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- 2021
- Working Paper
Expanding the Entrepreneurial Cultural Toolkit: The Temporal Interplay of the Substantive and the Symbolic
By: Rebecca Karp and Siobhan O'Mahony
Much research shows how entrepreneurs leverage symbolic toolkits via storytelling and narratives to convince resource providers of their venture’s legitimacy. Although investors’ legitimacy concerns may be initially met with symbolic actions, it is unclear whether...
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- August 2021
- Case
Andreessen Horowitz’s Cultural Leadership Fund (A)
By: Anita Elberse, Briana Richardson and Cydni Williams
In May 2020, Chris Lyons, a partner at leading venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz receives the news that his company has reached a verbal agreement with one of Silicon Valley’s hottest social-media startups to lead its ‘Series A’ funding round, in a deal that...
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- August 2021
- Supplement
Andreessen Horowitz’s Cultural Leadership Fund (B): Kevin Hart and Clubhouse
By: Anita Elberse, Briana Richardson and Cydni Williams
In May 2020, Andreessen Horowitz secures an agreement with Clubhouse, one of Silicon Valley’s hottest startups, to lead its ‘Series A’ funding round. One of the factors that insiders saw as pivotal in the race to be Clubhouse’s VC firm of choice was Andreessen...
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- July 2021
- Case
Americanas: “We Always Want More”
By: Boris Groysberg and Sarah L. Abbott
Beto Sicupira had joined Americanas, a leading retailer in Brazil, in 1981. 2021 marked forty years since Sicupira’s arrival, and the anniversary prompted him to reflect on what had been accomplished and on where the organization was headed. Americanas’ growth strategy...
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- June 2021
- Case
Akira Fukabori and Kevin Kajitani at avatarin (A)
By: Linda A. Hill and Emily Tedards
In 2016, Akira Fukabori and Kevin Kajitani, aeronautical engineers at All Nippon Airways Co., Ltd., began to wonder why, in a world of accelerating globalization and digital connectivity, those who lived in far-remote villages or impoverished urban areas could not...
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Keywords:
Agility;
Ecosystem;
Innovation Ecosystems;
Crowdsourcing;
Open Innovation;
Partnership;
Government;
Collaboration;
Co-creation;
Purpose;
Impact;
Social Impact;
Movement;
Organizational Behavior;
Organizational Ambidexterity;
Ambidexterity;
Culture;
Culture Change;
Global Teams;
Experimentation;
Space;
Airline Industry;
Start-up;
Platform Business;
Platform Strategy;
Platform;
Digital;
Robotics;
Robots;
Mobility;
Strategy;
COVID-19;
Intrapreneurship;
Public-private Partnership;
XPRIZE;
Space Industry;
Avatar;
Telepresence;
Innovation Lab;
Innovation and Invention;
Technological Innovation;
Partners and Partnerships;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Alignment;
Leadership;
Leading Change;
Diversity;
Organizational Culture;
Change Management;
Entrepreneurship;
Transportation Industry;
Aerospace Industry;
Japan
- June 2021
- Case
Akira Fukabori and Kevin Kajitani at avatarin (A) (Abridged)
By: Linda A. Hill and Emily Tedards
In 2016, Akira Fukabori and Kevin Kajitani, aeronautical engineers at All Nippon Airways Co., Ltd., began to wonder why, in a world of accelerating globalization and digital connectivity, those who lived in far-remote villages or impoverished urban areas could not...
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Keywords:
Agility;
Ecosystem;
Innovation Ecosystems;
Innovation;
Crowdsourcing;
XPRIZE;
Open Innovation;
Partnership;
Government;
Collaboration;
Co-creation;
Purpose;
Impact;
Social Impact;
Movement;
Organizational Behavior;
Organizational Ambidexterity;
Ambidexterity;
Culture;
Culture Change;
Global Teams;
Experimentation;
Space;
Space Industry;
Airline Industry;
Start-up;
Platform Business;
Platform Strategy;
Platform;
Digital;
Robotics;
Robots;
Avatar;
Telepresence;
Innovation Lab;
Mobility;
COVID-19;
Intrapreneurship;
Public-private Partnership;
Innovation and Invention;
Technological Innovation;
Partners and Partnerships;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Alignment;
Leadership;
Leading Change;
Diversity;
Organizational Culture;
Change Management;
Strategy;
Entrepreneurship;
Transportation Industry;
Aerospace Industry;
Japan
- February 2021 (Revised August 2021)
- Case
Marvin: A Personalized Telehealth Approach to Mental Health
By: Regina E. Herzlinger, Eshani Sharma, Andrew Nguyen, Thomas Arsenault, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Julia Kelley
More than one third of Americans were said to suffer some type of behavioral health ailment at some point in their lifetime, with many people requiring chronic therapy or intervention. Despite significant clinical needs, access to reliable treatment has been difficult...
