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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. -
3 Mistakes Made in Scaling up New Ventures
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleYou've launched a successful new product or new company. You have customers ordering what you've created. So, you're on your way to building a thriving... -
Stacey Abrams and Lara Hodgson on Entrepreneurship and Self-Doubt
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleThe three-time founders share their hard-won lessons. -
Why It’s So Hard to Scale a Great Idea
Scaling entrepreneurial ventures Digital ArticleFive hurdles — and how to overcome them. -
Chobani Founder Hamdi Ulukaya on the Journey from Abandoned Factory to Yogurt Powerhouse
Global Business Digital ArticleThe Chobani CEO and founder talks about the biggest challenges along the way. "I never thought about quitting," he says. -
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. -
Scaling Up Without Losing Your Edge
Social enterprise Digital ArticleThe world’s largest NGO proves you don’t have to be small to be beautiful. -
The Hybrid Start-Up
Innovation & Leadership Magazine ArticleCompared with start-ups, established corporations have many resources and capabilities that ought to give them a head start: customers, products, operations,... -
An Entrepreneur's Guide to Surviving the "Death Valley Curve"
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleTwo key questions: Do you have the right business model, and do you have growth ambitions? -
The Scaling Lesson from Facebook's Miraculous 10-Year Rise
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleYou can't always be charging ahead. -
Scaling Customer Service as Your Startup Grows
Sales & Marketing Digital ArticleA stage-by-stage guide to supporting your customers. -
Scaling Up is a Problem of Both More and Less
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleEven large organizations can only handle so much. -
How to Seed Organic Marketing in a Video-First World
Marketing Digital ArticleIt’s all about generating content — from consumers, creators, and celebrities. -
Scaling: The Problem of More
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleWhen too much of a good thing is never enough. -
Scaling Is Hard. Here’s How Akamai Did It.
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleI have been thinking lately about how hard it is to scale start-ups. The Lean Start-Up movement, as exemplified in Eric Ries’ book The Lean Start-Up, has appropriately focused a great deal of attention on the hard decisions and techniques required to create a company from nothing. But once the company has honed in on […] -
The Overlooked Key to a Successful Scale-Up
Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleIt’s mastering the “extrapolation” stage, when start-ups begin to focus on profitability, not just growth. -
Blitzscaling
Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleThe chaotic, sometimes grueling path to high-growth, high-impact entrepreneurship
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BUBEN&ZORWEG: STRATEGIZING TIME
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details In January 2019, Florian vom Bruch was brought in as the first external CEO to lead the privately-held luxury watch winder and safe company, BUBEN&ZORWEG.... -
BuildAir: To the Sky and Beyond, Spanish Version
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details This case explains how a researcher, Javier Marcipar, became an entrepreneur by developing a business idea on the outcome of a research project and founded... -
The Unicorn Within: How Companies Can Create Game-Changing Ventures at Startup Speed
35.00View Details Imagine if the multinational hotel groups had founded Airbnb, or the big auto companies had launched Uber and Tesla, or Blockbuster had created Netflix.... -
Mantra Ayurveda: Scaling Direct-To-Consumer Marketing
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Mantra Ayurveda (Mantra), established in India in 2020, manufactured and marketed luxury Ayurvedic skin care and hair care products. The brand's equity... -
Mapxus: How Complementary Partners Created the Leadership Needed To Build a Successful Innovation Start-Up
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Mapxus is an award-winning innovative smart tech start-up whose research and development is based in Hong Kong. Using a combination of artificial intelligence,... -
The Business Model Canvas - A Useful Tool
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details This case lays out the steps for creating a Business Model Canvas (BMC)-a comprehensive and intuitive framework intended to facilitate description and... -
Shenzhen Power Solution: Energising Africa's Base of the Pyramid
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Li Xia is the founder of Shenzhen Power Solution (SPS), a social enterprise established to aid people at the bottom of the pyramid (BOP). Her family's... -
Smart Investment - Managing Investment Trade-offs at SMART Photonics
