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Managing Performance When It's Hard to Measure
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What Startup Accelerators Really Do
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The Problems with Incubators, and How to Solve Them
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleFinancing isn't success, and office space isn't value. -
What Did 2020 Do to Retail?, Chinese Version
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleCovid will have a long-lasting impact on the industry. -
Networked Incubators: Hothouses of the New Economy
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleBusiness incubators such as Hotbank, CMGI, and Idealab! are a booming industry. Offering office space, funding, and basic services to start-ups, these... -
Why Business Schools Need to Teach Experimentation
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How Cisco Created Their Own Talent Incubator
Employee retention Digital ArticleWhile there’s been a lot of discussion about how the recession may be over, to many organizations and their employees, the view ahead is still one tough slog. The zeitgeist says it’s far too early to dream about constructing your ideal job; survival trumps career development. Yet that’s precisely the kind of thinking that will […] -
3 Strategies for Rolling Out New Tech Within Your Company
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Picking Winners: A Conversation with MacArthur Fellows Program Director Daniel J. Socolow
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleIn the business world, "creativity" has become the latest buzzword. How to attract, nurture, and direct the extraordinarily talented people who will come... -
Case Study: Should an Emerging-Market Incubator Help U.S. Businesses?
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Why Innovation Labs Fail, and How to Ensure Yours Doesn't
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleSetting up a research hub is easy. Setting it up to succeed is harder.
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Incubators and their Role in Growing Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details The rise of incubator programs has been a feature of the recent surge in tech entrepreneurship. These programs are designed to help early-stage startups... -
Sino-Ocean Land: Responding to Change, Chinese Version
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details In 2010, Sino-Ocean Land Holdings Limited was a highly successful, large real estate developer based in Beijing, China. Sino-Ocean Land had three main... -
TaKaDu, Russian Version
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details In December 2012, Amir Peleg, founder and CEO of TaKaDu, reflected on how to position his young firm for the next fiscal year and beyond. The small Israeli... -
Managing Stakeholders with Corporate Social Responsibility, Course Overview
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details The note articulates the ways in which strong stakeholder-company relationships developed through corporate social responsibility initiatives and other... -
People Express Airlines
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Recounts the history of People Express Airlines, which grew rapidly after its inception in 1980 then failed spectacularly in 1986. Profiles People's aggressive... -
The Paris Opera Hotel
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study12.00View Details Real estate investor Javier Faus invests in a luxury hotel development in central Paris, and must select a management company. -
Stamford International Inc.
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Management is struggling to meet consensus quarterly earnings-per-share numbers. Discusses a number of accounting decisions. A report indicating internal... -
The Rebirth of Innovation at AARP
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details How does the largest membership non-profit in the world renew itself in the face of changing generational expectations? How can large organizations work... -
McKesson
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details McKesson, a large, diversified drug distribution and health care IT company, is considering development of new business offerings to help private practice... -
Ford Motor Company: Strengthening the Dealer Network
Strategy & Execution Case Study14.00View Details The case describes a five-year effort (2006-2011) of distribution rationalization and consolidation at Ford. The financial crisis in the second-half of... -
Building a Cluster: Electronics and Information Technology in Costa Rica
Strategy & Execution Case Study6.95View Details Describes the actions of Costa Rica President Figueres and his cabinet in attracting an Intel assembly and testing plant to their country. The effort... -
Yoshiko Shinohara and Tempstaff
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details The case presents a biographical portrait of Yoshiko Shinohara who founded Tempstaff in 1973, one of the largest temporary staffing agencies in Japan.... -
Compagnie Lyonnaise de Transport (A), Japanese Version
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details Describes the issues surrounding the funding of a centralized research service that supports two related divisions. The company has a very decentralized... -
Dialpad Communications (A)
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Describes the evolution of Dialpad, a voice-over-Internet-protocol telephony company. Set in September 2000, CEO Brad Garlinghouse faces a dilemma: what... -
Note on Managing the Growing Venture, Spanish Version
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Focuses on the strategic and organizational challenges that confront growing enterprises and the entrepreneurs who lead them. Provides an overview of... -
Rana Plaza: Workplace Safety in Bangladesh (B)
Sales & Marketing Case Study5.00View Details In the aftermath of the Rana Plaza building collapse, a group of international retailers and labor unions partnered to create a proposal for more stringent... -
ALEAP: A Leap of Faith for Women Entrepreneurs
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Since its inception as an organization dedicated to promoting women's entrepreneurship through coordinated activities, the Association of Lady Entrepreneurs... -
Mark Pitts
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Describes Peoplestreet, an Internet business being developed at Cambridge Incubator. Peoplestreet is attempting to hire a VP of business development and...
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Incubators and their Role in Growing Entrepreneurial Ecosystems
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details The rise of incubator programs has been a feature of the recent surge in tech entrepreneurship. These programs are designed to help early-stage startups... -
Sino-Ocean Land: Responding to Change, Chinese Version
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details In 2010, Sino-Ocean Land Holdings Limited was a highly successful, large real estate developer based in Beijing, China. Sino-Ocean Land had three main... -
TaKaDu, Russian Version
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details In December 2012, Amir Peleg, founder and CEO of TaKaDu, reflected on how to position his young firm for the next fiscal year and beyond. The small Israeli... -
Managing Stakeholders with Corporate Social Responsibility, Course Overview
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details The note articulates the ways in which strong stakeholder-company relationships developed through corporate social responsibility initiatives and other... -
Gary Hirshberg and Stonyfield Farm, Teaching Note
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleTeaching Note for 312122. -
Measuring Impact at the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator, Teaching Note
Management Digital ArticleTeaching note for case SCG594. -
People Express Airlines
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Recounts the history of People Express Airlines, which grew rapidly after its inception in 1980 then failed spectacularly in 1986. Profiles People's aggressive... -
The Paris Opera Hotel
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study12.00View Details Real estate investor Javier Faus invests in a luxury hotel development in central Paris, and must select a management company. -
"Kickboxing" Around the World: An Intrapreneurship Revolution?, Teaching Note
Management Digital ArticleTeaching note for case SCG595.