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 Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India are Reshaping Their Futures — and Yours
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| 22 pp.
| Corporate Bridges: Linking China, India, and the West
Author(s): Khanna, Tarun
Publication Date: 02/01/2008
Product Type: HBS Press Chapter
HBS Number: 8035BC
Geographic Setting: China; India
Subjects: Business & government; Developing countries; Entrepreneurship; Global business; Health care policy; Laws & regulations; Strategic planning
Academic Discipline: Entrepreneurship
Product Description: This chapter describes the corporate success story of General Electric in linking China and India in corporate symbiosis, providing one blueprint for the West's re-engagement with China and India. May be used with: (8053BC) Reimagining China and India: The Economic Significance of the East; (8052BC) Statecraft: The Art, Science, and Illusion of Governing 2.4 Billion People: The Modern State in China and India; (8051BC) Bias and Noise: Information Accessibility in China and India; (8050BC) Fiat and Fairness: Why China Can Build Cities Overnight and India Cannot; (8049BC) Manna and Miasma: Meanderings Through the Chinese and Indian Financial Firmaments; (8048BC) Infosys and TCL: Unshackling Indigenous Enterprise; (8047BC) Microsoft and Metro: Views from the World's Corner Offices: Foreign Investors in China and India; (8046BC) Diaspora Dividends: Paragons and Pariahs from the Overseas Chinese and Indians; (8040BC) Village Engineering and Reengineering: In Search of Rural Fortunes — Rural Enterprise in China and India; (8039BC) Barefoot Doctors and Medical Tourists: Futile Attempts to Confront the Grim Reaper — The State of Health Care in China and India; (8038BC) Old and New Roads to Mandalay: Hard Power in Burma and Beyond; (8037BC) Film Stars and Gurus: Soft Power in Bollywood and Beyond; (8036BC) Buddha and Software: Old Links and New: Opportunities for Cooperation Between China and India.
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| 22 pp.
| Buddha and Software: Old Links and New: Opportunities for Cooperation Between China and India
Author(s): Khanna, Tarun
Publication Date: 02/01/2008
Product Type: HBS Press Chapter
HBS Number: 8036BC
Geographic Setting: China; India
Subjects: Business & government; Developing countries; Entrepreneurship; Global business; Health care policy; Laws & regulations; Strategic planning
Academic Discipline: Entrepreneurship
Product Description: This chapter examines connections forged between China and India over the last two thousand years and moves into the present to consider recent efforts to create commercial and political links between the two countries. May be used with: (8035BC) Corporate Bridges: Linking China, India, and the West; (8053BC) Reimagining China and India: The Economic Significance of the East; (8052BC) Statecraft: The Art, Science, and Illusion of Governing 2.4 Billion People: The Modern State in China and India; (8051BC) Bias and Noise: Information Accessibility in China and India; (8050BC) Fiat and Fairness: Why China Can Build Cities Overnight and India Cannot; (8049BC) Manna and Miasma: Meanderings Through the Chinese and Indian Financial Firmaments; (8048BC) Infosys and TCL: Unshackling Indigenous Enterprise; (8047BC) Microsoft and Metro: Views from the World's Corner Offices: Foreign Investors in China and India; (8046BC) Diaspora Dividends: Paragons and Pariahs from the Overseas Chinese and Indians; (8040BC) Village Engineering and Reengineering: In Search of Rural Fortunes — Rural Enterprise in China and India; (8039BC) Barefoot Doctors and Medical Tourists: Futile Attempts to Confront the Grim Reaper — The State of Health Care in China and India; (8038BC) Old and New Roads to Mandalay: Hard Power in Burma and Beyond; (8037BC) Film Stars and Gurus: Soft Power in Bollywood and Beyond.
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| Film Stars and Gurus: Soft Power in Bollywood and Beyond
Author(s): Khanna, Tarun
Publication Date: 02/01/2008
Product Type: HBS Press Chapter
HBS Number: 8037BC
Geographic Setting: China; India
Subjects: Business & government; Developing countries; Entrepreneurship; Global business; Health care policy; Laws & regulations; Strategic planning
Academic Discipline: Entrepreneurship
Product Description: This chapter looks at how soft power — which arises from the appeal of a country's cultural and political practices — has won global influence for India, through the popularity of its film industry, international expansion by individual companies, and the soaring presence of yoga in the West, among other things. May be used with: (8053BC) Reimagining China and India: The Economic Significance of the East; (8052BC) Statecraft: The Art, Science, and Illusion of Governing 2.4 Billion People: The Modern State in China and India; (8051BC) Bias and Noise: Information Accessibility in China and India; (8050BC) Fiat and Fairness: Why China Can Build Cities Overnight and India Cannot; (8049BC) Manna and Miasma: Meanderings Through the Chinese and Indian Financial Firmaments; (8048BC) Infosys and TCL: Unshackling Indigenous Enterprise; (8047BC) Microsoft and Metro: Views from the World's Corner Offices: Foreign Investors in China and India; (8046BC) Diaspora Dividends: Paragons and Pariahs from the Overseas Chinese and Indians; (8040BC) Village Engineering and Reengineering: In Search of Rural Fortunes — Rural Enterprise in China and India; (8039BC) Barefoot Doctors and Medical Tourists: Futile Attempts to Confront the Grim Reaper — The State of Health Care in China and India; (8038BC) Old and New Roads to Mandalay: Hard Power in Burma and Beyond; (8036BC) Buddha and Software: Old Links and New: Opportunities for Cooperation Between China and India; (8035BC) Corporate Bridges:
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| Old and New Roads to Mandalay: Hard Power in Burma and Beyond
Author(s): Khanna, Tarun
Publication Date: 02/01/2008
Product Type: HBS Press Chapter
HBS Number: 8038BC
Geographic Setting: China; India
Subjects: Business & government; Developing countries; Entrepreneurship; Global business; Health care policy; Laws & regulations; Strategic planning
Academic Discipline: Entrepreneurship
Product Description: This chapter shows how China is expanding its hard power — won through military and economic domination and illustrated most dramatically by its insatiable quest for oil — and discusses the implications of that expansion for Southeast Asia and the rest of the world. May be used with: (8053BC) Reimagining China and India: The Economic Significance of the East; (8052BC) Statecraft: The Art, Science, and Illusion of Governing 2.4 Billion People: The Modern State in China and India; (8051BC) Bias and Noise: Information Accessibility in China and India; (8050BC) Fiat and Fairness: Why China Can Build Cities Overnight and India Cannot; (8049BC) Manna and Miasma: Meanderings Through the Chinese and Indian Financial Firmaments; (8048BC) Infosys and TCL: Unshackling Indigenous Enterprise; (8047BC) Microsoft and Metro: Views from the World's Corner Offices: Foreign Investors in China and India; (8046BC) Diaspora Dividends: Paragons and Pariahs from the Overseas Chinese and Indians; (8040BC) Village Engineering and Reengineering: In Search of Rural Fortunes — Rural Enterprise in China and India; (8039BC) Barefoot Doctors and Medical Tourists: Futile Attempts to Confront the Grim Reaper — The State of Health Care in China and India; (8037BC) Film Stars and Gurus: Soft Power in Bollywood and Beyond; (8036BC) Buddha and Software: Old Links and New: Opportunities for Cooperation Between China and India; (8035BC) Corporate Bridges: Linking China, India, and the West.
