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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. -
Scaling Customer Service as Your Startup Grows
Customer service Digital ArticleA stage-by-stage guide to supporting your customers. -
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. -
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... -
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... -
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
Employees learn through hands-on practice. Their managers do, too. -
Entrepreneurs, Is a Venture Studio Right for You?
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleFounders often look to incubators and accelerators to grow their startups. But there's another option. -
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 Scaling Lesson from Facebook’s Miraculous 10-Year Rise
Change management Digital ArticleYou can’t always be charging ahead. -
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? -
How to Attract the Right Shareholders
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleInstead of casting a wide net, try a more strategic approach. -
Creating a Winning Business Model
Strategy & Execution VideoHear the story of how one entrepreneur created and refined a winning business model. -
Stacey Abrams and Lara Hodgson on Entrepreneurship and Self-Doubt
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleThe three-time founders share their hard-won lessons. -
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 Is Hard. Here's How Akamai Did It.
Innovation & Leadership 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,... -
3 Mistakes Made in Scaling up New Ventures
Innovation & Leadership 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... -
Blitzscaling
Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleThe chaotic, sometimes grueling path to high-growth, high-impact entrepreneurship -
Why It's So Hard to Scale a Great Idea
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleFive hurdles - and how to overcome them.
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Green globalization: GreenMobility's push to internationalize electric car sharing
Management Case Study8.95View Details On a fine winter morning in January 2021, in an office in downtown Copenhagen, Henrik Isaksen, the founder of GreenMobility, pondered the future of his... -
Friends of the Children: Innovating and Scaling to Meet the Moment(s)
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Friends of the Children was founded by Duncan Campbell in 1991. Campbell grew up in extremely challenging circumstances and wanted to use his good fortune... -
Food for Education: Improving Education Outcomes by Feeding Schoolchildren in Kenya
Management Case Study8.95View Details Food for Education is a Kenya-based non-governmental organization that provides nutritious school meals founded in 2012 by nutritionist Wawira Njiru to... -
Moodcafe: From India Conception to Raising Funds
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details The case describes a situation facing Mikul Patel and Rahul Mirdha, the co-founders of Moodcafe, an online mental healthcare service provider. They had... -
Circles (B): Launch and Pivot
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details This case describes the entrepreneurial journey of two college friends - Anchal Taatya and Abhiram Nukalapati. While studying at IIM Ahmedabad, they saw... -
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... -
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... -
StoneCo POSTCOVID-19 PANDEMIC: (Too) Fast and (Too) Furious?
Management Case Study8.95View Details StoneCo was a fintech that entered the market in 2014 with an initial focus in the payment solutions for SMBs. In 2018 it held the largest Brazilian initial... -
Circles (A): The Birth of an Entrepreneurial Initiative
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details This case describes the entrepreneurial journey of two college friends - Anchal Taatya and Abhiram Nukalapati. While studying at IIM Ahmedabad, they saw... -
Duolingo: Play, Not Pay, to Learn Languages
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details In July 2021, Duolingo became one of the few mission-driven education-technology companies to list on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange in the US. Founded in... -
Webuycars: Finding the key to new growth in South Africa
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details The case focuses on Faan van der Walt (as protagonist), his brother Dirk, and WeBuyCars, a large second-hand car dealership in South Africa, which has... -
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... -
Project Maji: Pricing Water in Sub-Saharan Africa
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details In July 2021, Sunil Lalvani, founder and CEO of Project Maji, a non-profit social enterprise headquartered in Dubai that had already provided sustainable,... -
Adventures Inc: 21st Century Brand Building
Management Case Study8.95View Details Founded in 2020, Adventures worked with celebrities in Brazil to create and launch digitally native brands. The idea was to match the celebrity's skill... -
Health View Bioanalytic Limited: Generating Impact from Research
Management Case Study9.95View 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... -
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... -
The Start of the Start: Entrepreneurial Opportunity Identification and Evaluation
Management Case Study8.95View Details Twelve entrepreneurs were interviewed to understand the most effective paths that founders can take to identify and evaluate promising opportunities.... -
Kinbor from Guangbo: Reinventing Planner Journals through Intrapreneurship
Management Case Study8.95View Details Kinbor, a pioneer and top brand of creative planner journals in China, was launched in 2015 by Guangbo Group (Guangbo), a leading stationery manufacturer... -
Wildfire Entertainment: Organizational Structure Archetypes
Leadership & Managing People Case Study9.95View Details Organizational design can be complex, involving many different levers. But at its roots are a few fundamental formal structures or forms: functional,... -
Paga: Ending Cash's Reign in Emerging Markets
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Tayo Oviosu founded Paga in 2009 to make life possible for the millions of Nigerians who operated in a cash-first environment. Paga helped users send...
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Walking the Path of Expansion: MiracleFeet's Journey Towards a Global Footprint - Service Experience Design, Teaching Note
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Green globalization: GreenMobility's push to internationalize electric car sharing
Management Case Study8.95View Details On a fine winter morning in January 2021, in an office in downtown Copenhagen, Henrik Isaksen, the founder of GreenMobility, pondered the future of his... -
Friends of the Children: Innovating and Scaling to Meet the Moment(s)
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Friends of the Children was founded by Duncan Campbell in 1991. Campbell grew up in extremely challenging circumstances and wanted to use his good fortune... -
Food for Education: Improving Education Outcomes by Feeding Schoolchildren in Kenya
Management Case Study8.95View Details Food for Education is a Kenya-based non-governmental organization that provides nutritious school meals founded in 2012 by nutritionist Wawira Njiru to... -
Moodcafe: From India Conception to Raising Funds
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details The case describes a situation facing Mikul Patel and Rahul Mirdha, the co-founders of Moodcafe, an online mental healthcare service provider. They had... -
Green globalization: GreenMobility's push to internationalize electric car sharing, Teaching Note
Management Digital ArticleTeaching note for Case CBS015 -
Circles (B): Launch and Pivot
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details This case describes the entrepreneurial journey of two college friends - Anchal Taatya and Abhiram Nukalapati. While studying at IIM Ahmedabad, they saw... -
MyGate: Balancing a Multi-sided Platform for Gated Communities, Teaching Note
Management Digital ArticleTeaching note for Case A00468 -
Moodcafe: From India Conception to Raising Funds, Teaching Note
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleTeaching Note for Case A00338 -
How Venture Capital Made the Modern World (with Sebastian Mallaby)
Innovation & Leadership Audio20.18View Details Journalist and author Sebastian Mallaby joins Azeem Azhar to discuss the history (and future) of venture capital.
