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How Cisco Created Their Own Talent Incubator
Employee retention Digital ArticleWhile there’s been a lot of discussion about how the recession may be over, to many organizations and their employees, the view ahead is still one tough slog. The zeitgeist says it’s far too early to dream about constructing your ideal job; survival trumps career development. Yet that’s precisely the kind of thinking that will […] -
Why Innovation Labs Fail, and How to Ensure Yours Doesn't
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Networked Incubators: Hothouses of the New Economy
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleBusiness incubators such as Hotbank, CMGI, and Idealab! are a booming industry. Offering office space, funding, and basic services to start-ups, these... -
The Problems with Incubators, and How to Solve Them
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Case Study: Should an Emerging-Market Incubator Help U.S. Businesses?
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3 Strategies for Rolling Out New Tech Within Your Company
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What Startup Accelerators Really Do
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Why Business Schools Need to Teach Experimentation
Communication Digital ArticleThese skills are in high demand - and should be part of the MBA curriculum. -
Picking Winners: A Conversation with MacArthur Fellows Program Director Daniel J. Socolow
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleIn the business world, "creativity" has become the latest buzzword. How to attract, nurture, and direct the extraordinarily talented people who will come... -
What Did 2020 Do to Retail?
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleCovid will have a long-lasting impact on the industry. -
Managing Performance When It's Hard to Measure
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleYou need an individualized approach.
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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.... -
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... -
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... -
Syngenta and Thought for Food: A Food-Security Innovation Platform
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details In 2015, the corporate affairs executive of the leading Swiss agribusiness company Syngenta Crop Protection AG (Syngenta) and founder of the next-generation... -
Nestle: Sustainable Agriculture Initiative
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Swiss food giant Nestle attempts to improve the performance of its suppliers of agricultural commodities to raise quality, lower costs, and contribute... -
Managing a Public Image: Kevin Knight
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Kevin Knight recounts an uncomfortable situation he faced as an African-American student at Harvard Business School. Concerned with maintaining an image... -
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... -
Walmart Update, 2011, Japanese Version
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details In 2011, Walmart was the world's largest company, with $420 billion in sales and operations in 14 countries. Yet it found itself searching for the right... -
Barbara Krakow Gallery
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details The Barbara Krakow Gallery is a successful contemporary art gallery located in Boston. It utilizes a very rare "no haggle pricing" strategy and extended... -
Ensighten
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Focuses on a small start-up software company engaged in a negotiation over its software licensing agreement with a very large potential client. The entrepreneur... -
Governance and Sustainability at Nike (A), Chinese Version
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Two members of Nike's executive team must decide what sustainability targets to propose to Nike's CEO and to the corporate responsibility committee of... -
The U.S. Current Account Deficit, Spanish Version
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details Investors and policymakers throughout the world were confronted with the risk of painful economic consequences arising from the large U.S. current account... -
Citibank: Launching the Credit Card in Asia Pacific (A), Spanish Version
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Consumer Bank pondered the possibilities of launching a credit card in the Asia Pacific region. The bank's New York headquarters, and several of its country... -
Odyssey Healthcare
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details In January 2001, Dick Burnham, CEO of Odyssey Healthcare, and Odyssey's Board of Directors were considering selling the hospice care company to a larger... -
New Resource Bank: In Pursuit of Green
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details New Resource Bank was founded in San Francisco in 2006 with a mission focused on environmental sustainability. The case illustrates the opportunities... -
GlaxoSmithKline in China (B)
Sales & Marketing Case Study5.00View Details In 2013, Chinese investigators detained four GSK employees for allegedly bribing health care staff to sell GSK pharmaceuticals. A month later, GSK's Asia... -
FleetBoston Financial: Online Banking, Portuguese Version
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details As the ninth largest bank holding company in the United States in 2000, FleetBoston Financial Corp. provided a myriad of financial services, including... -
Dalian Venture Workshop Technology Service Co., Ltd.: Business Incubation in China
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Founded in 2012 in Dalian, Liaoning Province, China, Dalian Venture Workshop Technology Service Co., Ltd. (Venture Workshop) was a business incubator... -
Customer Loyalty Schemes in the Retail Sector
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Customer loyalty schemes (or programs) are explicit efforts by retailers to gain long-term patronage from customers. Loyalty schemes are developed for... -
Black Duck Software
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Black Duck Software involves a venture-backed start-up that converted software developers' concerns about violating copyright licensing agreements or...
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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... -
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.... -
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... -
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... -
Syngenta and Thought for Food: A Food-Security Innovation Platform
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details In 2015, the corporate affairs executive of the leading Swiss agribusiness company Syngenta Crop Protection AG (Syngenta) and founder of the next-generation... -
Nestle: Sustainable Agriculture Initiative
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Swiss food giant Nestle attempts to improve the performance of its suppliers of agricultural commodities to raise quality, lower costs, and contribute... -
Managing a Public Image: Kevin Knight
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Kevin Knight recounts an uncomfortable situation he faced as an African-American student at Harvard Business School. Concerned with maintaining an image... -
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... -
Walmart Update, 2011, Japanese Version
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details In 2011, Walmart was the world's largest company, with $420 billion in sales and operations in 14 countries. Yet it found itself searching for the right... -
Barbara Krakow Gallery
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details The Barbara Krakow Gallery is a successful contemporary art gallery located in Boston. It utilizes a very rare "no haggle pricing" strategy and extended...