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| 29 pp.
| Barefoot Doctors and Medical Tourists: Futile Attempts to Confront the Grim Reaper — The State of Health Care in China and India
Author(s): Khanna, Tarun
Publication Date: 02/01/2008
Product Type: HBS Press Chapter
HBS Number: 8039BC
Geographic Setting: China; India
Subjects: Business & government; Developing countries; Entrepreneurship; Global business; Health care policy; Laws & regulations; Strategic planning
Academic Discipline: Entrepreneurship
Product Description: This chapter looks at the turmoil and deep inequity of the health care systems in China and India, where great divides in medical access exist between rural and urban areas. May be used with: (8053BC) Reimagining China and India: The Economic Significance of the East; (8052BC) Statecraft: The Art, Science, and Illusion of Governing 2.4 Billion People: The Modern State in China and India; (8051BC) Bias and Noise: Information Accessibility in China and India; (8050BC) Fiat and Fairness: Why China Can Build Cities Overnight and India Cannot; (8049BC) Manna and Miasma: Meanderings Through the Chinese and Indian Financial Firmaments; (8048BC) Infosys and TCL: Unshackling Indigenous Enterprise; (8047BC) Microsoft and Metro: Views from the World's Corner Offices: Foreign Investors in China and India; (8046BC) Diaspora Dividends: Paragons and Pariahs from the Overseas Chinese and Indians; (8040BC) Village Engineering and Reengineering: In Search of Rural Fortunes — Rural Enterprise in China and India; (8038BC) Old and New Roads to Mandalay: Hard Power in Burma and Beyond; (8037BC) Film Stars and Gurus: Soft Power in Bollywood and Beyond; (8036BC) Buddha and Software: Old Links and New: Opportunities for Cooperation Between China and India; (8035BC) Corporate Bridges: Linking China, India, and the West.
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| 28 pp.
| Village Engineering and Reengineering: In Search of Rural Fortunes — Rural Enterprise in China and India
Author(s): Khanna, Tarun
Publication Date: 02/01/2008
Product Type: HBS Press Chapter
HBS Number: 8040BC
Geographic Setting: China; India
Subjects: Business & government; Developing countries; Economic development; Entrepreneurship; Global business; Innovation; Strategic planning
Academic Discipline: Entrepreneurship
Product Description: In this chapter, the author visits some of China's and India's poorest villages — plagued by casteism in the case of India, and the government's inconsistent policies in the case of China — to illuminate the difference between the two countries in the development of rural economies. May be used with: (8053BC) Reimagining China and India: The Economic Significance of the East; (8052BC) Statecraft: The Art, Science, and Illusion of Governing 2.4 Billion People: The Modern State in China and India; (8051BC) Bias and Noise: Information Accessibility in China and India; (8050BC) Fiat and Fairness: Why China Can Build Cities Overnight and India Cannot; (8049BC) Manna and Miasma: Meanderings Through the Chinese and Indian Financial Firmaments; (8048BC) Infosys and TCL: Unshackling Indigenous Enterprise; (8047BC) Microsoft and Metro: Views from the World's Corner Offices: Foreign Investors in China and India; (8046BC) Diaspora Dividends: Paragons and Pariahs from the Overseas Chinese and Indians; (8039BC) Barefoot Doctors and Medical Tourists: Futile Attempts to Confront the Grim Reaper — The State of Health Care in China and India; (8038BC) Old and New Roads to Mandalay: Hard Power in Burma and Beyond; (8037BC) Film Stars and Gurus: Soft Power in Bollywood and Beyond; (8036BC) Buddha and Software: Old Links and New: Opportunities for Cooperation Between China and India; (8035BC) Corporate Bridges: Linking China, India, and the West.
