Entrepreneurship

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Reid Hoffman is one of Silicon Valley's grown-ups. After helping to found PayPal, he moved on to launch LinkedIn in 2002--an endeavor that turned him...

A five-stage framework will help owners to determine their company's stage of development and how to ensure a profitable future. It is also useful to...

Ask three questions to figure out which one you are.

In the past few years, a new methodology for launching companies, called "the lean start-up," has begun to replace the old regimen. Traditionally, a venture's...

In many ways, online marketplaces are the perfect business model. Since they facilitate transactions between independent suppliers and customers rather...

Before you can understand the industry, you must first separate myth from reality.

It’s less risky than you think.

Business leaders have much more in common with artists than they do with managers.

Why do so many promising start-ups go off the rails? Often they have trouble scaling. Founders may resist imposing discipline for fear of losing agility...

Start-ups need both agility and direction.

Most successful new companies eventually face a predictable crisis that the authors call "stall-out"--a sudden large drop in revenue and profit growth...

Five “discovery skills” separate true innovators from the rest of us.

Governments, activists, and the media have become adept at holding companies to account for the social consequences of their actions. In response, corporate...

Why do people start businesses? For the money and the chance to control their own companies, certainly. But new research from Harvard Business School...

It’s boring, but having customers is nice.

Most successful entrepreneurs never take any venture capital.

“It’s much easier and safer for companies to stay with the familiar than to explore the unknown,” assert the authors of this article. Staying with the familiar may have its dangers, however, in today’s fast-changing world. An injection of entrepreneurship, by which creative people are encouraged to strike out and come up with new products […]

For one thing, they generate more and better patents.

Which information belongs—and which doesn’t—may surprise you.

Provides an opportunity to examine leadership and entrepreneurship in the context of Ernest Shackleton's 1914 Antarctic expedition, a compelling story...

Find, acquire, and run your own business. Are you looking for an alternative to a career path at a big firm? Does founding your own start-up seem too...

Starbucks Coffee Company: Transformation and Renewal analyzes the turnaround and reconstruction of Starbucks Coffee Company from 2008 to 2014 as led by...

Describes a conflict that has arisen between an account manager and a creative director at Tassani Communications, a Chicago-based advertising agency...

The case 'HubSpot: Inbound Marketing and Web 2.0' introduces the concept of inbound marketing, pulling customer prospects toward a business through the...

Various proposals are set forth for expanding the capacity of the hospital. In assessing them, serious consideration has to be given to the culture of...

Within a short time frame, seven diverse team members assemble to write a business plan for a new company and struggle to define their roles, make decisions...

Traces the history of IKEA's response to a TV report that its Indian carpet suppliers were using child labor. Describes IKEA's growth, including the importance...

JetBlue Airways shows how an entrepreneurial venture is able to use human resource management, specifically a values-centered approach to managing people,...

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Dropbox is a venture-backed Silicon Valley startup, founded in 2006, that provides online storage and backup services to millions of customers using a...

Park Hyeon-Joo, the founder and Chairman of Korea's earliest and largest mutual fund company, plans to expand internationally. After first offering emerging...

Presents the problem facing a newly appointed high-school principal. Raises issues about interpersonal and group behavior including lack of open conflict...

This case, set in 2008, examines how Google has worked to avoid potential negative byproducts of rapid growth such as bureaucracy, slow decision-making,...

In 2011 Britt Harris, the Chief Investment Officer for the $107.4 billion Teachers Retirement System of Texas (TRS), was considering whether to pursue...

Firms that follow a hypothesis-driven approach to evaluating entrepreneurial opportunity are called "lean startups." Entrepreneurs in these startups translate...

In its third year of existence and poised to double its workforce, Warby Parker attributed its success to an innovative approach in the eyewear industry...

HOW DO YOU LAUNCH THE VENTURE OF YOUR DREAMS? "Get Backed" isn't just about startup fundraising. It's a handbook for anyone who has an idea and needs...

The case 'Google Inc.' describes Google's history, business model, governance structure, corporate culture, and processes for managing innovation. It...