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01 Dec 2000
News

Taiwan Club President Thrives on Region's Entrepreneurial Energy

"Taiwan today is an exciting place to be in business," said Benjamin P.L. Feng (MBA 1975), managing director of All Asia Partners, a venture capital firm headquartered in Taipei. At HBS this fall to attend his 25th Reunion, Feng took time... View Details

April 2012
Case

Fresh & New Cleaners (A)

By: Janet Kraus, Brian McIntosh and Nick Plantan

Keywords: Entrepreneurial Management; Entrepreneurs; Management; Entrepreneurship

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January 1990
Article

Entrepreneurial Management's Need for a More 'Chaotic' Theory

By: H. H. Stevenson and S. Harmeling

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Management; Theory

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July 1993 (Revised June 1994)
Case

Phil Knight Managing NIKE's Transformation

By: Hugo Uyterhoeven

Describes Nike's responses to market and competitive challenges as well as its attempts at an organizational transformation from unstructured entrepreneurial management to more formalized, professional management. Focuses on Phil Knight's leadership role. View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Leadership; Managerial Roles; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Problems and Challenges; Competition

February 2017
Article

The Throne vs. the Kingdom: Founder Control and Value Creation in Startups

By: Noam Wasserman

Does the degree to which founders keep control of their startups affect company value? I argue that founders face a "control dilemma" in which a startup's resource dependence drives a wedge between the startup's value and the founder's ability to retain control of... View Details

Keywords: Founders; Entrepreneurial Management; Value Creation; Governing and Advisory Boards; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups

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April 2012
Supplement

Fresh & New Cleaners (B)

By: Janet Kraus, Brian McIntosh and Nick Plantan

Keywords: Entrepreneurial Management; Entrepreneurs; Entrepreneurship

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May 2013
Supplement

Keggfarms (India):Which Came First, the Kuroiler(TM) or the KEGG(TM)?

This is a spreadsheet supplement for HBS case #807089 (Keggfarms). Includes Exhibit 1, Exhibit 4, and Exhibit 5. View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurial Finance; Entrepreneurial Management; Entrepreneurs; International Entrepreneurial Finance; Entrepreneurship; Globalization; Finance; Management; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Forestry Industry; India

January 2015 (Revised September 2017)
Case

Omar Selim: Building a Values-Based Asset Management Firm (A)

By: George Serafeim, Rebecca Henderson and Shannon Gombos

The sustainable investing market was a recent phenomenon in the first decade of the 21st century. However, an increasing number of investors began to integrated Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) issues in investment decisions. At Barclays Capital, Omar Selim... View Details

September 2008 (Revised July 2012)
Case

Khosla Ventures: Biofuels Strategy

By: Joseph B. Lassiter III, William A. Sahlman and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld

By 2008, a number of the firm's early cleantech investments were showing promise, and the companies were starting to need significantly more money to create the massive scale required in the energy sector. As Khosla thought about the hundreds of millions of dollars... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurial Marketing; Entrepreneurial Finance; New Product Development; Partnerships; Entrepreneurial Management; Venture Capital; Strategy; Partners and Partnerships; Renewable Energy; Entrepreneurship; Investment Funds; Environmental Sustainability; Product Development; Biotechnology Industry; Financial Services Industry

March 2019
Article

When Does Advice Impact Startup Performance?

By: Aaron Chatterji, Solène Delecourt, Sharique Hasan and Rembrand Koning

Why do some entrepreneurs thrive while others fail? We explore whether the advice entrepreneurs receive about managing their employees influences their startup's performance. We conducted a randomized field experiment in India with 100 high-growth technology firms... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurial Management; Field Experiment; Peer Effects; Entrepreneurial Ecosystems; Advice; Management Style; Management Practices and Processes; Knowledge Dissemination; Entrepreneurship; Performance; India

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2024
Working Paper

Charting (and Updating) the Path: A Bayesian Perspective on Entrepreneurial Learning