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| 27 pp.
| Diaspora Dividends: Paragons and Pariahs from the Overseas Chinese and Indians
Author(s): Khanna, Tarun
Publication Date: 02/01/2008
Product Type: HBS Press Chapter
HBS Number: 8046BC
Geographic Setting: China; India
Subjects: Business & government; Developing countries; Entrepreneurship; Global business; Innovation; Laws & regulations; Strategic planning
Academic Discipline: Entrepreneurship
Product Description: This chapter looks at how Chinese and Indian attitudes about their diaspora of fifty million and twenty million respectively have affected the development of financial markets. May be used with: (8053BC) Reimagining China and India: The Economic Significance of the East; (8052BC) Statecraft: The Art, Science, and Illusion of Governing 2.4 Billion People: The Modern State in China and India; (8051BC) Bias and Noise: Information Accessibility in China and India; (8050BC) Fiat and Fairness: Why China Can Build Cities Overnight and India Cannot; (8049BC) Manna and Miasma: Meanderings Through the Chinese and Indian Financial Firmaments; (8048BC) Infosys and TCL: Unshackling Indigenous Enterprise; (8047BC) Microsoft and Metro: Views from the World's Corner Offices: Foreign Investors in China and India; (8040BC) Village Engineering and Reengineering: In Search of Rural Fortunes — Rural Enterprise in China and India; (8039BC) Barefoot Doctors and Medical Tourists: Futile Attempts to Confront the Grim Reaper — The State of Health Care in China and India; (8038BC) Old and New Roads to Mandalay: Hard Power in Burma and Beyond; (8037BC) Film Stars and Gurus: Soft Power in Bollywood and Beyond; (8036BC) Buddha and Software: Old Links and New: Opportunities for Cooperation Between China and India; (8035BC) Corporate Bridges: Linking China, India, and the West.
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| 32 pp.
| Microsoft and Metro: Views from the World’s Corner Offices: Foreign Investors in China and India
Author(s): Khanna, Tarun
Publication Date: 02/01/2008
Product Type: HBS Press Chapter
HBS Number: 8047BC
Geographic Setting: China; India
Subjects: Developing countries; Entrepreneurship; Foreign investment; Global business; Innovation; Multinational corporations; Strategic planning
Academic Discipline: Entrepreneurship
Product Description: This chapter looks at what it takes for multinationals to succeed in China and India using the cases of Microsoft in China and the German firm, Metro Cash & Carry, in India. May be used with: (8053BC) Reimagining China and India: The Economic Significance of the East; (8052BC) Statecraft: The Art, Science, and Illusion of Governing 2.4 Billion People: The Modern State in China and India; (8051BC) Bias and Noise: Information Accessibility in China and India; (8050BC) Fiat and Fairness: Why China Can Build Cities Overnight and India Cannot; (8049BC) Manna and Miasma: Meanderings Through the Chinese and Indian Financial Firmaments; (8048BC) Infosys and TCL: Unshackling Indigenous Enterprise; (8047BC) Microsoft and Metro: Views from the World's Corner Offices: Foreign Investors in China and India; (8046BC) Diaspora Dividends: Paragons and Pariahs from the Overseas Chinese and Indians; (8040BC) Village Engineering and Reengineering: In Search of Rural Fortunes — Rural Enterprise in China and India; (8039BC) Barefoot Doctors and Medical Tourists: Futile Attempts to Confront the Grim Reaper — The State of Health Care in China and India; (8038BC) Old and New Roads to Mandalay: Hard Power in Burma and Beyond; (8037BC) Film Stars and Gurus: Soft Power in Bollywood and Beyond; (8036BC) Buddha and Software: Old Links and New: Opportunities for Cooperation Between China and India; (8035BC) Corporate Bridges: Linking China, India, and the West.
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| Infosys and TCL: Unshackling Indigenous Enterprise
Author(s): Khanna, Tarun
Publication Date: 02/01/2008
Product Type: HBS Press Chapter
HBS Number: 8048BC
Geographic Setting: China; India
Subjects: Developing countries; Entrepreneurship; Global business; Innovation; Strategic planning
Academic Discipline: Entrepreneurship
Product Description: This chapter examines how local entrepreneurs in China and India are building successful enterprises in very different ways, comparing the rise of one of China's leading companies, TCL Corporation, a leading manufacturer of consumer electronics, with the rise of Infosys, one of India's leading software companies, and a pioneer of off-shoring. May be used with: (8053BC) Reimagining China and India: The Economic Significance of the East; (8052BC) Statecraft: The Art, Science, and Illusion of Governing 2.4 Billion People: The Modern State in China and India; (8051BC) Bias and Noise: Information Accessibility in China and India; (8050BC) Fiat and Fairness: Why China Can Build Cities Overnight and India Cannot; (8049BC) Manna and Miasma: Meanderings Through the Chinese and Indian Financial Firmaments; (8048BC) Infosys and TCL: Unshackling Indigenous Enterprise; (8047BC) Microsoft and Metro: Views from the World's Corner Offices: Foreign Investors in China and India; (8046BC) Diaspora Dividends: Paragons and Pariahs from the Overseas Chinese and Indians; (8040BC) Village Engineering and Reengineering: In Search of Rural Fortunes — Rural Enterprise in China and India; (8039BC) Barefoot Doctors and Medical Tourists: Futile Attempts to Confront the Grim Reaper — The State of Health Care in China and India; (8038BC) Old and New Roads to Mandalay: Hard Power in Burma and Beyond; (8037BC) Film Stars and Gurus: Soft Power in Bollywood and Beyond; (8036BC) Buddha and Software: Old Links and New: Opportunities for Cooperation Between Chi
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| Manna and Miasma: Meanderings Through the Chinese and Indian Financial Firmaments
Author(s): Khanna, Tarun
Publication Date: 02/01/2008
Product Type: HBS Press Chapter
HBS Number: 8049BC
Geographic Setting: China; India
Subjects: Business & government; Developing countries; Entrepreneurship; Finance; Foreign investment; Global business; Laws & regulations
Academic Discipline: Entrepreneurship
Product Description: This chapter illustrates how exchange does or does not occur in financial markets in China and India, profiling these countries' differing approaches to foreign investment and indigenous entrepreneurship. May be used with: (8053BC) Reimagining China and India: The Economic Significance of the East; (8052BC) Statecraft: The Art, Science, and Illusion of Governing 2.4 Billion People: The Modern State in China and India; (8051BC) Bias and Noise: Information Accessibility in China and India; (8050BC) Fiat and Fairness: Why China Can Build Cities Overnight and India Cannot; (8049BC) Manna and Miasma: Meanderings Through the Chinese and Indian Financial Firmaments; (8048BC) Infosys and TCL: Unshackling Indigenous Enterprise; (8047BC) Microsoft and Metro: Views from the World's Corner Offices: Foreign Investors in China and India; (8046BC) Diaspora Dividends: Paragons and Pariahs from the Overseas Chinese and Indians; (8040BC) Village Engineering and Reengineering: In Search of Rural Fortunes — Rural Enterprise in China and India; (8039BC) Barefoot Doctors and Medical Tourists: Futile Attempts to Confront the Grim Reaper — The State of Health Care in China and India; (8038BC) Old and New Roads to Mandalay: Hard Power in Burma and Beyond; (8037BC) Film Stars and Gurus: Soft Power in Bollywood and Beyond; (8036BC) Buddha and Software: Old Links and New: Opportunities for Cooperation Between China and India; (8035BC) Corporate Bridges: Linking China, India, and the West.
