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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... -
Five Stages of Small Business Growth
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleA five-stage framework will help owners to determine their company's stage of development and how to ensure a profitable future. It is also useful to... -
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. -
This Data Scientist Left Silicon Valley to Start Her Own Company in the Philippines
Innovation & Leadership InterviewThe road to fulfilling work starts with a great leap of faith. -
Lean Strategy
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleStrategy and entrepreneurship are often seen as polar opposites. Strategy means rigorously defining and pursuing one clear path, while entrepreneurship... -
The Reluctant Entrepreneur
Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleFor years, I’ve been reading about executives who leave their jobs and go into business for themselves, where they find contentment and learn the meaning of life. Now that I’ve done it, I’m here to tell you it isn’t quite that easy. I was on the corporate fast track for almost 30 years, and now […] -
Coevolving: At Last, a Way to Make Synergies Work
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleThe promise of synergy is the prime rationale for the existence of the multibusiness corporation. Yet for most corporations, the "1-plus-1-equals-3" arithmetic... -
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... -
When the Boss Won't Budge (Commentary on HBR Case Study)
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleAllerGen, a young biotechnology firm, is heading for trouble, possibly even bankruptcy. The company's one product--a vaccine for people allergic to cats--may... -
Strategic Power of Saying No
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleSusan Bishop started Bishop Partners with the aim of making it the best boutique executive-search firm in the business. Specializing in television, radio,... -
A Survival Guide for Startups in the Era of Tech Giants
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleYou have options other than getting swallowed up or stomped out. -
Goodbye B-School
Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleTwo years ago, Jonathan Seelig left business school to cofound Akamai Technologies. Today, the company is worth $20 billion. -
Start-ups Should Sell to Small Businesses, Not Big Enterprises
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleIt's a way to test out products that will eventually be sold to larger customers. -
Confessions of a So-So Controller
Corporate governance Magazine ArticleSalespeople writing fake sales orders. Cashiers “borrowing” from incoming revenues. Production workers leaving the factory with spare parts and finished products. These were among the control problems that dogged the author of this article over 12 years of running his company. Ironically, they occurred not during business crises but during periods of growth and prosperity. […] -
Deviating from the Business Plan
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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.” -
Reigniting Growth
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleMost successful new companies eventually face a predictable crisis that the authors call "stall-out"--a sudden large drop in revenue and profit growth... -
When It's Time to Pivot, What's Your Story?
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleTo succeed, a new company must rally investors, staff, customers, and the media around a good story. But often that narrative turns out to be wrong, and... -
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...
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reMarkable: e-Writing the Future
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Magnus Wanberg is the creator of reMarkable, a breakthrough e-writer device set apart from similar products on the market by having solved the frustrating... -
Enron: Entrepreneurial Energy
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Describes an entrepreneurial energy company that has attempted to capitalize on deregulation and privatization. Enron's experiences in energy markets... -
BEWOOD - An Entrepreneur's Pricing Question
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Created in 2015, BEWOOD was a sustainable fashion brand start-up in Lille, France that sold a range of products with wood as their primary component.... -
NerveWire: A Tale of Two Executives, Video
Leadership & Managing People Case Study150.00View Details A series of five segments that include NerveWire, Inc., A Day in the Life of Malcolm Frank, A Day in the Life of Kirk Arnold, Employee Observations of... -
GPS & Vision Express (A)
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details In the summer of 1997, the executive team of GPS, a very successful French retailer in the one-hour photo finishing and one-hour eyewear business, is... -
Consolidation of Highly Fragmented Service Industries, Module Note
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Designed to familiarize students with the consolidation of highly fragmented labor-dependent service industries, offering insights into service firm growth... -
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... -
Revenue Management at Sparsh Nephrocare
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details The case describes the challenges related to topline enhancement faced by Sparsh Nephrocare, a growing chain of dialysis centers in India. In the early... -
CSIR-Tech Private Limited: Facilitating Lab to Market Journeys
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details The 'CSIR-Tech: Facilitating lab to market journeys' case is designed to teach students the strategic intricacies of an organizational network. The case... -
Skyhook Wireless
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Ted Morgan, the founder of Skyhook Wireless just received a call from Steve Jobs of Apple asking for a meeting. Ted must decide how to prepare for a meeting... -
Café Kenya
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details This case describes Café Kenya, a Kenyan-based chain of casual quick-food restaurants. The chain was started in 2011 in Nairobi by Nekesa Kuria. Kuria... -
Walnut Venture Associates (C): RBS Due Diligence--Market Size
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
GPS & Vision Express (B)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details GPS acquired Vision Express, but it is not going well. Two executives at GPS are proposing a revolution at Vision Express, which would change the company's... -
Rest Devices
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Linear Air: Creating the Air Taxi Industry
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study6.95View Details Linear Air is an air taxi start-up established to take advantage of the emergence of Very Light Jets, which incorporate new technology that cuts jet operating... -
TH!NK: The Norwegian Electric Car Company
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study6.95View Details On August 1, 2007, 61-year-old Jan-Olaf Willums' plane was flying along the Greenland coastline on his way back to Norway after intense discussions with... -
Molecular Insight Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Molecular Insight has developed a novel biopharmaceutical to detect heart attacks. The company's unique approach to intellectual property protection uses... -
Cutlass Capital, L.P.: Discussion with David Hetz and Jon Osgood, Video
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study150.00View Details David Hertz and Jon Osgood discuss the issues raised in their formation of a new venture capital fund and subsequent events. -
Taran Swan at Nickelodeon Latin America (B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
High-Definition TV: The Grand Alliance
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Describes political and economic forces that influenced the development of an all-digital, high-definition television (HDTV) standard in the United States...
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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... -
Five Stages of Small Business Growth
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleA five-stage framework will help owners to determine their company's stage of development and how to ensure a profitable future. It is also useful to... -
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. -
reMarkable: e-Writing the Future
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Magnus Wanberg is the creator of reMarkable, a breakthrough e-writer device set apart from similar products on the market by having solved the frustrating... -
Green Zebra: Grow Fast or Grow Slow?, Student Spreadsheet
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleStudent spreadsheet for case NA0619. -
Green Zebra: Grow Fast or Grow Slow?, Instructor Spreadsheet
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleInstructor spreadsheet for case NA0619. -
Enron: Entrepreneurial Energy
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Describes an entrepreneurial energy company that has attempted to capitalize on deregulation and privatization. Enron's experiences in energy markets... -
BEWOOD - An Entrepreneur's Pricing Question
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Created in 2015, BEWOOD was a sustainable fashion brand start-up in Lille, France that sold a range of products with wood as their primary component.... -
This Data Scientist Left Silicon Valley to Start Her Own Company in the Philippines
Innovation & Leadership InterviewThe road to fulfilling work starts with a great leap of faith.