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This Program Uses Lean Startup Techniques to Turn Scientists into Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleAnd it’s changing the way they do science. -
Research: How Cloud Computing Changed Venture Capital
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleIt made the "spray and pray" approach more common. -
Why B2B Companies Struggle with Collaborative Innovation
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleKnowing what the traps are can help you avoid them. -
What the Lean Startup Method Gets Right and Wrong
Entrepreneurs and founders Digital ArticleIt puts a premium on customer experience, but undervalues strategic thinking. -
Why It's So Hard to Scale a Great Idea
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleFive hurdles - and how to overcome them. -
Time for Investors to Get Social
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticlePrivate equity and venture capital firms are starting to share details about their investment strategy in public forums like social media-and it's paying... -
Lean Doesn't Always Create the Best Products
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleEmpathetic design takes more time but delivers better results. -
Everyone Should Learn the Entrepreneurial Method
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleWhen I was a teenager, the older women in my family taught me to cook. I learned it was traditional not to add salt when cooking lentils, because it would... -
Should You Give Up on Your New Dream?
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleHow to know if it's time to fold 'em. -
Corporate VCs Are Moving the Goalposts
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleIn the traditional approach to venture capital, an investment firm parcels out funds to a portfolio of start-ups, knowing that most will fail but that... -
Getting Physicians to Buy in to Lean Health Care
Change management Digital ArticleEditor’s note: For more on the future of health care visit the HBR Insight Center on Health Care Innovations. In the April issue of HBR, Tom Lee describes the story of Gary Kaplan applying lean methodologies he learned from Boeing executives to improve performance at Seattle’s Virginia Mason Health Center. As much as health care […] -
What I Look for in Candidates Interviewing at My Startup
Organizational Development Digital ArticleThey don't just repeat what's on their résumés. -
Choose the Right Investor for Your Startup
Pros and cons of the five major funding sources. -
Startups Need Relationships Before They Ask for Money
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleIt's a better long-term strategy. -
Entrepreneurial Execution: The Future of Strategy
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleInstead of the extremes of strategy execution I criticized last week, many organizations would benefit from a blended approach that combines entrepreneurship... -
Give Impact Investing Time and Space to Develop
Organizational Development Digital ArticleRealizing the full potential of this evolving sector requires three things. -
Strengthening Your Growth Factory
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleOpen questions on how to spur innovation in your company. -
What BMW's Corporate VC Offers That Regular Investors Can't
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleClients. -
Why AOL Should Double Down on Patch
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleDisclosure: The author is a shareholder in AOL. It's been funny watching the financial press and the tech community eviscerate AOL's Patch.com since last... -
Twitch CEO on the Future of the Creator Economy - and the Challenge to Keep the Platform Safe
Global Business Digital Article"That kind of violence, that kind of hate ... [doesn't] have any place anywhere in our society, or especially on Twitch."
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MIPS Computer Systems
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Explores many of the issues that face rapidly growing venture-backed companies in high technology industries. Provides an opportunity for students to... -
Women in Venture Capital: Cindy Padnos and Aileen Lee
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details This case focuses on Cindy Padnos's and Aileen Lee's experiences founding their own VC firms. It introduces some of the tradeoffs and challenges facing... -
School of Rock: Tuning into Structured Empowerment (A)
Management Case Study11.95View Details In summer 2021, School of Rock was a youth-oriented music education company with 291 franchise- and company-owned schools globally. Before CEO Rob Price's... -
MOVE Guides (C)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details Having decided to go where her customers wanted to take her, CEO Brynne Kennedy had led MOVE Guides into the managed-moves market segment, in addition... -
Getit
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Sidharth Gupta, CEO of Getit Infomediary Ltd, had just received a term sheet from Helion Venture Partners (Helion), one of India's independent venture... -
Century Galaxy Group: The Price of Compassion
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details The case describes what happened in December 2019 when Guo Meiling, the chairwoman of Beijing Century Galaxy Group, needed to decide whether she should... -
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,... -
Microsoft's IP Ventures
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Microsoft's IP Ventures program, through which Microsoft spun out promising but unused technologies into new companies, is a new approach to corporate... -
Sierra Capital Partners
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Taurion Inc.: Built to Cure an Incurable Disease (Entrepreneurs)
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Taurion Inc. is a start-up company established in 2006 and based in Vienna. It specializes in researching the causes of Alzheimer's disease (AD) as well... -
Martin Smith: January 2002
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details An MBA student must choose between offers from three private equity organizations. Each organization has distinct strengths and weaknesses, and different... -
Brandless: Disrupting Consumer Packaged Goods
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details Brandless, an online direct-to-consumer seller of upscale private-label consumer packaged goods, offered consumers a limited assortment of values-conscious... -
3M Optical Systems: Managing Corporate Entrepreneurship
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details A middle-level division manager must decide whether he should support an investment request for a third attempt at launching a new product developed by... -
iZumi
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Presents the issues faced while building an innovative company in an emerging space with new intellectual property from the perspective of a venture capitalist.... -
edocs, Inc. (B2): Jonathon Guerster
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
Dell Ventures
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Describes the rationale behind the strategy and structure of Dell Computer Corp.'s VC arm, Dell Ventures. While Dell Ventures had a phenomenal year one,... -
Arlan Hamilton and Backstage Capital
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Frustrated by an inability to convince existing venture capital firms to invest in companies led by women, people of color, and LGBT founders, Arlan Hamilton... -
Glossier: Co-Creating a Cult Brand with a Digital Community
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details Glossier's proclaimed strategy was "born from content, fueled by community". The digital-first, direct-to-consumer beauty brand had experienced rapid... -
Note on Government Sources of Financing for Small Businesses
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Discusses issues related to government sources of financing for small business in the United States. In addition to presenting motivations for government... -
MuMate
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details MuMate, a fictional cult beverage company, requires capital to fund national expansion. Its cofounders, who have bootstrapped to this point, are now negotiating...
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This Program Uses Lean Startup Techniques to Turn Scientists into Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleAnd it’s changing the way they do science. -
Whaling Ventures
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Whaling was a prominent global industry in the nineteenth century and the United States was dominant. By 1850 there were about 900 whaling ships in the... -
Entrepreneurship: A Working Definition
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleBeing clear on what it means is not just an academic exercise. -
Xbox Game Pass: Business Model Optimization and Transformation
Management Case Study11.95View Details Microsoft launched the Xbox gaming console on November 15, 2001. For years, Microsoft used the "razor-razorblade" business model for Xbox by subsidizing... -
Framedia (A)
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Examines an acquisition in the highly competitive new media advertising industry in China in late 2005. The transaction leads to eventual consolidation... -
Vermeer Technologies (A): A Company Is Born
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Charles Ferguson has just heard from a venture capital (VC) consortium that it is willing to finance Vermeer Technologies, a company he has cofounded... -
Venture Capital in Israel: Emergence and Globalization
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details In-depth look at the emergence of venture capital (VC) in Israel, tracking not only the industry itself, but also its many drivers, including high technology... -
Sula Vineyards (A): Indian Wine - Ce n'est pas possible!
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details The case focuses on the risks and rewards of early-stage investing in a successful emerging market consumer start-up (i.e. non-tech), from seed funding... -
Startup Capital Ventures in China
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details John Dean and Danny Lui began raising their first fund as Startup Capital Ventures (SCV), a small venture capital firm in 2005. They made a soft commitment... -
How the Geography of Startups and Innovation Is Changing
Global Business Digital ArticleIt's more global, more urban, and more winner-take-all.