Entrepreneurial management

Diversify your product line. Stick to your knitting. Hire a professional manager. Watch fixed costs. Those are some of the suggestions that entrepreneurs...

A five-stage framework will help owners to determine their company's stage of development and how to ensure a profitable future. It is also useful to...

If 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...

Founders often look to incubators and accelerators to grow their startups. But there's another option.

A three-part framework for boosting your organization's resilience in a volatile world.

Entrepreneurs have always needed imagination and daring. What’s different today, says one of the architects of the new economy, is that they have to move a lot faster than ever before, with a lot less room for error.

Strategy and entrepreneurship are often seen as polar opposites. Strategy means rigorously defining and pursuing one clear path, while entrepreneurship...

Before the days of the Internet, it was primarily venture capitalists who coached young entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley. Today, because of the phenomenal...

To 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...

For years, I’ve been reading about executives who leave their jobs and go into business for themselves, where they find contentment and learn the meaning of life. Now that I’ve done it, I’m here to tell you it isn’t quite that easy. I was on the corporate fast track for almost 30 years, and now […]

There's an essential, intangible "something" in start-ups--an energy, a soul. It inspires enthusiasm and fosters a sense of deep connection and mutual...

There is such a thing as too much rule-breaking.

The success of Yahoo!, eBay, Enron, and other companies that have become adept at morphing to meet the demands of changing markets can't be explained...

The best young founders know they need mentors.

Two years ago, Jonathan Seelig left business school to cofound Akamai Technologies. Today, the company is worth $20 billion.

And for hiring more female investors.

Salespeople writing fake sales orders. Cashiers “borrowing” from incoming revenues. Production workers leaving the factory with spare parts and finished products. These were among the control problems that dogged the author of this article over 12 years of running his company. Ironically, they occurred not during business crises but during periods of growth and prosperity. […]

For years "risk management" has been characterized chiefly by caution--preventing the business from doing things that would create exposure. Although...

According to 120 chief innovation officers.

It can help you work around obstacles, find opportunities across silos, and more.