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How to Write a Winning Business Plan
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleA well-conceived business plan is essential to the success of an enterprise. Whether you are starting up a venture, seeking additional capital for an... -
Don't Waste Your Time on Networking Events
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleThere are more-productive ways to build relationships. -
Introduction to Business Plan Development
A good business plan is more than a roadmap. It's the key to your business success. -
Value Captor's Process: Getting the Most Out of Your New Business Ventures
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleThe high failure rate among new business ventures is usually chalked up to the fundamental uncertainty of the process. In actuality, say McGrath and Keil,... -
How to Figure Out What Your Side Hustle Should Be
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleDon't fall in love with your first idea. -
Making Your Ideas Credible
A proposal will only flourish with a strong, clear business case - so where do you start? -
How to Write a Winning Business Plan (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleA well-conceived business plan is essential to the success of an enterprise. Whether you are starting up a venture, seeking additional capital for an... -
Fix Their Problem, Win the Deal
Your proposal won't win or lose strictly on the merits of your idea; it has to solve a problem for the other party. -
Why the Best CEOs Are Already Thinking About Their Exits
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleYour legacy depends on a good succession plan. -
How to Write a Great Business Plan
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleEvery seasoned investor knows that detailed financial projections for a new company are an act of imagination. Nevertheless, most business plans pour... -
When It's Time to Pivot, What's Your Story?
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleTo succeed, a new company must rally investors, staff, customers, and the media around a good story. But often that narrative turns out to be wrong, and... -
Secure Your Plan with the Right Team
As a manager, people are your most important asset. If the team isn't right, even a perfect business plan can't succeed. -
The CEO of Cabot Creamery on Beating Sustainability Benchmarks
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleAs a 100-year-old cooperative of dairy farms with shared production and distribution resources, Cabot has long championed a different kind of capitalism:... -
What Makes a Successful Startup Team
Innovation & Entrepreneurship ResearchIt's not all about experience and industry knowledge. -
Crossing the River
Building a business is not a linear process. Know your direction, but be alert to different paths. -
Planning for Success
Without an appropriate business plan, an investment can crash and burn. -
To Succeed in the Long Term, Focus on the Middle Term
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleWhen a mature company fails to endure over the long term, it's often due to the "Horizon 2 vacuum," argues Geoffrey Moore, author of "Crossing the Chasm"... -
Experiment to Learn About Your Market
Finance & Accounting VideoWhen you're innovating for your business, create a "plan to learn" that tests assumptions. -
Build a Flexible Business Plan
A great and flexible business plan has just the right balance of doing and thinking. Create one in just five steps. -
Making Social Ventures Work
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleEntrepreneurs can play a central role in finding solutions to the world's toughest social problems. The failure rate for start-ups, however, is high....
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Boston Chicken, Inc.
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This case examines Boston Chicken's franchise strategy for growing its innovative restaurant business, and the associated accounting reporting issues... -
Environmental Technology Fund Partners and E-Leather
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details It is 2014 and Environmental Technologies Fund (ETF) Partners, a U.K.-based venture capital firm, has an opportunity to invest in a privately-held U.K.... -
Cat Fight in the Pet Food Industry (A)
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Describes the pet food industry in the mid-eighties prior to the breakout of a major competitive battle as manufacturers fight for share. Illustrates... -
Fonterra: Taking on the Dairy World
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details Fonterra was a cooperatively owned dairy company--New Zealand's largest company and the world's largest exporter of dairy products. To maintain its leadership,... -
Zipcar: Refining the Business Model
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Zipcar is a start-up organized around the idea of "sharing" car usage via a membership organization. This case describes several iterations of the Zipcar... -
CrossFit (A)
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MP Maintenance: Developing a Marketing Strategy for a Social Enterprise
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details MP Maintenance was a social enterprise composed of several micro-businesses (landscaping, window cleaning, pressure washing, graffiti removal, litter... -
Sproutel: How Design Roadmapping Helped Improve Children's Health & Guide a Growing Company