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| Fiat and Fairness: Why China Can Build Cities Overnight and India Cannot
Author(s): Khanna, Tarun
Publication Date: 02/01/2008
Product Type: HBS Press Chapter
HBS Number: 8050BC
Geographic Setting: China; India
Subjects: Business & government; Developing countries; Entrepreneurship; Global business; Innovation; Laws & regulations; Strategic planning
Academic Discipline: Entrepreneurship
Product Description: This chapter considers differing attitudes to private property in China and India, and the effects of these attitudes on economic growth. May be used with: (8053BC) Reimagining China and India: The Economic Significance of the East; (8052BC) Statecraft: The Art, Science, and Illusion of Governing 2.4 Billion People: The Modern State in China and India; (8051BC) Bias and Noise: Information Accessibility in China and India; (8049BC) Manna and Miasma: Meanderings Through the Chinese and Indian Financial Firmaments; (8048BC) Infosys and TCL: Unshackling Indigenous Enterprise; (8047BC) Microsoft and Metro: Views from the World's Corner Offices: Foreign Investors in China and India; (8046BC) Diaspora Dividends: Paragons and Pariahs from the Overseas Chinese and Indians; (8040BC) Village Engineering and Reengineering: In Search of Rural Fortunes — Rural Enterprise in China and India; (8039BC) Barefoot Doctors and Medical Tourists: Futile Attempts to Confront the Grim Reaper — The State of Health Care in China and India; (8038BC) Old and New Roads to Mandalay: Hard Power in Burma and Beyond; (8037BC) Film Stars and Gurus: Soft Power in Bollywood and Beyond; (8036BC) Buddha and Software: Old Links and New: Opportunities for Cooperation Between China and India; (8035BC) Corporate Bridges: Linking China, India, and the West.
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| Bias and Noise: Information Accessibility in China and India
Author(s): Khanna, Tarun
Publication Date: 02/01/2008
Product Type: HBS Press Chapter
HBS Number: 8051BC
Geographic Setting: China; India
Subjects: Business & government; Developing countries; Entrepreneurship; Global business; Information management; Innovation; Laws & regulations
Academic Discipline: Entrepreneurship
Product Description: Considering China's and India's starkly opposing attitudes toward disseminating and accessing information, how can the two countries communicate? This chapter addresses this issue along with the question of how Western countries might also access and interpret information in China and India. May be used with: (8053BC) Reimagining China and India: The Economic Significance of the East; (8052BC) Statecraft: The Art, Science, and Illusion of Governing 2.4 Billion People: The Modern State in China and India; (8050BC) Fiat and Fairness: Why China Can Build Cities Overnight and India Cannot; (8049BC) Manna and Miasma: Meanderings Through the Chinese and Indian Financial Firmaments; (8048BC) Infosys and TCL: Unshackling Indigenous Enterprise; (8047BC) Microsoft and Metro: Views from the World's Corner Offices: Foreign Investors in China and India; (8046BC) Diaspora Dividends: Paragons and Pariahs from the Overseas Chinese and Indians; (8040BC) Village Engineering and Reengineering: In Search of Rural Fortunes — Rural Enterprise in China and India; (8039BC) Barefoot Doctors and Medical Tourists: Futile Attempts to Confront the Grim Reaper — The State of Health Care in China and India; (8038BC) Old and New Roads to Mandalay: Hard Power in Burma and Beyond; (8037BC) Film Stars and Gurus: Soft Power in Bollywood and Beyond; (8036BC) Buddha and Software: Old Links and New: Opportunities for Cooperation Between China and India; (8035BC) Corporate Bridges: Linking China, India, and the West
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| Statecraft: The Art, Science, and Illusion of Governing 2.4 Billion People: The Modern State in China and India
Author(s): Khanna, Tarun
Publication Date: 02/01/2008
Product Type: HBS Press Chapter
HBS Number: 8052BC
Geographic Setting: China; India
Subjects: Business & government; Developing countries; Entrepreneurship; Global business; Innovation; Laws & regulations; Strategic planning
Academic Discipline: Entrepreneurship
Product Description: This chapter examines the evolution of the Chinese and Indian governments over the last half-century and the political legacies each country struggles with as it opens up to the twenty-first century. May be used with: (8053BC) Reimagining China and India: The Economic Significance of the East; (8051BC) Bias and Noise: Information Accessibility in China and India; (8050BC) Fiat and Fairness: Why China Can Build Cities Overnight and India Cannot; (8049BC) Manna and Miasma: Meanderings Through the Chinese and Indian Financial Firmaments; (8048BC) Infosys and TCL: Unshackling Indigenous Enterprise; (8047BC) Microsoft and Metro: Views from the World's Corner Offices: Foreign Investors in China and India; (8046BC) Diaspora Dividends: Paragons and Pariahs from the Overseas Chinese and Indians; (8040BC) Village Engineering and Reengineering: In Search of Rural Fortunes — Rural Enterprise in China and India; (8039BC) Barefoot Doctors and Medical Tourists: Futile Attempts to Confront the Grim Reaper — The State of Health Care in China and India; (8038BC) Old and New Roads to Mandalay: Hard Power in Burma and Beyond; (8037BC) Film Stars and Gurus: Soft Power in Bollywood and Beyond; (8036BC) Buddha and Software: Old Links and New: Opportunities for Cooperation Between China and India; (8035BC) Corporate Bridges: Linking China, India, and the West.
