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What African Fintech Startups Can Teach Silicon Valley About Longevity
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How Startups Can Land a Second Meeting with a Corporate Partner
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What Founders Need to Know Before Selling Their Startup
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Nonprofit Fundraising in the Age of Coronavirus
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Giving After Disasters
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AEI's President on Measuring the Impact of Ideas
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Startups Need Relationships Before They Ask for Money
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Why Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan Should Use Their Money for Fundraising
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Career Choices When Life Is Short (Commentary for HBR Case Study)
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Career Choices When Life Is Short (HBR Case Study)
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleAn up-and-coming entrepreneur, Gil Lehner is looking ahead and deciding on his next move. But Gil's situation is unusual: He was just diagnosed with small-cell... -
Career Choices When Life Is Short (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleAn up-and-coming entrepreneur, Gil Lehner is looking ahead and deciding on his next move. But Gil's situation is unusual: He was just diagnosed with small-cell... -
How Wise Crowds Can Advance Philanthropy
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleEvery year in the United States billions of philanthropic dollars go to more than 1.5 million nonprofits--some of which use the money inefficiently. But...
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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. -
Career Choices When Life Is Short (Commentary for HBR Case Study)
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleAn up-and-coming entrepreneur, Gil Lehner is looking ahead and deciding on his next move. But Gil's situation is unusual: He was just diagnosed with small-cell... -
Why Startups Should Embrace Radical Transparency
Entrepreneurs and founders Digital ArticleIt’s in founders’ best interests to not only accept, but invite, oversight. -
How Startups Can Land a Second Meeting with a Corporate Partner
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleResearchers attended 150 meetings between start-ups and corporations including IBM, Sony, L'Oréal, Toyota, and AstraZeneca. -
What Founders Need to Know Before Selling Their Startup
Entrepreneurs and founders Digital ArticleYou might be surprised at what your acquirer will agree to — if you just ask. -
Giving After Disasters
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleAlthough the global cost of natural disasters has increased sharply, traditional sources of funding--governments, nonprofits, and NGOs--have not kept... -
Career Choices When Life Is Short (HBR Case Study)
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleAn up-and-coming entrepreneur, Gil Lehner is looking ahead and deciding on his next move. But Gil's situation is unusual: He was just diagnosed with small-cell... -
For Female Founders, Fundraising Only from Female VCs Comes at a Cost
Gender Digital ArticleNew research suggests that exclusive support from female investors may be a mixed blessing because it can make it harder to raise additional rounds of financing. -
Startups Need Relationships Before They Ask for Money
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleIt's a better long-term strategy. -
How Midsize Companies Can Access Capital in Turbulent Times
Organizational change Digital ArticleLending to mid-market companies has fallen nearly 60% over the last year. -
Career Choices When Life Is Short (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleAn up-and-coming entrepreneur, Gil Lehner is looking ahead and deciding on his next move. But Gil's situation is unusual: He was just diagnosed with small-cell... -
Why Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan Should Use Their Money for Fundraising
Global Business Digital ArticleIt's what we need to tackle the biggest problems. -
Nonprofit Fundraising in the Age of Coronavirus
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleHow to ask for donations when donors are hurting too. -
AEI's President on Measuring the Impact of Ideas
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleAfter the Great Recession, the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington think tank, needed to compete even harder for every dollar. Arthur C. Brooks... -
How Wise Crowds Can Advance Philanthropy
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleEvery year in the United States billions of philanthropic dollars go to more than 1.5 million nonprofits--some of which use the money inefficiently. But...
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Village Ventures
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Street League Skateboarding: The Challenges Facing a New Sports League
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iyzico: Fundraising in Emerging Markets (A)
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Mesosphere: Creating Lasting Value on Top of Open Source Software
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Buck Jack Capital: Closing or Quitting
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Mobike: A Worthy Bike-Sharing Unicorn?
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USA Track & Field: Getting Its Governance on Track
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Get Your Venture Backed with Persuasive Data Viz: An HBR Collection for Building the Perfect Pitch Deck
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Julie Hallman at the Falaise Foundation
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Arcano Partners: Scaling Impact With a Fund of Funds (B)
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IDEAAS and PSA: Replication in the Amazon
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Openspace Ventures: Sustainable Venture Capital
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TTTech in 2017: When Market and Technology Trends Align with Company Capabilities
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details For 20 years, TTTech had honed its innovative suite of technology solutions, developing cutting-edge products for customers such as Audi, General Electric,...
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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. -
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... -
BC Partners: Acuris
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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)... -
Glassdoor: The Fundraising Journey (A)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details From his time as a young engineer at Microsoft in 1993, to the challenge of building Glassdoor from the ground up until it reached a valuation of over... -
Street League Skateboarding: The Challenges Facing a New Sports League
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iyzico: Fundraising in Emerging Markets (A)
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details The case opens in 2016 as Barbaros Ozbugutu, co-founder and CEO of the Istanbul-based payment technology start-up iyzico, contemplates the offers the... -
Mesosphere: Creating Lasting Value on Top of Open Source Software
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details "Mesosphere: Creating Lasting Value on Top of Open Source Software" explores the challenges associated with building a company on top of open source software.... -
Buck Jack Capital: Closing or Quitting
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details This case describes how Laura Franklin and William Colt conducted their entrepreneurial acquisition process. After the duo honed their method for contacting... -
Mobike: A Worthy Bike-Sharing Unicorn?
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details In August 2018, Felicia Wong, Chief Investment Officer at 88 Capital, the investment arm of a Hong Kong family office, was considering investing in a...