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How Private Equity Firms Infuse a Positive Attitude
Private equity Digital ArticleTimes change and markets transform themselves overnight. The half-life of common wisdom is shorter than ever. But top private equity firms have distilled a set of institutional habits that boost the likelihood of their success. What’s critical to this success? Attitude. PE leaders take pains to foster a “results-oriented mind-set”. In short, that means creating […] -
Your Project Needs a Charter. Here's What That Means.
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleWriting it down forces you to be clear about what you're doing. -
Research: What Happens to a Startup When Venture Capitalists Replace the Founder
Innovation & Leadership ResearchIt actually makes success more likely. -
Worth Your Time This Week: Joblessness, Trash Cans, and Chess
Economics Digital ArticleUseful and/or intriguing ideas we’ve come across this week, plus the occasional worthwhile distraction. The enormous costs of joblessness The Atlantic‘s Don Peck lays out the likely consequences of sustained unemployment on the prospects of the generation currently entering (or failing to enter) the workforce, inner city neighborhoods, politics, marriages and child-rearing arrangements — in […] -
Connect and Develop: Inside Procter & Gamble's New Model for Innovation
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleFor generations, Procter & Gamble generated most of its phenomenal growth by innovating from within--building global research facilities and hiring the... -
The Five-Step Failure Checklist
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleFor HBR’s April issue on failure, I penned a piece on the experience of going through a failed IPO. In one context or another, you’ve likely failed, too. You may have chosen to frame it some other way (“experience,” “lessons learned,” etc.), but it was failure. First, welcome to the club. We’ve all been there. […] -
How to Attract the Right Shareholders
Fundraising Digital ArticleInstead of casting a wide net, try a more strategic approach. -
How France Used Unemployment Benefits to Kickstart Entrepreneurship
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleBy lowering the financial risks of starting a business. -
Managers and Leaders: Are They Different?
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleManagers and leaders are two very different types of people. Managers' goals arise out of necessities rather than desires; they excel at defusing conflicts... -
The Biggest Job Creator You Never Heard Of: The Patent Office
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleAs the U.S. President and Congress desperately search for ways to regain the 8.4 million jobs lost during the current recession, the greatest opportunity of all to spur job growth in our stalled economy may ironically lie right under their noses: in the Patent Office. For all its obscurity within the bowels of the federal […] -
What if a Company Maximized Jobs Over Profits?
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleMeet a new breed of job maximizers and employment entrepreneurs. -
Where to Launch in Africa?
Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleShould an entrepreneur scale up his business across several countries or focus on the largest one? -
Can You Balance a Startup and a Baby?
Work-life balance Digital Article“To get married and have kids and have a family inspires success.” – Francis Ford Coppola Any day now, we’re going to have a baby. Our first baby. Could be tonight.** And I’m just one word: scared. The fear has crept up on me. A little bit each time someone patted me on the back […] -
Young and Accomplished, This Filipino Pastry Chef Is Making Waves Globally
Leadership & Managing People InterviewAn interview with Chef Michael "Miko"Aspiras. -
What the Lean Startup Method Gets Right and Wrong
Entrepreneurs and founders Digital ArticleIt puts a premium on customer experience, but undervalues strategic thinking. -
Can Friends Be Successful Co-Founders?
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleBefore starting a venture with your bestie, there are a few things you should consider. -
Strategy Vs. Tactics from a Venture Capitalist
Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleAs a venture capitalist, I am often asked for my views on why some entrepreneurs succeed and others fail. Obviously, there are no cut-and-dried answers to that question. Still, a few general observations about how I evaluate new businesses should shed some light on what I think it takes to make an entrepreneurial venture thrive […] -
Heart of Entrepreneurship
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleEntrepreneurship is a trait that is confined neither to certain types of individuals nor to organizations. A society can do much to stimulate or inhibit... -
Act Like an Entrepreneur Inside Your Organization
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleHow to upset the status quo, in four steps. -
Why Older Entrepreneurs Have an Edge
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleRandal Charlton had great strokes of midlife success — then he didn’t. He did well co-founding Asterand, an ethically sourced human-tissue sampling business, but lost his shirt on a jazz club and a cattle-ranching enterprise to produce low-fat beef. At a time when he was really down on his luck, he considered jobs he never […]
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Thien Long Group Corporation: Stationery Success in Vietnam, Dynamic Ambition Beyond
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details This case is set in 2017, when Co Gia Tho, Chairman of the Board at Thien Long Group Corporation ("TLG"), a Vietnam-based manufacturer and supplier of... -
Vermeer Technologies (B): Realizing the Dream
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details The Vermeer team works day and night to develop its software offering, unforeseen difficulties and internal tensions notwithstanding. In less than a year,... -
Intuit, Inc.: Transforming an Entrepreneurial Company into a Collaborative Organization (A)
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Describes how Intuit, Inc.'s CEO, Steve Bennett, changes the company from an entrepreneurial "siloed" organization into a collaborative one. -
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Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details A vice-president of Ventures West, a leading Canadian venture capital firm, must decide what due diligence to conduct in order to recommend an investment... -
Indigo Books and Music Inc.
