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      The Entrepreneurial Management Unit strives to raise the level of academic work in the field of entrepreneurship, in methodological rigor,...
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      • 2021
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      We the Possibility: Harnessing Public Entrepreneurship to Solve Our Most Urgent Problems

      By: Mitchell Weiss
      The huge public challenges we face are daunting. At the same time, many of us have come to accept the notion that government can't do new things or solve tough challenges—it's too big and slow and bureaucratic. Not so. Entrepreneurial savvy in government is growing,...  View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Public Sector; Government Administration; Government And Politics; Technological Innovation; Problems And Challenges; Innovation Leadership; Public Administration Industry; Technology Industry
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      Weiss, Mitchell. We the Possibility: Harnessing Public Entrepreneurship to Solve Our Most Urgent Problems. Boston, MA: Harvard Business Review Press, 2021.
      • July 2020
      • Background Note

      Leadership for Change: Seven Enduring Skills for Experienced and Aspiring Change Leaders

      By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter
      Leaders use seven leadership skills in conceiving and managing change projects, whether innovations in established organizations, culture and process changes, or entrepreneurial ventures for industry or social change. The skills leaders need are different at various...  View Details
      Keywords: Change management; Leading Change; management Skills
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      Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. "Leadership for Change: Seven Enduring Skills for Experienced and Aspiring Change Leaders." Harvard Business School Background Note 321-019, July 2020.
      • May 2020
      • Teaching Note

      Big Boom Beverages: Fight or Flight? (Brief Case)

      By: Stephen A. Greyser and William Ellet
      Teaching Note for HBS Brief Case No. 920-557. The case addresses analysis and decisions related to the entrepreneurial life of a distinctive energy beverage, including its niche market launch, early problems, reformulation, social media impact, market success, and...  View Details
      Keywords: Alcoholic Beverages; Energy Drinks; Regulation; Entrepreneurship; Ethics; Marketing Communications; Corporate Social Responsibility And Impact; Reputation; Communication Strategy; Decision Making
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      Greyser, Stephen A., and William Ellet. "Big Boom Beverages: Fight or Flight? (Brief Case)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 920-558, May 2020.
      • March 2020 (Revised July 2020)
      • Case

      Performance Management at Afreximbank

      By: Robert S. Kaplan, Siko Sikochi and Josh Steimle
      Based in Cairo, Afreximbank was founded in October 1993 as a specialized continental financial institution designed to address the low level of intra-African trade, the decline in financial flows to Africa, the worsening external debt situation of many African...  View Details
      Keywords: Performance Management; Balanced Scorecard; Performance Expectations; Performance Evaluation; Performance Improvement; Organizational Culture; Strategy; Banking Industry; Africa; Egypt
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      Kaplan, Robert S., Siko Sikochi, and Josh Steimle. "Performance Management at Afreximbank." Harvard Business School Case 120-029, March 2020. (Revised July 2020.)
      • March 2020
      • Case

      Cafe Kenya

      By: Lynda M. Applegate and James T. Kindley
      This case describes Café Kenya (CK), a Kenyan-based chain of casual quick-food restaurants. The chain was started in 2011 in Nairobi by Nekesa Kuria. Kuria started Café Kenya and grew it by reinvesting profits into company stores and through franchising. She also...  View Details
      Keywords: Restaurants; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Growth And Development Strategy; Kenya
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      Applegate, Lynda M., and James T. Kindley. "Cafe Kenya." Harvard Business School Brief Case 920-551, March 2020.
      • March 2020
      • Case

      Forbidden City: Launching a Craft Beer in China

      By: Christopher A. Bartlett and Carole Carlson
      This case describes a difficult choice faced by Victor Wang, Managing Director of Singapore-based Eurasian Brewing Company (EBC), concerning the competing product launch plans of Le Jie, Vice President of EBC's China and East Asian operations, and Vivian Chin, EBC's...  View Details
      Keywords: Subsidiary Management; Craft Brewing; Strategy; Decision Making; Organizational Structure; Business Model; Growth And Development Strategy; Entrepreneurship; management Style; Food And Beverage Industry; China; East Asia
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      Bartlett, Christopher A., and Carole Carlson. "Forbidden City: Launching a Craft Beer in China." Harvard Business School Brief Case 920-559, March 2020.
      • January 2020 (Revised December 2020)
      • Technical Note

      Hypothesis-Driven Entrepreneurial Management

      By: Stig Leschly
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      Leschly, Stig. "Hypothesis-Driven Entrepreneurial Management." Harvard Business School Technical Note 820-090, January 2020. (Revised December 2020.)
      • December 2019 (Revised December 2020)
      • Course Overview Note

