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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
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
central path to job creation, economic growth, and prosperity. In the earliest stages of start-up business creation, the matching of entrepreneurial ventures to investors is critically important. The entrepreneur's business proposition...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 13
Laura Arjona, and Emily ZhangHarvard Business School Case 712-410 AppDirect is a start-up that offers small businesses software-as-a-service solutions through a business app marketplace and portal. Daniel Saks, co-founder and co-CEO, is...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
structured and how much equity the founders should relinquish in exchange for the start-up capital. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807027 Rebuilding the New Orleans Public Schools:...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
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
- 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
- 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
- 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,...
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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
- 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...
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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...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2013
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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