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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. -
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. -
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... -
Shakedown (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Global Business Magazine ArticleCustomer Strategy Solutions, a California-based developer of order fulfillment systems, is facing a shakedown. Six months after the firm's CEO, Pavlo... -
What It Takes to Build a Startup into a Brand
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleLessons from Howard Schultz, Leslie Wexner, and Brunello Cucinelli. -
What the Lean Startup Method Gets Right and Wrong
Entrepreneurs and founders Digital ArticleIt puts a premium on customer experience, but undervalues strategic thinking. -
How Founders Self-Destruct Under Pressure
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleMany leaders' coping mechanisms can seriously backfire. -
Under Armour’s Founder on Learning to Leverage Celebrity Endorsements
Marketing Magazine ArticlePhotography: Getty Images The Idea: Celebrity endorsements used to be fairly straightforward: a face in an ad, a logo on the TV screen. But that world is rapidly changing, and Under Armour’s CEO is nimbly navigating it. I started Under Armour in 1996, when I was 23 years old and just out of college. The […] -
Passion for Your Startup Doesn’t Have to Mean Constant Stress
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleResearch finds that self-awareness training is key. -
The High-Intensity Entrepreneur
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleThe popular take on entrepreneurs in the developing world is that they are few in number and run only microbusinesses. But in a two-year study of entrepreneurship... -
Great Companies Stay True to the Spirit of Their Founders
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleExamples from Nando's Chicken, the Oberoi Group, and more. -
When Should You Fire Your Child from the Family Business?
Dismissing employees Digital ArticleFour questions to ask before you make a painful decision. -
The Soul of a Start-Up
Entrepreneurs and founders Magazine ArticleCompanies can sustain their entrepreneurial energy even as they grow. -
Research: How Long Should a Founder Remain CEO?
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleOn average, their value-add tends to decline after an IPO. -
Defend Your Research: Are Entrepreneurs Really Pot-Smoking Rebels?
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleThere is such a thing as too much rule-breaking. -
Why Immigrant Entrepreneurs Are So Important to the U.S.
Many of them are creating jobs. -
Expanding the Entrepreneur Class
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleThe world needs more entrepreneurs--the people who make innovation real and advance the "frontier economy." It's a failure on the part of society if their... -
Will Disruptive Innovations Cure Health Care?
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleIt's no secret that health care delivery is convoluted, expensive, and often deeply dissatisfying to consumers. But what is less obvious is that a way... -
Blue Oceans in Outer Space
Emerging markets Magazine ArticleTaking stock of the economic opportunities to be found beyond our planet
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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... -
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... -
Beyond Disruption: Innovate and Achieve Growth without Displacing Industries, Companies, or Jobs
Strategy & Execution Book30.00View Details "Blue Ocean Strategy," the #1 global bestseller, forever changed how the world thinks about strategy. Now W. Chan Kim and Renee Mauborgne offer up a bold,... -
Lapdesk Company: A South African FOPSE
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Shane Immelman, founding CEO of Lapdesk (South Africa), is facing several acute problems: a conflict between his director of marketing and his director... -
The Entrepreneurial Manager: Spring 2024
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Every Harvard Business School first-year student enrolls in "The Entrepreneurial Manager," a course that focuses on leadership in entrepreneurial settings.... -
micro Home Solutions: A Social Housing Initiative in India
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details mHS is a social enterprise for the provision of affordable housing in India. After India's microfinance industry collapses, mHS needs to reposition itself... -
Omar Selim: Building a Values-Based Asset Management Firm (A)
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details The sustainable investing market was a recent phenomenon in the first decade of the 21st century. However, an increasing number of investors began to... -
Wells Fargo Online Financial Services (B)
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details Describes how the Balanced Scorecard built by the Online Financial Services (OFS) group is used to select the highest-priority initiatives for the organization.... -
Technical Note: The Traits of Entrepreneurs
Management Case Study8.95View Details Why do some entrepreneurs succeed and others do not? Are there personality traits that lead someone to become an entrepreneur? Although many questions... -
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... -
Earl Martin Phalen: Ready to ROAR?
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Earl Martin Phalen is in the midst of starting his second non-profit organization, Summer Advantage, by implementing the lessons he learned from BELL,... -
Doer's Profile Katherine Graham (1917-2001)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Designed to facilitate a discussion of the nature of enduring success. Includes both biographical data and excerpts from autobiographical material. -
Entrepreneurial Management in a Turnaround Environment (EMTE) Fall 2012: Course Overview and Syllabus
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Course Overview and Syllabus in the Fall Term 2012 for the Entrepreneurial Management in a Turnaround Environment (EMTE) course. -
Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing at Voray
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Sula Vineyards (B): The Entrepreneur's Dilemma - Managing Investor Exits
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View 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... -
ExlService: Business Process Outsourcing in India
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details Charts the development of outsourcing service provider ExlService. Founded by Indian nationals Vikram Talwar and Rohit Kapoor, the firm has moved through... -
FINDMINE: Looking for a Break
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details From quitting a stable post-MBA job and starting FINDMINE, a start-up in the retail technology space, to finally negotiating venture capital investment...
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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...