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The Myth of the Tech Whiz Who Quits College to Start a Company
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleA study of New York's founders. -
The Different Reasons Men and Women Leave Their Successful Startups
Entrepreneurs and founders ResearchNot every founder departure is a failure. -
Shutting Down Your Business Gracefully
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleThe story of how a 16-year-old company closed its doors. -
Case Study: A Founder Steps Back from Her Start-Up
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleShould she hire a new CEO or sell the company? -
How Founders Can Recognize and Combat Depression
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleThey're 30% more likely to experience it. -
What the Lean Startup Method Gets Right and Wrong
Entrepreneurs and founders Digital ArticleIt puts a premium on customer experience, but undervalues strategic thinking. -
Passion for Your Startup Doesn’t Have to Mean Constant Stress
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleResearch finds that self-awareness training is key. -
Should I Become an Entrepreneur?
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleWhen to become an entrepreneur is a common quandary for many. For whatever reason, this issue has come up a great deal recently (recession-driven workforce... -
Why Startups Should Embrace Radical Transparency
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleIt's in founders' best interests to not only accept, but invite, oversight. -
When Should You Fire Your Child from the Family Business?
Dismissing employees Digital ArticleFour questions to ask before you make a painful decision. -
The Global Entrepreneur
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleFor over a century, start-ups began by focusing on their home markets. More and more, however, are now being born global - chasing opportunities created... -
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 Innovator's DNA
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine Article"How do I find innovative people for my organization? And how can I become more innovative myself?" These are questions that stump most senior executives,... -
The Best Entrepreneurs Are Missionaries, Not Mercenaries
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleAsk three questions to figure out which one you are. -
4 Factors That Predict Startup Success, and One That Doesn’t
Entrepreneurs and founders ResearchEvidence from more than 300 venture capital investments. -
Why Are Immigrants More Entrepreneurial?
Innovation & Leadership ResearchResearch shows cross-cultural experience may help people spot opportunities. -
Genius at Work: A Conversation with Mark Morris
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleTo move forward, society needs geniuses--those rare individuals whose flashes of insight and imagination change the way we live and see the world. Traditionally,... -
Don’t Buy the Myth that Every Startup Needs a Co-Founder
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleCo-creators can offer resources, connections, and ideas — without requiring founders to give up control. -
Meet the Teenagers Who Found Their Own Startups
Entrepreneurs and founders Digital ArticleThey’re definitely not slackers. -
Research: What Happens to a Startup When Venture Capitalists Replace the Founder
Innovation & Leadership ResearchIt actually makes success more likely.
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Penelope's Personal Pocket Phones
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Provides students with an opportunity to use simple real options analysis to value a startup. Penelope Phillips is deciding whether to start a company... -
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... -
Daksh and IBM: Business Process Transformation in India. Part 2 - The Post Buy-out Years
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details The story of Daksh, one of India's leading BPO companies that was bought out by IBM in April 2004 at an estimated amount of US$170 million, had all the... -
Daddy Lab: A Chinese Social Enterprise's Dilemma
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details This case follows the development of Daddy Lab, a Chinese social enterprise founded in 2015 by Wenfeng Wei. With extensive experience in product safety... -
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... -
Ford vs. GM: The Evolution of Mass Production (B)
Technology & Operations Case Study5.00View Details This case explores the very different paths taken by the Ford Motor Company and the General Motors Corporation in the first three decades of the twentieth... -
Victoria's Secret: Fall of the Angels
Management Case Study11.95View Details US-based lingerie retailer Victoria's Secret Stores Brand Management, LLC (Victoria's Secret) was started by a man who had been embarrassed to shop for... -
MUNGO MILL SOUTH AFRICA: LEADING A SUSTAINABILITY STRATEGY DURING COVID-19
Management Case Study11.95View Details The case features Dax Holding, Managing Director of Mungo Mill, Plettenberg Bay, Western Cape Province, South Africa, considering the decisions he needs... -
