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Case Study: Should an Emerging-Market Incubator Help U.S. Businesses?
Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleA nonprofit that supports emerging-market entrepreneurs considers expanding to the U.S. -
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. -
What Sets Successful Startup Accelerators Apart
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleResearch reveals three ways they help early-stage companies achieve higher funding and survival rates. -
How Cisco Created Their Own Talent Incubator
Employee retention Digital ArticleWhile there’s been a lot of discussion about how the recession may be over, to many organizations and their employees, the view ahead is still one tough slog. The zeitgeist says it’s far too early to dream about constructing your ideal job; survival trumps career development. Yet that’s precisely the kind of thinking that will […] -
3 Strategies for Rolling Out New Tech Within Your Company
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What Startup Accelerators Really Do
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Picking Winners: A Conversation with MacArthur Fellows Program Director Daniel J. Socolow
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleIn the business world, "creativity" has become the latest buzzword. How to attract, nurture, and direct the extraordinarily talented people who will come... -
Why Business Schools Need to Teach Experimentation
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Managing Performance When It's Hard to Measure
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What Did 2020 Do to Retail?
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleCovid will have a long-lasting impact on the industry. -
The Problems with Incubators, and How to Solve Them
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleFinancing isn't success, and office space isn't value. -
The 3-Stage Process That Makes Universities Prime Innovators
Global Business Digital ArticleHow these institutions carefully curate connections and relationships to take ideas from the drawing board into the marketplace. -
Networked Incubators: Hothouses of the New Economy
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleBusiness incubators such as Hotbank, CMGI, and Idealab! are a booming industry. Offering office space, funding, and basic services to start-ups, these...
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The U.S. Current Account Deficit
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details Investors and policymakers throughout the world were confronted with the risk of painful economic consequences arising from the large U.S. current account... -
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... -
Business and Government: Campaign Contributions and Lobbying in the United States
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details This note on business-government relations introduces students to the state of campaign contributions and lobbying by corporations in the United States.... -
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... -
Beta Golf
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details The Beta Group is a technology incubator in Menlo Park, CA that has successfully built a portfolio of businesses in the medical, consumer products, and... -
J.C. Penney's "Fair and Square" Strategy (Abridged)
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details As he gets ready to release 2nd quarter 2012 results, Ron Johnson, the new CEO of department store J.C. Penney, is reconsidering the dramatic changes... -
Drugstore.com
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details On a clear day in August 1999 in the new headquarters of drugstore.com, against a backdrop of the Blue Angels flying in formation over Lake Washington... -
Measuring Impact at the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details In 2020, the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI)'s CEO, Matt Petersen, announced a first-of-its-kind equity earnback program, by which incubated companies... -
Ensina!
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details In 2011, a group of passionate social entrepreneurs in Rio de Janeiro, with the support and encouragement of several prominent philanthropists and members... -
The Whiz Kids
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details In October 1945, Henry Ford II received a telegram in his office at the Ford Motor Company in Dearborn, Michigan written by Charles "Tex" Thornton, a... -
Creating the First Public Law Firm: The IPO of Slater & Gordon Limited
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Slater & Gordon (S&G), a midsized Australian law firm with a high-growth consolidation strategy, had an initial public offering (IPO) scheduled for May... -
Chain Saw Industry in 1974
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Describes the structure of the chain saw industry in 1974, when it is on the threshold of a major period of growth. Data are provided on each significant... -
Groupon for Local Businesses
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details Local businesses' experiences with using Groupon to promote themselves ran the gamut of roaring success to absolute failure. Why is there such a large... -
ZOOTS: The Cleaner Cleaner
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details A successful entrepreneur (retailing) starts a new venture in dry cleaning. The case focuses on transferable models, skills, and knowledge from one venture... -
Lyric Dinner Theater (A)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Rivka Belzer, after receiving her MBA and turning down other options, has agreed to a low salary and substantial bonus to join the dinner theater partially... -
Yoshiko Shinohara and Tempstaff
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details The case presents a biographical portrait of Yoshiko Shinohara who founded Tempstaff in 1973, one of the largest temporary staffing agencies in Japan.... -
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... -
Liz Claiborne and the New Working Woman
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details At age 47, with two decades of experience as a lead designer for a Fortune 500 fashion company, Liz Claiborne put her life savings on the line to form... -
Château Margaux: Launching the Third Wine
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details Château Margaux, one of only five prestigious estates in the Bordeaux Medoc wine region to have been classified as a "first-growth", is facing a host... -
Pierre Frankel in Moscow (B): Plowing Ahead
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details After several months into his turnaround of a global technology company's Russia subsidiary, a young and upcoming French executive reflected on how to...
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Case Study: Should an Emerging-Market Incubator Help U.S. Businesses?
Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleA nonprofit that supports emerging-market entrepreneurs considers expanding to the U.S. -
The U.S. Current Account Deficit
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details Investors and policymakers throughout the world were confronted with the risk of painful economic consequences arising from the large U.S. current account... -
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... -
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. -
Business and Government: Campaign Contributions and Lobbying in the United States
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details This note on business-government relations introduces students to the state of campaign contributions and lobbying by corporations in the United States.... -
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... -
Beta Golf
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details The Beta Group is a technology incubator in Menlo Park, CA that has successfully built a portfolio of businesses in the medical, consumer products, and... -
J.C. Penney's "Fair and Square" Strategy (Abridged)
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details As he gets ready to release 2nd quarter 2012 results, Ron Johnson, the new CEO of department store J.C. Penney, is reconsidering the dramatic changes... -
Drugstore.com
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details On a clear day in August 1999 in the new headquarters of drugstore.com, against a backdrop of the Blue Angels flying in formation over Lake Washington... -
Measuring Impact at the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details In 2020, the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI)'s CEO, Matt Petersen, announced a first-of-its-kind equity earnback program, by which incubated companies...