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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... -
The Five Stages of Small Business Growth
Entrepreneurial management Magazine ArticleNo researcher has explored the earliest period of a business’s development in detail—until now. -
How Venture Capital Works
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleIn this article, Bob Zider, president of the Beta Group, a California-based firm that invests in commercializing new technologies, presents an analysis... -
How to Write a Winning Business Plan
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleA well-conceived business plan is essential to the success of an enterprise. Whether you are starting up a venture, seeking additional capital for an... -
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... -
Research: The Average Age of a Successful Startup Founder Is 45
Innovation & Leadership ResearchThe most successful entrepreneurs aren't 20-somethings. -
Strategic Secret of Private Equity
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleThe huge sums that private equity firms make on their investments evoke admiration and envy. Typically, these returns are attributed to the firms' aggressive... -
Managers and Leaders: Are They Different? (HBR Classic)
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleManagers and leaders are two very different types of people. Managers' goals arise out of necessities rather than desires; they excel at defusing conflicts... -
The Discipline of Innovation
Creativity Magazine ArticleIn business, innovation rarely springs from a flash of inspiration. It arises from a cold-eyed analysis of seven kinds of opportunities. -
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... -
How Venture Capitalists Make Decisions
Venture capital Magazine ArticleAn inside look at an opaque process -
Strategy for Start-ups
Competitive strategy SpotlightFirst answer two questions; then explore four paths. -
What African Fintech Startups Can Teach Silicon Valley About Longevity
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleThree lessons, based on a study of more than 200 senior-level executives. -
Everything You (Don’t) Want to Know About Raising Capital
Financial markets Magazine ArticleMost entrepreneurs understand that if the fundamentals of a business idea—the management team, the market opportunities, the operating systems and controls—are sound, chances are there’s money out there. The challenge of landing that capital to grow a company can be exhilarating. But as exciting as the money search may be, it is equally threatening. Built […] -
Why Start-ups Fail
Entrepreneurial management Magazine ArticleIt’s not always the horse or the jockey. -
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. -
The Ambidextrous Organization
Innovation Magazine ArticleEstablished companies can develop radical innovations and protect their traditional businesses. The secret? Create organizationally distinct units that are tightly integrated at the senior executive level. -
The Strategic Challenges of Decoupling
Global Business SpotlightMost business executives who have put time, effort, and investment into developing a presence in China resist the notion of decoupling. With the Biden...
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Airbnb in Amsterdam (A), Portuguese Version
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details In February 2014, Amsterdam became the first city to issue new regulations specifically to allow home-sharing. Airbnb's Molly Turner, Global Head of Civic... -
Perspective on Entrepreneurship, Spanish Version
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Designed to highlight alternative concepts of good management and the need for entrepreneurship as a response to societal changes. It argues that entrepreneurship... -
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... -
Airbnb in Amsterdam (B), Portuguese Version
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details In December 2014, the City of Amsterdam and Airbnb announced an MOU to promote responsible home-sharing and to simplify the payment of tourist tax for... -
Diogenes-FG: Heralding Responsible Innovation in Fiduciary Services for Retirement and Nonprofit Trustees
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Diogenes pioneered the use of technology to support trustees and boards in their role as fiduciaries of employee retirement funds. Typically, a multinational... -
IBM: Building with Blockchain
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details IBM needed a win. Facing flattening sales and increasing analyst concerns, the century-old giant that had reinvented itself so often before was in search... -
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... -
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... -
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.... -
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... -
Project Deutschland: Unpeeling the Onion of a Distressed Real Estate Portfolio
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details James Tallest analyzed the opportunity to invest in a distressed portfolio of high quality properties in Germany by acquiring one or more non-performing... -
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... -
Mercury Rising: Knight Ridder's Digital Venture
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Captures the efforts of newspaper publisher Knight Ridder to create a digital venture. Knight Ridder proves to be a pioneer in digital publishing, launching... -
Hacking Heroin, Portuguese Version
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details "Hacking Heroin" was the first hackathon that Annie Rittgers, founder of Cincinnati-based 17a, had organized or even attended. "There will continue to... -
ConAgra Foods
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details In 2002, ConAgra Foods CEO Bruce Rohde was deliberating the next steps in the process of transforming the company from an agribusiness giant to a value-added... -
Beleza Natural: Marketing Strategies for Empowering Social Change
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details This case features an entrepreneur striving to rapidly grow a successful chain of hair salons that serve women with afro hair. After doubling from 13... -
All in Flour Bakery: Making Bread or Making Money?
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details After years of learning from the best bakeries around the world, Polish entrepreneur Monika Walecka returned to her native Poland and, in 2019, opened... -
Managing Stakeholders with Corporate Social Responsibility, Course Overview
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details The note articulates the ways in which strong stakeholder-company relationships developed through corporate social responsibility initiatives and other...
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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... -
The Five Stages of Small Business Growth
Entrepreneurial management Magazine ArticleNo researcher has explored the earliest period of a business’s development in detail—until now. -
How Venture Capital Works
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleIn this article, Bob Zider, president of the Beta Group, a California-based firm that invests in commercializing new technologies, presents an analysis... -
How to Write a Winning Business Plan
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleA well-conceived business plan is essential to the success of an enterprise. Whether you are starting up a venture, seeking additional capital for an... -
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... -
Research: The Average Age of a Successful Startup Founder Is 45
Innovation & Leadership ResearchThe most successful entrepreneurs aren't 20-somethings. -
Strategic Secret of Private Equity
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleThe huge sums that private equity firms make on their investments evoke admiration and envy. Typically, these returns are attributed to the firms' aggressive... -
Managers and Leaders: Are They Different? (HBR Classic)
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleManagers and leaders are two very different types of people. Managers' goals arise out of necessities rather than desires; they excel at defusing conflicts... -
How to Build Wealth When You Don’t Come from Money
You are worthy of wealth, despite the systems designed to keep it from you.