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Why Your Startup Won't Last
Leadership & Managing People ResearchNine problems that face start-ups who are trying to scale. -
Strategy Vs. Tactics from a Venture Capitalist
Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleAs a venture capitalist, I am often asked for my views on why some entrepreneurs succeed and others fail. Obviously, there are no cut-and-dried answers to that question. Still, a few general observations about how I evaluate new businesses should shed some light on what I think it takes to make an entrepreneurial venture thrive […] -
Does Your Startup Have a Spending Strategy?
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The Strategic Power of Saying No
Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleThe hardest part of being an entrepreneur can be learning to turn down business. It is also the only way to survive—and grow. -
Research: How a New CEO Can Make a Firm More Entrepreneurial
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleOutsiders make more-drastic changes, but insiders make faster ones. -
The Top 20 Start-Up Accelerators in the U.S.
Entrepreneurial financing Digital ArticleA quantitative ranking. -
Why Startups Shouldn’t Chase Media Buzz
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Career Choices When Life Is Short
Decision making and problem solving Magazine ArticleA young man diagnosed with a terminal illness decides on his next move. -
Managing in the Whitespace
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleWith help from a team of ethnographers and senior organization specialists, authors Mark Maletz and Nitin Nohria recently conducted a unique research... -
Why Some High Performers Are Quitting Big Companies to Work for Themselves
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleBeing your own boss has financial and emotional benefits. -
Innovation Potential: Innovation Inventory #2
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleThis article is part of a 10-part series highlighting what companies need to do to transform uncertainty into opportunity. The full list will be posted... -
The Best Entrepreneurs Are Missionaries, Not Mercenaries
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleAsk three questions to figure out which one you are. -
Managing by Commitments (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleWhat makes a great manager great? Despite differences in their personal attributes, successful managers all excel in the making, honoring, and remaking... -
Case Study: Should This Start-Up Take VC Money or Try to Turn a Profit?
Business models Magazine ArticleCustomers love it, but it’s running out of cash. -
Building a Startup in a Tough Funding Environment
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleVenture funding is scarce, valuations are down, and exit options are dwindling. What should founders do? -
Adaptability: The New Competitive Advantage
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleTraditional approaches to strategy assume that the world is relatively stable and predictable. But globalization, new technologies, and greater transparency... -
Flexibility and Persistence: Getting the Balance Right
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleThe latest in a series of interviews with entrepreneurs about what pursuing opportunity really requires. Bill Trenchard is former CEO and Chairman of... -
Innovate Faster or Innovate Better?
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleThere are some things a big company can do better than a startup. -
I Joined Airbnb at 52, and Here's What I Learned About Age, Wisdom, and the Tech Industry
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleThe best young founders know they need mentors. -
Starting Up in High Gear: An Interview with Venture Capitalist Vinod Khosla
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleThe current high level of venture capital investment is driving enormous innovation in business. About 40% of the growth in the U.S. GDP is coming out...
