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How to Live with Risks
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleFor years "risk management" has been characterized chiefly by caution--preventing the business from doing things that would create exposure. Although... -
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... -
Spinning Out a Star
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleSpinouts rarely take off; most, in fact, fall into one or more of four traps that doom them from the start. Some companies spin out ventures that are... -
How Venture Capitalists Really Assess A Pitch
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleHaving worked for two VC firms before entering academia, Lakshmi Balachandra was mystified: Why did a proposal that looked so promising on paper become... -
In Search of the Next Big Thing
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleIn the 1990s, just out of college, Andreessen went knocking on VC doors in Silicon Valley, looking to fund what became the breakthrough web browser Netscape... -
Leveraging Employee Relationships to Solve a Business Problem
Communication VideoFeaturing Christopher Yeh, Co-Author, The Alliance. Paypal survived a near-death experience by leveraging the networks of it's employees. -
What Big Companies Can Learn from Shark Tank
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleBy utilizing the reality show format, corporations can create a more effective forum for pitching innovative products. -
Top Ten Lies of Entrepreneurs
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleEver wondered how entrepreneurs convince VCs to fund their businesses? A leading venture capitalist delivers the inside scoop on what not to say. -
Choose the Right Investor for Your Startup
Pros and cons of the five major funding sources. -
"Lean In" Messages and the Illusion of Control
Leadership & Managing People ResearchResearchers found a downside to messages of empowerment. -
How to Size Up a Negotiation
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleIn one of my posts last year, I shared a framework for more effective negotiations. The first step of the framework described the need for pre-negotiation... -
Four Lean Advertising Campaigns That Went Viral
Advertising Digital ArticleInexpensive videos can sell products, but you’ve got to know what works (and what doesn’t). -
The Best Part of Entrepreneurship? Giving Up and Getting a Job
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleResearch shows a salary bump for former business founders and owners. -
The 5 Skills That Innovative Leaders Have in Common
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleBased on an analysis of 5,000 leaders. -
Use Customer Cash to Finance Your Start-Up
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleMore and more tech-oriented start-ups are using "negative working capital"--cash received from customers in advance--to finance their businesses, freeing... -
Transient Advantage
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleFor decades, the business world has been fixated on achieving sustainable competitive advantage, a position within an industry that allows a company to... -
What the Lean Startup Method Gets Right and Wrong
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleIt puts a premium on customer experience, but undervalues strategic thinking. -
Take the Money--or Run? (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticlePetrolink's business plan looks like a winner. At present, the only available pipeline for operators in the Baltic Sea's newly developed Helmark gas field... -
Behind Venture Capital's Scenes with Jeff Bussgang
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleI recently sat down with Jeff Bussgang of Flybridge Capital to talk about his new book, Mastering the VC Game, an insider's view into the venture capital... -
Bootstrap Finance: The Art of Start-Ups
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleEntrepreneurship is more popular than ever: courses are full, policymakers emphasize new ventures, managers yearn to go off on their own. Would-be founders...
