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In Entrepreneurial Pitches, Stage Presence Is Everything
Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleHow new business ideas are presented may matter more than the quality of the ideas themselves. -
What Evolution Can Teach Us About Innovation
Innovation Magazine ArticleLessons from the life sciences -
Research: Why Immigrants Are More Likely to Become Entrepreneurs
Business and society Digital ArticleA 12-year study found that both voluntary emigration and entrepreneurship were associated with a higher propensity for risk-taking. -
SPACs: What You Need to Know
Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleA guide for the curious and the perplexed -
Entrepreneurs and the Truth
Business ethics Magazine ArticleThey often bend it. But don’t demonize them—the problem is systemic. -
What’s So Special About Founders?
Entrepreneurs and founders Magazine ArticlePopular notions about them are often wrong. -
3 Strategies to Convince People That Your Startup Is Legit
Entrepreneurial management Digital ArticleProjecting legitimacy helps you get buy-in from investors, customers, and other key stakeholders. -
Getting Serious About Stakeholder Capitalism
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleBusiness can't thrive in an environment of unhealthy employees, customers, and communities, an at-risk planet, and a fractured society. To transition... -
When an Iconic Founder Overshadows the Family Business
Corporate governance Digital ArticleHow to set up the next generation for success. -
Why Today’s Startups Pursue Both Ideas and Ideals
Corporate social responsibility Big IdeaPurpose can provide strategic and operational advantages. -
A New Model to Spark Innovation Inside Big Companies
Entrepreneurial financing Digital ArticleWith a venture buyout, an established company partners with a VC firm to spin out an internal startup. -
Black Women Are More Likely to Start a Business than White Men
Consumer behavior Digital ArticleBut their ventures are less likely to succeed. New research looks at why. -
When Do Consumers Prefer Crowdfunded Products?
Entrepreneurial financing Digital ArticleOne study found that people were willing to pay about 21% more for a product when they were told it was crowdfunded. -
Why Start-ups Fail
Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleIt’s not always the horse or the jockey. -
The Strategic Challenges of Decoupling
Global Business SpotlightMost business executives who have put time, effort, and investment into developing a presence in China resist the notion of decoupling. With the Biden... -
To Make Lean Startups Work, You Need a Balanced Team
Entrepreneurship ResearchResearchers found educationally diverse teams perform better, but adding MBAs to the mix has both negative and positive effects. -
A New Way to Scale Social Enterprise
Social enterprise Digital ArticleA new type of security, called “mission equity,” caps investor returns so the company’s financial success can help fuel its mission. -
How to Make Selling Your Business a Fulfilling Experience
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleToo many entrepreneurs find themselves emotionally unprepared for the big moment. -
Crowdfunding Can Deliver More Than Just Money
Product development Digital ArticleIt’s an unparalleled opportunity to solicit input from your customers. - SPONSOR CONTENT FROM PFIZER
Lessons from Social Entrepreneurs Fighting Covid-19
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Why the Lean Start-Up Changes Everything
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleIn the past few years, a new methodology for launching companies, called "the lean start-up," has begun to replace the old regimen. Traditionally, a venture's... -
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... -
The Five Stages of Small Business Growth
Entrepreneurial management Magazine ArticleCategorizing the problems and growth patterns of small businesses in a systematic way that is useful to entrepreneurs seems at first glance a hopeless task. Small businesses vary widely in size and capacity for growth. They are characterized by independence of action, differing organizational structures, and varied management styles. Yet on closer scrutiny, it becomes […] -
How Venture Capital Works
Accounting Magazine ArticleBefore you can understand the industry, you must first separate myth from reality. -
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... -
Assessment: Identify Your Entrepreneurial Personality Type
Entrepreneurship AssessmentAre you more like Jeff Bezos or Arianna Huffington? -
What Evolution Can Teach Us About Innovation
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleMany people believe that the process for achieving breakthrough innovations is chaotic, random, and unmanageable. But that view is flawed, the authors... -
Discipline of Innovation (HBR Classic)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleHow much of innovation is inspiration, and how much is hard work? The answer lies somewhere in the middle, says management thinker Peter Drucker. In this... -
Managers and Leaders: Are They Different?