      The Entrepreneurial Manager: Spring 2021

      By: Mitchell Weiss and Benjamin Henkes
      This is the course overview note for “The Entrepreneurial Manager,” taught in the first year at Harvard Business School. Students will learn how to be opportunity-driven managers and how to lead under uncertainty. They'll learn how to identify opportunities, how to...  View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurial Management; Entrepreneurship; management
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      Weiss, Mitchell, and Benjamin Henkes. "The Entrepreneurial Manager: Spring 2021." Harvard Business School Course Overview Note 820-082, December 2019. (Revised December 2020.)
      • December 2019
      • Background Note

      An (Abbreviated) Perspective on Entrepreneurship

      By: Mitchell Weiss and Benjamin Henkes
      Among the many competing definitions of entrepreneurship, the one adopted in “The Entrepreneurial Manager” at HBS was authored by Howard Stevenson in the 1980s and elaborated on in the decades since. Stevenson provided a managerial take on the term—he described...  View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurial Managers; Entrepreneurship
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      Weiss, Mitchell, and Benjamin Henkes. "An (Abbreviated) Perspective on Entrepreneurship." Harvard Business School Background Note 820-083, December 2019.
      • November 2019
      • Teaching Note

      Actera Group: Investing in Mars Cinema Group (A) and (B)

      By: Victoria Ivashina and Jeffrey Boyar
      In summer of 2010, Murat Çavuşoğlu (HBS MBA 1994) led private equity firm Actera Group’s investment in Mars Cinema Group (Mars), the leading movie exhibitor in Turkey. Immediately after acquiring Mars and merging it with the second larger player in the market, AFM,...  View Details
      Keywords: Private Equity; Value Creation; Transformation; Valuation; Entertainment And Recreation Industry; Motion Pictures And Video Industry; Turkey
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      Ivashina, Victoria, and Jeffrey Boyar. "Actera Group: Investing in Mars Cinema Group (A) and (B)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 220-045, November 2019.
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      How to (Inadvertently) Sabotage Your Organization

      By: Stefan Thomke
      Some of the biggest threats to organizational performance can and do come from within. In an age when companies are told to be agile, to learn from experiments, and to be entrepreneurial, we are still vulnerable to actions — deliberate or unintentional — that stem from...  View Details
      Keywords: Management Practices; Effective Managers; Self-awareness; Cia,; Organizational Behavior; management Practices And Processes; Organizations; Behavior; Performance
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      Thomke, Stefan. "How to (Inadvertently) Sabotage Your Organization." MIT Sloan Management Review (website) (September 4, 2019).
      • 2020
      • Working Paper

      Social Skills Improve Business Performance: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial with Entrepreneurs in Togo

      By: Stefan Dimitriadis and Rembrand Koning
      Recent field experiments demonstrate that advice, mentorship, and feedback from randomly assigned peers improve entrepreneurial performance. These results raise a natural question: what is preventing entrepreneurs and managers from forming these peer connections...  View Details
      Keywords: Social Skills; Communication Practices; Business Performance; Entrepreneurs; Peer Relationships; Field Experiment; Entrepreneurship; Communication; Performance; Developing Countries And Economies; Africa; Togo
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      Dimitriadis, Stefan, and Rembrand Koning. "Social Skills Improve Business Performance: Evidence from a Randomized Control Trial with Entrepreneurs in Togo." SSRN Working Paper Series, No. 3459643, September 2019.
      • March 2019
      • Module Note

      The Entrepreneurial Manager, Module 3: Operating the Business Model

      By: Stig Leschly, Mark Roberge and Christopher T. Stanton
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      Leschly, Stig, Mark Roberge, and Christopher T. Stanton. "The Entrepreneurial Manager, Module 3: Operating the Business Model." Harvard Business School Module Note 819-109, March 2019.
      • October 2018
      • Case

      Recipe for Success: Growth and Evolution at Cafe Cupcake

      By: Anthony Mayo and Heather Beckham
      Café Cupcake (CC) is a fast-casual restaurant chain that offers artisan cupcakes and light fare throughout the southeastern United States and Texas. This case chronicles the growth and evolution of Café Cupcake. It also considers the specific human resource challenges...  View Details
      Keywords: Growth And Development Strategy; Human Resources; management; Organizational Change And Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Food And Beverage Industry
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      Mayo, Anthony, and Heather Beckham. "Recipe for Success: Growth and Evolution at Cafe Cupcake." Harvard Business School Brief Case 919-509, October 2018.
      • March 2016
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      The Role of Investor Gut Feel in Managing Complexity and Extreme Risk