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| Reimagining China and India: The Economic Significance of the East
Author(s): Khanna, Tarun
Publication Date: 02/01/2008
Product Type: HBS Press Chapter
HBS Number: 8053BC
Geographic Setting: China; India
Subjects: Business & government; Developing countries; Entrepreneurship; Global business; Innovation; Laws & regulations; Strategic planning
Academic Discipline: Entrepreneurship
Product Description: Today's economic projections suggest that in less than a generation China and India will become the largest and the third largest economies in the world. Yet the U.S. remains woefully uninformed about the past and present of both countries. This chapter seeks to clarify what's happening in China and India, addressing some of the major differences, as well as the enormous potential for cooperation, between these two global powerhouses. May be used with: (8052BC) Statecraft: The Art, Science, and Illusion of Governing 2.4 Billion People: The Modern State in China and India; (8051BC) Bias and Noise: Information Accessibility in China and India; (8050BC) Fiat and Fairness: Why China Can Build Cities Overnight and India Cannot; (8049BC) Manna and Miasma: Meanderings Through the Chinese and Indian Financial Firmaments; (8048BC) Infosys and TCL: Unshackling Indigenous Enterprise; (8047BC) Microsoft and Metro: Views from the World's Corner Offices: Foreign Investors in China and India; (8046BC) Diaspora Dividends: Paragons and Pariahs from the Overseas Chinese and Indians; (8040BC) Village Engineering and Reengineering: In Search of Rural Fortunes — Rural Enterprise in China and India; (8039BC) Barefoot Doctors and Medical Tourists: Futile Attempts to Confront the Grim Reaper — The State of Health Care in China and India; (8038BC) Old and New Roads to Mandalay: Hard Power in Burma and Beyond; (8037BC) Film Stars and Gurus: Soft Power in Bollywood and Beyond; (8036BC) Buddha and Software: Old Link
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| Harvard Business Essentials: Entrepreneur’s Toolkit: Tools and Techniques to Launch and Grow Your New Business
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| Self-Diagnosis: Do You Have the Right Stuff to Start a Business?
Publication Date: 10/30/2004
Product Type: HBS Press Chapter
HBS Number: 5269BC
Subjects: Attitudes; Development stage enterprises; Entrepreneurs; Entrepreneurship; Management philosophy; Motivation; Personality; Risk assessment; Start-ups; Success
Academic Discipline: Entrepreneurship
Product Description: Ideas are an important element of success for entrepreneurs, but they're not as important as personal background, motivation, and attitude. In discussing the traits that research has defined as essential to success and the tests that are available for judging suitability, this chapter helps you determine whether you have the makings of a business entrepreneur. May be used with: (5276BC) Finding and Evaluating the Opportunity: Is It Real and Large Enough?; (5306BC) Organizing the Enterprise: Which Form Is Best for You?; (5337BC) Building a Business Model and Strategy: How They Work Together; (5344BC) Writing a Business Plan: The Basics; (5375BC) Angels and Venture Capitalists: For Serious Outside Equity; (5368BC) Financing the Business: Where's the Money?; (5382BC) Going Public: Adventures in Capital Markets; (5405BC) Enterprise Growth: The Challenge to Management; (5412BC) Keeping the Entrepreneurial Spirit Alive: The Ultimate Challenge of Success; (5436BC) Harvest Time: Reaping What You've Sown.
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| Finding and Evaluating the Opportunity: Is It Real and Large Enough?
Publication Date: 10/30/2004
Product Type: HBS Press Chapter
HBS Number: 5276BC
Subjects: Development stage enterprises; Entrepreneurial finance; Entrepreneurial management; Entrepreneurs; Ideas
Academic Discipline: Entrepreneurship
Product Description: Entrepreneurial people are always generating ideas for potential businesses. But how can they sift through these ideas and recognize the few that represent true business opportunities? This chapter lists the five characteristics of a genuine opportunity, explores where to look for such opportunities, and defines the process of evaluating them — all essential steps to establishing profitable new ventures. May be used with: (5269BC) Self-Diagnosis: Do You Have the Right Stuff to Start a Business?; (5306BC) Organizing the Enterprise: Which Form Is Best for You?; (5337BC) Building a Business Model and Strategy: How They Work Together; (5344BC) Writing a Business Plan: The Basics; (5368BC) Financing the Business: Where's the Money?; (5375BC) Angels and Venture Capitalists: For Serious Outside Equity; (5382BC) Going Public: Adventures in Capital Markets; (5405BC) Enterprise Growth: The Challenge to Management; (5412BC) Keeping the Entrepreneurial Spirit Alive: The Ultimate Challenge of Success; (5436BC) Harvest Time: Reaping What You've Sown.
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| Organizing the Enterprise: Which Form Is Best for You?
Publication Date: 10/30/2004
Product Type: HBS Press Chapter
HBS Number: 5306BC
Geographic Setting: United States
Subjects: Development stage enterprises; Entrepreneurial finance; Entrepreneurial management; Entrepreneurs; Legal aspects of business; Partnerships
Academic Discipline: Entrepreneurship
Product Description: One key issue every entrepreneur must address when starting a new business is the legal form the enterprise will adopt. This chapter covers the various legal forms of organization available to U.S. businesses, the advantages and disadvantages of each, and determining which form is best for you. May be used with: (5276BC) Finding and Evaluating the Opportunity: Is It Real and Large Enough?; (5269BC) Self-Diagnosis: Do You Have the Right Stuff to Start a Business?; (5337BC) Building a Business Model and Strategy: How They Work Together; (5344BC) Writing a Business Plan: The Basics; (5375BC) Angels and Venture Capitalists: For Serious Outside Equity; (5382BC) Going Public: Adventures in Capital Markets; (5405BC) Enterprise Growth: The Challenge to Management; (5412BC) Keeping the Entrepreneurial Spirit Alive: The Ultimate Challenge of Success; (5436BC) Harvest Time: Reaping What You've Sown; (5368BC) Financing the Business: Where's the Money?.