Management Case Study8.95View Details SMART Photonics - a photonic chip maker - had been growing rapidly over the past 8 years. After successfully developing a technology to make complex photonic... -
Elon Musk's Big Bets
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Between late 2014 and late 2016, Tesla and CEO Elon Musk undertook several major, and risky, initiatives that would dramatically expand the scale and... -
Paga: Ending Cash's Reign in Emerging Markets
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Tayo Oviosu founded Paga in 2009 to make life possible for the millions of Nigerians who operated in a cash-first environment. Paga helped users send... -
Moodcafe: From India Conception to Raising Funds
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details The case describes a situation facing Mikul Patel and Rahul Mirdha, the co-founders of Moodcafe, an online mental healthcare service provider. They had... -
The Intel Incubation Program: Disruption Inside
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Intel established the Emerging Growth and Incubation (EGI) Group in 2018 with a charter to build a disruptive innovation engine. The EGI Group was seen... -
Tesla-SolarCity
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details On June 21, 2016, Tesla Motors, Inc. announced its offer to acquire SolarCity, bringing CEO Elon Musk one step closer to completing his goal of moving... -
OvaScience
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details In early April 2012, Michelle Dipp, MD, Ph.D, CEO and co-founder of OvaScience, had just received a buyout offer from PG Ventures, a private equity firm... -
Webuycars: Finding the key to new growth in South Africa, Spanish Version
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details The case focuses on Faan van der Walt (as protagonist), his brother Dirk, and WeBuyCars, a large second-hand car dealership in South Africa, which has... -
Duolingo: Play, Not Pay, to Learn Languages
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details In July 2021, Duolingo became one of the few mission-driven education-technology companies to list on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange in the US. Founded in... -
Circles (B): Launch and Pivot
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details This case describes the entrepreneurial journey of two college friends - Anchal Taatya and Abhiram Nukalapati. While studying at IIM Ahmedabad, they saw... -
Investec South Africa CSI: Harnessing Crisis to Scale Up Delivery and Impact
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details In April 2020, the head of the corporate social investments (CSI) division of Investec South Africa (Investec SA), was working to ensure that Investec... -
Shelly Sun at BrightStar Care: The Evolution of a Leader
Management Case Study8.95View Details Shelly Sun had founded BrightStar Care, a home health care and medical staffing agency, 20 years earlier and had grown the business to over 300 franchised... -
InMobi: An Indian Internet Company Cracking China
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details The case describes the process of entering the China market undertaken by InMobi, an Indian Internet Company that provides a mobile advertising platform...
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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. -
Fake it 'til you make it: Hazards of a cultural norm in entrepreneurship
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleFake it 'til you make it--that is, deceptively claiming a new endeavor exhibits characteristics of successful entrepreneurial ventures to gain support... -
BUBEN&ZORWEG: STRATEGIZING TIME
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details In January 2019, Florian vom Bruch was brought in as the first external CEO to lead the privately-held luxury watch winder and safe company, BUBEN&ZORWEG.... -
3 Mistakes Made in Scaling up New Ventures
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleYou've launched a successful new product or new company. You have customers ordering what you've created. So, you're on your way to building a thriving... -
BuildAir: To the Sky and Beyond, Spanish Version
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details This case explains how a researcher, Javier Marcipar, became an entrepreneur by developing a business idea on the outcome of a research project and founded... -
The Unicorn Within: How Companies Can Create Game-Changing Ventures at Startup Speed
35.00View Details Imagine if the multinational hotel groups had founded Airbnb, or the big auto companies had launched Uber and Tesla, or Blockbuster had created Netflix.... -
Mantra Ayurveda: Scaling Direct-To-Consumer Marketing
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Mantra Ayurveda (Mantra), established in India in 2020, manufactured and marketed luxury Ayurvedic skin care and hair care products. The brand's equity... -
Stacey Abrams and Lara Hodgson on Entrepreneurship and Self-Doubt
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleThe three-time founders share their hard-won lessons.