Entrepreneurship

Times change and markets transform themselves overnight. The half-life of common wisdom is shorter than ever. But top private equity firms have distilled a set of institutional habits that boost the likelihood of their success. What’s critical to this success? Attitude. PE leaders take pains to foster a “results-oriented mind-set”. In short, that means creating […]

I love hearing about other people’s dreams. “Dreams,” as in: “this is what I always wanted to do with my life.” Tell me about your dream, and like Pavlov’s dogs, I begin to salivate. I almost can’t help it — encouraging people and their dreams makes me happy, and I am good at it. In […]

And it’s changing the way they do science.

Three strategies for surviving in a tough environment.

“Alright, you caught us. We’re actually not making any money. In fact, we are really losing a lot of money.” This is the essence of Groupon’s declaration last week that it will remove the controversial accounting metric called Adjusted Consolidated Segment Operating Income (ACSOI) from its financial statements. ACSOI essentially measures Groupon’s profits before subtracting […]

A study of New York's founders.

Ask yourself these three questions before buyers come knocking.

After the Great Recession, the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington think tank, needed to compete even harder for every dollar. Arthur C. Brooks...

But their ventures are less likely to succeed. New research looks at why.

A young social entrepreneur must decide whether to stick with her struggling start-up--a tomato paste company based entirely in Nigeria--or go to work...

From restaurants to lead paint, data is making government more efficient.

“To get married and have kids and have a family inspires success.” – Francis Ford Coppola Any day now, we’re going to have a baby. Our first baby. Could be tonight.** And I’m just one word: scared. The fear has crept up on me. A little bit each time someone patted me on the back […]

It prioritizes short-term profits over patients’ health.

Being clear on what it means is not just an academic exercise.

It’s time to stop treating the situation as a short-term crisis.

In the course of the last three days I have spent at the 2009 India Economic Summit organized by the World Economic Forum (WEF), I have heard speeches from many politicians and policy-makers — from Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to Commerce and Industry Minister Anand Sharma to Montek Singh Ahluwalia, Deputy Chairman of the Planning […]

Never a fad, but always in or out of fashion, innovation gets rediscovered as a growth enabler every half dozen years. Too often, grand declarations about...

Setting up a research hub is easy. Setting it up to succeed is harder.

Entrepreneurship is more celebrated, studied, and desirable than ever. Business school students flock to courses on entrepreneurship. Managers, fearful of losing their step on the corporate ladder, yearn to step off on their own. Policymakers pin their hopes for job creation and economic growth on start-ups rather than on the once-preeminent corporate giants. Belief in […]

How investors can start seeing more opportunities.