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Joe Casey: January 2000
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Joe Casey (HBS class of 1992) reflects on the path that has led him into a venture career and contemplating his next moves. -
Ockham Technologies (B): Building the Board
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details Describes the issues facing a founder-ceo regarding building a board, assembling an executive team, managing tension between co-founders, and outsourcing... -
How to Write a Great Business Plan (Harvard Business Review Classics)
Judging by all the hoopla surrounding business plans, you'd think the only things standing between would-be entrepreneurs and spectacular success are... -
A Day in the Life of a Venture Capitalist
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details This note describes the tasks that fill the working day of a venture capitalist. Those functions involved in investing (deal sourcing, due diligence,... -
Interview with Heidi Roizen, Video
Leadership & Managing People Case Study150.00View Details Heidi Roizen being interviewed by MBA students, talks about the design to explore the theoretical and practical aspects of network development and maintenance.... -
The Firestorm: Super Angelgate
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details An overview of key documents surrounding the 2010 "Angelgate" meetings. -
MIC Food: Shaping the Right Decision-Making Process for the Future
Management Case Study8.95View Details This case concerns a family business's efforts to assess and shape collective decision-making among a large sibling leadership group and transition from... -
Venture Capital Deal Sourcing and Screening
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Most venture capital profits come from a small percentage of investments, despite high expectations for each investment made. As a result, a small improvement... -
Bespoken Spirits: Disrupting Distilling
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details On October 7, 2020, Bespoken Spirits publicly announced it had received $2.6 million of seed funding for its "sustainable maturation process," a process... -
Pegasus Capital: The Musimundo Decision
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details The five managing directors of Pegasus Capital were meeting in June 2003 to make a go/no-go decision regarding the investment of Musimundo, one of the... -
Wily Technology: Interview With Lew Cirne and Henry McCance, Video
Leadership & Managing People Case Study150.00View Details Interview with Lew Cirne from Wily Technology and Henry McCance, Chairman of Greylock Partners, on CEO succession. -
Groupon India: A Management Buyout Decision
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details In early 2015, the chief executive officer and the management team of Groupon India, a subsidiary of U.S.-based Groupon Inc., faced a management buyout... -
Good Business Creates Good Business: Southwest Creations Collaborative (B)
Organizational Development Case Study5.00View Details Southwest Creations Collaborative (SCC) was a non-profit social enterprise dedicated to promoting the employability and financial independence of poor... -
EZAmuse Negotiation (B): Georg von HaufenGeld Background
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
Financing Anghami's Growth
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details In December 2012, less than two years into the founding of their music-streaming platform Anghami, cofounders Elie Habib and Eddy Maroun found themselves... -
Harley-Davidson, Inc.--1987
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details After an LBO and near bankruptcy in the early 1980s, Harley-Davidson makes an astonishing recovery, going public in 1986. Its listing on the New York... -
PunchTab, Inc.
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details PunchTab was a Silicon Valley startup founded in 2011 that was developing an Internet-based turnkey customer loyalty program for website owners, mobile... -
AEROSPACE INVESTMENT: BALANCING VENTURE & RELATIONSHIP CAPITAL - Founder's Process Evaluation of Venture Capitalist
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Two-party term sheet negotiation between a venture capitalist and the founder of an aerospace start-up company in which participants are scored both on... -
A Scientific Approach to Creating a New Business: MiMoto (Abridged Version)
Management Case Study8.95View Details The case describes the scientific approach taken by the founders of Mimoto - an electric scooter-sharing company offering dockless, keyless scooters available... -
Oltre Venture: The Impact Revolution (A)
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details This case describes the start-up and early operation of a novel impact investing firm in Italy: Oltre Venture. Oltre Venture, which defines itself as...
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How to Live with Risks
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleFor years "risk management" has been characterized chiefly by caution--preventing the business from doing things that would create exposure. Although... -
Joe Casey: January 2000
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Joe Casey (HBS class of 1992) reflects on the path that has led him into a venture career and contemplating his next moves. -
Ockham Technologies (B): Building the Board
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details Describes the issues facing a founder-ceo regarding building a board, assembling an executive team, managing tension between co-founders, and outsourcing... -
How to Write a Great Business Plan (Harvard Business Review Classics)
Judging by all the hoopla surrounding business plans, you'd think the only things standing between would-be entrepreneurs and spectacular success are... -
A Day in the Life of a Venture Capitalist
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details This note describes the tasks that fill the working day of a venture capitalist. Those functions involved in investing (deal sourcing, due diligence,... -
Appendices
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... -
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... -
Teaching Note for A Day in the Life of a Venture Capitalist
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleTeaching Note for E444 -
STEM Toys by ENGINO (Cyprus): Introducing a Direct-to-Consumer Subscription Model?, Student Spreadsheet
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleSpreadsheet supplement for Case NA0812 -
Interview with Heidi Roizen, Video
Leadership & Managing People Case Study150.00View Details Heidi Roizen being interviewed by MBA students, talks about the design to explore the theoretical and practical aspects of network development and maintenance....
