Publications

March 1, 1999
Article

Time For the Big Small Company

By: L. M. Applegate

Keywords: Business Ventures

April 2007 (Revised April 2010)
Teaching Note

Leading the Josie Esquivel Franchise (TN) (A), (B), & (C)

By: Laura Morgan Roberts and Boris Groysberg

Keywords: Business Ventures

September – October 1999
Article

Creating Breakthroughs at 3M

By: E. Von Hippel, S. Thomke and M. Sonnack

Keywords: Business Conglomerates; Consumer Products Industry

May 2024 (Revised March 2025)
Case

MStudio and Djoli: Accelerating Startup Growth in Francophone Africa

By: Paul A. Gompers, Pippa Tubman Armerding and Temitayo Lawal

Djoli, a procurement platform, was one of the startups launched and supported by MStudio, a startup studio in Côte d'Ivoire, in 2023. After a year of operations, Djoli must look beyond MStudio, which had supported them financially and in kind in exchange for equity,... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Distribution Industry; Technology Industry; Africa; Côte d'Ivoire

May 2015
Case

Shareholder Issues over Ten Generations at De Kuyper

By: John A. Davis and Courtney Collette

Keywords: Family Business

January 2012 (Revised November 2014)
Background Note

Scaling a Startup: People and Organizational Issues

By: Thomas Eisenmann and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld

Keywords: Business Startups

January 1989 (Revised March 2009)
Supplement

General Electric: Valley Forge (F)

By: Robert L. Simons

Keywords: Business Conglomerates; Pennsylvania

December 2000
Background Note

Networked Utility Providers

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Alastair Brown

Defines and describes ways to categorize networked utilities, software "applets" such as RealNetwork's RealPlayer, Macromedia's Shockwave, and AOL's ICQ that are downloaded via the Internet. Networked utilities extend basic Web browser capability to allow users to... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Software; Web Services Industry

April 1987 (Revised July 1989)
Case

Lockheed-Georgia Co.: Executive Information Systems

By: Lynda M. Applegate

Keywords: Business Divisions; Information Technology Industry

May 1993
Teaching Note

Becton Dickinson: Advanced Diagnostics Division TN

By: Marco Iansiti

Keywords: Business Divisions

October 1996 (Revised January 1997)
Case

DJF Farms 1996

By: Ray A. Goldberg and David Ehlis

Keywords: Family Business; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry

December 1983 (Revised August 1988)
Background Note

The Start-Up Process

By: Howard H. Stevenson and Michael J. Roberts

Describes the various stages in the start-up process and describes in detail the questions that can be asked and the analysis that can be performed to help deal with the issues that arise at each stage. View Details

Keywords: Business Startups

July 2015 (Revised April 2016)
Case

Launching Yelp Reservations (A)

By: Michael Luca, Kevin Mohan and Patrick Rooney

This case presents a multi-party negotiation among Yelp, current partner OpenTable, and two startups in the online restaurant reservation industry. View Details

Keywords: Information Technology; Negotiation; Business Startups; Acquisition; Technology Industry; United States

1999
Chapter

Electronic Commerce

By: L. M. Applegate

Keywords: Business Ventures; Web Sites

January 18, 2012
Blog Post

How IBM's Sam Palmisano Redefined the Global Corporation

By: Bill George

Keywords: Leadership; Business Ventures; Computer Industry

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2006
Article

Voluntary Codes of Conduct for Multinational Corporations: Coordinating Duties of Rescue and Justice

By: Nien-he Hsieh

This paper examines the extent to which the voluntary adoption of codes of conduct by multinational corporations (MNCs) renders MNCs accountable for the performance of actions specified in a code of conduct. In particular, the paper examines the ways in which codes of... View Details

Keywords: Business Ventures