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Why Start-ups Fail
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleIf you're launching a business, the odds are against you: Two-thirds of start-ups never show a positive return. Unnerved by that statistic, a professor... -
Entrepreneurs, Is a Venture Studio Right for You?
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleFounders often look to incubators and accelerators to grow their startups. But there’s another option. -
10 Questions to Ask Before Entering a Business Partnership
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleYou can save yourself immeasurable pain down the road by asking these tough questions early. -
How Startups Can Land a Second Meeting with a Corporate Partner
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleResearchers attended 150 meetings between start-ups and corporations including IBM, Sony, L’Oréal, Toyota, and AstraZeneca. -
Creating a Winning Business Model
Strategy & Execution VideoHear the story of how one entrepreneur created and refined a winning business model. -
Scaling Customer Service as Your Startup Grows
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Scaling Is Hard. Here’s How Akamai Did It.
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleI have been thinking lately about how hard it is to scale start-ups. The Lean Start-Up movement, as exemplified in Eric Ries’ book The Lean Start-Up, has appropriately focused a great deal of attention on the hard decisions and techniques required to create a company from nothing. But once the company has honed in on […] -
The Overlooked Key to a Successful Scale-Up
Innovation & Leadership Magazine ArticleMany start-ups experience enormous popularity and runaway growth, but only a few go on to become stable giants. What separates them from the pack? They... -
The Scaling Lesson from Facebook’s Miraculous 10-Year Rise
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Chobani Founder Hamdi Ulukaya on the Journey from Abandoned Factory to Yogurt Powerhouse
Global Business Digital ArticleThe Chobani CEO and founder talks about the biggest challenges along the way. "I never thought about quitting," he says. -
Scaling: The Problem of More
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleWhen too much of a good thing is never enough. -
Learning by Doing is the Best Recipe
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How to Seed Organic Marketing in a Video-First World
Sales & Marketing Digital ArticleIt's all about generating content - from consumers, creators, and celebrities. -
An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Surviving the “Death Valley Curve”
Entrepreneurial business strategy Digital ArticleTwo key questions: Do you have the right business model, and do you have growth ambitions? -
Scaling Up Without Losing Your Edge
Organizational Development Digital ArticleThe world's largest NGO proves you don't have to be small to be beautiful. -
The Hybrid Start-Up
Innovation & Leadership Magazine ArticleCompared with start-ups, established corporations have many resources and capabilities that ought to give them a head start: customers, products, operations,... -
Stacey Abrams and Lara Hodgson on Entrepreneurship and Self-Doubt
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleThe three-time founders share their hard-won lessons. -
3 Mistakes Made in Scaling up New Ventures
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleYou’ve launched a successful new product or new company. You have customers ordering what you’ve created. So, you’re on your way to building a thriving new venture, right? Not so fast. Most organizations feel that the job is done when they have successfully prototyped the first product or the initial service and are now selling […] -
How to Attract the Right Shareholders
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleInstead of casting a wide net, try a more strategic approach. -
Scaling Up is a Problem of Both More and Less
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleEven large organizations can only handle so much.
