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- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
thirty-nine-year-old fellow we interviewed cashed out his start-up software business for a cool $19 million in 1999 and felt ashamed to tell his peers he hadn't made more! When records break at such earth-shattering speed, being all we... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
institutionalize empathy as part of its delivery of care. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/611015-PDF-ENG GoodGuide George Serafeim, Robert G. Eccles, and Tiffany A. ClayHarvard Business School Case 112-031 GoodGuide, a high-technology View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 3
small cancer diagnostics start-up is deciding whether to acquire a laboratory to make and sell its bladder cancer test or build its own manufacturing and sales team. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/811015-PDF-ENG... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
find that the data he needs simply does not exist. The case follows him and his team as they take on challenges as the start-up evolves and develops. Topics include acquiring data, web-based prototyping to understand customer preferences,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
salinity; and poses strategic choices for a start-up company operating at the intersection of business, agriculture, and climate change. Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=709019 CalPERS'... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders
Pfizer), placing them in scientific advisory kinds of roles. In contrast, people coming out of Baxter were more likely to take on management positions in these start-up firms, reflecting Baxter's entrepreneurial career imprint. Similar... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
eastern Europe. We tend to forget this sort of entrepreneurialism, somewhat blinded by the light of the start-up culture of the United States and Silicon Valley. Q: Some great but autocratic German entrepreneurs including Alfred Krupp and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
a start-up founded by journalists, publishes enhanced ebook singles as well as the software to create enhanced ebooks. The company is currently engaged in both publishing and software development, but as they raise funding and grow, must... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
high because website owners would need to recode data and content on their existing sites, agree on ontologies for structuring information, and develop new tools for querying Semantic Web data. The case profiles two start-ups with very... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Risks and Rewards of the Intrapreneur
Your company is forming an intrapreneurial venture, and has asked you to join the start-up team. Is this a career pick-me-up, or occupational suicide? It could be either one, and employees should carefully weigh the pros and cons before... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2001
- What Do You Think?
Dot.Com Shakeout: Chess or Roulette?
One reason is that the better-backed ventures had twelve to eighteen months of financing when the market for Internet-based start-ups tanked a year ago. Another is that, through relatively astute management, less well-financed... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 18 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Breaking Through a Growth Stall
where a company seems weighted down by the bounds of its original start-up business model, a lack of experience by its founder(s), and an accelerating, expense-fueled burn rate through working capital and investor patience. "Once a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018
forthcoming Entrepreneurship and Collaboration Inter-Organizational Collaboration and Start-Up Innovation By: Aggarwal, Vikas A., and Andy Wu Abstract—This chapter presents an overview of the literature on collaborative relationships... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Around the World of Entrepreneurial Ventures
finance, and entrepreneurship. An increasing number of entrepreneurial firms go abroad much earlier in their lives than ever before in recent business history.— Walter Kuemmerle The twenty-nine sites he has studied range from start-ups to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
How Politics Drives Business Decisions in a Polarized Nation
executive suites, start-up firms, and even entire professions and industries. Within finance, in particular, decisionmakers’ political views influence investment returns, credit ratings, asset allocations, loan terms, and bond yields,... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Knowledge Coach
helpful to the total novice. In our entrepreneurship study, we observed extensive chains of knowledge transfer in which a coach's protégé quickly became a coach to someone less knowledgeable than himself, who then coached a budding entrepreneur even more callow. The... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 02 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping
"Having the net made these people more willing to walk on the high wire," Olds says. "It didn't make them want to walk on the net." In the next stage of his research, Olds is researching how the social safety net influences the potential labor pool... View Details
- 10 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 10, 2015
with their basic knowledge of the operating characteristics of these various industries to match each firm to the correct industry. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/216014-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 816-023 Dinr: My First View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2012
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Online Marketing
Groupon Effective? Is Groupon Good for Retailers? For retailers offering deals through the wildly popular online start-up Groupon, does the one-day publicity compensate for the deep hit to profit margins? A new working paper, "To Groupon... View Details
- 14 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom
By 2050, the Earth's population will likely exceed 9 billion people, up 30 percent from 6.9 billion today, according to projections from both the US Census Bureau and the United Nations. What's more, the population in the world's cities is expected to increase by 3... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel