventures
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Yale University Investments Office: August 2006, Chinese Version
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details The Yale Investments Office must decide whether to continue to allocate the bulk of the university's endowment to illiquid investments--hedge funds, private... -
New Enterprise Associates
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details NEA was established in 1977 and it subsequently morphed into one of the largest venture capital firms in the world. Despite its size and significance,... -
Chasm Security: Facing the Technology Startup's Dilemmas (C)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details Case (C) introduces the latest progress of Chasm Security as of the end of 2018. It then poses a very inspiring question to comprehensively summarize... -
Milliway Capital: Battening Down the Hatches
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Facing the downturn in late 2008, the partners in a West-Coast venture capital firm are trying to decide how to manage their portfolio companies and whether... -
Satelite Distribuidora de Petroleo, Portuguese Version
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Marcelo Alecrim, the owner of SAT, a gas distribution company in Brazil, envisioned many growth opportunities but lacked financial resources to pursue... -
Millennial Net
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study6.95View Details Millennial Net created self-organizing, ultra-low-power, wireless sensor networks, a space that was getting a lot of attention in 2004. The company was... -
Oltre Venture: The Impact Revolution (A)
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details This case describes the start-up and early operation of a novel impact investing firm in Italy: Oltre Venture. Oltre Venture, which defines itself as...
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The Questions Every Entrepreneur Must Answer
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleDiversify your product line. Stick to your knitting. Hire a professional manager. Watch fixed costs. Those are some of the suggestions that entrepreneurs... -
How Apple Is Organized for Innovation
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleWhen Steve Jobs returned to Apple, in 1997, it had a conventional structure for a company of its size and scope. It was divided into business units, each... -
Why the Lean Start-Up Changes Everything
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleIn the past few years, a new methodology for launching companies, called "the lean start-up," has begun to replace the old regimen. Traditionally, a venture's... -
Strategy for Start-ups
Competitive strategy SpotlightFirst answer two questions; then explore four paths. -
Everything You (Don't) Want to Know About Raising Capital
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleMany built-in problems and risks await the entrepreneur who is searching for capital. Being aware of the realities can help - realities like that raising... -
Your Strategy Needs a Story
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleA well-told story can help employees and other stakeholders understand how your business works and where it's heading. -
How to Pick the Best Name for Your Company
Entrepreneurship AdviceThree guidelines to consider. -
SPACs: What You Need to Know
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleSpecial purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs, have been around in various forms for decades, but during the past two years they've taken off in the... -
Entrepreneurs, Is a Venture Studio Right for You?
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleFounders often look to incubators and accelerators to grow their startups. But there’s another option. -
State of the Incubator Marketspace
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Other Article995.00View Details This research report provides an in-depth analysis of business incubators. The rise and proliferation of incubators (an umbrella term for any organization...