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- 08 Mar 2016
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March 8, 2016
https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50718 March 2016 Harvard Business Review Start-Ups That Last: How to Scale Your Business By: Gulati, Ranjay, and Alicia DeSantola Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link:...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship
a business in which there are increasing returns. To put the point another way, it is far easier to found a start-up if there are 10 other entrepreneurs nearby. In many respects, founders and venture capitalists benefit from their peers....
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- 05 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Business and the Global Poor
more slowly have benefited from enlightened managers who take the view that a BOP venture's steep start-up costs are a long-term investment. Q: The case is made that companies in BOP markets can't just operate to make profits, they also...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 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,...
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by Henry Chesbrough
- 01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1
climate change and the associated resource issue of fertilizer use; and presents the strategic choices facing a start-up company operating at the intersection of business, agriculture, and climate change agreements. Purchase this...
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- 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=709024 Yieldex (A) Harvard Business School Case 809-090 Yieldex Founder, Doug Cosman, is faced with the decision to sell his young software start-up for $4 million or to hire...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
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...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
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,...
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Martha Lagace
- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
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...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
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,...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009
hospital. Where and how should she begin? Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=409090 Cherrypicks Harvard Business School Case 807-106 Cherrypicks is a Hong Kong communications View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Nov 2011
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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
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2011
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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...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Nov 2017
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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,...
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Carmen Nobel
- 19 May 2009
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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'...
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Martha Lagace
- 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...
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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...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2009
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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...
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Martha Lagace