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When Entrepreneurial Passion Backfires
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleIn order for passion to be constructive, it needs to be shared. -
The Startups Most Likely to Succeed Have Technical Founders Who Quickly Hire Businesspeople
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How to Keep Networking from Draining You
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleTips for founders and others whose jobs require constantly meeting new people. -
Family Businesses Need One Person to Conquer and Another to Rule
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleToo many focus on the former. -
How to Establish Values on a Small Team
Organizational Development Digital ArticleInclude everyone's perspective. -
Successful Startups Don't Make Money Their Primary Mission
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleLose sight of that and you lose the company. -
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... -
Research: Investors Punish Entrepreneurs for Stereotypically Feminine Behaviors
Entrepreneurs and founders Digital ArticleIn a pitch competition, judges reacted poorly to warmth and expressiveness. -
Why Entrepreneurship Is So Hard
Innovation & Leadership First PersonYet, so fulfilling. -
Defend Your Research: Are Entrepreneurs Really Pot-Smoking Rebels?
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleThere is such a thing as too much rule-breaking. -
Can Friends Be Successful Co-Founders?
Entrepreneurs and founders Digital ArticleBefore starting a venture with your bestie, there are a few things you should consider. -
Are You Cut Out to Be an Entrepreneur?
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleAsk yourself three questions. -
Why Entrepreneurs Don't Scale
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleIt's well known that many executives who excel at starting businesses or projects fizzle out--in other words, they fail to "scale"--as their ventures... -
Should You Choose Your Passion Over a Paycheck?
Innovation & Leadership First PersonFour questions to ask yourself before you decide. -
A New Alliance for Global Change
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleThe citizen sector, composed of millions of groups worldwide that are attempting to address critical social needs, has long been regarded as understaffed... -
David and Goliath, Reconsidered
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleLarge corporations and small start-ups are not mutually exclusive organizational forms. Rather, they exist symbiotically, each requiring and drawing on... -
Are Former Startup Founders Less Hireable?
Hiring and recruitment Digital ArticleA study found that candidates who had started a company — particularly a successful one — were less likely to get an interview. -
How Cofounders Can Prevent Their Relationship from Derailing
Entrepreneurs and founders Digital ArticleFive strategies to sustain a healthy partnership. -
Hang On to Those Founders
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleCompanies that retain their CEO founders when preparing for IPOs often come out ahead in the long run, says Martin L. Martens at Concordia University. -
We Recorded VCs' Conversations and Analyzed How Differently They Talk About Female Entrepreneurs
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleFindings from a language analysis study in Sweden.
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Arist: Learning Bit by Bit
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Arist was a Boston, Massachusetts-based startup with a text message learning platform. It was founded by three undergraduate students and raised more... -
Doer's Profile Katherine Graham (1917-2001)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Designed to facilitate a discussion of the nature of enduring success. Includes both biographical data and excerpts from autobiographical material. -
Cain & Able Collections: Every Dog Has Its Day Spa
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Candace Leak is a young female college graduate who quit her successful job to start a luxury pet shampoo company, Cain & Able Collections (named after... -
Early Career LBOs Using the Search Fund Model
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details The funded search model is one alternative for individuals who, at some point in their career, want to run their own companies. This note looks at the... -
Young Lion Brewery: Leveraging Female Leadership?
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details This case features a woman entrepreneur whose early-stage company has achieved some regional success creating craft beer in a highly competitive, male-dominated... -
John Q. Inventor and the Cardboard Snowplow
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details The Cardboard Snowplow tells the story of an inventor who has a novel idea that he believes represents a business opportunity. In response to this story,... -
Advent International: Kroton Investment
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Desi Shack: Location Choice in the Big Apple
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Desi Shack is a "fast casual" restaurant, started by two HBS alumni, that serves Indian and Pakistani cuisine in midtown Manhattan. The founders are looking... -
Elia Nuqul and the Making of a Middle Eastern Business Group (A)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details The case is concerned with Elia Nuqul, the founder of Jordanian-based Nuqul Brothers, a large diversified business group. It shows how Nuqul, a Christian... -
Hotel Perennial
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details The Hotel Perennial case puts students in the shoes of Dan Jameson, founder and CEO of a boutique real estate private equity firm called EL Investments... -
Kathryne Cooper and CTIP: Accelerating Diversity in Medtech
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details In an industry that is struggling to diversify, Kathryne Cooper and her co-directors at CTIP have created a highly successful model for supporting non-traditional... -
Sula Vineyards (A): Indian Wine - Ce n'est pas possible!
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details The case focuses on the risks and rewards of early-stage investing in a successful emerging market consumer start-up (i.e. non-tech), from seed funding... -
Big Boom Beverages: Fight or Flight?
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Four college friends market a beverage that combines ingredients like those in a drink they consumed in college bars. It includes a caffeinated energy... -
The First 10 Questions for Would-be Searchers
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details This note answers ten of the most common questions asked by people who are relatively new to the search fund model, or have never heard of a search fund... -
Oprah!
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details Oprah Winfrey believed in sharing the experiences that shaped her development and enabled her to become the wealthiest women in the entertainment industry... -
BabySupplies: Entrepreneur-Investor Conflict (C)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details Supplement to case IES582. The peaceful period following the appointment of a new CEO is about to come to an end as FineWorks Venture Capital learns about... -
Ensina!
Organizational Development Case Study11.95View Details In 2011, a group of passionate social entrepreneurs in Rio de Janeiro, with the support and encouragement of several prominent philanthropists and members... -
Kyruus: Big Data's Search for the Killer App
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Kyruus is used in a course at HBS on Entrepreneurship in Healthcare IT and Services (EHITS). It describes a young company that has built a very large... -
Chasm Security: Facing the Technology Startup's Dilemmas (C)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details Case (C) introduces the latest progress of Chasm Security as of the end of 2018. It then poses a very inspiring question to comprehensively summarize... -
C. K. Yeung Worldwide Ltd.: Management as Art, Science, and Philosophy
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Founded in 1974, C. K. Yeung Worldwide Ltd. became one of the largest metal traders in Hong Kong in the 1980s. Looks at how the beliefs of its CEO, Joseph...
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When Entrepreneurial Passion Backfires
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleIn order for passion to be constructive, it needs to be shared. -
The Startups Most Likely to Succeed Have Technical Founders Who Quickly Hire Businesspeople
Entrepreneurs and founders ResearchAccording to a study of German firms. -
How to Keep Networking from Draining You
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleTips for founders and others whose jobs require constantly meeting new people. -
Family Businesses Need One Person to Conquer and Another to Rule
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleToo many focus on the former. -
How to Establish Values on a Small Team
Organizational Development Digital ArticleInclude everyone's perspective. -
Arist: Learning Bit by Bit
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Arist was a Boston, Massachusetts-based startup with a text message learning platform. It was founded by three undergraduate students and raised more... -
Doer's Profile Katherine Graham (1917-2001)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Designed to facilitate a discussion of the nature of enduring success. Includes both biographical data and excerpts from autobiographical material. -
Cain & Able Collections: Every Dog Has Its Day Spa
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Candace Leak is a young female college graduate who quit her successful job to start a luxury pet shampoo company, Cain & Able Collections (named after... -
What Kara Swisher Has Learned From Decades Covering Tech
A conversation with a veteran tech journalist about the industry’s successes and failures. -
Early Career LBOs Using the Search Fund Model
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details The funded search model is one alternative for individuals who, at some point in their career, want to run their own companies. This note looks at the...