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Career Choices When Life Is Short (HBR Case Study)
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Career Choices When Life Is Short (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
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Nonprofit Fundraising in the Age of Coronavirus
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Giving After Disasters
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How Startups Can Land a Second Meeting with a Corporate Partner
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AEI's President on Measuring the Impact of Ideas
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Customers Prefer to Crowdfund Products They Can Improve
Fundraising Digital ArticleInvolving people in the evolution of your idea makes them invested in its success. -
Building a Startup in a Tough Funding Environment
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleVenture funding is scarce, valuations are down, and exit options are dwindling. What should founders do? -
Should Your Nonprofit Charge Its Beneficiaries?
Nonprofit organizations Magazine ArticleNominal fees can help organizations have a greater impact. -
How to Attract the Right Shareholders
Fundraising Digital ArticleInstead of casting a wide net, try a more strategic approach. -
What African Fintech Startups Can Teach Silicon Valley About Longevity
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleThree lessons, based on a study of more than 200 senior-level executives. -
How Midsize Companies Can Access Capital in Turbulent Times
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For Female Founders, Fundraising Only from Female VCs Comes at a Cost
Gender Digital ArticleNew research suggests that exclusive support from female investors may be a mixed blessing because it can make it harder to raise additional rounds of financing. -
How Startups Can Land a Second Meeting with a Corporate Partner
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleResearchers attended 150 meetings between start-ups and corporations including IBM, Sony, L’Oréal, Toyota, and AstraZeneca. -
What Founders Need to Know Before Selling Their Startup
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Why Startups Should Embrace Radical Transparency
Entrepreneurs and founders Digital ArticleIt’s in founders’ best interests to not only accept, but invite, oversight. -
Nonprofit Fundraising in the Age of Coronavirus
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleHow to ask for donations when donors are hurting too. -
Giving After Disasters
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleAlthough the global cost of natural disasters has increased sharply, traditional sources of funding--governments, nonprofits, and NGOs--have not kept... -
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... -
Startups Need Relationships Before They Ask for Money
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleIt's a better long-term strategy. -
Why Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan Should Use Their Money for Fundraising
Global Business Digital ArticleIt's what we need to tackle the biggest problems. -
Career Choices When Life Is Short (HBR Case Study)
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Career Choices When Life Is Short (Commentary for HBR Case Study)
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How Wise Crowds Can Advance Philanthropy
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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
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BlueOrchard Finance: Connecting Microfinance to Capital Markets
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Wild Earth: Plant-Based Food in a Meat Obsessed Industry
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Berkshire Partners: Party City
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details In 2005, Berkshire Partners, a Boston-based private equity firm specializing in growth equity, was one year into their ownership of Amscan, the market... -
Term Sheet Negotiations: A "Rich-vs.-King" Approach
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Mesosphere: Creating Lasting Value on Top of Open Source Software
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Illuminate Ventures: Raising a Venture Fund
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Dana Hall: Funding a Mission (E): Excerpts from a Letter from Head of School Caroline Erisman, May 2015
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Street League Skateboarding: The Challenges Facing a New Sports League
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Golden Gate Ventures: Growth Decisions
Management Case Study11.95View Details This case explores the founding story and growth trajectory of Singapore-based venture capital firm Golden Gate Ventures as it grows its operations and... -
VC Decision-Making in India: Aavishkaar and Milk Mantra (A)
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Convertible Notes: A Form of Early-Stage Financing
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Convertible notes are often used to raise early-stage financing for start-up companies, frequently due to their advantages related to delayed valuation,... -
Tracy Edwards and Maiden (A): Background
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Noodle Analytics in 2018: AI for the Enterprise
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FanGo
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Privateer Holdings: Navigating a Rocketing, But Complex, Cannabis Marketplace
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Privateer Holdings was a Seattle-based private equity firm that was "shaping the future of the legal cannabis industry." In late 2017, Privateer held... -
Alibaba's Bonds Dilemma: Location, Timing, and Pricing
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details In 2014, Alibaba-the Chinese e-commerce giant who, in September 2014, completed the largest initial public offering (IPO) in New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)... -
Note on Not-for-Profits and Fund-Raising
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details This note describes the importance of not-for-profit organizations in Canada, and compares the nature and level of Canadian charitable giving with those... -
Aflore and Polymath Ventures: Two Sides of the Coin
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The Future of SuperApps: Can We Live with Our Investor? (Part C)
Management Case Study5.00View Details The SuperApps series of cases presents student-entrepreneurs with some of the difficult non-operating problems they are sure to confront in their startups.... -
Calyx Capital Partners
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details This case describes the formation of Trista Engel and Jessica Markowitz's search fund. It begins by describing their process for deciding if they should... -
Amanda's Restaurants (A)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Amanda West is a GSB graduate who has launched a healthy fast food restaurant out of business school. She developed the business plan with her S356 team... -
Crowdfunding: A Tale of Two Campaigns
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Crowdfunding is considered an alternative to traditional angel and venture capital funding that has helped get many business ventures off the ground.... -
How Midsize Companies Can Access Capital in Turbulent Times
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Unicommerce eSolutions: The Exit Decision
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details On a late evening in December 2014, three co-founders of Unicommerce eSolutions Pvt. Ltd. (Unicommerce) assembled for a meeting. A couple of months earlier,... -
CircleUp in 2019: Investing in the Future
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details CircleUp was founded in 2012 as a marketplace that matched accredited investors to emerging consumer packaged goods companies. A tool that the team developed... -
Artepharm: Commercialising the Malaria Cure in Africa
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details This case is set January 2019. Song Jianping is senior advisor to Chinese pharmaceutical firm Artepharm, which has been engaging in malaria elimination... -
Western Technology Investment
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Introduces the venture leasing or lending industry by looking at pioneering in the industry: Western Technology investment. Asks students to walk in the... -
Openspace Ventures: Sustainable Venture Capital
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details The case describes a successful Singapore-based venture capital (VC) firm, Openspace Ventures, and its decision to incorporate elements of sustainable...