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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... -
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... -
Strategy for Start-ups
Competitive strategy SpotlightFirst answer two questions; then explore four paths. -
Everything You (Don't) Want to Know About Raising Capital
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleMany built-in problems and risks await the entrepreneur who is searching for capital. Being aware of the realities can help - realities like that raising... -
SPACs: What You Need to Know
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleSpecial purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs, have been around in various forms for decades, but during the past two years they've taken off in the... -
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. -
In Big Companies, Lean Is Only One Piece of the Puzzle
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleAt mature companies, it’s tougher to turn on a dime. -
When You Pitch an Idea, Gestures Matter More Than Words
Communication Magazine ArticleAccording to new study led by a professor from Erasmus University, body language sways potential investors more than technical explanations or figurative... -
Welcome to Innovation Insights
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleThere is a pervasive belief that innovation is random and unpredictable. Data would seem to support this belief. Ask a venture capitalist what percent... -
Corporate VCs Are Moving the Goalposts
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleIn the traditional approach to venture capital, an investment firm parcels out funds to a portfolio of start-ups, knowing that most will fail but that... -
The Overlooked Key to a Successful Scale-Up
Innovation & Leadership Magazine ArticleMany start-ups experience enormous popularity and runaway growth, but only a few go on to become stable giants. What separates them from the pack? They... -
Successful Startups Don't Make Money Their Primary Mission
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleLose sight of that and you lose the company. -
Take the Money--or Run? (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticlePetrolink's business plan looks like a winner. At present, the only available pipeline for operators in the Baltic Sea's newly developed Helmark gas field... -
In Search of the Next Big Thing
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleIn the 1990s, just out of college, Andreessen went knocking on VC doors in Silicon Valley, looking to fund what became the breakthrough web browser Netscape... -
Making Sense of Corporate Venture Capital
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleLarge companies have long sensed the potential value of investing in external start-ups, but more often than not, they fail to get it right. Remember... -
The Limits of the Lean Startup Method
Business models Digital ArticleToo much testing can backfire. -
Twitch CEO on the Future of the Creator Economy – and the Challenge to Keep the Platform Safe
Business and society Digital Article“That kind of violence, that kind of hate … [doesn’t] have any place anywhere in our society, or especially on Twitch.” -
Dream Deferred: The Story of a High-Tech Entrepreneur in a Low-Tech World
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleAdesemi, an American start-up in Africa, had been trying for six years to blanket the developing world with desperately needed wireless communications... -
Four Ways to Market Like a Startup
Sales & Marketing Digital ArticleDon't get bogged down by a culture of "big."
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The We Company: How Do You Like We Now?
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details In August 2019, WeWork filed for an initial public offering; investors in its 14 venture capital rounds were anxious for an exit. Softbank had invested... -
Natura &Co: Sustainability at Scale
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Established in 1969 as a cosmetics lab in the city of São Paulo, Natura grew briskly over the ensuing decades and by 2004 it had become Brazil's largest... -
The Marketing Process
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details The Chartered Institute of Marketing in the UK defines marketing as: "The management process responsible for identifying, anticipating and satisfying... -
Taurion Inc.: Built to Cure an Incurable Disease (VCs)
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details Supplement to case IES519. Taurion Inc. is a start-up company established in 2006 and based in Vienna. It specializes in researching the causes of Alzheimer's... -
Cassia at Home: A Restaurant Brand Moves to Home Kitchens
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Beginning with an ambitious, lean start-up effort in the highly competitive restaurant industry in Auckland, New Zealand, a husband-and-wife team built... -
Chrysanthemum and Dragon: JAFCO Asia in China
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details In the autumn of 2002, JAFCO Asia, a subsidiary of JAFCO Co., Ltd., became the first foreign private equity firm to open an office in Beijing's Haidian... -
Brummer and the bracNet Investment
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details bracNet, a for-profit/nonprofit partnership, aims to establish Internet connectivity throughout Bangladesh. Venture capitalist Patrik Brummer invested... -
AnswerDash (Abridged)
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details It is 2014 and AnswerDash, a startup backed by venture capital, has not seen the widespread adoption of their online self-service customer support solution... -
Square, Inc. IPO
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details In November 2015, Square, Inc. launched its initial public offering (IPO). The IPO had an offering price of $9 per share, lower than the $11 to $13 estimate... -
Road Well Traveled (Condensed)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Presents the conclusions of a 1992 mail survey of Harvard MBAs who started their own businesses. Questions focused on 4 areas: 1) development of the business... -
Proteolix: A "Me-Too" Success
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details In an industry rife with failures, Proteolix, a biotechnology company, was a rare success. The Proteolix case provides a compelling example of a biotech... -
3M Optical Systems: Managing Corporate Entrepreneurship
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details A middle-level division manager must decide whether he should support an investment request for a third attempt at launching a new product developed by... -
Altoona State Investment Board & Bain Capital Fund XI
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Considers the decision faced by state pension fund manager Rod Calhoun as he decides whether to invest $200 million in Bain Capital's eleventh global... -
Metapath Software: September 1997
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details In September 1997, John Hansen called together his board to debate an interesting choice that his company had to make. Hansen--the CEO of Metapath Software,... -
Growing on YouTube: Eric Kim's Story
Management Case Study8.95View Details In 2020, when everyone had been quarantined at home due to the COVID-19 pandemic, South Korea-based Eric Kim jumped onto YouTube, a video-sharing digital... -
Fundrr: Growth through Resourcefulness
Management Case Study8.95View Details Fundrr was a South Africa-based alternative funding business that launched in 2018. The business's goal had been to disrupt the South African business... -
VC Decision-Making in India: Aavishkaar and Milk Mantra (C)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details The case profiles the protagonist, Vineet Rai, managing partner of Aavishkaar Venture Management Services (an Indian, early stage VC firm with a focus... -
Reimagining Hindustan Unilever (A)
Management Case Study15.05View Details In the fall of 2019, the CEO and MD of Hindustan Unilever (HUL), India's largest fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) firm, is wondering what to do about... -
Walnut Venture Associates (C): RBS Due Diligence--Market Size
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
NatuRi Corporation
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details NatuRi Corp. was a start up, founded in 2005, aiming to manufacture a cholesterol-lowering drug made from the byproducts of rice bran oil production....
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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... -
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... -
Strategy for Start-ups
Competitive strategy SpotlightFirst answer two questions; then explore four paths. -
How to Pick the Best Name for Your Company
Entrepreneurship AdviceThree guidelines to consider. -
Everything You (Don't) Want to Know About Raising Capital
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleMany built-in problems and risks await the entrepreneur who is searching for capital. Being aware of the realities can help - realities like that raising... -
SPACs: What You Need to Know
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleSpecial purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs, have been around in various forms for decades, but during the past two years they've taken off in the... -
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. -
Francisco Partners, Teaching Note
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleTeaching Note for (9-200-063). -
The We Company: How Do You Like We Now?
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details In August 2019, WeWork filed for an initial public offering; investors in its 14 venture capital rounds were anxious for an exit. Softbank had invested...