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Energy CEO Shai Agassi on recognizing a "sliding doors" moment
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleThe CEO of Better Place talks about what went through his mind the night he decided to start a venture to end the world's dependence on oil as a transportation... -
Chobani Founder Hamdi Ulukaya on the Journey from Abandoned Factory to Yogurt Powerhouse
Global Business Digital ArticleThe Chobani CEO and founder talks about the biggest challenges along the way. "I never thought about quitting," he says. -
Entrepreneurs and the Truth
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleChicanery is common in the start-up world: With so much at stake, founders are apt to exaggerate, obfuscate, and otherwise stretch the truth when courting... -
Why Serial Entrepreneurs Don't Learn from Failure
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleCompany founders have to be optimistic and resilient. But new research shows that serial entrepreneurs-those who involve themselves in only one project... -
Shakedown (HBR Case Study)
Global Business Magazine ArticleCustomer Strategy Solutions, a California-based developer of order fulfillment systems, is facing a shakedown. Six months after the firm's CEO, Pavlo... -
The Innovator's DNA
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine Article"How do I find innovative people for my organization? And how can I become more innovative myself?" These are questions that stump most senior executives,... -
What It Takes to Build a Startup into a Brand
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleLessons from Howard Schultz, Leslie Wexner, and Brunello Cucinelli. -
Research: The Average Age of a Successful Startup Founder Is 45
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Don't Buy the Myth that Every Startup Needs a Co-Founder
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleCo-creators can offer resources, connections, and ideas - without requiring founders to give up control. -
How to Make Startup Stock Options a Better Deal for Employees
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleWhen companies stay private longer, stock options are less appealing. -
Entrepreneurs, Is a Venture Studio Right for You?
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleFounders often look to incubators and accelerators to grow their startups. But there’s another option. -
Research: VCs Reward Self-Presentation Over Qualifications
Entrepreneurs and founders Digital ArticleAn analysis of more than 4,000 firms, their founders, and their funders. -
Top Ten Lies of Entrepreneurs
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleEver wondered how entrepreneurs convince VCs to fund their businesses? A leading venture capitalist delivers the inside scoop on what not to say. -
When Technology Gets Ahead of Society
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleNew technologies can be unsettling for industry incumbents, regulators, and consumers, because norms and institutions for dealing with them don't yet... -
Should Mark Zuckerberg Resign?
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleHe needs to either drastically shift his thinking or leave. -
Will Disruptive Innovations Cure Health Care? (HBR OnPoint Enhanced Edition)
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleIt's no secret that health care delivery is convoluted, expensive, and often deeply dissatisfying to consumers. But what is less obvious is that a way... -
Genius at Work: A Conversation with Mark Morris
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleTo move forward, society needs geniuses--those rare individuals whose flashes of insight and imagination change the way we live and see the world. Traditionally,... -
To Change the World, Invest in One Woman
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleThe global ambassador for Opportunity International--and a former CEO of Hewlett-Packard--writes that even among the most developed economies, national... -
Shakedown (Commentary for HBR Case Study)
Global Business Magazine ArticleCustomer Strategy Solutions, a California-based developer of order fulfillment systems, is facing a shakedown. Six months after the firm's CEO, Pavlo... -
The Very First Mistake Most Startup Founders Make
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleRigid equity splits cause problems down the line.
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Frank Addante, Serial Entrepreneur
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Frank Addante is a 28-year-old serial entrepreneur who is in the process of building his fifth venture. Of his first four ventures, two were sold, one... -
The DivaCup: Navigating Distribution and Growth
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details When the mother-daughter founders of DivaCup set out with a mission to disrupt the menstrual care industry with an innovative product form, they initially... -
Meta: A New Direction To Leadership
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details On October 28, 2021, Mark Zuckerberg, founder, chief executive officer, and chair of Facebook Inc. (Facebook), announced Facebook's name change to Meta... -
Happy Family: Investing for the Future
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Shazi Visram graduated from Columbia Business School in May 2004 and founded Happy Family organic baby food company two years later with a mission to... -
Denise Di Novi: Movie Producer
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details New York-born Denise Di Novi was a rare breed in Hollywood-she had become a high-powered and highly successful movie producer within a small elite "boy's... -
Castronics, LLC
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Patrick Dickinson (HBS '09) and Michael Weiner (MIT's Sloan '07) acquired Castronics, a firm that specialized in threading pipe used in the oil and natural... -
Business Models Problem Set
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BioScale
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details In 2004, Mark Lundstrom must decide on a funding method and strategic approach for BioScale, a biotechnology company that he founded. BioScale has developed... -
KCC: Third Time's the Charm?
