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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... -
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... -
Strategy for Start-ups
Innovation & Entrepreneurship SpotlightSome start-up founders follow a business plan; others operate by the seat of their pants. This package looks at how entrepreneurs can carefully craft... -
How Venture Capitalists Make Decisions
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleFor decades now, venture capitalists have played a crucial role in the economy by financing high-growth start-ups. While the companies they've backed--Amazon,... -
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
Entrepreneurial management Magazine ArticleIt’s not always the horse or the jockey. -
What African Fintech Startups Can Teach Silicon Valley About Longevity
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleThree lessons, based on a study of more than 200 senior-level executives. -
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. -
How Abortion Bans Will Stifle Health Care Innovation
Organizational Development Digital ArticleInvestment in FemTech - diagnostic tools, products, and services related to women's health - has exploded over the past decade. The Dobbs decision threatens... -
Start-ups, Skunkworks, and Your Next Big Product
Innovation Digital ArticleIt’s no secret that many successful companies struggle to grow beyond their core offering. This isn’t because organizations can’t identify new opportunities or develop new and novel concepts; many can and do. Companies often have problems launching these concepts. Internal politics, risk avoidance, and the fear of failure weigh heavily on these growth initiatives. In […] -
Career Choices When Life Is Short (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleAn up-and-coming entrepreneur, Gil Lehner is looking ahead and deciding on his next move. But Gil's situation is unusual: He was just diagnosed with small-cell... -
More-Experienced Entrepreneurs Have Bigger Deadline Problems
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleNew research shows that the more projects company builders have under their belts, the worse they are at anticipating delays. -
Twitter's Cofounder on Creating Opportunities
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleAfter failing to make the basketball, baseball, and football teams in high school, the author persuaded the administration to start a lacrosse team, figuring... -
Tilray's CEO on Becoming the First Mover in a Controversial Industry
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleThe author was working at a Silicon Valley bank in 2010 when some entrepreneurs pitched him on a "medical-cannabis technology company." He didn't know... -
Where to Launch in Africa? (Commentary for HBR Case Study)
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleAn ambitious executive is about to leave his employer in order to launch his own Pan-African venture. Should he start up in a rapidly growing, but already... -
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. -
The New-Market Conundrum
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleBrand-new markets are like the wormholes of science fiction, where the usual rules of time and space do not apply. When a market has just been born, the... -
Stitch Fix's CEO on Selling Personal Style to the Mass Market
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleLake's experience as a consultant to retailers and restaurants led to a fascination with how untouched those industries were by 21st-century technology.... -
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. -
Preparing Your Startup for the Next M&A Wave
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleAsk yourself these three questions before buyers come knocking.
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The Albeiro Vargas & the Guardian Angels Foundation (A)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details The case describes how FAVAC emerged and consolidated. During the Foundation's first 15 years, the care of elderly people - many of them with physical... -
Rent the Runway (Abridged)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Two months after a successful launch In November 2009, the cofounders of Rent the Runway (RTR), a website that rented designer dresses, are debating whether... -
ChatChat (VC Version)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details This is a role-play case, intended for use in a leadership development course for MBA students. The case has four roles: two for students playing the... -
Sociable Labs B
Sales & Marketing Case Study5.00View Details Sociable Labs was conceived as a start-up business attempting to use friend recommendations to curate and recommend purchase opportunities on the internet.... -
ReMaterials: Scaling up frugal innovation solutions
Management Case Study8.95View Details ReMaterials was started in 2012 by Hasit Ganatra, when he realised the potential of an alternate product that could cater to the current needs of people... -
Merak Capital: Investing in the Future of the Middle East
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details The Merak Capital cofounders sought to tap into the opportunities for entrepreneurs and investors in Saudi Arabia and elsewhere, as the technology community... -
Accelerating Russia: The Internet Initiatives Development Fund (IIDF)
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Internet Initiatives Development Fund (IIDF) is a venture capital (VC) fund plus start-up accelerator launched in 2013 by Russia's Agency for Strategic... -
Beamery: Using Skills and AI to Modernize HR
Management Case Study8.95View Details Unicorn human relationships startup Beamery evaluates it growth versus depth strategy as its strategic partners and customers could become future competitors... -
VIA Science (C)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Via (a) captures the early days of the data analytics startup as founders Gounden and Ravanis considered which markets offer the right opportunities for... -
Lobbying at eCab
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Erin Jones' ridesharing startup in her mid-sized hometown is finally picking up. She's hoping to reach a sustainable scale so that she can sell to a large... -
Eastwind Trading Co. (A)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Two professional women are contemplating a business venture. They must assess the nature of the opportunity, what options it opens if they are to pursue... -
CashDrop (A)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details In July 2020, Ruben Flores-Martinez had launched a startup, CashDrop, which provided easy and cheap sales options for small businesses. The COVID-19 pandemic... -
Broadway Angels (2022)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details In late June of 2022, Sonja Perkins, co-founder of Broadway Angels, contemplated the group's future. She and her co-founders, Jennifer Fonstad, and Magdalena... -
NeoGenius Co., Ltd.
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details NeoGenius Co., Ltd. (NeoGenius) is an early stage entrepreneurial venture based in South Korea. Founded in February 2000, NeoGenius provides a wide range... -
NatuRi Corporation
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details NatuRi Corp. was a start up, founded in 2005, aiming to manufacture a cholesterol-lowering drug made from the byproducts of rice bran oil production.... -
Hatsu: From Start-up to Megabrand
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details The Hatsu brand of tea beverages and healthy food products emerged from the idea of two Colombian entrepreneurs in 2010 and evolved, in just over five... -
Should Corporate Profits Be Taxed? (A)
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details Taxing corporations is popular, but why? Corporations do not bear the burden of taxes, people do, and the incidence of the corporate income tax burden... -
Yieldex (A)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Yieldex Founder, Doug Cosman, is faced with the decision to sell his young software start-up for $4 million or to hire a CEO (Tom Shields) and pursue... -
Investing in a Unicorn: The Case of Luckin Coffee Gone Rogue
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Luckin Coffee Inc. (Luckin), an emerging growth firm that aimed to become the market leader in the coffee industry in China, had quickly grabbed market... -
ATH Technologies (A): Making the Numbers
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details An exercise that takes students through five stages of growth in an entrepreneurial start-up in the medical devices industry: 1) founding, 2) growth,...
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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... -
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... -
Strategy for Start-ups
Innovation & Entrepreneurship SpotlightSome start-up founders follow a business plan; others operate by the seat of their pants. This package looks at how entrepreneurs can carefully craft... -
How Venture Capitalists Make Decisions
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleFor decades now, venture capitalists have played a crucial role in the economy by financing high-growth start-ups. While the companies they've backed--Amazon,... -
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
Entrepreneurial management Magazine ArticleIt’s not always the horse or the jockey. -
What African Fintech Startups Can Teach Silicon Valley About Longevity
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleThree lessons, based on a study of more than 200 senior-level executives. -
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. -
The Albeiro Vargas & the Guardian Angels Foundation (FAVAC), Teaching Note
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleThe case describes how FAVAC emerged and consolidated. During the Foundation's first 15 years, the care of elderly people - many of them with physical... -
Doximity: Financing a Social Network for Physicians - Teaching Note
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleTeaching note for case E598