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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. -
Why It's So Hard to Scale a Great Idea
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleFive hurdles - and how to overcome them. -
Blitzscaling
Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleThe chaotic, sometimes grueling path to high-growth, high-impact entrepreneurship -
Stacey Abrams and Lara Hodgson on Entrepreneurship and Self-Doubt
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleThe three-time founders share their hard-won lessons. -
The Overlooked Key to a Successful Scale-Up
Innovation & Leadership Magazine ArticleMany start-ups experience enormous popularity and runaway growth, but only a few go on to become stable giants. What separates them from the pack? They... -
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. -
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... -
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... -
10 Questions to Ask Before Entering a Business Partnership
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleYou can save yourself immeasurable pain down the road by asking these tough questions early. -
Scaling: The Problem of More
Change management Digital ArticleWhen too much of a good thing is never enough. -
How to Attract the Right Shareholders
Fundraising Digital ArticleInstead of casting a wide net, try a more strategic approach. -
Scaling Customer Service as Your Startup Grows
Customer service Digital ArticleA stage-by-stage guide to supporting your customers. -
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. -
How Startups Can Land a Second Meeting with a Corporate Partner
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleResearchers attended 150 meetings between start-ups and corporations including IBM, Sony, L’Oréal, Toyota, and AstraZeneca. -
The Scaling Lesson from Facebook’s Miraculous 10-Year Rise
Change management Digital ArticleYou can’t always be charging ahead. -
Creating a Winning Business Model
Strategy & Execution VideoHear the story of how one entrepreneur created and refined a winning business model. -
How to Seed Organic Marketing in a Video-First World
Sales & Marketing Digital ArticleIt's all about generating content - from consumers, creators, and celebrities. -
The 3-Stage Process That Makes Universities Prime Innovators
Business and society Digital ArticleHow these institutions carefully curate connections and relationships to take ideas from the drawing board into the marketplace. -
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,... -
Scaling Up is a Problem of Both More and Less
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleEven large organizations can only handle so much.
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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... -
Mantra Ayurveda: Scaling Direct-To-Consumer Marketing
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details Mantra Ayurveda (Mantra), established in India in 2020, manufactured and marketed luxury Ayurvedic skin care and hair care products. The brand's equity... -
The Intel Incubation Program: Disruption Inside
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details Intel established the Emerging Growth and Incubation (EGI) Group in 2018 with a charter to build a disruptive innovation engine. The EGI Group was seen... -
Webuycars: Finding the key to new growth in South Africa
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details The case focuses on Faan van der Walt (as protagonist), his brother Dirk, and WeBuyCars, a large second-hand car dealership in South Africa, which has... -
Friends of the Children: Innovating and Scaling to Meet the Moment(s)
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Friends of the Children was founded by Duncan Campbell in 1991. Campbell grew up in extremely challenging circumstances and wanted to use his good fortune... -
From Pilot to Platform in Rural Pakistan: A Uniquely-Owned Company Scales to Change Lives
Management Case Study11.95View Details This case describes the journey that led to the creation of Saaf Sehatmand Services (SSS), a business founded by leaders from five consumer goods companies... -
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... -
From Mug to Mike: The Scale-Up Puzzle
Management Case Study11.95View Details Sunil Koshy considered himself a "passionpreneur;" after quitting a well-paid job as a software engineer, he chased his passion for singing and founded... -
Tesla, Inc. in 2018
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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... -
Converting Adversity into An Advantage - Chiranjeev Restaurants and Foods
Management Case Study11.95View Details Set in January 2020, this case explores the journey of Praful Chandawarkar, the founder director of Chiranjeev Restaurants and Foods Private Limited,... -
ROOTCLOUD: Customization vs. Standardization at an Industrial IoT Platform
Management Case Study11.95View Details This case study examines the entrepreneurial journey of ROOTCLOUD, a visionary company focused on creating universal IIoT platforms to drive the transformation... -
Nova Pioneer in 2019: Becoming a Pan-African School System
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Nova Pioneer was a private school system in South Africa and Kenya that offered preschool through secondary education for students ranging in age from... -
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... -
Tesla-SolarCity
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details On June 21, 2016, Tesla Motors, Inc. announced its offer to acquire SolarCity, bringing CEO Elon Musk one step closer to completing his goal of moving... -
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... -
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... -
Circles (A): The Birth of an Entrepreneurial Initiative
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details This case describes the entrepreneurial journey of two college friends - Anchal Taatya and Abhiram Nukalapati. While studying at IIM Ahmedabad, they saw...
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Osmo: Toy or Learning System? Identifying a Road to Success, Teaching Note
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleTeaching note for case SCG587. -
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. -
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... -
Mantra Ayurveda: Scaling Direct-To-Consumer Marketing
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details Mantra Ayurveda (Mantra), established in India in 2020, manufactured and marketed luxury Ayurvedic skin care and hair care products. The brand's equity... -
The Intel Incubation Program: Disruption Inside
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details Intel established the Emerging Growth and Incubation (EGI) Group in 2018 with a charter to build a disruptive innovation engine. The EGI Group was seen... -
Impactful Investments and Exits: Angeleno Group and GT Solar, Teaching Note
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleTeaching note for case SCG590. -
Exxat: Educating Smarter in the Health Sciences, Teaching Note
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Mosabi: Gathering Forces for Social Change, Teaching Note
Management Digital ArticleTeaching note for Case ABC004 -
Why It's So Hard to Scale a Great Idea
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleFive hurdles - and how to overcome them. -
Blitzscaling
Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleThe chaotic, sometimes grueling path to high-growth, high-impact entrepreneurship
