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Why Start-ups Fail
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleIf you're launching a business, the odds are against you: Two-thirds of start-ups never show a positive return. Unnerved by that statistic, a professor... -
Entrepreneurs, Is a Venture Studio Right for You?
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleFounders often look to incubators and accelerators to grow their startups. But there’s another option. -
Scaling Customer Service as Your Startup Grows
Customer service Digital ArticleA stage-by-stage guide to supporting your customers. -
The Scaling Lesson from Facebook's Miraculous 10-Year Rise
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleYou can't always be charging ahead. -
Learning by Doing is the Best Recipe, French Version
Employees learn through hands-on practice. Their managers do, too. -
The Hybrid Start-Up
Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleA new-venture model that combines corporate and entrepreneurial capabilities -
How to Attract the Right Shareholders
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleInstead of casting a wide net, try a more strategic approach. -
Scaling Up is a Problem of Both More and Less
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleEven large organizations can only handle so much. -
Creating a Winning Business Model
Strategy & Execution VideoHear the story of how one entrepreneur created and refined a winning business model. -
Chobani Founder Hamdi Ulukaya on the Journey from Abandoned Factory to Yogurt Powerhouse
Business and society Digital ArticleThe Chobani CEO and founder talks about the biggest challenges along the way. “I never thought about quitting,” he says. -
Scaling Up Without Losing Your Edge
Social enterprise Digital ArticleThe world’s largest NGO proves you don’t have to be small to be beautiful. -
How to Seed Organic Marketing in a Video-First World, Chinese Version
Sales & Marketing Digital ArticleIt's all about generating content - from consumers, creators, and celebrities. -
Scaling Is Hard. Here’s How Akamai Did It.
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleI have been thinking lately about how hard it is to scale start-ups. The Lean Start-Up movement, as exemplified in Eric Ries’ book The Lean Start-Up, has appropriately focused a great deal of attention on the hard decisions and techniques required to create a company from nothing. But once the company has honed in on […] -
3 Mistakes Made in Scaling up New Ventures
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleYou've launched a successful new product or new company. You have customers ordering what you've created. So, you're on your way to building a thriving... -
Scaling: The Problem of More
Change management Digital ArticleWhen too much of a good thing is never enough. -
How Startups Can Land a Second Meeting with a Corporate Partner
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleResearchers attended 150 meetings between start-ups and corporations including IBM, Sony, L'Oréal, Toyota, and AstraZeneca. -
10 Questions to Ask Before Entering a Business Partnership
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleYou can save yourself immeasurable pain down the road by asking these tough questions early. -
Blitzscaling
Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleThe chaotic, sometimes grueling path to high-growth, high-impact entrepreneurship -
Stacey Abrams and Lara Hodgson on Entrepreneurship and Self-Doubt
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleThe three-time founders share their hard-won lessons. -
The Overlooked Key to a Successful Scale-Up
Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleIt’s mastering the “extrapolation” stage, when start-ups begin to focus on profitability, not just growth.
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Walking the Path of Expansion: MiracleFeet's Journey toward a Global Footprint
Management Case Study8.95View Details MiracleFeet, a US-based non-profit, improves access to high-quality treatment of clubfoot in low-income countries, typically in partnership with public... -
Livongo: Scaling a Purpose-Driven Organization in Healthcare
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details When seasoned entrepreneur Glen Tullman founded the chronic health care startup Livongo in 2014, it was personal. His son lived with diabetes, and Tullman... -
Elon Musk's Big Bets, Japanese Version
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Between late 2014 and late 2016, Tesla and CEO Elon Musk undertook several major, and risky, initiatives that would dramatically expand the scale and... -
Organic Mandya: Challenges in Scaling a Social Enterprise
Management Case Study8.95View Details The Organic Mandya (OM) case explores the journey of Madhu Chandan, a successful entrepreneur who gave up his comfortable life in the United States to... -
Paga: Ending Cash's Reign in Emerging Markets
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Tayo Oviosu founded Paga in 2009 to make life possible for the millions of Nigerians who operated in a cash-first environment. Paga helped users send... -
Zoey Koko: Choosing an Alternative Path Forward
Management Case Study8.95View Details Sara Ferrer launched Zoey Koko in 2017 with the idea of designing bath and body products for young girls and "tweens" (ages 5-12). From the start-up of... -
Velasca: Organizing Growth
