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Stacey Abrams and Lara Hodgson on Entrepreneurship and Self-Doubt
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Why It's So Hard to Scale a Great Idea
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The Scaling Lesson from Facebook's Miraculous 10-Year Rise
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10 Questions to Ask Before Entering a Business Partnership
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleYou can save yourself immeasurable pain down the road by asking these tough questions early. -
How to Attract the Right Shareholders
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3 Management Myths That Derail Startups
Entrepreneurial management Digital ArticleThese common approaches can strain teams and lead to misaligned expectations. -
Scaling: The Problem of More
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Scaling Is Hard. Here’s How Akamai Did It.
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleI have been thinking lately about how hard it is to scale start-ups. The Lean Start-Up movement, as exemplified in Eric Ries’ book The Lean Start-Up, has appropriately focused a great deal of attention on the hard decisions and techniques required to create a company from nothing. But once the company has honed in on […] -
3 Mistakes Made in Scaling up New Ventures
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleYou've launched a successful new product or new company. You have customers ordering what you've created. So, you're on your way to building a thriving... -
An Entrepreneur’s Guide to Surviving the “Death Valley Curve”
Entrepreneurial business strategy Digital ArticleTwo key questions: Do you have the right business model, and do you have growth ambitions? -
How to Seed Organic Marketing in a Video-First World
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Scaling Customer Service as Your Startup Grows
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Scaling Up Without Losing Your Edge
Social enterprise Digital ArticleThe world’s largest NGO proves you don’t have to be small to be beautiful. -
The Hybrid Start-Up
Innovation & Leadership Magazine ArticleCompared with start-ups, established corporations have many resources and capabilities that ought to give them a head start: customers, products, operations,... -
The Overlooked Key to a Successful Scale-Up
Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleIt’s mastering the “extrapolation” stage, when start-ups begin to focus on profitability, not just growth. -
Chobani Founder Hamdi Ulukaya on the Journey from Abandoned Factory to Yogurt Powerhouse
Business and society Digital ArticleThe Chobani CEO and founder talks about the biggest challenges along the way. “I never thought about quitting,” he says. -
How Startups Can Land a Second Meeting with a Corporate Partner
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleResearchers attended 150 meetings between start-ups and corporations including IBM, Sony, L'Oréal, Toyota, and AstraZeneca. -
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. -
Scaling Up is a Problem of Both More and Less
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleEven large organizations can only handle so much. -
Why Start-ups Fail
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleIf you're launching a business, the odds are against you: Two-thirds of start-ups never show a positive return. Unnerved by that statistic, a professor...
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OPOS: Fostering Shared Value in a Culinary Enterprise
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details One Pot, One Shot (OPOS) was a revolutionary cooking technique developed by B Ramakrishnan, known affectionately as Ramki, in 2015 and subsequently validated... -
Radiant Sun Shop: Asking the Right Questions
Management Case Study11.95View Details Natalie Jung, amid the COVID-19 lockdowns, transformed her newfound passion for handcrafted jewelry into Radiant Sun Shop (RSS), a thriving Etsy business... -
OvaScience
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details In early April 2012, Michelle Dipp, MD, Ph.D, CEO and co-founder of OvaScience, had just received a buyout offer from PG Ventures, a private equity firm... -
StoneCo POSTCOVID-19 PANDEMIC: (Too) Fast and (Too) Furious?
