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Should You Give Up on Your New Dream?
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleHow to know if it's time to fold 'em. -
An Entrepreneur's Guide to Surviving the "Death Valley Curve"
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Corporate Venturing
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Six Common Misperceptions about Teamwork
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleTeamwork and collaboration are critical to mission achievement in any organization that has to respond quickly to changing circumstances. My research... -
Why Entrepreneurs Should Think Like Scientists
Innovation & Leadership Magazine ArticleIn a recent study of European start-ups, one technique consistently boosted performance: the scientific method, a centuries-old discipline of formulating,... -
Scaling a Midsize Startup
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleIn between unicorns and mom-and-pop startups lies the “mighty middle.” -
Research: When Should Startups Scale?
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleA study of over 32,000 startups suggests that scaling too early can derail startup success. -
What Western Investors Want from African Entrepreneurs
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How to Pick a Good Fight
Organizational Development Magazine ArticlePeace and harmony are overrated. Though conflict-free teamwork is often held up as the be-all and end-all of organizational life, it actually can be the... -
What the Lean Startup Method Gets Right and Wrong
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Are You Solving the Right Problem?
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleThe rigor with which a problem is defined is the most important factor in finding a good solution. Many organizations, however, are not proficient at... -
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... -
How to Pick the Best Name for Your Company
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Research: The Risks of Founding a Startup Near Big Companies
Startups Digital ArticleAn analysis of more than 180 million job ads shows the impact large firm hiring has on local startups’ growth. -
What Venture Trends Can Tell You
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleNew research from McKinsey suggests what the inevitable shakeout in the venture capital industry heralds for the broader business community. -
Are You Cut Out to Be an Entrepreneur?
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How IDEO Designers Persuade Companies to Accept Change
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Lean Knowledge Work
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When Your Business Needs a Second Growth Engine
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleTraditionally, the most reliable way for a firm to find its next wave of growth was to apply the capabilities of its core business in an adjacent market....
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Interactive Minds (A)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details The efforts of two recent Harvard Business School graduates to start a venture capital/consulting firm focused on opportunities related to the Internet... -
Qualtrics: Bootstrapping Growth
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details In March 2012 the founders of Qualtrics sat together in the Provo, Utah, office of advisor Duff Thompson. They stared down one of the toughest decisions... -
Millennial Net
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Millennial Net created self-organizing, ultra-low-power, wireless sensor networks, a space that was getting a lot of attention in 2004. The company was... -
KTM - Venture Capitalist Exit
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details KTM is a small motorcycle manufacturing company located in Austria. As a result of difficult economic conditions in 1999, KTM went private with the help... -
WellSpace Treatment Centers for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (A)
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details How should WellSpace, a venture capital-backed purveyor of alternative health services, expand? Although it was nearing breakeven in its first location,... -
Mark43
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details The founders of Mark43, an early-stage startup that provides software for law enforcement agencies, must decide whether to bid on a request for proposals... -
Washout: The Founders' Tale and Investors' Tale
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details The competing narratives of the founders of Alantec, Inc. and the venture capitalists who funded the company are explored in the context of Kalashian... -
Mastercard: Creating a World Beyond Cash
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details In late 2021, Mastercard CEO Michael Miebach and Chairman and former CEO Ajaypal "Ajay" Banga considered how Mastercard could best position itself for... -
ArthroCare
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details A young company in the medical devices area, ArthroCare, has been public for six months, and its stock--after initially performing very well--is now dropping.... -
Lucent Technologies: The Future of the New Ventures Group
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Lucent Technologies' New Ventures Group has created innovative ways to commercialize Bell Labs research. The success of this approach now forces the group... -
The Unicorn Within: How Companies Can Create Game-Changing Ventures at Startup Speed
35.00View Details Imagine if the multinational hotel groups had founded Airbnb, or the big auto companies had launched Uber and Tesla, or Blockbuster had created Netflix.... -
Case Vignette: The Salesman Saga
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details A venture capitalist faces a situation in which a struggling portfolio company has found a promising vice president of sales through a recruitment agency.... -
Bringing Silicon Valley to China: Linktone
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Linktone was formed in September 1999 to develop text messaging applications and content for the Chinese market. Starting as a division within Intrinsic... -
Zoots--Financing Growth (A)
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Traces the genesis and founding of Zoots, the largest chain of dry cleaning establishments in the U.S. Founded by some of the founders of the very successful... -
Soofa: Displaying the Right Path?
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details In November 2019, Sandra Richter, co-founder and CEO of Soofa, a network of advertising-supported digital bulletin boards, must decide between two different... -
Reuters Greenhouse Fund
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Reuters Greenhouse Fund had successfully invested in a portfolio of 79 companies working in areas relevant to Reuters Group's strategic interests. It... -
AEROSPACE INVESTMENT: BALANCING VENTURE & RELATIONSHIP CAPITAL - Confidential Instructions for the Founder
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Two-party term sheet negotiation between a venture capitalist and the founder of an aerospace start-up company in which participants are scored both on... -
Satelite Distribuidora de Petroleo
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Marcelo Alecrim, the owner of SAT, a gas distribution company in Brazil, envisioned many growth opportunities but lacked financial resources to pursue... -
SAIF: May 2004
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details The Softbank Asia Infrastructure Fund (SAIF) team has just learned that the price at which its portfolio company, the Chinese gaming firm Shanda, was... -
Road Well Traveled (Condensed)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View 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...
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Should You Give Up on Your New Dream?
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleHow to know if it's time to fold 'em. -
Interactive Minds (A)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details The efforts of two recent Harvard Business School graduates to start a venture capital/consulting firm focused on opportunities related to the Internet... -
Designing Corporate Ventures in the Shadow of Private Venture Capital
Technology & Operations Digital ArticlePrivate venture capital casts a long shadow over corporate ventures, in part because they compete for the same entrepreneurial talent. Corporate venturing... -
Qualtrics: Bootstrapping Growth
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details In March 2012 the founders of Qualtrics sat together in the Provo, Utah, office of advisor Duff Thompson. They stared down one of the toughest decisions... -
Millennial Net
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Millennial Net created self-organizing, ultra-low-power, wireless sensor networks, a space that was getting a lot of attention in 2004. The company was... -
KTM - Venture Capitalist Exit
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details KTM is a small motorcycle manufacturing company located in Austria. As a result of difficult economic conditions in 1999, KTM went private with the help... -
WellSpace Treatment Centers for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (A)
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details How should WellSpace, a venture capital-backed purveyor of alternative health services, expand? Although it was nearing breakeven in its first location,... -
Mark43
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details The founders of Mark43, an early-stage startup that provides software for law enforcement agencies, must decide whether to bid on a request for proposals... -
Washout: The Founders' Tale and Investors' Tale
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details The competing narratives of the founders of Alantec, Inc. and the venture capitalists who funded the company are explored in the context of Kalashian... -
An Entrepreneur's Guide to Surviving the "Death Valley Curve"
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleTwo key questions: Do you have the right business model, and do you have growth ambitions?
