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Research: The Average Age of a Successful Startup Founder Is 45
Innovation & Leadership ResearchThe most successful entrepreneurs aren't 20-somethings. -
Innovation Doesn’t Have to Be Disruptive
Innovation Magazine ArticleCreate new markets for growth without destroying existing companies or jobs. -
The Founder's Dilemma
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleWhy do people start businesses? For the money and the chance to control their own companies, certainly. But new research from Harvard Business School... -
Why Start-ups Fail
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleIf you're launching a business, the odds are against you: Two-thirds of start-ups never show a positive return. Unnerved by that statistic, a professor... -
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. -
The Innovator's DNA
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine Article"How do I find innovative people for my organization? And how can I become more innovative myself?" These are questions that stump most senior executives,... -
The High-Intensity Entrepreneur
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleThe popular take on entrepreneurs in the developing world is that they are few in number and run only microbusinesses. But in a two-year study of entrepreneurship... -
How Founders Can Recognize and Combat Depression
Entrepreneurs and founders Digital ArticleThey’re 30% more likely to experience it. -
More and More Companies Want a Piece of the Next Snapchat
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleResearch suggests they're likely to be disappointed. -
More-Experienced Entrepreneurs Have Bigger Deadline Problems
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleNew research shows that the more projects company builders have under their belts, the worse they are at anticipating delays. -
Don’t Buy the Myth that Every Startup Needs a Co-Founder
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleCo-creators can offer resources, connections, and ideas — without requiring founders to give up control. -
Shutting Down Your Business Gracefully
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleThe story of how a 16-year-old company closed its doors. -
What’s So Special About Founders?
Entrepreneurs and founders Magazine ArticlePopular notions about them are often wrong. -
The Soul of a Start-up
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleThere's an essential, intangible "something" in start-ups--an energy, a soul. It inspires enthusiasm and fosters a sense of deep connection and mutual... -
Turning an Industry Inside Out: A Conversation with Robert Redford
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleNo matter how we rail against the status quo, most of us are reluctant to take action in the workplace. Faced with choosing between our values and jobs,... -
What Airbnb Gets About Culture that Uber Doesn't
Organizational Development Digital ArticleThe two companies are inventing a new organization form, and going about it very differently. -
How Fear Helps (and Hurts) Entrepreneurs
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleBased on interviews with 65 founders. -
Are Former Startup Founders Less Hireable?
Hiring and recruitment Digital ArticleA study found that candidates who had started a company — particularly a successful one — were less likely to get an interview. -
Survey: Female Founders Are (Finally) Paying Themselves More
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleTheir salaries are typically lower than male founders'. -
In Praise of Middle Managers
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleMiddle managers have often been cast as dinosaurs. Has-beens. Mediocre managers and intermediaries who defend the status quo instead of supporting others'...
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Building Innovation at Terrapin Bright Green
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Describes Terrapin Bright Green, an environmental consulting and strategic planning firm, and its approach for creating integrative, systematic solutions... -
Arist: Learning Bit by Bit
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Arist was a Boston, Massachusetts-based startup with a text message learning platform. It was founded by three undergraduate students and raised more... -
Groom Energy Solutions: Selling Efficiency
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Groom Energy Solutions helps organizations reduce their energy use and costs through the implementation of energy efficiency measures, which create long-term... -
Lobbying at eCab
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Erin Jones' ridesharing startup in her mid-sized hometown is finally picking up. She's hoping to reach a sustainable scale so that she can sell to a large... -
Shanghai Diligence Law Firm (B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Shanghai Diligence Law Firm continued with its approach to grow through a merger, rather than organically, and was eventually merged into a bigger law... -
Seven Keys to Creativity: Lessons From Art
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details This study aims to analyze creativity and propose models for creating points of contact between artistic creativity and business creativity. The idea... -
Colette Phillips and GetKonnected!: Creating Inclusive Ecosystems
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Colette Phillips' marketing firm had just won the City of Boston's 2nd largest contract in history to a Black-owned company. During the COVID-19 pandemic,... -
Buro Happold (Abridged)
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details In 1996, Ted Happold, the founder of the engineering services firm Buro Happold passed away and Padraic Kelly became the firm's new Managing Director... -
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... -
Bamboos Health Care Holdings (Hong Kong) Ltd.: Business Model and Expansion
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details The chief executive officer of Bamboos Health Care Holdings (Hong Kong) Ltd. (Bamboos) started her entrepreneurship journey in 2005 with a telephone and... -
Splitting the Founders' Equity Pie: Is Equal Equitable?
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Negotiating the initial equity split among founders is not as straight-forward as it might first appear. In this case, five Belgians launch Novosanis,... -
Destination-U: College Counseling on the Internet
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Mother and son tandem Toby and Greg Waldorf started Destination-U, an online college matching service, in April 2004. Greg had a deep background in start-ups... -
Family Business System Action Planning Worksheet
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Assist in thinking critically about facilitators and inhibitors to goals and preparing for change in a family business system. -
Riding the Wave of Technological Change at RE/MAX, LLC
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details David Liniger, cofounder of RE/MAX, LLC., wondered if his business was prepared to exploit the next wave of business opportunities in the real estate... -
Family Matters at ProLab
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Hillary Mallow, founder-CEO of ProLab, learns that her health-services company is two months shy of bankruptcy. She needs to act - immediately - but isn't... -
CML Group, Inc.: Going Public (B)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details Contains a description of some issues confronting management of CML Group as the company progresses toward making an initial public offering. Among the... -
The Good Struggle: Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World
25.00View Details Leadership is struggle. The question of how to lead successfully and responsibly is crucially important in our uncertain, high-pressure, turbulent world.... -
Canyon-Agassi Investing in Charter Schools
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details After an unusual round of doubles in May 2011, real estate investor Bobby Turner, Managing Partner, Canyon-Agassi Charter School Facilities Fund (CACSFF)... -
Nashton Partners II
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details This case follows the story of Jay Davis and Jason Pananos, classmates from Harvard Business School who started a search fund, Nashton Partners. The case... -
Aqua Bounty, Spanish Version
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Valuation of a pre-revenue biotech company at IPO using probability trees and real option techniques. Company is based in Massachusetts and lists in London...
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Research: The Average Age of a Successful Startup Founder Is 45
Innovation & Leadership ResearchThe most successful entrepreneurs aren't 20-somethings. -
Innovation Doesn’t Have to Be Disruptive
Innovation Magazine ArticleCreate new markets for growth without destroying existing companies or jobs. -
The Founder's Dilemma
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleWhy do people start businesses? For the money and the chance to control their own companies, certainly. But new research from Harvard Business School... -
Why Start-ups Fail
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleIf you're launching a business, the odds are against you: Two-thirds of start-ups never show a positive return. Unnerved by that statistic, a professor... -
How to Pick the Best Name for Your Company
Entrepreneurship AdviceThree guidelines to consider. -
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. -
The Innovator's DNA
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine Article"How do I find innovative people for my organization? And how can I become more innovative myself?" These are questions that stump most senior executives,... -
Building Innovation at Terrapin Bright Green
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Describes Terrapin Bright Green, an environmental consulting and strategic planning firm, and its approach for creating integrative, systematic solutions... -
The High-Intensity Entrepreneur
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleThe popular take on entrepreneurs in the developing world is that they are few in number and run only microbusinesses. But in a two-year study of entrepreneurship... -
Arist: Learning Bit by Bit
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Arist was a Boston, Massachusetts-based startup with a text message learning platform. It was founded by three undergraduate students and raised more...