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Why Innovation Labs Fail, and How to Ensure Yours Doesn’t
Incubators Digital ArticleSetting up a research hub is easy. Setting it up to succeed is harder. -
Case Study: Should an Emerging-Market Incubator Help U.S. Businesses?
Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleA nonprofit that supports emerging-market entrepreneurs considers expanding to the U.S. -
Managing Performance When It's Hard to Measure
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The 3-Stage Process That Makes Universities Prime Innovators
Global Business Digital ArticleHow these institutions carefully curate connections and relationships to take ideas from the drawing board into the marketplace. -
How Cisco Created Their Own Talent Incubator
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3 Strategies for Rolling Out New Tech Within Your Company
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What Sets Successful Startup Accelerators Apart
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Picking Winners: A Conversation with MacArthur Fellows Program Director Daniel J. Socolow
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What Startup Accelerators Really Do
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Why Business Schools Need to Teach Experimentation
Business education Digital ArticleThese skills are in high demand — and should be part of the MBA curriculum. -
What Did 2020 Do to Retail?
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleCovid will have a long-lasting impact on the industry. -
The Problems with Incubators, and How to Solve Them
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleFinancing isn’t success, and office space isn’t value. -
Networked Incubators: Hothouses of the New Economy
Business management Magazine ArticleMost business incubators provide office space, funding, and basic services. The better ones also offer an extensive network of powerful business connections, enabling fledgling start-ups to beat their competitors to market.
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Explo Leisure Products
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Tim Trowac and Dave Rahall, two former investment bankers, skillfully execute the leveraged buyout of a golf ball recycling company after working intensely... -
AT&T's Transmission Systems Business Unit (A)
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details The newly appointed director of the project dedicated to reducing product development time for AT&T's Transmission Systems Business Unit (TSBU) is trying... -
Intrapreneurship: Leading Innovation Efforts in Established Organizations
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details "Intrapreneurship" is the use of entrepreneurial management techniques within established companies to create new environments that foster innovation.... -
Coursera
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details By providing free and open-access online courses at a large scale, Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) platforms seek to innovate the business models of... -
Microsoft IT India
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details Raj Biyani faced tough challenges managing Microsoft IT India: leading a remote development organization in which key decisions were made in Redmond,... -
Barbara Krakow Gallery
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details The Barbara Krakow Gallery is a successful contemporary art gallery located in Boston. It utilizes a very rare "no haggle pricing" strategy and extended... -
The Stockton Enterprise Arcade: Incubate or Graduate?
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details In February 2016, the owner of a wool and yarn products retail business in the Enterprise Arcade, a not-for-profit retail business incubator in Stockton-on-Tees,... -
Walmart Update, 2011
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details In 2011, Walmart was the world's largest company, with $420 billion in sales and operations in 14 countries. Yet it found itself searching for the right... -
Carlypso: Overcoming Bumps in the Road in the Used Car Industry
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details "Carlypso: Overcoming Bumps in the Road in the Used Car Industry" explores various challenges associated with scaling a start-up. In 2013, Christopher... -
Ctrip: Scientifically Managing Travel Services
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Ctrip is a $437 million Chinese on-line travel services company with a scientific, data driven approach to management. The case explores Ctrip's founding... -
TerraPower
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details John Gilleland, CEO of TerraPower, returned to his office after a lengthy meeting with potential investors. It was October 2012, and TerraPower was in... -
Asia Renal Care
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Presents a business plan for a start-up company focused on building a network of high-quality dialysis centers in the Asia-Pacific region. Includes a... -
Building Businesses at Brainspark Plc.
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details In June of 1999, Steward Dodd, Noah Freedman, and Richard Davidson established Brainspark, a British business incubator designed to support and grow fledgling... -
Wanxiang Group: A Chinese Company's Global Strategy (B)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the A Case 308-058. With an almost forty-year history as a business in China, the Wanxiang Group has navigated through the significantly different... -
INSEAD
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details In the spring of 2008, INSEAD offered a one-year MBA, PhD, executive MBA, and non-degree management education programs to nearly 900 MBA students, 64... -
Shanghai Pharmaceuticals
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Shanghai Pharmaceuticals (SPH), a vertically integrated Chinese pharmaceutical conglomerate, was considering its strategic options in the context of a... -
Nestle: Sustainable Agriculture Initiative
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Swiss food giant Nestle attempts to improve the performance of its suppliers of agricultural commodities to raise quality, lower costs, and contribute... -
Propais: Striving for the Future of Micro-Franchising in Colombia
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Propais is a non-profit organization founded in 1994 in Bogota by the public and private sectors and supported by 76 partner organizations. In October... -
Silverado (A)
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details Silverado has raised $50 million and launched its first product: an Internet-based trivia game with innovative software. In a highly uncertain environment,...
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Why Innovation Labs Fail, and How to Ensure Yours Doesn’t
Incubators Digital ArticleSetting up a research hub is easy. Setting it up to succeed is harder. -
Explo Leisure Products
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Tim Trowac and Dave Rahall, two former investment bankers, skillfully execute the leveraged buyout of a golf ball recycling company after working intensely... -
AT&T's Transmission Systems Business Unit (A)
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details The newly appointed director of the project dedicated to reducing product development time for AT&T's Transmission Systems Business Unit (TSBU) is trying... -
Intrapreneurship: Leading Innovation Efforts in Established Organizations
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details "Intrapreneurship" is the use of entrepreneurial management techniques within established companies to create new environments that foster innovation.... -
Coursera
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details By providing free and open-access online courses at a large scale, Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) platforms seek to innovate the business models of... -
Microsoft IT India
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details Raj Biyani faced tough challenges managing Microsoft IT India: leading a remote development organization in which key decisions were made in Redmond,... -
Barbara Krakow Gallery
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details The Barbara Krakow Gallery is a successful contemporary art gallery located in Boston. It utilizes a very rare "no haggle pricing" strategy and extended... -
The Stockton Enterprise Arcade: Incubate or Graduate?
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details In February 2016, the owner of a wool and yarn products retail business in the Enterprise Arcade, a not-for-profit retail business incubator in Stockton-on-Tees,... -
Case Study: Should an Emerging-Market Incubator Help U.S. Businesses?
Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleA nonprofit that supports emerging-market entrepreneurs considers expanding to the U.S. -
Walmart Update, 2011
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details In 2011, Walmart was the world's largest company, with $420 billion in sales and operations in 14 countries. Yet it found itself searching for the right...