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| Building a Business Model and Strategy: How They Work Together
Publication Date: 10/30/2004
Product Type: HBS Press Chapter
HBS Number: 5337BC
Subjects: Business models; Competitive advantage; Entrepreneurial finance; Entrepreneurs; Strategic market planning
Academic Discipline: Entrepreneurship
Product Description: As this chapter explains, a business model identifies your customers and describes how your business will profitably address their needs. Strategy, on the other hand, is about how to differentiate your business and give it competitive advantage. Using sample cases and step-by-step instructions, this chapter reiterates that both are required for success and explains how to develop them. May be used with: (5269BC) Self-Diagnosis: Do You Have the Right Stuff to Start a Business?; (5276BC) Finding and Evaluating the Opportunity: Is It Real and Large Enough?; (5306BC) Organizing the Enterprise: Which Form Is Best for You?; (5344BC) Writing a Business Plan: The Basics; (5375BC) Angels and Venture Capitalists: For Serious Outside Equity; (5405BC) Enterprise Growth: The Challenge to Management; (5382BC) Going Public: Adventures in Capital Markets; (5412BC) Keeping the Entrepreneurial Spirit Alive: The Ultimate Challenge of Success; (5436BC) Harvest Time: Reaping What You've Sown; (5368BC) Financing the Business: Where's the Money?.
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| Writing a Business Plan: The Basics
Publication Date: 10/30/2004
Product Type: HBS Press Chapter
HBS Number: 5344BC
Subjects: Business plans; Entrepreneurial finance; Entrepreneurs; Mission statements
Academic Discipline: Entrepreneurship
Product Description: Every entrepreneur is encouraged to write a business plan; those who don't quickly learn that future operations can be derailed without a cohesive printed mission and that obtaining outside funding is nearly impossible without one. This chapter discusses the managerial purposes of a business plan and describes the key points that potential investors look for. May be used with: (5276BC) Finding and Evaluating the Opportunity: Is It Real and Large Enough?; (5306BC) Organizing the Enterprise: Which Form Is Best for You?; (5337BC) Building a Business Model and Strategy: How They Work Together; (5269BC) Self-Diagnosis: Do You Have the Right Stuff to Start a Business?; (5368BC) Financing the Business: Where's the Money?; (5375BC) Angels and Venture Capitalists: For Serious Outside Equity; (5382BC) Going Public: Adventures in Capital Markets; (5405BC) Enterprise Growth: The Challenge to Management; (5412BC) Keeping the Entrepreneurial Spirit Alive: The Ultimate Challenge of Success; (5436BC) Harvest Time: Reaping What You've Sown.
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| Financing the Business: Where’s the Money?
Publication Date: 10/30/2004
Product Type: HBS Press Chapter
HBS Number: 5368BC
Subjects: Business cycles; Entrepreneurial finance; Entrepreneurs; Financing; Growth strategy
Academic Discipline: Entrepreneurship
Product Description: This chapter describes the financing requirements that businesses typically encounter in different phases of the business life cycle, from start-up to maturity. It also provides an overview of the sources they turn to in securing financing during those phases. Two types of business — lifestyle and entrepreneurial — illustrate the general course of financing from start-up through expansion. May be used with: (5276BC) Finding and Evaluating the Opportunity: Is It Real and Large Enough?; (5306BC) Organizing the Enterprise: Which Form Is Best for You?; (5337BC) Building a Business Model and Strategy: How They Work Together; (5344BC) Writing a Business Plan: The Basics; (5269BC) Self-Diagnosis: Do You Have the Right Stuff to Start a Business?; (5375BC) Angels and Venture Capitalists: For Serious Outside Equity; (5382BC) Going Public: Adventures in Capital Markets; (5405BC) Enterprise Growth: The Challenge to Management; (5412BC) Keeping the Entrepreneurial Spirit Alive: The Ultimate Challenge of Success; (5436BC) Harvest Time: Reaping What You've Sown.
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| Angels and Venture Capitalists: For Serious Outside Equity
Publication Date: 10/30/2004
Product Type: HBS Press Chapter
HBS Number: 5375BC
Subjects: Angel financing; Business cycles; Entrepreneurial finance; Entrepreneurs; Equity capital; Growth; Venture capital
Academic Discipline: Entrepreneurship
Product Description: Some entrepreneurs seek equity capital to grow their businesses aggressively. Equity capital gives its contributor an ownership interest in the assets of the enterprise. This chapter describes the two most immediate sources of equity capital beyond friends and family: business angels and venture capitalists. It explains how you can connect with them and discusses the pros and cons of taking their money. May be used with: (5276BC) Finding and Evaluating the Opportunity: Is It Real and Large Enough?; (5306BC) Organizing the Enterprise: Which Form Is Best for You?; (5337BC) Building a Business Model and Strategy: How They Work Together; (5344BC) Writing a Business Plan: The Basics; (5269BC) Self-Diagnosis: Do You Have the Right Stuff to Start a Business?; (5368BC) Financing the Business: Where's the Money?; (5382BC) Going Public: Adventures in Capital Markets; (5405BC) Enterprise Growth: The Challenge to Management; (5412BC) Keeping the Entrepreneurial Spirit Alive: The Ultimate Challenge of Success; (5436BC) Harvest Time: Reaping What You've Sown.