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Endo Pharmaceuticals (D): Hatch-Waxman Change
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details An abstract is not available for this product. -
Air Deccan (A): Changing the Face of Indian Aviation
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details By November 2005 Air Deccan, India's first low cost airline, had been in business for two years. During this time, the airline had grown rapidly, adding... -
Legal Forms of Organization
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Describes the various legal forms of organization including proprietorships, partnerships, limited partnerships, corporations, and limited liability companies.... -
MEPCO (Middle East Paper Company) and CEO Fadi Baaklini: Building a Transnational SME in the Middle East
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details The case describes the career path of Lebanese businessman Fadi Baaklini and traces the evolution of MEPCO (Middle East Paper Company), the enterprise... -
1366 Technologies: Scaling the Venture (Abridged)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details For some time, 1366's co-founders, Frank van Mierlo and Ely Sachs, had faced a choice, which was now made all the more stark: 1366 could expand to produce... -
Gordon Biersch: New Challenges and Opportunities
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details After opening the first Gordon Biersch brewery restaurant in July 1988 in Palo Alto, California, Dan Gordon and Dean Biersch successfully built Gordon... -
HGRM: Bringing Back High Touch Hospitality
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details The case centers on the dilemma faced by Carlo Fontana, the owner-operator of a small chain of two four star urban hotels located in Lugano, Switzerland... -
Sirtris Pharmaceuticals: Living Healthier, Longer
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Describes a set of key strategic decisions facing the scientific founder and CEO of a promising, Early stage bio-pharmaceuticals company.l Should the... -
MBA Entrepreneurs: Crowdfunding Wipebook (A) Year One: Persistence and Success
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details The Wipebook case follows a start-up company over a two-year period. The company originated from a product idea proposed by a student as part of an MBA... -
ImmuLogic Pharmaceutical Corp. (C): April 1991
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
Cost of Capital Problems
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Vinod Khosla and Sun Microsystems (B)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details Provides a continuation of the (A) case. -
Kirk Arnold
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Supplements NerveWire, Inc. -
Aquarius Ales: How Much Should the Brew Cost
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details The owners of Aquarius Ales, a popular Sixth Street pub in Austin, Texas, received an offer to sell their business to a pair of University of Texas business... -
Growing Pains at Stroz Friedberg
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details In late spring 2009, Stroz Friedberg co-presidents Edward Stroz and Eric Friedberg had to set growth targets for 2010. The leading global consulting firm... -
Ravel Law: Unraveling an Entrepreneur's Decisions
Management Case Study11.95View Details Founded in California in 2012, Ravel Law Inc. (Ravel) was a legal tech start-up that developed groundbreaking legal analytics products. In 2017, Ravel's... -
Validate or Pivot? Using Content Analysis to Assess Green Zebra's Customer Value Proposition
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details CEO Lisa Sedlar was two weeks from the start of meetings with venture capital funders to raise $10 million for a West Coast expansion of her urban, convenience-store... -
Running Small and Medium Size Enterprises(RSME) Winter Term 2013: Course Overview and Syllabus
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Course Overview and Syllabus for RSME. This note outlines the learning objectives, course goals, module structure and class details along with the cases,... -
MBA Entrepreneurs: Crowdfunding Wipebook (C) Epilogue
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details Supplement to case HEC143. The Wipebook case follows a start-up company over a two-year period. The company originated from a product idea proposed by...
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Why Your Startup Won't Last
Leadership & Managing People ResearchNine problems that face start-ups who are trying to scale. -
How to Manage Radical Innovation
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleMost large companies are not radical innovators. They are good at making close-in changes to existing products or technologies, but they cannot seem to... -
Endo Pharmaceuticals (D): Hatch-Waxman Change
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details An abstract is not available for this product. -
Air Deccan (A): Changing the Face of Indian Aviation
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details By November 2005 Air Deccan, India's first low cost airline, had been in business for two years. During this time, the airline had grown rapidly, adding... -
The Delicious History of Hershey Chocolate
Have you ever wondered how Hershey chocolate came to be so popular? Harvard Business School professor Nancy Koehn discusses the life and vision of Milton Hershey, the entrepreneur and philanthropist behind the Hershey chocolate bar, the town of Hershey, Pennsylvania, and the Milton Hershey School. -
Strategy Vs. Tactics from a Venture Capitalist
Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleAs a venture capitalist, I am often asked for my views on why some entrepreneurs succeed and others fail. Obviously, there are no cut-and-dried answers to that question. Still, a few general observations about how I evaluate new businesses should shed some light on what I think it takes to make an entrepreneurial venture thrive […] -
Legal Forms of Organization
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Describes the various legal forms of organization including proprietorships, partnerships, limited partnerships, corporations, and limited liability companies.... -
MEPCO (Middle East Paper Company) and CEO Fadi Baaklini: Building a Transnational SME in the Middle East
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details The case describes the career path of Lebanese businessman Fadi Baaklini and traces the evolution of MEPCO (Middle East Paper Company), the enterprise...
