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Turn Your Hobby into a Startup
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleEntrepreneurship is rarely linear. -
Why Start-ups Fail
Entrepreneurial management Magazine ArticleIt’s not always the horse or the jockey. -
Three Pitfalls Startup Founders Must Avoid
Noam Wasserman, Harvard Business School professor, outlines the three Rs: relationship decisions, roles decisions, and rewards decisions. -
The Legacy Company's Guide to Innovation
Innovation & Leadership Magazine ArticleMany experts are urging established companies to radically innovate-and disrupt themselves before someone else does. The trouble is, large firms aren't... -
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 […] -
What You Need to Know as a Young, Black Startup Founder
The obstacles you can expect to confront, and how to overcome them. -
How to Build a Better Content Strategy for Your Brand
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleTips for small businesses and creator. -
Strategy as Ecology
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleMicrosoft's and Wal-Mart's preeminence in modern business has been attributed to any number of factors--from the vision and drive of their founders to... -
How Entrepreneurs Can Overcome Their Fear of Talking to Strangers
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleStartup founders need to network with customers, investors, and other stakeholders. -
How Cofounders Can Prevent Their Relationship from Derailing
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleFive strategies to sustain a healthy partnership. -
3 Management Myths That Derail Startups
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleThese common approaches can strain teams and lead to misaligned expectations. -
The Five Whys for Start-Ups
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleRoot cause analysis and preventive maintenance are concepts we expect to see in a factory setting. Start-ups supposedly don’t have time for detailed processes and procedures. And yet the key to startup speed is to maintain a disciplined approach to testing and evaluating new products, features, and ideas. As start-ups scale, this agility will be […] -
Executing on Innovation
Vijay Govindarajan, Tuck School of Business professor, on why innovation is so hard to implement and what you can do about it. -
The Top 20 Start-Up Accelerators in the U.S.
Entrepreneurial financing Digital ArticleA quantitative ranking. -
Can Friends Be Successful Co-Founders?
Entrepreneurs and founders Digital ArticleBefore starting a venture with your bestie, there are a few things you should consider. -
Launching Effective Start-ups in Governments
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleGovernment “start-ups” — new agencies, offices, or initiatives — have the potential to be a powerful tool for solving critical policy problems at the local, state, and federal levels. But while creating the “new and the nimble” within an established bureaucracy is a well-known art form in the private sector, governments are still struggling to […] -
Is a Start-Up's Strength Becoming Its Weakness? (HBR Case Study)
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleThe creators of the start-up AndFound, an online platform that connects angel investors with a curated selection of promising start-ups, have a towering... -
Is Corporate Venture Capital Right for Your Startup?
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleHow entrepreneurs can decide whether to pursue corporate funding, and if so, which CVC to pick. -
Sketch Out Your Hypothesis
This business model canvas lets you look at all nine building blocks of your company on one page. Alexander Osterwalder shows how it's done, using Nespresso... -
Innovate Faster or Innovate Better?
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleThere are some things a big company can do better than a startup.