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| Going Public: Adventures in Capital Markets
Publication Date: 10/30/2004
Product Type: HBS Press Chapter
HBS Number: 5382BC
Subjects: Entrepreneurial finance; Entrepreneurs; Investment banking; IPO
Academic Discipline: Entrepreneurship
Product Description: Growing firms with exceptional revenue potential may seek financing through an initial public offering (IPO) of their ownership shares to the world of individual and institutional investors, resulting in the exchange of paper ownership shares for the hard cash the firm needs for stability and expansion. This chapter outlines the pros and cons of going public and details the process and its alternatives for those who are ready for that option. May be used with: (5276BC) Finding and Evaluating the Opportunity: Is It Real and Large Enough?; (5306BC) Organizing the Enterprise: Which Form Is Best for You?; (5337BC) Building a Business Model and Strategy: How They Work Together; (5368BC) Financing the Business: Where's the Money?; (5344BC) Writing a Business Plan: The Basics; (5375BC) Angels and Venture Capitalists: For Serious Outside Equity; (5269BC) Self-Diagnosis: Do You Have the Right Stuff to Start a Business?; (5405BC) Enterprise Growth: The Challenge to Management; (5412BC) Keeping the Entrepreneurial Spirit Alive: The Ultimate Challenge of Success; (5436BC) Harvest Time: Reaping What You've Sown.
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| Enterprise Growth: The Challenge to Management
Publication Date: 10/30/2004
Product Type: HBS Press Chapter
HBS Number: 5405BC
Subjects: Change management; Enterprise management; Enterprise systems; Entrepreneurial management; Entrepreneurs; Growth management; Management styles; Managerial behavior
Academic Discipline: Entrepreneurship
Product Description: In exchange for growing revenues, greater market share, and increasing profitability, the entrepreneurial business must contend both with the challenge of sustaining growth and adopting new modes of management needed for a larger, more complex organization. This chapter addresses these challenges, with an emphasis on how the entrepreneur's own role must change as the business expands. May be used with: (5276BC) Finding and Evaluating the Opportunity: Is It Real and Large Enough?; (5306BC) Organizing the Enterprise: Which Form Is Best for You?; (5337BC) Building a Business Model and Strategy: How They Work Together; (5368BC) Financing the Business: Where's the Money?; (5375BC) Angels and Venture Capitalists: For Serious Outside Equity; (5382BC) Going Public: Adventures in Capital Markets; (5269BC) Self-Diagnosis: Do You Have the Right Stuff to Start a Business?; (5412BC) Keeping the Entrepreneurial Spirit Alive: The Ultimate Challenge of Success; (5436BC) Harvest Time: Reaping What You've Sown; (5344BC) Writing a Business Plan: The Basics.
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| Keeping the Entrepreneurial Spirit Alive: The Ultimate Challenge of Success
Publication Date: 10/30/2004
Product Type: HBS Press Chapter
HBS Number: 5412BC
Subjects: Entrepreneurial finance; Entrepreneurs; Growth management; Growth strategy; Innovation
Academic Discipline: Entrepreneurship
Product Description: As firms become larger and more established, they may lose the entrepreneurial spark and become less adept at innovation. This chapter discusses three challenges to growing companies — size, the desire to serve existing customers, and complacency — and lists seven steps that leaders can take to keep the entrepreneurial spirit alive. May be used with: (5276BC) Finding and Evaluating the Opportunity: Is It Real and Large Enough?; (5306BC) Organizing the Enterprise: Which Form Is Best for You?; (5337BC) Building a Business Model and Strategy: How They Work Together; (5344BC) Writing a Business Plan: The Basics; (5368BC) Financing the Business: Where's the Money?; (5375BC) Angels and Venture Capitalists: For Serious Outside Equity; (5382BC) Going Public: Adventures in Capital Markets; (5405BC) Enterprise Growth: The Challenge to Management; (5269BC) Self-Diagnosis: Do You Have the Right Stuff to Start a Business?; (5436BC) Harvest Time: Reaping What You've Sown.
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| Harvest Time: Reaping What You’ve Sown
Publication Date: 10/30/2004
Product Type: HBS Press Chapter
HBS Number: 5436BC
Subjects: Acquisitions; Entrepreneurial finance; Entrepreneurs; ESOP; IPO; Valuation
Academic Discipline: Entrepreneurship
Product Description: The majority of entrepreneurs eventually look for an opportunity to harvest the monetary value they have created — value that is locked up in the enterprise. This chapter examines the motivations that lead to harvesting, the primary mechanisms for doing so, and the methods used to determine business value. May be used with: (5276BC) Finding and Evaluating the Opportunity: Is It Real and Large Enough?; (5306BC) Organizing the Enterprise: Which Form Is Best for You?; (5337BC) Building a Business Model and Strategy: How They Work Together; (5344BC) Writing a Business Plan: The Basics; (5368BC) Financing the Business: Where's the Money?; (5375BC) Angels and Venture Capitalists: For Serious Outside Equity; (5382BC) Going Public: Adventures in Capital Markets; (5405BC) Enterprise Growth: The Challenge to Management; (5412BC) Keeping the Entrepreneurial Spirit Alive: The Ultimate Challenge of Success; (5269BC) Self-Diagnosis: Do You Have the Right Stuff to Start a Business?.
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| The Medici Effect: What Elephants and Epidemics Can Teach Us About Innovation
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| The Intersection—Your Best Chance to Innovate: Monkeys and Mind Readers
Author(s): Johansson, Frans
Publication Date: 10/01/2006
Product Type: HBS Press Chapter
HBS Number: 4639BC
Subjects: Business growth; Creativity; Innovation; Intellectual capital; Inventions; Product development
Academic Discipline: Entrepreneurship
Product Description: If you deliberately step into an intersection of fields, disciplines, or cultures — a phenomenon Johannson calls “the Medici Effect” — you drastically increase the chances of innovating. This chapter illustrates the power of intersectional ideas through the story of a research team at Brown University including mathematicians, medical doctors, neuroscientists, and computer scientists that conducted a remarkable experiment in which a rhesus monkey was taught to play a computer game using only its mind to control the cursor.
