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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... -
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... -
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. -
Why Start-ups Fail
Entrepreneurial management Magazine ArticleIt’s not always the horse or the jockey. -
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 People You Need Working for Your Start-Up
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleB-school buddies do not a business marriage make. -
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. -
Where to Launch in Africa? (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleAn ambitious executive is about to leave his employer in order to launch his own Pan-African venture. Should he start up in a rapidly growing, but already... -
The Challenges Facing E-Commerce Start-ups in Africa
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleFrom the postal service to the cost of broadband. -
How One Political Start-Up Is Trying to Fight Gridlock
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleThe Silicon Valley-inspired approach of No Labels. -
Is Corporate Venture Capital Right for Your Startup?
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleHow entrepreneurs can decide whether to pursue corporate funding, and if so, which CVC to pick. -
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... -
Making the Leap to Entrepreneurship
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleLessons from the founder of Schmidt's Naturals. -
To Attract New Grads, Hire Like a Start-Up
Age and generational issues Digital ArticleHow larger companies can lure the essential (but elusive) millennial. -
How a Start-Up Can Succeed in a Mature Category
Competitive strategy Digital ArticleLet the data be your guide. -
Building a Software Start-Up Inside GE
Competitive strategy Digital ArticleA case study for intrapreneurs.
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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... -
Startup Cisco
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details This case outlines how a small team of people apply lean startup methods within Cisco, creating successful internal innovation over a period of a year.... -
Amanda and Kristen: Mented Cosmetics
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details The co-founders (Black HBS alumnae) of an e-commerce beauty startup explore the unmet needs within the beauty industry. This case study examines the entrepreneurial... -
A123 Systems: Power. Safety. Life.
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details A123 Systems, the largest manufacturer of lithium ion batteries in North America, is producing and selling batteries for electric vehicles in China and... -
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... -
Canibal-Play It Green!
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details In 2011, Canibal launched a machine that could sort and compress aluminum cans, plastic bottles, and cups. Users could play a jackpot-style game on the... -
Instacart and the New Wave of Grocery Startups
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Instacart is testing an Uber-style solution to the challenge of building a home-delivered grocery business. It is backed by $220 million of venture funding.... -
Held Hostage in the 21st Century: Cybersecurity, Ransomware, and Crisis Management (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details This case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values.... -
Huemen: The Creation of a Male Beauty Brand
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Huemen was a new men's cosmetics start-up founded in mid-2018 by two business students. In 2018, the market for men's makeup was in its infancy. Stigmas... -
Evisort: An A.I.-Powered Start-up Uses Text Mining to Become Google for Contracts
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Start-up Evisort was cofounded by two law students seeking to create AI-enhanced software providing contract management and processing solutions for attorneys... -
Business Model Challenges: The Electric Vehicle Company
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Electric vehicles have been "the next big trend" for more than 100 years. The first commercially viable electric car was available in the 1890s but failed... -
Start-Up as a Service: The Prehype Model
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details The case outlines how Henrik Werdelin, the founder of Prehype, launched a new model for how large companies can create growth through innovation, based... -
Note on Developing Start-Up Strategies
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details ... -
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... -
Senreve
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details This case explores the various challenges that Senreve faced in hiring and retaining talent as a rapidly growing organization. The case first describes... -
Rent the Runway (Abridged), Spanish Version
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Two months after a successful launch In November 2009, the cofounders of Rent the Runway (RTR), a website that rented designer dresses, are debating whether... -
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,... -
Ajax Health: A New Model for Medical Technology Innovation
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details This case teaches key success factors for both startups and established medtech firms. It examines how to structure a firm to maximize financial returns....
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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... -
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... -
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. -
Why Start-ups Fail
Entrepreneurial management Magazine ArticleIt’s not always the horse or the jockey. -
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. -
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...