      By: Laura Huang
      Securing financial resources from investors is a key challenge for many early stage entrepreneurial ventures. Given the inherent uncertainty surrounding a decision to invest in these ventures, prior research has found that experienced investors rely heavily on their...  View Details
      Keywords: Angel Investors; Gut Feel; Intuition; Entrepreneurship; Finance; Risk And Uncertainty; Complexity; Decision Making
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      Huang, Laura. "The Role of Investor Gut Feel in Managing Complexity and Extreme Risk." Academy of Management Journal 61, no. 5 (October 2018): 1821–1847.
      • August 2018
      • Teaching Note

      IguanaFix

      By: Frank V. Cespedes and Thomas Eisenmann
      Teaching Note for HBS No. 817-056. IguanaFix, based in Argentina, is a platform business that connects consumers with home improvement contractors. The founders are evaluating growth options and an investment offer. The case focuses on scaling issues for a venture...  View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurial Marketing; Home Improvement Services; Marketing Management; Scaling; Entrepreneurship; Marketing; Sales; Market Platforms; Growth And Development Strategy
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      Cespedes, Frank V., and Thomas Eisenmann. "IguanaFix." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 819-029, August 2018.
      • June 2018
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      Meridian Systems

      By: Frank V. Cespedes and Michael J. Roberts
      The Meridian Systems case focuses on a start-up in the restaurant point of sale (POS) systems market. In early 2018, Meridian is getting ready to roll out a POS system based on a new technology—a tablet-based, Wi-Fi-enabled POS system (the "tablet" system, or...  View Details
      Keywords: Business Startups; Sales; Strategy; Salesforce management; Organizational Structure; Technological Innovation; Marketing Strategy
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      Cespedes, Frank V., and Michael J. Roberts. "Meridian Systems." Harvard Business School Brief Case 918-533, June 2018.
      • June 2018
      • Case

      Relax (Boston): Innovating and Growing an Entrepreneurial Business

      By: Paul Marshall and Carole Carlson
      The Relax case traces the history of a massage services company from its founding in 2007 to mid-2017, when it is considering the best strategy for growth and an acquisition. The company's owner and top managers wonder how the firm should reorganize to cope with the...  View Details
      Keywords: Growth And Development Strategy; Growth management; Acquisition; Brands And Branding; Entrepreneurship; Organizational Design
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      Marshall, Paul, and Carole Carlson. "Relax (Boston): Innovating and Growing an Entrepreneurial Business." Harvard Business School Brief Case 918-523, June 2018.
      • December 2017 (Revised December 2018)
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      The Entrepreneurial Manager: Course Overview, 2019 Spring Term

      By: Paul Gompers
      This note serves as an overview of the Entrepreneurial Management Unit’s required curriculum course, "The Entrepreneurial Manager (TEM)." General management has been a core educational organizing framework at the Harvard Business School (HBS) since its inception. Today...  View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurship; management; Business Education
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      Gompers, Paul. "The Entrepreneurial Manager: Course Overview, 2019 Spring Term." Harvard Business School Course Overview Note 818-080, December 2017. (Revised December 2018.)
      • December 2017 (Revised January 2018)
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      Alltech

      By: David E. Bell and Natalie Kindred
      Alltech was a Lexington, Kentucky–based producer of supplements for animal feed, with revenues of over $2 billion (projected to reach $3 billion in 2018), sales in 120 countries, 5,000 employees, and 100 manufacturing plants worldwide. For nearly four decades, Alltech...  View Details
      Keywords: Alltech; United States; Agribusiness; Agriculture; Animal; Animal Agriculture; Animal Feed; Livestock; Family Business; Vertical Integration; Strategy; Growth; Feed Additives; Feed Supplements; Kentucky; Growth Strategy; Family Businesses; Animal-based Agribusiness; Acquisition; Business Growth And Maturation; Business Model; Change management; Trends; Governance; Entrepreneurship; Growth And Development; Intellectual Property; Leadership; management; Markets; Organizational Culture; Private Ownership; Science; Quality; Risk And Uncertainty; Research; Sales; Agriculture And Agribusiness Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States; Kentucky; Brazil; China
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      Bell, David E., and Natalie Kindred. "Alltech." Harvard Business School Case 518-001, December 2017. (Revised January 2018.)
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