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How Private Equity Firms Infuse a Positive Attitude
Private equity Digital ArticleTimes 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 […] -
My First, Failed Foray into Venture Investing
Venture capital Digital ArticleI 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 […] -
This Program Uses Lean Startup Techniques to Turn Scientists into Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleAnd it’s changing the way they do science. -
Startups, It's Time to Think Like Camels - Not Unicorns
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleThree strategies for surviving in a tough environment. -
Groupon Doomed by Too Much of a Good Thing
Venture capital Digital Article“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 […] -
The Myth of the Tech Whiz Who Quits College to Start a Company
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleA study of New York's founders. -
Preparing Your Startup for the Next M&A Wave
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleAsk yourself these three questions before buyers come knocking. -
AEI's President on Measuring the Impact of Ideas
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleAfter the Great Recession, the American Enterprise Institute, a Washington think tank, needed to compete even harder for every dollar. Arthur C. Brooks... -
Black Women Are More Likely to Start a Business than White Men
Global Business Digital ArticleBut their ventures are less likely to succeed. New research looks at why. -
Pursue Your Dream or Move On? (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleA 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... -
How Cities Are Using Analytics to Improve Public Health
Global Business Digital ArticleFrom restaurants to lead paint, data is making government more efficient. -
Can You Balance a Startup and a Baby?
Work-life balance Digital Article“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 […] -
The Role of Private Equity in Driving Up Health Care Prices
Competitive strategy Digital ArticleIt prioritizes short-term profits over patients’ health. -
Entrepreneurship: A Working Definition
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleBeing clear on what it means is not just an academic exercise. -
Turkey Badly Needs a Long-Term Plan for Syrian Refugees
Labor Digital ArticleIt’s time to stop treating the situation as a short-term crisis. -
How Can India Unleash Its Entrepreneurs?
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleIn 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 […] -
Innovation: The Classic Traps
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleNever 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... -
Why Innovation Labs Fail, and How to Ensure Yours Doesn’t
Incubators Digital ArticleSetting up a research hub is easy. Setting it up to succeed is harder. -
Bootstrap Finance: The Art of Start-ups
Entrepreneurial financing Magazine ArticleEntrepreneurship 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 […] -
The One Thing VCs Could Do Immediately to Increase Returns
Consumer behavior Digital ArticleHow investors can start seeing more opportunities.
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Golden Baseball League (A): From Idea to "Play Ball"
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details First conceived as a business plan in Stanford Business School's "Evaluating Entrepreneurial Opportunities" class, the Golden Baseball League is an independent... -
Golden Baseball League (B): Final Standings, Season One
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details An abstract is not available for this product. -
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 Fritter Shop: Filled with Potential
Management Case Study11.95View Details In June 2022, Kelvin Van Rijn, owner of The Fritter Shop in London, Ontario, is considering multiple options for the future success of his business. The... -
The Elcer Products Transaction: Confidential Information for US Industrial ElectroCeramics (US-IND)
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details In a six-party negotiation exercise, the TNDA Corp. plans to sell the Elcer Products Division to one of four potential buyers (industrial, financial,... -
Alltech
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details Alltech was a Lexington, Kentucky-based producer of supplements for animal feed, with revenues of over $2 billion (projected to reach $3 billion in 2018),... -
Lytt: Determining a Go-to-Market Strategy
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details The Berline-based start-up, Lytt, was founded in late 2019 with the aim of offering employees a means to speak up about misconduct at work through a digital... -
Global Blue Hydros: Business Model Evolution
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details In 2004, Carlos Fernando Mayorga and a partner founded a company to "reinvent a car washing system in Colombia," by designing and manufacturing a machine... -
DoubleDutch
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Lawrence Coburn and Pankaj Prasad, co-founders of the event solution startup DoubleDutch, have to make a significant decision about their young company's... -
African Communications Group, Supplement
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the case. -
ONE2ID B.V.
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details The case ONE2ID B.V., Growth Challenge explores the challenges a small company faces when the founder controls every aspect of the firm. Over the past... -
Note on the Hiring and Selection Process
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Describes a model for thinking about the hiring and selection process. -
Finberg: Corporate Venture Capital in Türkiye
Management Case Study11.95View Details In December 2021, Murat Ozyegin, Chairman of Fiba Holding, along with Omer Mert and İhsan Elgin, engaged in discussions about the future of United Payment,... -
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... -
CARLYLE GROUP AND THE AZ-EM BUYOUT (B): VALUE CREATION AFTER THE TRANSACTION
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Supplement for IMD484 -
UST's Adoption of Open Talent
Management Case Study11.95View Details This case details the 2020 launch and subsequent scaling of UST's Open Talent initiative, a program to integrate freelancers from digital platforms into... -
HBR's 10 Must Reads 2019: The Definitive Management Ideas of the Year from Harvard Business Review (with bonus article "Now What?" by Joan C. Williams and Suzanne Lebsock) (HBR's 10 Must Reads)
24.95View Details A year's worth of management wisdom, all in one place. We've reviewed the ideas, insights, and best practices from the past year of Harvard Business Review... -
PraDigi Open Learning: Transforming Rural India
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Pratham is a non-governmental organization, focusing on high-quality, low-cost and replicable interventions to address gaps in the Indian education system.... -
Living PlanIT
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Living PlanIT is a start-up company that has developed a new, innovative business model for sustainable urbanization. This model reflects the software... -
Quincy Apparel (B)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details The (B) case provides post-mortem analysis from Quincy's cofounders on why their startup failed and what they could have done differently. Explanations...
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Golden Baseball League (A): From Idea to "Play Ball"
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details First conceived as a business plan in Stanford Business School's "Evaluating Entrepreneurial Opportunities" class, the Golden Baseball League is an independent... -
Golden Baseball League (B): Final Standings, Season One
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details An abstract is not available for this product. -
How Private Equity Firms Infuse a Positive Attitude
Private equity Digital ArticleTimes 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 […] -
My First, Failed Foray into Venture Investing
Venture capital Digital ArticleI 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 […] -
This Program Uses Lean Startup Techniques to Turn Scientists into Entrepreneurs
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleAnd it’s changing the way they do science. -
Startups, It's Time to Think Like Camels - Not Unicorns
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleThree strategies for surviving in a tough environment. -
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 Fritter Shop: Filled with Potential
Management Case Study11.95View Details In June 2022, Kelvin Van Rijn, owner of The Fritter Shop in London, Ontario, is considering multiple options for the future success of his business. The... -
Groupon Doomed by Too Much of a Good Thing
Venture capital Digital Article“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 […] -
The Elcer Products Transaction: Confidential Information for US Industrial ElectroCeramics (US-IND)
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details In a six-party negotiation exercise, the TNDA Corp. plans to sell the Elcer Products Division to one of four potential buyers (industrial, financial,...