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Italian entrepreneurs Enrico Casati and Jacopo Sebastio, just out of college, founded Velasca, a men's shoes e-commerce retailer in 2013. In less than... -
Staff.AI: Pricing for Disruptive Technology
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Staff.AI is a start-up technology company featuring a new resource-sharing application for hospitals and health care professionals. Developed by neurosurgeon... -
KaBOOM!: Play at Scale (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details A case on scaling social impact for nonprofits. Founded in 1995, KaBOOM! quickly became a nationally recognized nonprofit in building playgrounds with... -
TalkingPoints: Technology Connecting Teachers and Families
Management Case Study8.95View Details Talking Points is a U.S. not-for-profit 501c3 organization that provides a multilingual platform to help teachers communicate with families. The idea... -
Osmo: Toy or Learning System? Identifying a Road to Success
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Osmo quickly rose to become one of the top Edtech startups after it was launched by Pramod Sharma and Jerome Scholler in 2013. Their innovative toys employed... -
From Pilot to Platform in Rural Pakistan: A Uniquely-Owned Company Scales to Change Lives
Management Case Study8.95View Details This case describes the journey that led to the creation of Saaf Sehatmand Services (SSS), a business founded by leaders from five consumer goods companies... -
Webuycars: Finding the key to new growth in South Africa
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details The case focuses on Faan van der Walt (as protagonist), his brother Dirk, and WeBuyCars, a large second-hand car dealership in South Africa, which has... -
Mantra Ayurveda: Scaling Direct-To-Consumer Marketing
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Mantra Ayurveda (Mantra), established in India in 2020, manufactured and marketed luxury Ayurvedic skin care and hair care products. The brand's equity... -
Tesla-SolarCity
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details On June 21, 2016, Tesla Motors, Inc. announced its offer to acquire SolarCity, bringing CEO Elon Musk one step closer to completing his goal of moving... -
Investec South Africa CSI: Harnessing Crisis to Scale Up Delivery and Impact
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details In April 2020, the head of the corporate social investments (CSI) division of Investec South Africa (Investec SA), was working to ensure that Investec... -
BuildAir: To the Sky and Beyond, Spanish Version
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details This case explains how a researcher, Javier Marcipar, became an entrepreneur by developing a business idea on the outcome of a research project and founded... -
Innovation at Moog Inc.
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details This case focuses on the challenges of incentivizing innovation within Moog, an engineering company based in New York state that designs and builds guidance... -
Tesla, Inc. in 2018
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VFlow Tech - Storing Clean Energy
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details A three-year-old Singapore based start-up, focused on manufacturing and marketing industrial renewable energy storage batteries, is planning to migrate...
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Why Start-ups Fail
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleIf you're launching a business, the odds are against you: Two-thirds of start-ups never show a positive return. Unnerved by that statistic, a professor... -
Entrepreneurs, Is a Venture Studio Right for You?
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleFounders often look to incubators and accelerators to grow their startups. But there’s another option. -
Walking the Path of Expansion: MiracleFeet's Journey toward a Global Footprint
Management Case Study8.95View Details MiracleFeet, a US-based non-profit, improves access to high-quality treatment of clubfoot in low-income countries, typically in partnership with public... -
How a Startup Is Putting the Running Shoe Industry Back On Track, Teaching Note
Management Digital ArticleTeaching note for case HEC302. -
Livongo: Scaling a Purpose-Driven Organization in Healthcare
Organizational Development Case Study8.95View Details When seasoned entrepreneur Glen Tullman founded the chronic health care startup Livongo in 2014, it was personal. His son lived with diabetes, and Tullman... -
Scaling Customer Service as Your Startup Grows
Customer service Digital ArticleA stage-by-stage guide to supporting your customers. -
Elon Musk's Big Bets, Japanese Version
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Between late 2014 and late 2016, Tesla and CEO Elon Musk undertook several major, and risky, initiatives that would dramatically expand the scale and... -
Organic Mandya: Challenges in Scaling a Social Enterprise
Management Case Study8.95View Details The Organic Mandya (OM) case explores the journey of Madhu Chandan, a successful entrepreneur who gave up his comfortable life in the United States to... -
Walking the Path of Expansion: MiracleFeet's Journey Towards a Global Footprint - Service Experience Design, Teaching Note
Management Digital ArticleTeaching Note for Case IN1876 -
"Kickboxing" Around the World: An Intrapreneurship Revolution?, Teaching Note
Management Digital ArticleTeaching note for case SCG595.