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Tesla, Inc. in 2018
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Drinkotec: Changing a company, changing a life (A): Daring to change
Management Case Study8.95View Details Franck-Erik Flegbo and Cyril Le Terrien were already successful executives in a major multinational when they decided that it was time to dream, and to... -
Exxat: Educating Smarter in the Health Sciences
Management Case Study8.95View Details Over 12 years, Aarti Vaishnav grew Exxat into a $10M business with hundreds of employees. This success was built on a virtuous cycle of deep customer... -
Eleva Educacao: Transforming K-12 Education in Brazil
Management Case Study8.95View Details Eleva Educacao is a Brazilian education company that owns and operates private K-12 schools and sells curriculum tools. As of 2020, they directly serve... -
Staff.AI: Pricing for Disruptive Technology
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Staff.AI is a start-up technology company featuring a new resource-sharing application for hospitals and health care professionals. Developed by neurosurgeon... -
From Pilot to Platform in Rural Pakistan: A Uniquely-Owned Company Scales to Change Lives
Management Case Study8.95View Details This case describes the journey that led to the creation of Saaf Sehatmand Services (SSS), a business founded by leaders from five consumer goods companies... -
From Mug to Mike: The Scale-Up Puzzle
Management Case Study8.95View Details Sunil Koshy considered himself a "passionpreneur;" after quitting a well-paid job as a software engineer, he chased his passion for singing and founded... -
OPOS: Fostering Shared Value in a Culinary Enterprise
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details One Pot, One Shot (OPOS) was a revolutionary cooking technique developed by B Ramakrishnan, known affectionately as Ramki, in 2015 and subsequently validated... -
TalkingPoints: Technology Connecting Teachers and Families
Management Case Study8.95View Details Talking Points is a U.S. not-for-profit 501c3 organization that provides a multilingual platform to help teachers communicate with families. The idea... -
Shelly Sun at BrightStar Care: The Evolution of a Leader
Management Case Study8.95View Details Shelly Sun had founded BrightStar Care, a home health care and medical staffing agency, 20 years earlier and had grown the business to over 300 franchised... -
Health View Bioanalytic Limited: Generating Impact from Research
Management Case Study8.95View Details Benny Chung-Ying Zee was a professor at a prestigious university in Hong Kong and founder of Health View Bioanalytic Limited (Health View). Health View... -
Happy Family: Investing for the Future
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Shazi Visram graduated from Columbia Business School in May 2004 and founded Happy Family organic baby food company two years later with a mission to... -
Walking the Path of Expansion: MiracleFeet's Journey toward a Global Footprint
Management Case Study8.95View Details MiracleFeet, a US-based non-profit, improves access to high-quality treatment of clubfoot in low-income countries, typically in partnership with public... -
Drinkotec: Changing a company, changing a life (B): Taking the leap
Management Case Study5.00View Details The deal is closed; Franck-Erik Flegbo and Cyril Le Terrien become the owners of Drinkotec but discover that the existing team doesn't really have the... -
Elon Musk's Big Bets
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Between late 2014 and late 2016, Tesla and CEO Elon Musk undertook several major, and risky, initiatives that would dramatically expand the scale and... -
Velasca: Organizing Growth
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Italian entrepreneurs Enrico Casati and Jacopo Sebastio, just out of college, founded Velasca, a men's shoes e-commerce retailer in 2013. In less than... -
Livongo: Scaling a Purpose-Driven Organization in Healthcare
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details When seasoned entrepreneur Glen Tullman founded the chronic health care startup Livongo in 2014, it was personal. His son lived with diabetes, and Tullman... -
Drinkotec: Changing a company, changing a life (C): Dream big or go home
Management Case Study5.00View Details It is now four years later, and Drinkotec is scaling up fast. They've had to make some tough decisions in order to focus, have the best people and build... -
Investec South Africa CSI: Harnessing Crisis to Scale Up Delivery and Impact
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details In April 2020, the head of the corporate social investments (CSI) division of Investec South Africa (Investec SA), was working to ensure that Investec...
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Why Start-ups Fail
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleIf you're launching a business, the odds are against you: Two-thirds of start-ups never show a positive return. Unnerved by that statistic, a professor... -
Entrepreneurs, Is a Venture Studio Right for You?
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleFounders often look to incubators and accelerators to grow their startups. But there’s another option. -
Tesla, Inc. in 2018
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details -
Drinkotec: Changing a company, changing a life (A): Daring to change
Management Case Study8.95View Details Franck-Erik Flegbo and Cyril Le Terrien were already successful executives in a major multinational when they decided that it was time to dream, and to... -
OPOS: Fostering Shared Value in a Culinary Enterprise, Teaching Note
Sales & Marketing Digital ArticleTeaching Note for Case W24785 -
10 Questions to Ask Before Entering a Business Partnership
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleYou can save yourself immeasurable pain down the road by asking these tough questions early. -
Exxat: Educating Smarter in the Health Sciences
Management Case Study8.95View Details Over 12 years, Aarti Vaishnav grew Exxat into a $10M business with hundreds of employees. This success was built on a virtuous cycle of deep customer... -
How Startups Can Land a Second Meeting with a Corporate Partner
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleResearchers attended 150 meetings between start-ups and corporations including IBM, Sony, L’Oréal, Toyota, and AstraZeneca. -
Drinkotec: (A) (B) (C), Teaching Note
Management Digital ArticleTeaching Note for Case IM1336 -
KaBOOM!: Play at Scale, Teaching Plan
Management Digital ArticleTeaching Plan for HBS Case No. 517025.