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How to Write a Winning Business Plan
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleA well-conceived business plan is essential to the success of an enterprise. Whether you are starting up a venture, seeking additional capital for an... -
Don't Waste Your Time on Networking Events
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleThere are more-productive ways to build relationships. -
Build a Flexible Business Plan
A great and flexible business plan has just the right balance of doing and thinking. Create one in just five steps. -
To Succeed in the Long Term, Focus on the Middle Term
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleWhen a mature company fails to endure over the long term, it's often due to the "Horizon 2 vacuum," argues Geoffrey Moore, author of "Crossing the Chasm"... -
Keeping Your Business Plan Flexible
Strategy & Execution Best PracticePeople make business plans for all sorts of reasons - to attract funding, evaluate future growth, build partnerships, or guide development. Unfortunately,... -
When It's Time to Pivot, What's Your Story?
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleTo succeed, a new company must rally investors, staff, customers, and the media around a good story. But often that narrative turns out to be wrong, and... -
Create Your Rules of the Road
The pressure to innovate as quickly as possible has never been stronger. Get clear on your intentions before you begin investing resources. In partnership... -
Gearing Up at REI
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleFor the sixth year in a row, sporting-gear cooperative REI made Fortune's list of the 100 best companies for which to work. CEO Dennis Madsen shares his... -
When Your Business Needs a Second Growth Engine
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleTraditionally, the most reliable way for a firm to find its next wave of growth was to apply the capabilities of its core business in an adjacent market.... -
Experiment to Learn About Your Market
Finance & Accounting VideoWhen you're innovating for your business, create a "plan to learn" that tests assumptions. -
Introduction to Business Plan Development
A good business plan is more than a roadmap. It's the key to your business success. -
The CEO of Cabot Creamery on Beating Sustainability Benchmarks
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleAs a 100-year-old cooperative of dairy farms with shared production and distribution resources, Cabot has long championed a different kind of capitalism:... -
Making Your Ideas Credible
A proposal will only flourish with a strong, clear business case - so where do you start? -
How to Write a Great Business Plan
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleEvery seasoned investor knows that detailed financial projections for a new company are an act of imagination. Nevertheless, most business plans pour... -
Adapt to the Market
Sometimes a business plan on paper is no match for reality. Figure out how your idea needs to be adapted to the market. -
How to Figure Out What Your Side Hustle Should Be
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleDon't fall in love with your first idea. -
Test Your Assumptions
Prevent wrong assumptions from becoming fatal flaws. -
When Should Entrepreneurs Write Their Business Plans?
Entrepreneurship ResearchDon’t write a plan before you understand your customer. -
Research: Writing a Business Plan Makes Your Startup More Likely to Succeed
Entrepreneurs and founders ResearchIt’s particularly important if you plan to raise money. -
Why the Best CEOs Are Already Thinking About Their Exits
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleYour legacy depends on a good succession plan.
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Lease Accounting and Analysis
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Extend Fertility: Conceiving the Market for Egg Preservation (B)
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Supplement to case 719019 -
Rick Surpin (A)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details A long-time community development worker creates hundreds of jobs for low-income women and minorities by forming a for-profit home health care cooperative,... -
Analyzing New Venture Opportunities
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Hip to be Square: Disruption in the U.S. Mobile Payment Market
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Founded in San Francisco in 2009, Square finished 2012 as the darling of Silicon Valley; flush with more than $340 million in funding, the firm had grown... -
Ending the Woes of Short-Termism: The Long-Term Stock Exchange
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Eric Ries, one of the most prominent entrepreneurs from Silicon Valley, is launching the Long-Term Stock Exchange (LTSE), a new stock exchange for companies... -
Universal Circuits, Inc.
Finance & Accounting Case Study6.95View Details The manager of international finance of a major U.S. electronics company is concerned about the exposure of the firm to changes in exchange rates. Of... -
Growing Pains at Santropol Roulant, Part A: A New Beginning
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details This case examines the challenges faced by a grassroots non-profit struggling to carry out its mission and stabilize its finances in an increasingly competitive... -
A Chairman's Decision: Launching A Robo-Advisor in CCB Principal Asset Management Company
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details It was a subsidiary of China Construction Bank Corporation, one of China's top four banks. The asset management industry in China had always been quick... -
Getting to Plan B: Breaking Through to a Better Business Model
You have a new venture in mind. And you've crafted a business plan so detailed it's a work of art. Don't get too attached to it. As John Mullins and Randy... -
uMunch: Mobile Food-Delivery App Feasibility Analysis
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Two recent university graduates were completing a business plan in hopes of securing a government grant to assist them in coming up with the necessary... -
Zespri
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Grower-owned Zespri is the sole exporter of New Zealand-grown kiwifruit outside of Australia and New Zealand. Facing growing international competition,... -
Diamond Foods
Sales & Marketing Case Study6.95View Details CEO Michael Mendes has transformed a grower-owned cooperative into a publicly traded top marketer of snack foods. Diamond's organization, culture, product... -
Valhalla Partners Due Diligence
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details The Valhalla Partners venture capitial firm introduced a new approach to the due-diligence process. An internal due-diligence report analyzes Telco Exchange,... -
Fairfield Inn (A)
Technology & Operations Case Study6.95View Details The Fairfield Inn, an economy hotel venture by the Marriott Corp., has developed a novel method for selecting and measuring the performance of its hotel... -
Cabot Corporation: The Fuel Cell Decision A
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Managers at Cabot Corporation are faced with deciding the future of its fuel cell program. The (A) case recounts the view of the business manager and... -
Growing Pains at Santropol Roulant, Epilogue
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details Supplement to case HEC183. This case examines the challenges faced by a grassroots non-profit struggling to carry out its mission and stabilize its finances... -
Pricing, Profits and Customer Value
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study6.95View Details This note discusses how some firms (start-ups and established companies) maximize customer value and profits via their pricing processes. It is aimed... -
Harvard ManageMentor v11: Business Case Development Module
Finance & Accounting Tool99.00View Details Easy-to-follow steps to creating a soundly reasoned and compelling case for your new business initiatives. Addresses topics ranging from identifying business... -
Farm to School of Park County: A Journey from Program to Nonprofit (D)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details Supplement to case KE1110 This case series describes the startup of Farm to School of Park County, an emerging nonprofit organization in the US state...
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How to Write a Winning Business Plan
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleA well-conceived business plan is essential to the success of an enterprise. Whether you are starting up a venture, seeking additional capital for an... -
Don't Waste Your Time on Networking Events
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleThere are more-productive ways to build relationships. -
Lease Accounting and Analysis
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details ... -
Mandic BBS: An Entrepreneurial Harvesting Decision, Teaching Note
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleTeaching Note for (9-899-082). -
QADRI-GROUP: SUSTAINING BEYOND THE FIRST 100 YEARS, Teaching Note
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleThe case describes the situation of over a hundred years old, family-owned, and male-managed business group - Qadri-Group (QG). QG was facing challenges... -
Quincy Apparel, Teaching Note
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleTeaching note for cases 815067 and 815095. -
Extend Fertility: Conceiving the Market for Egg Preservation (B)
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details Supplement to case 719019 -
Build a Flexible Business Plan
A great and flexible business plan has just the right balance of doing and thinking. Create one in just five steps. -
Rick Surpin (A)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details A long-time community development worker creates hundreds of jobs for low-income women and minorities by forming a for-profit home health care cooperative,... -
Analyzing New Venture Opportunities
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details ...