By: Joshua L. Krieger

This chapter explores two distinct modes of entrepreneurial learning: assessing venture viability and choosing between alternative development paths. It introduces a framework for decomposing venture viability into technological feasibility, commercial potential and... View Details

Keywords: Decision Making; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Learning

December 1997 (Revised January 1998)
Exercise

COO and Country Manager Job Selection Exercise

By: Hugo Uyterhoeven

From seven candidates, students must choose two who are most qualified for the COO position at an entrepreneurial Danish multinational organization, and two who are the best choices for country manager in Vietnam for the company. View Details

Keywords: Selection and Staffing; Experience and Expertise; Multinational Firms and Management

January 2014
Case

Entrepreneurial Finance Lab: Scaling an Innovative Start-up Financing Venture

By: Joan Farre-Mensa, William R. Kerr and Alexis Brownell

EFL provides credit-scoring services in developing countries using psychometric assessment, but the potential loss of a large customer makes them reconsider their scaling narrative. View Details

Keywords: Finance; Developing Countries; Lending; Psychometrics; Scaling; Entrepreneurship; Credit; Developing Countries and Economies; Growth and Development Strategy; Financial Services Industry; Banking Industry; Africa; Latin America

01 Jun 2005
News

Marked Managers

assignments. In the 1980s, biotechnology was a fledgling field. The scientists who were making breakthroughs and their venture capitalists needed businesspeople who were entrepreneurial and who could piece together an organization without... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Career Imprints; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

October 2002 (Revised April 2005)
Case

Jinwoong: Financing an Entrepreneurial Firm in the Wake of the Korean Financial Crisis

Describes T.P. Lee, the founder and CEO of Jinwoong, a 19-year-old entrepreneurial company in Korea that has grown to become the world's largest manufacturer of camping tents. Labeled by Fortune as one of the most promising entrepreneurs in Asia in 1993, Lee faces some... View Details

Keywords: Emerging Markets; Entrepreneurship; Financing and Loans; Financial Crisis; Manufacturing Industry; Consumer Products Industry; South Korea

May 2022
Case

RacingThePlanet’s 20-Year Marathon

By: Daniel Isenberg and William Kerr

Mary Gadams, founder and CEO of RacingThePlanet, has managed to stage sporting events in some of the world's most inhospitable locations for the last 20 years. New challenges, including the COVID-19 pandemic, have arisen. How can this small company navigate the global... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurial Management; Sports; Sports Management; COVID-19 Pandemic; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Problems and Challenges; Sports Industry

December 2015
Article

Entrepreneurial Imagination and a Demand and Supply-side Perspective on the MNE and Cross-border Organization

By: Geoffrey Jones and Christos Pitelis

This article explores the role of entrepreneurial imagination on the international expansion of multinational enterprises. The focus is on supply- and demand-side factors that help explicate cross-border expansion. The article explores how appropriability-informed and... View Details

Keywords: Imagination; Globalization; History; Entrepreneurship; Multinational Firms and Management; Africa; Asia; Europe; North and Central America

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May 2013
Case

Kaiser Permanente: Innovating to Transform Healthcare

By: Lynda Applegate

This case enables discussion of organizational and industry transformation. View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurial Management; Strategy; Organ; Entrepreneurship; Management; Competitive Strategy; Behavior; Leadership; Health Industry; United States

Inventing the Future of Management

Bhaskar Chakravorti speaks on a "design flaw" in large organizations and the need to renew a business by selectively "burning down" elements of the model to enable islands of entrepreneurial activity that will regenerate its ability... View Details

January 2017
Teaching Note

Transition at DataCo?

By: Frank V. Cespedes

The founder of a data analytics company has several issues with his key business developer, an early hire who has been instrumental in building the firm. The DataCo case study illustrates a common situation in entrepreneurial ventures: an early sales hire does well but... View Details

Keywords: Sales Management; Selling; Entrepreneurial Ventures; Performance Management; Professional Services; Salesforce Management; Sales; Marketing; Performance; Consulting Industry; United States; France

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