Motivating people Magazine ArticleBusiness leaders have much more in common with artists than they do with managers. -
The Strategic Secret of Private Equity
Finance and investing Magazine ArticleWhy “buying to sell” can generate a much higher return on investment than the public company practice of “buying to keep” -
The Innovator's DNA
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine Article"How do I find innovative people for my organization? And how can I become more innovative myself?" These are questions that stump most senior executives,... -
How to Write a Winning Business Plan
Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleThe business plan admits the entrepreneur to the investment process. Without a plan furnished in advance, many investor groups won’t even grant an interview. And the plan must be outstanding if it is to win investment funds. Too many entrepreneurs, though, continue to believe that if they build a better mousetrap, the world will beat […] -
The Founder's Dilemma
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleWhy do people start businesses? For the money and the chance to control their own companies, certainly. But new research from Harvard Business School... -
Why Start-ups Fail
Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleIt’s not always the horse or the jockey. -
SPACs: What You Need to Know
Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleA guide for the curious and the perplexed -
Strategy for Start-ups
Entrepreneurship SpotlightFirst answer two questions; then explore four paths. -
Henry Ford, Innovation, and That “Faster Horse” Quote
Innovation Digital Article“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” We’ve all been in conversations on the topics of creativity and innovation when Henry Ford’s most famous adage is (excuse the pun) trotted out, usually accompanied by a knowing smirk and air of self-evidence. Battle lines are quickly drawn. One side […] -
Everything You (Don't) Want to Know About Raising Capital
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleMany built-in problems and risks await the entrepreneur who is searching for capital. Being aware of the realities can help - realities like that raising... -
Entrepreneurship: A Working Definition
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleBeing clear on what it means is not just an academic exercise. -
How Venture Capitalists Make Decisions
Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleAn inside look at an opaque process
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Corporate Venture Capital Primer
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details The corporate venture capital (CVC) primer follows the journey of Claudia Fan Munce, the head of CVC for a major software and hardware conglomerate, as... -
Carlyle Japan (A)
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Tamotsu Adachi, Managing Director of Carlyle Japan, wants to formulate a strategy to improve his firm's ability to source high-quality deals at competitive... -
The Fox Island Wind Project (B)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details Fox Island Wind Cooperative faces criticism from local residents. -
Deep Technology Applications in Developing Economies: Three Vignettes
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details As developing economies grow and become more connected, new and exciting entrepreneurial opportunities arise across markets and industries. Smartphones,... -
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... -
Grupo Beta San Miguel
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details In November 2013, Dr. Jose Pinto, head of Grupo Beta San Miguel (BSM), Mexico's largest private sugar producer, is weighing the future prospects of the... -
Carlyle Japan (B)
Sales & Marketing Case Study5.00View Details This is a supplement to the (A) case. It shows that the networks that the firm had been investing in-- commercial banks--were becoming less and less valuable... -
Choosing e-commerce strategies: a case study of eBay.vn partnership
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details The case uses the story of one of the leading e-commerce firms in Vietnam to introduce students to concepts and models of e-commerce, and in particular,... -
Cathay Capital: An Entrepreneurial Private Equity Fund with a Cross-Border Investment Model
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Cathay Capital Private Equity (Cathay) was started by Mingpo Cai and Edouard Moinet in 2007, at the brink of the global financial crisis. The firm initially... -
Prairie Ventures Limited
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details The investment manager at Prairie Ventures Limited, a Saskatchewan based venture capital firm, is examining the merits of financing a management buyout... -
Long-Term Orientation in the Benedictine Monastery of Admont
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details At the Benedictine monastery of Admont in Austria, which had been economically active for over 940 years, the monks tended to think in centuries rather... -
City Mart: Creating an Ecosystem and Corporate Synergies in The Myanmar Market; A Blueprint For Expanding in Frontier Economies
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details It is February 2017, and Ronald Lee is project director of City Properties, a sister company of Myanmar-based City Mart Holdings Limited (CMHL). CMHL... -
The Sandbox: Creating a Bottom-Up Entrepreneurial Ecosystem
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Discussion of new model of Social Enterprise that applies the venture capital model to social enterprise. -
Levuka Sport Fishing Inc.
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details The chief financial officer (CFO) and major shareholder of a small charter sport fishing company must prepare the company books for the fiscal year according... -
Elite - The Digital Mattress Company
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details François Pugliese acquired Elite Beds in Etoy in a small buy-in in 2006 and then proceeded to re-invent completely its business, first by pivoting its... -
Lumo Bodytech: A Bumpy Journey
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Monisha Perkash cofounded Lumo Bodytech during an incubation program organized by Innovation Endeavors - the venture capital firm started by Eric Schmidt... -
Carlyle Japan (C)
Sales & Marketing Case Study5.00View Details This is a supplement to the (A) and (B) cases. It documents the shift in Carlyle's networking strategy. The firm decreased its focus on building contacts... -
Seaside Organics, Spanish Version
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details This case follows Sara Norton, a soccer player turned serial entrepreneur, as she transforms Seaside Organics from a fledgling startup into an $89 million... -
Marcia Radosevich and Health Payment Review--1989 (B)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case.
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Why the Lean Start-Up Changes Everything
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleIn the past few years, a new methodology for launching companies, called "the lean start-up," has begun to replace the old regimen. Traditionally, a venture's... -
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... -
The Five Stages of Small Business Growth
Entrepreneurial management Magazine ArticleCategorizing the problems and growth patterns of small businesses in a systematic way that is useful to entrepreneurs seems at first glance a hopeless task. Small businesses vary widely in size and capacity for growth. They are characterized by independence of action, differing organizational structures, and varied management styles. Yet on closer scrutiny, it becomes […] -
How Venture Capital Works
Accounting Magazine ArticleBefore you can understand the industry, you must first separate myth from reality. -
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... -
Assessment: Identify Your Entrepreneurial Personality Type
Entrepreneurship AssessmentAre you more like Jeff Bezos or Arianna Huffington? -
What Evolution Can Teach Us About Innovation
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleMany people believe that the process for achieving breakthrough innovations is chaotic, random, and unmanageable. But that view is flawed, the authors... -
Discipline of Innovation (HBR Classic)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleHow much of innovation is inspiration, and how much is hard work? The answer lies somewhere in the middle, says management thinker Peter Drucker. In this... -
Managers and Leaders: Are They Different?
Motivating people Magazine ArticleBusiness leaders have much more in common with artists than they do with managers. -
The Strategic Secret of Private Equity
Finance and investing Magazine ArticleWhy “buying to sell” can generate a much higher return on investment than the public company practice of “buying to keep”