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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... -
The Five Stages of Small-Business Growth
Entrepreneurial management Magazine ArticleNo researcher has explored the earliest period of a business’s development in detail—until now. -
Why Start-ups Fail
Entrepreneurial management Magazine ArticleIt’s not always the horse or the jockey. -
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. -
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... -
Innovation Potential: Innovation Inventory #2
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleThis article is part of a 10-part series highlighting what companies need to do to transform uncertainty into opportunity. The full list will be posted... -
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. -
The Reluctant Entrepreneur
Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleFor years, I’ve been reading about executives who leave their jobs and go into business for themselves, where they find contentment and learn the meaning of life. Now that I’ve done it, I’m here to tell you it isn’t quite that easy. I was on the corporate fast track for almost 30 years, and now […] -
A Survival Guide for Startups in the Era of Tech Giants
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleYou have options other than getting swallowed up or stomped out. -
Goodbye B-School
Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleTwo years ago, Jonathan Seelig left business school to cofound Akamai Technologies. Today, the company is worth $20 billion. -
How to Figure Out What Your Side Hustle Should Be
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleDon't fall in love with your first idea. -
Reigniting Growth
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleMost successful new companies eventually face a predictable crisis that the authors call "stall-out"--a sudden large drop in revenue and profit growth... -
Confessions of a So-So Controller
Corporate governance Magazine ArticleSalespeople writing fake sales orders. Cashiers “borrowing” from incoming revenues. Production workers leaving the factory with spare parts and finished products. These were among the control problems that dogged the author of this article over 12 years of running his company. Ironically, they occurred not during business crises but during periods of growth and prosperity. […] -
The Soul of a Start-up
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleThere's an essential, intangible "something" in start-ups--an energy, a soul. It inspires enthusiasm and fosters a sense of deep connection and mutual... -
The Best Entrepreneurs Are Missionaries, Not Mercenaries
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleAsk three questions to figure out which one you are. -
Twitch CEO on the Future of the Creator Economy – and the Challenge to Keep the Platform Safe
Business and society Digital Article“That kind of violence, that kind of hate … [doesn’t] have any place anywhere in our society, or especially on Twitch.” -
4 Assumptions About Risk You Shouldn't Be Making
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleAnd you're probably misreading Robert Frost. -
Why You Can’t Just Tell a Company “Be More Like a Startup”
Entrepreneurial management Digital ArticleSometimes, being like a startup means breaking the law. -
5 Strategies to Help Charities Weather the Pandemic
Corporate social responsibility Digital ArticleLessons from the fundraising arm of St. Jude’s Children’s Research Hospital. -
Managing in the Whitespace
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleWith help from a team of ethnographers and senior organization specialists, authors Mark Maletz and Nitin Nohria recently conducted a unique research...
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Cost of Capital Problems
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details -
InPart
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Stacey Lawson, HBS 1996, started a CAD parts representations database company to help designers and engineers with the design process. The company has... -
Innocent Drinks
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details The three founders of a London-based, start-up smoothie company must decide between three growth options: expansion of the existing product line into... -
Keurig
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Nick Lazaris becomes Keurig's third CEO in three years, after one founder was fired and the other decided to leave the company. He inherits a company... -
Tickle
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Describes a set of decisions confronting the management team of a rapidly growing online psychological testing and social networking company. They can... -
Napalm: From Soldiers Field to Trang Bang
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Napalm is one of the most destructive weapons ever to be invented. Yet, at its original inception it was nothing more than a technical challenge, and... -
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... -
The Lao Coffee Industry: Implementing Vertical Integration for a Social Cause at Bolaven Farms
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Founded in 2007, Bolaven Farms is a coffee business with a social purpose. Set up in Laos and Hong Kong, Bolaven Farms aims at providing high-quality... -
Kiwi Transportation Company
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details The transition of a company from father to son can often lead to new strategic directions for a company. New leaders have to face issues carried over... -
Paul Olsen (A)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study6.95View Details Paul Olsen, a doctoral management student, is considering forming a limited partnership to open a restaurant in a renovated downtown mall in Pittsburgh.... -
Chevalier Group: Using a Private Equity "Style" Strategy to Maximize a Listed Company's Value
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details The Chevalier case demonstrates how a family-controlled and publicly listed group can make use of a listed company's idle assets and turn them into a... -
Iora Health
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details The Iora Health case looks at a new approach to the management and delivery of primary care. Instead of having a doctor, half a nurse and two accountants,... -
Yemeksepeti: Growing and Expanding the Business Model through Data
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study15.05View Details In October 2016, Nevzat Aydin, co-founder and CEO of Yemeksepeti, the Turkish online food-ordering company, was looking over the company's quarterly results... -
Lyric Dinner Theater (A)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Rivka Belzer, after receiving her MBA and turning down other options, has agreed to a low salary and substantial bonus to join the dinner theater partially... -
New Venture Financing
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Describes the various alternative financing alternatives available to new ventures. A rewritten version of an earlier note. -
Wayne Ferrari: iAutomation at a Crossroads
Leadership & Managing People Case Study14.00View Details Wayne Ferrari has bridged the gap between being an independent entrepreneur and a "professional manager." After selling his business to a Private Equity... -
PlanetFeedback: The Voice of One...The Power of Many (A)
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details The management of PlanetFeedback in proposes a merger with Intelliseek. Their goal is to create a comprehensive C2B and B2B business focused on the generation... -
Re-THINK-ing THINK: The Electric Car Company
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study15.05View Details On January 5, 2010, 48-year-old Richard Canny was on his way to meet the Governor of Indiana. He was reading his newly issued press release, announcing... -
Eico: Designed in China
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details How can an organization help its employees' creativity thrive? When Rokey Zhang and Ricky Xu founded Eico in 2004, no one could predict the scale of China's... -
The Six CEOs of Tyco International Ltd.
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details In September 2016, Johnson Controls, Inc., completed the acquisition of Tyco International PLC, a $9.9 billion business with operating profits of $884...
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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... -
The Five Stages of Small-Business Growth
Entrepreneurial management Magazine ArticleNo researcher has explored the earliest period of a business’s development in detail—until now. -
Why Start-ups Fail
Entrepreneurial management Magazine ArticleIt’s not always the horse or the jockey. -
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. -
Universal Basic Income, Job Guarantees, or None of the Above?, Teaching Note
Global Business Digital ArticleTeaching note for case 819035. -
Cost of Capital Problems
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details -
The Aristizabal Family: Growth of a Family Firm?, Teaching Note
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleTeaching note for case AN0073. -
InPart
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Stacey Lawson, HBS 1996, started a CAD parts representations database company to help designers and engineers with the design process. The company has... -
Innocent Drinks
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details The three founders of a London-based, start-up smoothie company must decide between three growth options: expansion of the existing product line into... -
Keurig
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Nick Lazaris becomes Keurig's third CEO in three years, after one founder was fired and the other decided to leave the company. He inherits a company...