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details This case aims to introduce students to the "design roadmapping" process that connects customer and user experience design with product and technology... -
Cork'd: Building a Social Network for Wine Lovers
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study6.95View Details Lindsay Ronga and Gary Vaynerchuk are launching Cork'd, an online social network for wine lovers. Despite Gary's status as a celebrity wine connoisseur,... -
GRIT Fitness
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details In December 2018, GRIT Fitness was a growing chain of boutique fitness studios offering a variety of workout classes, including weightlifting, high intensity... -
Irizar in 2005
Strategy & Execution Case Study15.05View Details In June 2005, Koldo Saratxaga, the leader of Basque-based luxury coach manufacturer Irizar, decided to leave after 14 years at the helm of the worker-owned... -
Romeo Engine Plant (Abridged)
Finance & Accounting Case Study6.95View Details A newly reopened automobile engine plant has been organized along total quality and teamwork principles. Employees now solve problems and ensure quality,... -
National Cranberry Cooperative
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Requires an analysis of both the process flows and the production control system used in a cranberry receiving plant. A rewritten version of an earlier... -
MentorMob and the Reinvention of Learning
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details MentorMob had sprung from the passions-for web development and for online communities-of the company's co-founders, Kris Chinosorn (CEO) and Vince Leung... -
Profits, Politics, and Pipelines: Europe, Russia, and the Challenge of Nord Stream 2 (A)
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details Proposed in 2012, Nord Stream 2 was a pipeline project that aimed to bring natural gas directly from Russia to Europe beneath the Baltic Sea. Gazprom,... -
Quincy Apparel (A)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study15.05View Details Quincy Apparel designs, manufactures and sells work apparel for young professional women that offers the fit and feel of high-end brands at a lower price.... -
Strava
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Strava is a new fast-growing social network for the avid cyclist and runner. The Strava case traces the entrepreneurial journey of two serial entrepreneurs... -
Dressen
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Divisional management must decide whether to support a leveraged buyout by a private equity group and, if so, what percent of ownership should go to the... -
Universal Circuits, Inc.
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details The manager of international finance of a major U.S. electronics company is concerned about the exposure of the firm to changes in exchange rates. Of... -
Analyzing New Venture Opportunities
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How to Write a Winning Business Plan
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleA well-conceived business plan is essential to the success of an enterprise. Whether you are starting up a venture, seeking additional capital for an... -
Don't Waste Your Time on Networking Events
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleThere are more-productive ways to build relationships. -
BeautifulCoffee and Fair Trade: Working with Local Farmer Co-operatives in Nepal, Teaching Notes
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleTeaching note for case HEC202. -
Introduction
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleFinancing New Ventures: An Entrepreneur's Guide to Business Angel Investment is a seven chapter book published in 2014 by the Business Expert Press and... -
Entrepreneurial Venturing and Financing
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleFinancing New Ventures: An Entrepreneur's Guide to Business Angel Investment is a seven chapter book published in 2014 by the Business Expert Press and... -
If It Ain't Broke, Fix It Anyway: Communicating to Create Change at Ford
Organizational Development Other Article4.50View Details In April 1994, Ford Motor Co. was the world's second largest auto maker, with record earnings and revenues. But, Ford realized that it had to streamline... -
What Makes a Compelling Business Angel Investment Opportunity?
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleFinancing New Ventures: An Entrepreneur's Guide to Business Angel Investment is a seven chapter book published in 2014 by the Business Expert Press and... -
Can You Balance a One-Legged Stool?: Multidimensional Business Models
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Book Chapter8.95View Details While you may think that your company can get away with having a strong revenue model or healthy gross margins alone, companies are most successful when... -
Boston Chicken, Inc.
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This case examines Boston Chicken's franchise strategy for growing its innovative restaurant business, and the associated accounting reporting issues... -
Environmental Technology Fund Partners and E-Leather
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details It is 2014 and Environmental Technologies Fund (ETF) Partners, a U.K.-based venture capital firm, has an opportunity to invest in a privately-held U.K....