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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. -
10 Questions to Ask Before Entering a Business Partnership
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleYou can save yourself immeasurable pain down the road by asking these tough questions early. -
How Startups Can Land a Second Meeting with a Corporate Partner
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleResearchers attended 150 meetings between start-ups and corporations including IBM, Sony, L’Oréal, Toyota, and AstraZeneca. -
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... -
Scaling Customer Service as Your Startup Grows
Customer service Digital ArticleA stage-by-stage guide to supporting your customers. -
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 […] -
Creating a Winning Business Model
Strategy & Execution VideoHear the story of how one entrepreneur created and refined a winning business model. -
The Scaling Lesson from Facebook’s Miraculous 10-Year Rise
Change management Digital ArticleYou can’t always be charging ahead. -
An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Surviving the “Death Valley Curve”
Entrepreneurial business strategy Digital ArticleTwo key questions: Do you have the right business model, and do you have growth ambitions? -
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,... -
Learning by Doing is the Best Recipe
Employees learn through hands-on practice. Their managers do, too. -
How to Seed Organic Marketing in a Video-First World
Marketing Digital ArticleIt’s all about generating content — from consumers, creators, and celebrities. -
3 Mistakes Made in Scaling up New Ventures
Entrepreneurship 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 new venture, right? Not so fast. Most organizations feel that the job is done when they have successfully prototyped the first product or the initial service and are now selling […] -
Stacey Abrams and Lara Hodgson on Entrepreneurship and Self-Doubt
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleThe three-time founders share their hard-won lessons. -
How to Attract the Right Shareholders
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleInstead of casting a wide net, try a more strategic approach. -
Scaling Up is a Problem of Both More and Less
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleEven large organizations can only handle so much. -
Scaling: The Problem of More
Change management Digital ArticleWhen too much of a good thing is never enough. -
Why It's So Hard to Scale a Great Idea
Innovation & Leadership 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.
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Architect, Pilot, Scale, Improve: A Framework and Toolkit for Policy Implementation
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details Successful implementation is essential for achieving policymakers' goals and must be considered during both design and delivery. The mission of this monograph... -
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... -
Leading Global Innovation at EY - Jeff Wong
Management Case Study8.95View Details At EY, Jeff Wong served as chief innovation officer beginning in 2015. In this role, he was responsible for driving innovation and inoculating EY against... -
The Funding Buffet: Understanding the sources of capital to finance your venture
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details This technical note is an introduction to the world of financing entrepreneurial ventures. It is a primer on the different stages of a business and the... -
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... -
KaBOOM!: Play at Scale (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details A case on scaling social impact for nonprofits. Founded in 1995, KaBOOM! quickly became a nationally recognized nonprofit in building playgrounds with... -
Staff.AI: Pricing for Disruptive Technology
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Staff.AI is a start-up technology company featuring a new resource-sharing application for hospitals and health care professionals. Developed by neurosurgeon... -
Zoey Koko: Choosing an Alternative Path Forward
Management Case Study8.95View Details Sara Ferrer launched Zoey Koko in 2017 with the idea of designing bath and body products for young girls and "tweens" (ages 5-12). From the start-up of... -
MarketForce: Building an Operating System for Merchants in Africa
Management Case Study8.95View Details Tesh Mbaabu started MarketForce to help bring technology to the thousands of Kenyan merchants who ran corner shops that were often a centerpiece of their... -
Impactful Investments and Exits: Angeleno Group and GT Solar
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Angeleno Group, a clean energy private equity firm co-founded by Yaniv Tepper, is assessing a potential exit from a major acquisition in the solar power... -
Tesla, Inc. in 2018
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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... -
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,... -
Livongo: Scaling a Purpose-Driven Organization in Healthcare
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details When seasoned entrepreneur Glen Tullman founded the chronic health care startup Livongo in 2014, it was personal. His son lived with diabetes, and Tullman... -
TalkingPoints: Technology Connecting Teachers and Families
Management Case Study8.95View Details Talking Points is a U.S. not-for-profit 501c3 organization that provides a multilingual platform to help teachers communicate with families. The idea... -
STAYFILM: FROM A BRAZILIAN DIGITAL STARTUP TO A GLOBAL SCALEUP
Management Case Study8.95View Details Stayfilm is a representative case of a Brazilian digital startup trying to compete and succeed in the global market. In 2016, Stayfilm's application (app),... -
Velasca: Organizing Growth
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Italian entrepreneurs Enrico Casati and Jacopo Sebastio, just out of college, founded Velasca, a men's shoes e-commerce retailer in 2013. In less than... -
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... -
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... -
Food for Education: Improving Education Outcomes by Feeding Schoolchildren in Kenya
Management Case Study8.95View Details Food for Education is a Kenya-based non-governmental organization that provides nutritious school meals founded in 2012 by nutritionist Wawira Njiru to...
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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. -
Leadership to Elevate Design at Scale: Balancing Conflicting Imperatives
Management Digital ArticleLittle is known about how design leaders foster design excellence "at scale" within large organizations. To bridge this gap, this article reports on interviews... -
Architect, Pilot, Scale, Improve: A Framework and Toolkit for Policy Implementation
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details Successful implementation is essential for achieving policymakers' goals and must be considered during both design and delivery. The mission of this monograph... -
10 Questions to Ask Before Entering a Business Partnership
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleYou can save yourself immeasurable pain down the road by asking these tough questions early. -
Shenzhen Power Solution: Energising Africa's Base of the Pyramid, Teaching Note
Management Digital ArticleTeaching Note for Case SMU074 -
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... -
Leading Global Innovation at EY - Jeff Wong
Management Case Study8.95View Details At EY, Jeff Wong served as chief innovation officer beginning in 2015. In this role, he was responsible for driving innovation and inoculating EY against... -
The Funding Buffet: Understanding the sources of capital to finance your venture
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details This technical note is an introduction to the world of financing entrepreneurial ventures. It is a primer on the different stages of a business and the... -
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...