Patrick McGinnis
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details The case analyses the scenario facing Paddy McGiness, the sole founder of Breathe coffee shop in Hays, Kansas, as he seeks to launch his new business... -
Kaiser Permanente: Innovating to Transform Healthcare
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details This case enables discussion of organizational and industry transformation. -
Frank Addante, Serial Entrepreneur
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Frank Addante is a 28-year-old serial entrepreneur who is in the process of building his fifth venture. Of his first four ventures, two were sold, one... -
AEInnova: From Science to Business
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details "Scientists and technologists encounter and develop great ideas, but usually have difficulties finding a way to take them to the market. Once they decide... -
C. K. Yeung Worldwide Ltd.: Management as Art, Science, and Philosophy
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Founded in 1974, C. K. Yeung Worldwide Ltd. became one of the largest metal traders in Hong Kong in the 1980s. Looks at how the beliefs of its CEO, Joseph... -
Entrepreneurship Reading: Becoming an Entrepreneurial Leader
40.00View Details Entrepreneurship is a way of thinking, reasoning, and leading. Successful entrepreneurs identify a creative way to address a marketplace problem or need.... -
Kunshan, Incorporated: The Making of China's Richest Town
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details In 1980, the city of Kunshan was mere countryside, registering neither on the Chinese government's nor the international business community's radar. By... -
Zola
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details The case describes the journey of Zola, an online wedding registry designed to greatly improve the clunky and impersonal wedding registry process. With... -
Financial Intelligence for Entrepreneurs: What You Really Need to Know About the Numbers
32.00View Details Using the groundbreaking formula they introduced in their book "Financial Intelligence: A Manager's Guide to Knowing What the Numbers Really Mean," Karen... -
Ice and Flame: Building a NYSE Company in Wild Russia (VimpelCom and Its Founders)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details VimpelCom is a Russian cellular operator that grew in less than 10 years (1992-2002) from a hypothetical concept, to small family-like company, to $2... -
Recorded Future: Analyzing Internet Ideas About What Comes Next
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Recorded Future is a "big data" startup company that uses Internet data to make predictions about events, people, and entities. The company primarily... -
Cofounder Equity Split Vignettes
Management Case Study11.95View Details This case study delves into the complexities of equity allocation among startup cofounders, exploring three distinct scenarios: DogBone/Whiplash, Kitten...
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The Founder’s Dilemma
Entrepreneurs and founders Magazine ArticleMost entrepreneurs want to make a lot of money and to run the show. New research shows that it’s tough to do both. If you don’t figure out which matters more to you, you could end up being neither rich nor king. -
4 Entrepreneurship Lessons from a Nigerian Founder
Innovation & Leadership First PersonChallenges of starting a venture in a frontier market in Africa. -
Ford vs. GM: The Evolution of Mass Production (A)
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details This case explores the very different paths taken by the Ford Motor Company and the General Motors Corporation in the first three decades of the twentieth... -
EverTrue: Mobile Technology Development (A)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Brent Grinna is evaluating different options for the technology development of his start-up's iPhone app, including hiring local programmers, finding... -
DexAI
Management Case Study11.95View Details During a challenging fundraising environment, the DexAI founders received two term sheets with nearly identical economic terms but very different legal... -
Penelope's Personal Pocket Phones
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Provides students with an opportunity to use simple real options analysis to value a startup. Penelope Phillips is deciding whether to start a company... -
The Different Reasons Men and Women Leave Their Successful Startups
Entrepreneurs and founders ResearchNot every founder departure is a failure. -
Innovation Doesn’t Have to Be Disruptive
Innovation Magazine ArticleCreate new markets for growth without destroying existing companies or jobs. -
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... -
The Difference Between Chinese and Russian Entrepreneurs
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleChina's recent transformation is characterized by gradual institutionalization, and Russia's by what looks like rapid deinstitutionalization. The Chinese...