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details KCC was founded by two bankruptcy lawyers who saw the potential to tap technology to make dramatic improvements in the work they could perform for clients.... -
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... -
ID Fresh: The Way Forward
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details As a result of teamwork and small steps taken by the four cousins and founders, who also fill the top management positions, ID Fresh has grown, in less... -
Ivor Spencer: Putting a Price on Knowledge
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Ivor Spencer, a world-class toastmaster and owner of Ivor Spencer's School for Butlers and Personal Assistants, had officiated over 1,000 English royal... -
HCA, Inc. LBO Exit
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details This case discusses the events following the 2006 $33.2 billion buyout of Hospital Corporation of America (HCA) by a consortium of private equity firms,... -
If You Really Want to Change the World: A Guide to Creating, Building, and Sustaining Breakthrough Ventures
Silicon Valley's latest trend for creating new ventures is based on trial and error: test market needs with new product concepts and a minimum amount... -
Andela: Africa's AWS for Talent
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Five years after the company's founding, Andela, a company that built and trained remote engineering teams, became arguably Africa's greatest technology... -
Lyric Dinner Theater (B)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) Case. Rivka Belzer took a job in her family owned business and worked diligently during the first 6 months to turn the business around.... -
2G Robotics: Designing a Compensation Plan that Pays Off
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details The owner of a small robotics company needs to make some decisions regarding his company's employee compensation plan. One of the owner's valued employees... -
Femu Advertising: The Expansion Opportunity
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details In May 2016, a business student from Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, was considering expanding his print advertising business, which he had been operating out... -
Shradhanjali.com: New Address for Memories of our Ancestors
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details This case describes a situation in which Vivek Vyas and Vimal Popat conceive an idea to start an online obituary advertising platform. Vyas and Popat... -
Cofounder Equity Split Vignettes
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Splitting equity amongst cofounders is never an easy process. For the entrepreneurs, equity can sometimes be a measure of one's value to a company, which...
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Energy CEO Shai Agassi on recognizing a "sliding doors" moment
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleThe CEO of Better Place talks about what went through his mind the night he decided to start a venture to end the world's dependence on oil as a transportation... -
Frank Addante, Serial Entrepreneur
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Frank Addante is a 28-year-old serial entrepreneur who is in the process of building his fifth venture. Of his first four ventures, two were sold, one... -
The DivaCup: Navigating Distribution and Growth
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details When the mother-daughter founders of DivaCup set out with a mission to disrupt the menstrual care industry with an innovative product form, they initially... -
Chobani Founder Hamdi Ulukaya on the Journey from Abandoned Factory to Yogurt Powerhouse
Global Business Digital ArticleThe Chobani CEO and founder talks about the biggest challenges along the way. "I never thought about quitting," he says. -
Meta: A New Direction To Leadership
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details On October 28, 2021, Mark Zuckerberg, founder, chief executive officer, and chair of Facebook Inc. (Facebook), announced Facebook's name change to Meta... -
Happy Family: Investing for the Future
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Shazi Visram graduated from Columbia Business School in May 2004 and founded Happy Family organic baby food company two years later with a mission to... -
Denise Di Novi: Movie Producer
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details New York-born Denise Di Novi was a rare breed in Hollywood-she had become a high-powered and highly successful movie producer within a small elite "boy's... -
Castronics, LLC
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Patrick Dickinson (HBS '09) and Michael Weiner (MIT's Sloan '07) acquired Castronics, a firm that specialized in threading pipe used in the oil and natural... -
Meta: A New Direction To Leadership, Teaching Note
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Entrepreneurs and the Truth
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleChicanery is common in the start-up world: With so much at stake, founders are apt to exaggerate, obfuscate, and otherwise stretch the truth when courting...