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NatuRi Corporation
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details NatuRi Corp. was a start up, founded in 2005, aiming to manufacture a cholesterol-lowering drug made from the byproducts of rice bran oil production.... -
A Note on Human Resources in Developing Economies
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Entrepreneurs seeking to start companies in developing economies face significant human resource challenges. Before embarking on their ventures, entrepreneurs... -
Uber Pricing Strategies and Marketing Communications
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details By late March 2014, the ridesharing company Uber was on a roll, rapidly expanding service to untapped markets and gaining new, enthusiastic customers,... -
Cityspace
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details ... -
Preferred Networks: A Deep Learning Startup Powers the Internet of Things
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Preferred Networks, Inc. (PFN), a start-up specialized in deep learning technologies, a branch of artificial intelligence (AI) research, differentiated... -
Genedata
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Venture Valuation conducts an independent valuation of Genedata, a Swiss start-up company in order to help Novartis Venture Fund analyze and structure... -
Sierra Log Homes, Inc. (A)
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Describes the history and evolution of the log home manufacturing industry, a rapidly growing embryonic industry capitalizing on the back-to-basics lifestyle... -
Airbnb, Etsy, Uber: Acquiring the First Thousand Customers
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details By 2016, two-sided online platforms (or marketplaces) were pervasive among the highest growing internet startups around. These marketplaces sought to... -
Moda Operandi: A New Style of Fashion Retail
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Moda Operandi is a startup in the fashion industry. The firm organizes online trunk shows of designers' collections, allowing its members to directly... -
Out for Blood: Tyler Shultz and Theranos (B)
Global Business Case Study5.00View Details Case Supplement for Case UV8435 -
Intel NBI: MXP Digital Media Processor
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details "Gila" was a high-performance image processor project housed in Intel's New Business Initiatives (NBI) group. NBI was an incubator for such corporate... -
Evaluating Venture Capital Term Sheets
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details When entrepreneurs are successful in convincing venture capital firms that they are an attractive potential investment, they are presented with offers... -
Revenue Recognition at Stride Funding: Making Sense of Revenues for a Fintech Startup
Management Case Study11.95View Details The case explores the challenges of revenue recognition and financial reporting for Stride Funding (Stride), a fintech startup that has disrupted the... -
Molycorp: Issuing the ''Happy Meal'' Securities (B)
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details Molycorp, the Western hemisphere's only producer of rare earth minerals, was in the middle of a $1 billion capital expansion in its effort to become a... -
D2Hawkeye: Growing the Medical IT Enterprise
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details In mid-March 2007, Chris Kryder sat in his office and thought about how to best finance his company's growth. Over the previous five years as founder... -
Byteboard: Reinventing the Technical Interview (B)
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AltSchool: School Reimagined
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Max Ventilla and his team launches in 2013 AltSchool, a new network of tech-savvy independent K-8 "micro-schools." AltSchool is born out of Ventilla's... -
Scaling a Startup: People and Organizational Issues
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details This note discusses the organizational challenges that startups often encounter as they begin to scale rapidly, along with approaches to addressing these... -
Minova
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details The protagonist ("Howard Glass") is a recent GSB graduate (2007) heading up a biomedical team start-up focused on the gastric bypass method. The case... -
Maestro Pizza (H): Making the Best of the Situation
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Maestro pizza opened its first store in 2013 after its founder, Khalid Al Omran, recognized an opportunity in Saudi Arabia to offer high quality pizza...
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Turn Your Hobby into a Startup
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleEntrepreneurship is rarely linear. -
Why Start-ups Fail
Entrepreneurial management Magazine ArticleIt’s not always the horse or the jockey. -
NatuRi Corporation
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details NatuRi Corp. was a start up, founded in 2005, aiming to manufacture a cholesterol-lowering drug made from the byproducts of rice bran oil production.... -
A Note on Human Resources in Developing Economies
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Entrepreneurs seeking to start companies in developing economies face significant human resource challenges. Before embarking on their ventures, entrepreneurs... -
Three Pitfalls Startup Founders Must Avoid
Noam Wasserman, Harvard Business School professor, outlines the three Rs: relationship decisions, roles decisions, and rewards decisions. -
Uber Pricing Strategies and Marketing Communications
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details By late March 2014, the ridesharing company Uber was on a roll, rapidly expanding service to untapped markets and gaining new, enthusiastic customers,... -
Cityspace
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details ... -
Preferred Networks: A Deep Learning Startup Powers the Internet of Things
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Preferred Networks, Inc. (PFN), a start-up specialized in deep learning technologies, a branch of artificial intelligence (AI) research, differentiated... -
Genedata
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Venture Valuation conducts an independent valuation of Genedata, a Swiss start-up company in order to help Novartis Venture Fund analyze and structure... -
Sierra Log Homes, Inc. (A)
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Describes the history and evolution of the log home manufacturing industry, a rapidly growing embryonic industry capitalizing on the back-to-basics lifestyle...