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Corporate VCs Are Moving the Goalposts
Harvard Business ReviewArticle HBS-F1611A-EEntrepreneurshipIn the traditional approach to venture capital, an investment firm parcels out funds to a portfolio of start-ups, knowing that most will fail but that with luck, the returns from the few winners will make the exercise profitable. For more than 40 years, another model has also existed: corporate venture capital, in which a very large company invests in start-ups, often in adjacent industries. Corporate VCs have historically been motivated by strat...Starting at €8.20
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How Venture Capitalists Really Assess A Pitch
Harvard Business ReviewArticle HBS-F1703A-EEntrepreneurshipHaving worked for two VC firms before entering academia, Lakshmi Balachandra was mystified: Why did a proposal that looked so promising on paper become a nonstarter when it was actually pitched? She spent almost 10 years capturing what happens in pitch meetings and quantifying the results, and drew four broad conclusions: (1) Passion is overrated--VCs prefer a calm demeanor, which they equate with leadership strength. (2) Trust beats competence. ...Starting at €8.20
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When Hiring Execs, Context Matters Most
Harvard Business ReviewArticle HBS-F1705A-EEntrepreneurshipWhen choosing a CEO, boards typically take into account the particular circumstances the company faces: Is it in need of a turnaround, say, or will it be scaling for growth? But firms don't usually pay much attention to contextual challenges when hiring for and promoting people into lower-level leadership roles, instead preferring jack-of-all-trades candidates. A new study from CEB suggests that they will be more successful if they consider the s...Starting at €8.20
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Giving Birth to Ovia Health
Bussgang, Jeffrey J.; Kelley, JuliaCase HBS-818004-EEntrepreneurshipIn late 2016, Paris Wallace, the CEO of Ovia Health, and the rest of the company's co-founders faced a difficult decision about the best way to grow Ovia Health's revenue. Founded in 2012, Ovia Health specialized in mobile and web applications in the women's health space. After building a strong user base with its original app, Ovia Fertility (which helped women conceive by tracking ovulation and other factors), the young company launched a secon...Starting at €8.20
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Entrepreneurship for All, Teaching Plan
Applegate, Lynda M.; Kelley, JuliaTeaching Note HBS-818027-EEntrepreneurshipTeaching plan for case 818007.Starting at €0.00
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Rethinking Crowdsourcing
Harvard Business ReviewArticle HBS-F1706A-EEntrepreneurshipAs crowdsourcing evolves, new research finds a pitfall companies should be alert to: Consumer voting on the ideas submitted on open innovation platforms is often skewed by social bias, or people's tendency to like and vote for ideas whose progenitors have liked and voted for their own. A study of 87 crowdsourced projects suggests that when evaluating the ideas that are generated through open innovation, companies should rely less on consumer pref...Starting at €8.20
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How Much is Sweat Equity Worth, Debrief Slides
Harvard Business ReviewCase HBS-HPT006-EEntrepreneurshipSlide supplement for product numbers R1212L, R1212X, and R1212Z.Starting at €8.20
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An Angel Investor with an Agenda, Teaching Note
Harvard Business ReviewTeaching Note HBS-HTN016-EEntrepreneurshipTeaching Note for Product Numbers: R1103M, R1103X, and R1103Z.Starting at €0.00
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Intermountain Healthcare: Pursuing Precision Medicine
Hamermesh, Richard G.; Giusti, Kathy; Huckman, Robert S.; Kelley, JuliaCase HBS-818018-EEntrepreneurshipHeadquartered in Salt Lake City, Intermountain Healthcare operates 23 hospitals and hundreds of clinics in Utah and Idaho and provides insurance to approximately 850,000 patients through its insurance arm, SelectHealth. In 2013, Intermountain, known for its commitment to improving health care outcomes and lowering costs by reducing treatment variation, made the surprising decision to invest significant resources in an innovative precision medicin...Starting at €8.20
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Sidewalk Labs: Privacy in a City Built from the Internet Up
John, Leslie K.; Weiss, Mitchell B.; Kelley, JuliaCase HBS-819024-EEntrepreneurshipBy the time Dan Doctoroff, CEO of Sidewalk Labs, began hosting a Reddit "Ask Me Anything" session in January 2018, he had only nine months remaining to convince the people of Toronto, their government representatives, and presumably his parent company Alphabet, Inc., that Sidewalk Labs' plan to construct "the first truly 21st-century city" on the Canadian city's waterfront was a sound one. Along with much excitement and optimism, strains of conce...Starting at €8.20