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The Problems with Incubators, and How to Solve Them
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Networked Incubators: Hothouses of the New Economy
Business management Magazine ArticleMost business incubators provide office space, funding, and basic services. The better ones also offer an extensive network of powerful business connections, enabling fledgling start-ups to beat their competitors to market. -
What Startup Accelerators Really Do
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Managing Performance When It's Hard to Measure
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3 Strategies for Rolling Out New Tech Within Your Company
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The 3-Stage Process That Makes Universities Prime Innovators
Business and society Digital ArticleHow these institutions carefully curate connections and relationships to take ideas from the drawing board into the marketplace. -
What Did 2020 Do to Retail?
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleCovid will have a long-lasting impact on the industry. -
Why Business Schools Need to Teach Experimentation
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What Sets Successful Startup Accelerators Apart
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleResearch reveals three ways they help early-stage companies achieve higher funding and survival rates. -
How Cisco Created Their Own Talent Incubator
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleWhile there's been a lot of discussion about how the recession may be over, to many organizations and their employees, the view ahead is still one tough... -
Why Innovation Labs Fail, and How to Ensure Yours Doesn't
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleSetting up a research hub is easy. Setting it up to succeed is harder. -
Picking Winners: A Conversation with MacArthur Fellows Program Director Daniel J. Socolow
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleIn the business world, "creativity" has become the latest buzzword. How to attract, nurture, and direct the extraordinarily talented people who will come...
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Ford vs. GM: The Evolution of Mass Production (B)
Technology & Operations Case Study5.00View Details This case explores the very different paths taken by the Ford Motor Company and the General Motors Corporation in the first three decades of the twentieth... -
Governance and Sustainability at Nike (B)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Two members of Nike's executive team must decide what sustainability targets to propose to Nike's CEO and to the corporate responsibility committee of... -
Walmart Update, 2011
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details In 2011, Walmart was the world's largest company, with $420 billion in sales and operations in 14 countries. Yet it found itself searching for the right... -
Ensighten
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Focuses on a small start-up software company engaged in a negotiation over its software licensing agreement with a very large potential client. The entrepreneur... -
FIJI Water: Carbon Negative?
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details Seeking to go beyond global best practices in reducing environmental impacts, FIJI Water, a premium artesian bottled water company in the United States,... -
Stamford International Inc.
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Management is struggling to meet consensus quarterly earnings-per-share numbers. Discusses a number of accounting decisions. A report indicating internal... -
HBR Guide to Unlocking Creativity
21.95View Details Anyone can think more creatively and unlock innovation. Creativity is the key to innovation, but too many projects and teams are organized in ways that... -
Ctrip: Scientifically Managing Travel Services
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Ctrip is a $437 million Chinese on-line travel services company with a scientific, data driven approach to management. The case explores Ctrip's founding... -
Milwaukee (A): Making of a World Water Hub
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details Starting in 2007 Milwaukee leaders from different areas (large established companies, civic organizations, public sector, academia, and entrepreneurs)... -
Union Corrugating Co. (A)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Lauri Union graduates from Harvard Business School and takes over her family's steel-corrugated roofing and siding manufacturing firm, which her mother... -
Hongxin Entrepreneur Incubator: Expanding the Cloud
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details The Hongxin Entrepreneur Incubator, located in Xiamen, Fujian Province, China, has experienced tremendous growth between 2001 and 2013. Its founder and... -
Note on Managing the Growing Venture
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Focuses on the strategic and organizational challenges that confront growing enterprises and the entrepreneurs who lead them. Provides an overview of... -
Singapore Metals Limited
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details Singapore Metals Limited (SML) has declining sales but has developed a new product (curled metal pile driver pads) that, in field tests, delivers customer... -
Conexus Credit Union: Anchoring a Digital Technology Startup Ecosystem
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details In February 2017, the chief executive officer of Conexus Credit Union, a local credit union headquartered in Regina, Saskatchewan, was preparing to meet... -
Chain Saw Industry in 1974
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Describes the structure of the chain saw industry in 1974, when it is on the threshold of a major period of growth. Data are provided on each significant... -
Entrepreneurial Finance in Finland?
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details This case describes a new venture attempting to bring early-stage entrepreneurial financing to Finland and other Nordic countries. Entrepreneurship is... -
Silverado (A)
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Silverado has raised $50 million and launched its first product: an Internet-based trivia game with innovative software. In a highly uncertain environment,... -
J.C. Penney's "Fair and Square" Strategy (Abridged)
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details As he gets ready to release 2nd quarter 2012 results, Ron Johnson, the new CEO of department store J.C. Penney, is reconsidering the dramatic changes... -
Propais: Striving for the Future of Micro-Franchising in Colombia
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Propais is a non-profit organization founded in 1994 in Bogota by the public and private sectors and supported by 76 partner organizations. In October... -
Asia Renal Care
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Presents a business plan for a start-up company focused on building a network of high-quality dialysis centers in the Asia-Pacific region. Includes a...
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Ford vs. GM: The Evolution of Mass Production (B)
Technology & Operations Case Study5.00View Details This case explores the very different paths taken by the Ford Motor Company and the General Motors Corporation in the first three decades of the twentieth... -
Governance and Sustainability at Nike (B)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Two members of Nike's executive team must decide what sustainability targets to propose to Nike's CEO and to the corporate responsibility committee of... -
Walmart Update, 2011
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details In 2011, Walmart was the world's largest company, with $420 billion in sales and operations in 14 countries. Yet it found itself searching for the right... -
The Problems with Incubators, and How to Solve Them
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleFinancing isn’t success, and office space isn’t value. -
Ensighten
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Focuses on a small start-up software company engaged in a negotiation over its software licensing agreement with a very large potential client. The entrepreneur... -
FIJI Water: Carbon Negative?
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details Seeking to go beyond global best practices in reducing environmental impacts, FIJI Water, a premium artesian bottled water company in the United States,... -
Networked Incubators: Hothouses of the New Economy
Business management Magazine ArticleMost business incubators provide office space, funding, and basic services. The better ones also offer an extensive network of powerful business connections, enabling fledgling start-ups to beat their competitors to market. -
Stamford International Inc.
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Management is struggling to meet consensus quarterly earnings-per-share numbers. Discusses a number of accounting decisions. A report indicating internal... -
HBR Guide to Unlocking Creativity
21.95View Details Anyone can think more creatively and unlock innovation. Creativity is the key to innovation, but too many projects and teams are organized in ways that... -
Ctrip: Scientifically Managing Travel Services
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Ctrip is a $437 million Chinese on-line travel services company with a scientific, data driven approach to management. The case explores Ctrip's founding...