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details Since 1996, Indigo Books and Music had grown to become essentially a book retail monopoly in Canada. But the global recession had hit the company hard,... -
Privé Technologies: Digitalization of Asset Management Services in Hong Kong
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details There has been a growing interest in fintech companies in recent years. The case describes how Privé Technologies has grown from a fintech startup to... -
Ockham Technologies: Living on the Razor's Edge (Abridged)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Describes the issues facing a Founder-CEO regarding building a board, assembling an executive team, managing tension between co-founders, and outsourcing... -
Wawa: Building a New Business Within an Established Firm
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Wawa, a $4 billion privately held firm, is arguably the most successful convenience store operator in the United States. Explores how senior management... -
HIV, AIDS and Antigua and Barbuda
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details The case "HIV and AIDS in Antigua and Barbuda" allows for discussion of a wide variety of issues related to the application of sophisticated business... -
School Chaley Hum: Optimizing Students' Commute to KPS
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details A privately managed school in Raipur, India, is faced with concerns from parents regarding long commutes face regularly by students. The school has grown... -
Data Analytics-Driven E-Commerce for the Small Seller: Zilingo
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Zilingo, a play on the word 'Zillions', is an online e-commerce platform for selling fashion products and was founded by Ankiti Bose and Dhruv Kapoor... -
Antler
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details The case describes the founding, development, and scaling of Antler, an early-stage investment platform that invests in entrepreneurs pre-team and, in... -
Digital Marketing at HBS Online
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details In July 2020, the management team of Harvard Business School Online (HBS Online) had to decide how to allocate its marketing budget for fiscal year 2021... -
Bobsla: E-motion on snow
Management Case Study11.95View Details FULPMES, AUSTRIA, AUGUST 2021. Sergey Ignatyev, the founder and CEO of Bobsla, had arrived in Austria in 2019 from his native Saint Petersburg, attracted... -
Finance in Motion: Investing in Development
Management Case Study11.95View Details The impact asset manager Finance in Motion (FiM) was founded in 2009 by Sylvia Wisniwski in Frankfurt. The company has grown significantly over the years... -
Go Beyond Investing
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details In 2013, Brigitte Baumann, founder of the Pan-European angel investing provider Go Beyond Investing, reflected on the evolution of her venture and the... -
Icebreaker: The China Entry Decision
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Jeremy Moon, CEO of Icebreaker, maker of merino-fiber activewear, thinks about the strengths and weaknesses of staying focused on his rapidly expanding... -
Khosla Ventures: Biofuels Gain Liquidity
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Samir Kaul, a Partner at Khosla Ventures, looked out his office window. It was late June, 2011, and like almost every day in Menlo Park, the sun was shining.... -
Housing.com: Marketing a Service Offering
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details Housing.com was a Mumbai-based online real estate listing company that verified the authenticity of every property listing on its website. Despite proving... -
Stonyfield Farm: September 1994
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Samuel Kaymen and Gary Hirshberg founded Stonyfield Farm in 1983, in part to demonstrate that "environmentally and socially responsible businesses can...
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Thien Long Group Corporation: Stationery Success in Vietnam, Dynamic Ambition Beyond
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details This case is set in 2017, when Co Gia Tho, Chairman of the Board at Thien Long Group Corporation ("TLG"), a Vietnam-based manufacturer and supplier of... -
Vermeer Technologies (B): Realizing the Dream
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details The Vermeer team works day and night to develop its software offering, unforeseen difficulties and internal tensions notwithstanding. In less than a year,... -
Intuit, Inc.: Transforming an Entrepreneurial Company into a Collaborative Organization (A)
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Describes how Intuit, Inc.'s CEO, Steve Bennett, changes the company from an entrepreneurial "siloed" organization into a collaborative one. -
AudienceView
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details A vice-president of Ventures West, a leading Canadian venture capital firm, must decide what due diligence to conduct in order to recommend an investment... -
How Private Equity Firms Infuse a Positive Attitude
Private equity Digital ArticleTimes change and markets transform themselves overnight. The half-life of common wisdom is shorter than ever. But top private equity firms have distilled a set of institutional habits that boost the likelihood of their success. What’s critical to this success? Attitude. PE leaders take pains to foster a “results-oriented mind-set”. In short, that means creating […] -
Indigo Books and Music Inc.
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details Since 1996, Indigo Books and Music had grown to become essentially a book retail monopoly in Canada. But the global recession had hit the company hard,... -
Your Project Needs a Charter. Here's What That Means.
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleWriting it down forces you to be clear about what you're doing. -
Privé Technologies: Digitalization of Asset Management Services in Hong Kong
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details There has been a growing interest in fintech companies in recent years. The case describes how Privé Technologies has grown from a fintech startup to... -
Ockham Technologies: Living on the Razor's Edge (Abridged)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Describes the issues facing a Founder-CEO regarding building a board, assembling an executive team, managing tension between co-founders, and outsourcing... -
Wawa: Building a New Business Within an Established Firm
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Wawa, a $4 billion privately held firm, is arguably the most successful convenience store operator in the United States. Explores how senior management...