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How to Compete for Talent like a Private Equity Firm
Private equity Digital ArticleIf you want to be successful, you have to harness the talent. The top private equity firms have a genius for hiring superior talent. All organizations need great people, but PE measures talent with one test only: performance. It’s not that private equity firms are heartless. Rather, their three- to five-year time horizon doesn’t allow […] -
Disruptive Startups Get Funding More Easily, but Less of It
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleBased on a study of 918 Israeli companies. -
If You Were a Stock, Would You Bet On Yourself?
Managing yourself Digital ArticleThis simple question can reframe how you sell yourself — and selling yourself is the only way to be successful in today’s economy. -
Flexibility and Persistence: Getting the Balance Right
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleThe latest in a series of interviews with entrepreneurs about what pursuing opportunity really requires. Bill Trenchard is former CEO and Chairman of LiveOps (where he remains a board member) and is a highly successful venture investor and advisor. He focuses on hard results and the practical issues of rolling out a product and making […] -
How Twitter's Leadership Drama Explains its Success
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleThe executive shifts at Twitter were likely critical to the company's growth. -
More and More Companies Want a Piece of the Next Snapchat
Venture capital Digital ArticleResearch suggests they’re likely to be disappointed. -
How the Geography of Startups and Innovation Is Changing
Global Business Digital ArticleIt's more global, more urban, and more winner-take-all. -
The Innovation Health Care Really Needs: Help People Manage Their Own Health
Government policy and regulation Digital ArticleLess than 1% of investments in the industry are focused on it. -
The Soul of a Start-Up
Entrepreneurs and founders Magazine ArticleCompanies can sustain their entrepreneurial energy even as they grow. -
It’s a Free Agent Nation, Except in Washington
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleI’ve just been rereading Daniel Pink’s famous 1997 Fast Company article on “Free Agent Nation.” It has withstood the test of time pretty danged well. In 1997, Pink had recently left a job as Vice President Al Gore’s speechwriter to strike out on his own, and discovered (or decided, if you prefer) that he was […] -
Why Rational People Can't Succeed as Economic Forecasters
Global Business Digital ArticleHistorian Walter Friedman on the pioneers of forecasting, and why we haven't gotten better at it. -
The Skills Most Entrepreneurs Lack
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleNew research on what serial entrepreneurs routinely can’t do — and how to compensate for it. -
The Startups Most Likely to Succeed Have Technical Founders Who Quickly Hire Businesspeople
Entrepreneurs and founders ResearchAccording to a study of German firms. -
Start-Up Capital Is Spreading Across the U.S.
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleWhile a few cities dominate, more are getting in on the game. -
How Private Equity Firms Infuse a Positive Attitude
Private equity Digital ArticleTimes change and markets transform themselves overnight. The half-life of common wisdom is shorter than ever. But top private equity firms have distilled a set of institutional habits that boost the likelihood of their success. What’s critical to this success? Attitude. PE leaders take pains to foster a “results-oriented mind-set”. In short, that means creating […] -
Every Entrepreneur’s Least Favorite Question
Business communication Digital ArticleFour responses that can help grow your business. -
Shakedown (HBR Case Study)
Global Business Magazine ArticleCustomer Strategy Solutions, a California-based developer of order fulfillment systems, is facing a shakedown. Six months after the firm's CEO, Pavlo... -
Turkey Badly Needs a Long-Term Plan for Syrian Refugees
Labor Digital ArticleIt’s time to stop treating the situation as a short-term crisis. -
Why Private Equity Still Makes Us a Little Queasy
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleWhatever its other educational benefits, the race for the Republican presidential nomination has served to introduce legions of hitherto oblivious Americans... -
Does New Age Business Have a Message for Managers?
Leadership & Managing People Magazine ArticleNew Age entrepreneurs are redefining the way business is conducted, placing environmental and moral needs and job satisfaction at or near the top of the...
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The Dilemmas of the 'Republica de Austria' Public School
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details The Austrian Republic School, an elementary public school in Chile, faced a severe crisis. Despite its management team and faculty's effort, the school's... -
Darktrace: Scaling Cybersecurity and AI (A)
Management Case Study11.95View Details In 2023, Darktrace CEO Poppy Gustafsson was contemplating her growth strategy at a leading U.K.-based cybersecurity venture, launched in 2013 by a group... -
The Chocolate Factory (A)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details The first of this two-part case, "Principled Capitalism", analyses the unique values-based leadership practised for 186 years by the Cadbury owners, particularly... -
Jeffrey Offutt and Jita Printing: Getting to Yes
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Jeffrey Offutt had overcome many hardships and personal difficulties to better himself and build his own graphic-design and corporate-printing business:... -
Luckin: From Brewing Coffee to Brewing Fraud
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details This case describes the aggressive growth of Luckin Coffee since its inception in 2017. In merely two years, Luckin established a coffee network in China,... -
The Langer Lab: Commercializing Science
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details Professor Robert Langer's laboratory at MIT is the source of an unusually large number of published papers, patents, and technology licenses to start-up... -
Hidesign: Leather Heritage or Lifestyle Brand?
