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  • 07 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”

invested $3.5 million and received 80 percent of the equity in the company. Becoming independent also gave the start-up organization the freedom to compete head-on with the internal Xerox development units in Rochester. To their surprise,... View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough
  • 07 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 7

create significant value and have modest operating costs, and network effects protect their position once established-users rarely leave a vibrant platform. But these businesses also raise significant start-up challenges. Every platform... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Oct 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation

initially is not as important as having investors who buy into the vision and have complementary skills or experiences. The "been there, seen that" experience of the VC can be invaluable. Start-ups are intense, and sometimes a... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
  • 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
  • 29 Nov 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Rich or Royal: What Do Founders Want?

other words, whether you'll be able to achieve the profit motive versus the control motive. Interestingly, a colleague, Richard Tedlow, pointed out to me that this choice may be a more general managerial tension that exists long after companies pass through the View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Financial Services
  • 18 Mar 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]

has taken an entrepreneurship course at Harvard has evaded this last point—the problem, as Hart put it, of "how nothing ever proceeds according to plan, and how you adapt strategically and tactically." Should a start-up survive,... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
  • 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
  • 02 Aug 2011
  • First Look

First Look: August 2

not to mention money-losing investments in silly ventures. Separating enduring strategic lessons from the hype can help avoid a new crash. Hint: the lessons don't include rushing to fund start-ups on the basis of back-of-the-envelope... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Aug 2009
  • First Look

First Look: August 18

Start-up's Midlife Crisis: 99Sushe.com Harvard Business School Case 309-060 Now into their third year at the helm of an Internet start-up in China, Ken Pao and Bill Li were managing a totally different company (with a new name) from the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Jan 2006
  • Research & Ideas

What Really Drives Your Strategy?

require frequent redirection. What are the things that will help those redirections occur, both in large company settings as well as in new start-up settings? There are very interesting interactions in terms of how resources are... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 24 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 24

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/712442-PDF-ENG Ensighten Lena G. Goldberg, and Michael J. RobertsHarvard Business School Case 812-050 Focuses on a small start-up software company engaged in a negotiation over its software... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Nov 2007
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First Look: November 14, 2007

administrative background for the other two cases. This case deals with the problems facing the head of a start-up division responsible for developing and bringing to market a new product based on technology deemed very important to the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 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
  • 24 May 2011
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First Look: May 24

and field hospitals). In 13 years it developed from a start-up garage business into a successful firm of global reach and reputation. In 2010 its founder and CEO Philippe Prévost must decide the product and market strategy for the next... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 20

public and Knight, its founder-CEO, still owned close to half of the company. He had led the company through dramatic changes as it evolved from a scrappy start-up to a large public company. However, now, barely half a decade later,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Apr 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018

challenges students to think about target customer identification and talent management in a start-up environment. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/818001 Harvard Business School Case 915-418 The China Dairy... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 13, 2009

afield. Planning a Start-Up? Seize the Day...Then Expect to Work All Night Author:Noam Wasserman Publication:Harvard Business Review 87, no. 1 (January 2009) Abstract If you dream of starting your own business, it's better to leave the corporate nest sooner than later,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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