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- December 2020 (Revised April 2021)
- Teaching Note
Women Entrepreneurs and Tech Ecosystems: One City, Two Realities, and Four Diverse Women
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Joyce J. Kim
Four diverse women entrepreneurs launched their ventures in a thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem that was part of a shift to a creative technology-driven economy for Miami. Although Miami was rated the #1 U.S. city for startups in 2017, the region contained structural...
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Keywords:
Women;
Racism;
Black Entrepreneurs;
Entrepreneurship;
Diversity;
Gender;
Race;
Prejudice and Bias;
Innovation and Invention;
City;
Culture;
Miami
- December 2020
- Supplement
Video Interview with Felecia Hatcher
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Joyce J. Kim
Four diverse women entrepreneurs launched their ventures in a thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem that was part of a shift to a creative technology-driven economy for Miami. Although Miami was rated the #1 U.S. city for startups in 2017, the region contained structural...
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- December 2020
- Supplement
Video Interview with Maxeme Tuchman
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Joyce J. Kim
Four diverse women entrepreneurs launched their ventures in a thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem that was part of a shift to a creative technology-driven economy for Miami. Although Miami was rated the #1 U.S. city for startups in 2017, the region contained structural...
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- December 2020
- Supplement
Video Interview with Pandwe Gibson
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Joyce J. Kim
Four diverse women entrepreneurs launched their ventures in a thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem that was part of a shift to a creative technology-driven economy for Miami. Although Miami was rated the #1 U.S. city for startups in 2017, the region contained structural...
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- December 2020
- Supplement
Video Interview with Rebecca Fishman Lipsey
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Joyce Kim
Four diverse women entrepreneurs launched their ventures in a thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem that was part of a shift to a creative technology-driven economy for Miami. Although Miami was rated the #1 U.S. city for startups in 2017, the region contained structural...
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- December 2020
- Supplement
The Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra: Cultural Entrepreneurship (B) Case Supplement
By: Rohit Deshpandé
This case includes links to case supplement videos for students to view with the written case before class, and also supplement videos for faculty to use exclusively during class.
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- December 2020
- Supplement
The Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra: Cultural Entrepreneurship Case Supplement
By: Rohit Deshpandé
This case includes links to case supplement videos for students to view with the written case before class, and also supplement videos for faculty to use exclusively during class.
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- November 2020 (Revised February 2021)
- Case
Wes Hall and the BlackNorth Initiative
By: Shikhar Ghosh, Marilyn Morgan Westner and Reza Satchu
Wes Hall founded Kingsdale Advisors and built it into one of Canada’s leading shareholder services and advisory firms. Influenced by the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement and a series of social injustices—specifically the death of George Floyd in police custody—Hall...
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- 2020
- Book
American Business History: A Very Short Introduction
By: Walter Friedman
By the early twentieth century, it became common to describe the United States as a "business civilization." President Coolidge in 1925 said, "The chief business of the American people is business." More recently, historian Sven Beckert characterized Henry Ford's...
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- October 2020 (Revised April 2021)
- Case
Women Entrepreneurs and Tech Ecosystems: One City, Two Realities, and Four Diverse Women
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Joyce J. Kim
Four diverse women entrepreneurs launched their ventures in a thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem that was part of a shift to a creative technology-driven economy for Miami. Although Miami was rated the #1 U.S. city for startups in 2017, the region contained structural...
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- September 2020 (Revised January 2021)
- Case
Catalys Pacific
In 2019, BT Slingsby founds Catalys Pacific, the first biotech “venture creation” fund in Tokyo. After convincing some of the biggest Japanese pharmaceutical firms to invest, BT hopes the fund can make a big splash and transform biotechnology innovation in Japan. After...
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Keywords:
Pharmaceutical Companies;
Biotech;
Health Care;
Entrepreneur;
Innovation;
International Business;
Entrepreneurial Finance;
Entrepreneurship;
Finance;
Innovation Strategy;
Venture Capital;
Strategy;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
Biotechnology Industry;
Tokyo
- September 2020
- Teaching Note
Miami's Tech Future (A): Twenty-first Century Changes and Challenges
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Joyce J. Kim
In the decade starting in 2000, a new mayor focused on infrastructure and leadership from a foundation investing in arts and culture helped the Miami region transform and attract younger people to a newly vibrant central city and arts district. In 2011, the Knight...
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- September 2020
- Teaching Note
Miami's Tech Future (B): Building the Entrepreneurial Ecosystem
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Joyce J. Kim
In 2017, Miami was rated #1 among U.S. cities for startups, but about 40th for “scale-ups” – growth companies. This case shows how leaders of incubators and accelerators supported startups and a culture of entrepreneurship, but also describes some factors limiting...
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