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details The Hidesign case examines issues facing a niche fashion company in pursuit of its next growth phase. After three decades of offering a leather products... -
Global Source Healthcare: To Start or Not to Start
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details An entrepreneur was contemplating leaving his job at Goldman Sachs to start Global Source Healthcare, a healthcare outsourcing company focused on international... -
The Chocolate Factory (B): 'Sold for 20p'
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study5.00View Details Part 2 "Sold for 20p" analyses the many governance challenges the Cadburys faced. From their merger with the troubled Fry's in 1918, which significantly... -
MicroFridge: The Execution
Sales & Marketing Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the case. -
Crowdfunding: A Tale of Two Campaigns
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Crowdfunding is considered an alternative to traditional angel and venture capital funding that has helped get many business ventures off the ground.... -
Evie.ai: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence, and the Future of Work - Industry Note
Technology & Operations Case Study8.95View Details Industry note for case NTU226 -
Theranos: How Did a $9 Billion Health Tech Startup End Up DOA?
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Stanford University drop-out Elizabeth Holmes hoped to disrupt the traditional $75 billion blood-testing business with only one drop from a finger prick... -
Financing Matillion's Scaleup (B2): Dharmesh Thakker
Management Case Study5.00View Details (B2): Dharmesh Thakker confidential information for term sheet negotiation. -
Note on Telemedicine
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details This note provides background in all the modalities of telemedicine. It accompanies the cases "Medtronic: Patient Management Initiative" (A) and (B),... -
Unilever International 3.0: Scaling the White Spaces Venturing Effort
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details By 2020, Umesh Shah could rightly be proud of what he and his team had accomplished over the last eight years to capture white space consumers, i.e. those... -
Rivian Automotive, Inc.
Management Case Study11.95View Details The protagonist of the case is Robert Joseph (RJ) Scaringe, Rivian's founder and CEO. Rivian designs, develops, and manufactures electric adventure vehicles... -
Taran Swan at Nickelodeon Latin America (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details Eighteen months after launching Nickelodeon Latin America, general manager Taran Swan must leave the company's Miami headquarters for her New York home...
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How to Compete for Talent like a Private Equity Firm
Private equity Digital ArticleIf you want to be successful, you have to harness the talent. The top private equity firms have a genius for hiring superior talent. All organizations need great people, but PE measures talent with one test only: performance. It’s not that private equity firms are heartless. Rather, their three- to five-year time horizon doesn’t allow […] -
The Dilemmas of the 'Republica de Austria' Public School
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details The Austrian Republic School, an elementary public school in Chile, faced a severe crisis. Despite its management team and faculty's effort, the school's... -
Disruptive Startups Get Funding More Easily, but Less of It
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleBased on a study of 918 Israeli companies. -
If You Were a Stock, Would You Bet On Yourself?
Managing yourself Digital ArticleThis simple question can reframe how you sell yourself — and selling yourself is the only way to be successful in today’s economy. -
Darktrace: Scaling Cybersecurity and AI (A)
Management Case Study11.95View Details In 2023, Darktrace CEO Poppy Gustafsson was contemplating her growth strategy at a leading U.K.-based cybersecurity venture, launched in 2013 by a group... -
The Chocolate Factory (A)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details The first of this two-part case, "Principled Capitalism", analyses the unique values-based leadership practised for 186 years by the Cadbury owners, particularly... -
Jeffrey Offutt and Jita Printing: Getting to Yes
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details Jeffrey Offutt had overcome many hardships and personal difficulties to better himself and build his own graphic-design and corporate-printing business:... -
Luckin: From Brewing Coffee to Brewing Fraud
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details This case describes the aggressive growth of Luckin Coffee since its inception in 2017. In merely two years, Luckin established a coffee network in China,... -
Flexibility and Persistence: Getting the Balance Right
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleThe latest in a series of interviews with entrepreneurs about what pursuing opportunity really requires. Bill Trenchard is former CEO and Chairman of LiveOps (where he remains a board member) and is a highly successful venture investor and advisor. He focuses on hard results and the practical issues of rolling out a product and making […] -
The Langer Lab: Commercializing Science
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details Professor Robert Langer's laboratory at MIT is the source of an unusually large number of published papers, patents, and technology licenses to start-up...