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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... -
Crucible: Battling Back from Betrayal
Cross-cultural management Magazine ArticleScrap metal entrepreneur Stephen Greer naively trusted his foreign partners—and lost millions to fraud. Here’s how he reclaimed his confidence and rebuilt his company. -
Five Stages of Small Business Growth
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleA five-stage framework will help owners to determine their company's stage of development and how to ensure a profitable future. It is also useful to... -
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
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Goodbye B-School
Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleTwo years ago, Jonathan Seelig left business school to cofound Akamai Technologies. Today, the company is worth $20 billion. -
When the Boss Won't Budge (Commentary on HBR Case Study)
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleAllerGen, a young biotechnology firm, is heading for trouble, possibly even bankruptcy. The company's one product--a vaccine for people allergic to cats--may... -
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... -
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. -
It's Time to Free the Middle Manager
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleOrganizations no longer need traffic cops. They need leaders. -
Career Choices When Life Is Short (Commentary for HBR Case Study)
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... -
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. […] -
Coevolving: At Last, a Way to Make Synergies Work
Entrepreneurial management Magazine ArticleThe new rules of collaboration are counterintuitive: Let businesses decide whether to work together. Reward individual performance, not collaboration. And don’t assume that more collaboration means more synergy. -
Case Study: A Founder Steps Back from Her Start-Up
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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... -
I Joined Airbnb at 52, and Here’s What I Learned About Age, Wisdom, and the Tech Industry
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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.” -
Small and Young Businesses Are Especially Vulnerable to Extreme Weather
Risk management Digital ArticleResearch on 950 businesses in the New York area one year after Hurricane Sandy. -
The Comprehensive Case for Investing More VC Money in Women-Led Startups
Venture capital Digital ArticleAnd for hiring more female investors.
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Financial Intelligence for Entrepreneurs: What You Really Need to Know About the Numbers
Using the groundbreaking formula they introduced in their book "Financial Intelligence: A Manager's Guide to Knowing What the Numbers Really Mean," Karen... -
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... -
SweetWater
Technology & Operations Case Study6.95View Details Focuses on developing a promising idea into a viable product design by considering customer needs early in the design process. Following an Alaskan fishing... -
Internal Entrepreneurship at the Dow Chemical Co.
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Describes how a corporate entrepreneur shapes an internal growth venture within the company, mobilizes the resources that are needed to implement the... -
Dinr: My First Start-up (B)
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Felipe Vergara and Lumni: Launching an Innovation in a Developing Economy
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study9.95View Details The case chronicles the development of Lumni, Inc., an international start-up offering innovative mechanisms for financing higher education. It focuses... -
Achieving Profitable Growth and Market Value
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Provides an overview of how a new venture needs to change as it passes from the initial start-up to the growth phase. Explores how a venture's leadership,... -
Beau Ties Ltd. of Vermont
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Bill Kenerson, the owner-operator of a retail bow-tie business faces two decisions. The first is whether to bring production of bow ties in-house. The... -
Donna Bookout-Coe
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Describes Donna Coe and her illustrious 15-year career in the towing industry. Donna is an accomplished woman with a great deal of experience in managing... -
1366 Technologies: Scaling the Venture (Abridged)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study15.05View Details For some time, 1366's co-founders, Frank van Mierlo and Ely Sachs, had faced a choice, which was now made all the more stark: 1366 could expand to produce... -
DAG Group
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Chris Hackett and Val Rayzman have spent six months after graduating from business school exploring the possibility of building a chain of upscale drycleaners.... -
Paul Thomson: Walker Insurance
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Having just acquired Walker Insurance, Paul Thomson finds himself short of funds to support his original turnaround plan. He can request additional cash... -
Midwest Ice Cream Co.
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Midwest Ice Cream (a disguised name) serves as an example to examine a planning and control system. Useful management information, which otherwise would... -
General Electric Co.--1984
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Describes the first four years of Jack Welch's tenure as CEO of the General Electric Co. Deals with the ways Welch has tried to change GE's strategy and... -
International Entrepreneurship: Winter Term 2008
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details Explains the mission, philosophy, structure, and classroom and grading policies for the second-year MBA elective International Entrepreneurship. -
Securities Law and Public Offerings
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Intrapreneurship at DaVita HealthCare Partners
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details DaVita had launched Paladina in early 2011 and the startup was struggling to gain traction: Paladina had already used a significant amount of the $40... -
Convenient MD
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details The ConvenientMD case highlights the role of emotion and ambiguity in business interactions. ConvenientMD, led by co-CEOs Gareth Dickens and Max Puyanic,... -
Fidello Cigar Cutter
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details The Fídelló Cigar Cutter case highlights the introduction of a new-to-the-world product to a niche market with an elite target customer group. Chris Jones,... -
Cray Research, Inc.
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Cray Research faces several management problems as a result of rapid growth and the need for continued growth. Issues to be discussed include 1) whether...
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HGRM: Bringing Back High Touch Hospitality, Teaching Note
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleTeaching Note for 813019. -
Tengion: Bringing Regenerative Medicine to Life, Teaching Note
Sales & Marketing Digital ArticleTeaching Note for 510031. -
Homing In on Cash Conversion
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Book Chapter8.95View Details The cash conversion cycle, introduced in this chapter, measures how effective a company is at collecting its cash. The cycle can be shortened by the techniques... -
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... -
Financial Intelligence for Entrepreneurs: What You Really Need to Know About the Numbers
Using the groundbreaking formula they introduced in their book "Financial Intelligence: A Manager's Guide to Knowing What the Numbers Really Mean," Karen... -
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... -
SweetWater
Technology & Operations Case Study6.95View Details Focuses on developing a promising idea into a viable product design by considering customer needs early in the design process. Following an Alaskan fishing... -
Internal Entrepreneurship at the Dow Chemical Co.
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Describes how a corporate entrepreneur shapes an internal growth venture within the company, mobilizes the resources that are needed to implement the... -
Crucible: Battling Back from Betrayal
Cross-cultural management Magazine ArticleScrap metal entrepreneur Stephen Greer naively trusted his foreign partners—and lost millions to fraud. Here’s how he reclaimed his confidence and rebuilt his company. -
Eico: Designed in China, Teaching Note
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleTeaching note for case IN1486.