Management Case Study11.95View Details StoneCo was a fintech that entered the market in 2014 with an initial focus in the payment solutions for SMBs. In 2018 it held the largest Brazilian initial... -
Shelly Sun at BrightStar Care: The Evolution of a Leader
Management Case Study11.95View Details Shelly Sun had founded BrightStar Care, a home health care and medical staffing agency, 20 years earlier and had grown the business to over 300 franchised... -
AEInnova: From Science to Business
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details "Scientists and technologists encounter and develop great ideas, but usually have difficulties finding a way to take them to the market. Once they decide... -
The Unicorn Within: How Companies Can Create Game-Changing Ventures at Startup Speed
35.00View Details Imagine if the multinational hotel groups had founded Airbnb, or the big auto companies had launched Uber and Tesla, or Blockbuster had created Netflix.... -
EDTechWorx: An Education Technology Start-up
Management Case Study11.95View Details This case study follows a series of events over the first two years of EdTechWorx, a Pakistan-based education technology start-up that labels itself as... -
Devita Saraf and VU from the Top
Management Case Study11.95View Details This case introduces Indian-born Devita Saraf, the founder and CEO of the consumer durables company, Vu Technologies, as she embarks on her entrepreneurial... -
Zoey Koko: Choosing an Alternative Path Forward
Management Case Study11.95View Details Sara Ferrer launched Zoey Koko in 2017 with the idea of designing bath and body products for young girls and "tweens" (ages 5-12). From the start-up of... -
Smart Investment - Managing Investment Trade-offs at SMART Photonics
Management Case Study11.95View Details SMART Photonics - a photonic chip maker - had been growing rapidly over the past 8 years. After successfully developing a technology to make complex photonic... -
Tesla, Inc. in 2018
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Osmo: Toy or Learning System? Identifying a Road to Success
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Osmo quickly rose to become one of the top Edtech startups after it was launched by Pramod Sharma and Jerome Scholler in 2013. Their innovative toys employed... -
Hola, Bandida: Launching a Beverage Brand with Purpose
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Megan Méza is a half-Mexican female entrepreneur who quit her high-paying job in marketing to launch Bandida, a cold-brew horchata beverage brand. As... -
Harambee Youth Employment Accelerator: A Model for Reducing Unemployment in South Africa
Management Case Study11.95View Details In the fourth quarter of 2021, South Africa's unemployment rate rose to 35%, the highest since 2008. Though some of the job losses could be attributed... -
Columbia Green Technologies (A): Scaling in the Green Roof Market
Management Case Study11.95View Details Vanessa Keitges stepped into the role of CEO at Columbia Green Technologies (CGT) in 2010, growing it to become the dominant green infrastructure and... -
A Note on Financing Entrepreneurial Ventures in Developing Economies
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details In recent years the world has witnessed a growing wave of entrepreneurial ventures in developing economies. CB Insights reports as of March 2020, developing... -
Elon Musk's Big Bets
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Between late 2014 and late 2016, Tesla and CEO Elon Musk undertook several major, and risky, initiatives that would dramatically expand the scale and... -
Green globalization: GreenMobility's push to internationalize electric car sharing
Management Case Study11.95View Details On a fine winter morning in January 2021, in an office in downtown Copenhagen, Henrik Isaksen, the founder of GreenMobility, pondered the future of his... -
VFlow Tech - Storing Clean Energy
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details A three-year-old Singapore based start-up, focused on manufacturing and marketing industrial renewable energy storage batteries, is planning to migrate...
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Stacey Abrams and Lara Hodgson on Entrepreneurship and Self-Doubt
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleThe three-time founders share their hard-won lessons. -
OPOS: Fostering Shared Value in a Culinary Enterprise
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details One Pot, One Shot (OPOS) was a revolutionary cooking technique developed by B Ramakrishnan, known affectionately as Ramki, in 2015 and subsequently validated... -
Radiant Sun Shop: Asking the Right Questions
Management Case Study11.95View Details Natalie Jung, amid the COVID-19 lockdowns, transformed her newfound passion for handcrafted jewelry into Radiant Sun Shop (RSS), a thriving Etsy business... -
Why It's So Hard to Scale a Great Idea
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleFive hurdles - and how to overcome them. -
OvaScience
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details In early April 2012, Michelle Dipp, MD, Ph.D, CEO and co-founder of OvaScience, had just received a buyout offer from PG Ventures, a private equity firm... -
StoneCo POSTCOVID-19 PANDEMIC: (Too) Fast and (Too) Furious?
Management Case Study11.95View Details StoneCo was a fintech that entered the market in 2014 with an initial focus in the payment solutions for SMBs. In 2018 it held the largest Brazilian initial... -
Shelly Sun at BrightStar Care: The Evolution of a Leader
Management Case Study11.95View Details Shelly Sun had founded BrightStar Care, a home health care and medical staffing agency, 20 years earlier and had grown the business to over 300 franchised... -
AEInnova: From Science to Business
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details "Scientists and technologists encounter and develop great ideas, but usually have difficulties finding a way to take them to the market. Once they decide... -
The Scaling Lesson from Facebook's Miraculous 10-Year Rise
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleYou can't always be charging ahead. -
The Unicorn Within: How Companies Can Create Game-Changing Ventures at Startup Speed
35.00View Details Imagine if the multinational hotel groups had founded Airbnb, or the big auto companies had launched Uber and Tesla, or Blockbuster had created Netflix....