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Why Start-Ups Replace Early Employees (and How to Keep Your Job)
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Five Ways to Innovate Faster
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleTo accelerate your search for a viable new growth model, start with the two-pizza rule. -
Finding Your Company's Second Act
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleAccelerating technological improvements have changed the speed with which new innovations penetrate markets. Graphed over time, the market adoption of... -
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. -
Start-Ups Are Helping Consumers Make Better Health Care Purchases
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Think of Start-ups as Shots on Goal
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The Soul of a Start-Up
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Focus Entrepreneurship Policy on Scale-Up, Not Start-Up
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleGovernments are rushing to provide start-up programs, but their basic premise is flawed. -
Start-ups Should Sell to Small Businesses, Not Big Enterprises
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The People You Need Working for Your Start-Up
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How to Fund Indian Start-Ups
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Preparing Your Startup for the Next M&A Wave
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleAsk yourself these three questions before buyers come knocking. -
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. -
Ditch the Start-Up Pitch
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleThere are better ways to assess entrepreneurs. -
Understand the Sacrifices Before Launching a Start-Up
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleIt’s an all-in, life-changing event, comparable to having a baby. -
How Unicorns Grow
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleStart-ups seem to be getting bigger faster than ever--Uber is just one example of today's "unicorns," or private, venture-backed companies valued at a... -
Start-ups Have Office Politics, Too
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleAnd it’s important to admit it up front. -
Research: How Long Should a Founder Remain CEO?
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleOn average, their value-add tends to decline after an IPO. -
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... -
Why Immigrant Entrepreneurs Are So Important to the U.S.
Many of them are creating jobs.
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Akira Fukabori and Kevin Kajitani at avatarin (A) (Abridged)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details In 2016, Akira Fukabori and Kevin Kajitani, aeronautical engineers at All Nippon Airways Co., Ltd., began to wonder why, in a world of accelerating globalization... -
Serious Materials
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details Serious Materials is a start up who is moving into clean tech markets. The company's first product, QuietRock, originated the sound proofing drywall category... -
Brandless: Disrupting Consumer Packaged Goods
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details Brandless, an online direct-to-consumer seller of upscale private-label consumer packaged goods, offered consumers a limited assortment of values-conscious... -
MBA Entrepreneurs: Crowdfunding Wipebook (B) Year Two: Growth and Obstacles
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details Supplement to case HEC143. The Wipebook case follows a start-up company over a two-year period. The company originated from a product idea proposed by... -
Better Place: The Electric Vehicle Renaissance
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details This case describes the innovative business model of Better Place Inc., an electric vehicle company. The key challenges in operating the business model... -
Keweenaw Mountain Lodge: An Opportunity Worth Pursuing?
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Anna and Jack Oleson, long-time owners of a bridal and formal wear shop in a small community in Michigan's Upper Peninsula (U.P.), are contemplating making... -
Akira Fukabori and Kevin Kajitani at avatarin (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details In 2016, Akira Fukabori and Kevin Kajitani, aeronautical engineers at All Nippon Airways Co., Ltd., began to wonder why, in a world of accelerating globalization... -
Adeo Health Science: Turning a Product into a Brand
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details For decades, American parents were warned to avoid introducing potential allergens to their babies prior to their first birthday. But two influential... -
Is Yoox's Strategy a Little Farfetched?
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details In 2015, Federico Marchetti became CEO of the largest luxury online retailer in the world, after orchestrating the merger of Yoox Group with Net-a-Porter... -
Domotec (B): 2000-2005
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details Domotec was a small company devoted to home automation in Montevideo, Uruguay. Building automation involves a set of control and automation systems that... -
UBits (B): Feed Your Skills
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details In June 2020, UBits faced the uncertainties of a global health crisis-the COVID-19 pandemic. The company had experienced several temporary setbacks, but... -
Instacart: Insta-success or Insta-failure? The Fight for Survival
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Maplebear Inc. - operating as Instacart - was a leader in the online grocery delivery service market. It was founded in 2012 by a former Amazon.com Inc.... -
Swoop: Consolidating the Group Transportation Industry
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details The case describes challenges and possible responses for Swoop, a group transportation platform that started as a tiny operation and became a growing... -
Packet Design
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details The Packet Design case looks at successful serial entrepreneur Judy Estrin and her efforts to build a technology incubator immediately before the Internet... -
Tensions at SearchLight Cures
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details This general experience case tells the story of SearchLight Cures, a fictional biotechnology startup. Having discovered a new therapy for a rare disease,... -
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... -
Anthony Soohoo at Dot & Bo: Bringing Storytelling to Furniture E-Commerce
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details An examination of the first few years of San Franciso-based, fast-growing furniture and home accessory e-commerce startup, Dot & Bo. -
Farm to School of Park County: A Journey from Program to Nonprofit (A)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details This case series describes the startup of Farm to School of Park County, an emerging nonprofit organization in the US state of Montana. Case (A) describes... -
DayTwo: Going to Market with Gut Microbiome (Abridged)
Management Case Study11.95View Details DayTwo is a young Israeli startup that applies research on the gut microbiome and machine learning algorithms to deliver personalized nutritional recommendations...
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Akira Fukabori and Kevin Kajitani at avatarin (A) (Abridged)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details In 2016, Akira Fukabori and Kevin Kajitani, aeronautical engineers at All Nippon Airways Co., Ltd., began to wonder why, in a world of accelerating globalization... -
Serious Materials
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details Serious Materials is a start up who is moving into clean tech markets. The company's first product, QuietRock, originated the sound proofing drywall category... -
Brandless: Disrupting Consumer Packaged Goods
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details Brandless, an online direct-to-consumer seller of upscale private-label consumer packaged goods, offered consumers a limited assortment of values-conscious... -
Why Start-Ups Replace Early Employees (and How to Keep Your Job)
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleTwo factors determine who’s at risk. -
MBA Entrepreneurs: Crowdfunding Wipebook (B) Year Two: Growth and Obstacles
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details Supplement to case HEC143. The Wipebook case follows a start-up company over a two-year period. The company originated from a product idea proposed by... -
Better Place: The Electric Vehicle Renaissance
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details This case describes the innovative business model of Better Place Inc., an electric vehicle company. The key challenges in operating the business model... -
Keweenaw Mountain Lodge: An Opportunity Worth Pursuing?
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Anna and Jack Oleson, long-time owners of a bridal and formal wear shop in a small community in Michigan's Upper Peninsula (U.P.), are contemplating making... -
How Entrepreneurs Can Overcome Their Fear of Talking to Strangers
Innovation & Leadership AdviceStartup founders need to network with customers, investors, and other stakeholders. -
Akira Fukabori and Kevin Kajitani at avatarin (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details In 2016, Akira Fukabori and Kevin Kajitani, aeronautical engineers at All Nippon Airways Co., Ltd., began to wonder why, in a world of accelerating globalization... -
Five Ways to Innovate Faster
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleTo accelerate your search for a viable new growth model, start with the two-pizza rule.