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| The Rise of Intersections: The Sounds of Shakira and the Emotions of Shrek—The Preconditions for Innovative Ideas
Author(s): Johansson, Frans
Publication Date: 10/01/2006
Product Type: HBS Press Chapter
HBS Number: 4611BC
Subjects: Business growth; Creativity; Innovation; Intellectual capital; Inventions; Product development
Academic Discipline: Entrepreneurship
Product Description: There has never been a better time to reap the benefits of an increasingly intersectional world. This chapter outlines three distinct forces that have converged to create an environment that is ripe for intersectional innovations: the movement of people, the convergence of science, and the leap of computation.
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| Break Down the Barriers Between Fields: Sea Urchin Lollipops and Darwin’s Finches—Open Your Mind to Intersectional Ideas
Author(s): Johansson, Frans
Publication Date: 10/01/2006
Product Type: HBS Press Chapter
HBS Number: 4612BC
Subjects: Business growth; Creativity; Innovation; Intellectual capital; Inventions; Product development
Academic Discipline: Entrepreneurship
Product Description: If we wish to find the intersection of fields, disciplines, or cultures where extraordinary new ideas emerge, we must break down the barriers to creativity created by the mind's tendency to understand the world based on chains of association.
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| How to Make the Barriers Fall: Heathrow Tunnel and Restaurants Without Food—Opening Your Mind to Intersectional Ideas
Author(s): Johansson, Frans
Publication Date: 10/01/2006
Product Type: HBS Press Chapter
HBS Number: 4613BC
Subjects: Business growth; Creativity; Innovation; Intellectual capital; Inventions; Product development
Academic Discipline: Entrepreneurship
Product Description: Breaking down our associative barriers is the first challenge we face in our search for the intersection of fields, disciplines, or cultures where extraordinary new ideas emerge. This chapter shows you how to do it.
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| Randomly Combine Concepts: Card Games and Sky Rises—How to Generate Intersectional Ideas
Author(s): Johansson, Frans
Publication Date: 10/01/2006
Product Type: HBS Press Chapter
HBS Number: 4615BC
Subjects: Business growth; Creativity; Innovation; Intellectual capital; Inventions; Product development
Academic Discipline: Entrepreneurship
Product Description: Intersectional ideas consist of concepts from different fields. How do these combinations occur, and what is the secret behind an idea that really makes it big? This chapter looks at these questions and the story of a young mathematician who manages to take the gaming world by storm.
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| How to Find the Combinations: Meteorite Crashes and Code Breakers—Strategies for Generating Intersectional Ideas
Author(s): Johansson, Frans
Publication Date: 10/01/2006
Product Type: HBS Press Chapter
HBS Number: 4614BC
Subjects: Business growth; Creativity; Innovation; Intellectual capital; Inventions; Product development
Academic Discipline: Entrepreneurship
Product Description: Once you have broken down the associative barriers that limit out-of-the-box thinking, you will increase the chances of generating random combinations of concepts that cross fields. This chapter shows how various individuals and teams have produced truly intersectional ideas.
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| Ignite an Explosion of Ideas: Submarines and Tubular Bells—Produce More Innovative Ideas
Author(s): Johansson, Frans
Publication Date: 10/01/2006
Product Type: HBS Press Chapter
HBS Number: 4616BC
Subjects: Business growth; Creativity; Innovation; Intellectual capital; Inventions; Product development
Academic Discipline: Entrepreneurship
Product Description: The most successful innovators produce and realize an incredible number of ideas. But why are some innovators more productive than others? And what, if anything, does that have to do with thinking that crosses disciplines? This chapter answers these questions.
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| How to Capture the Explosion: MacGyver and Boiling Potatoes—Making Intersectional Ideas Happen
Author(s): Johansson, Frans
Publication Date: 10/01/2006
Product Type: HBS Press Chapter
HBS Number: 4617BC
Subjects: Business growth; Creativity; Innovation; Intellectual capital; Inventions; Product development
Academic Discipline: Entrepreneurship
Product Description: The most successful innovators are capable of breaking down associative barriers between seemingly unconnected fields to produce and realize a massive number of potentially groundbreaking ideas. The trick is learning to capture the best opportunities and make them happen.
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| Execute Past Your Failures: Violence and School Curricula—Making Intersectional Ideas Happen
Author(s): Johansson, Frans
Publication Date: 10/01/2006
Product Type: HBS Press Chapter
HBS Number: 4619BC
Subjects: Business growth; Creativity; Innovation; Intellectual capital; Inventions; Product development
Academic Discipline: Entrepreneurship
Product Description: In order to successfully execute on innovative ideas generated at the intersection of fields, we must inevitably experience many failures. The solution to this problem is to incorporate our failures into our overall execution plan.
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| How to Succeed in the Face of Failure: Palm Pilots and Counterproductive Carrots—Making Intersectional Ideas Happen
Author(s): Johansson, Frans
Publication Date: 10/01/2006
Product Type: HBS Press Chapter
HBS Number: 4618BC
Subjects: Business growth; Creativity; Innovation; Intellectual capital; Inventions; Product development
Academic Discipline: Entrepreneurship
Product Description: Mistakes and false starts are part of the process for making ideas happen at the intersection of cultures, disciplines, and fields. If we hope to innovate, we must continue executing ideas and move past our failures.
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| Break Out of Your Network: Ants and Truck Drivers—Making Intersectional Ideas Happen
Author(s): Johansson, Frans
Publication Date: 10/01/2006
Product Type: HBS Press Chapter
HBS Number: 4620BC
Subjects: Business growth; Creativity; Innovation; Intellectual capital; Inventions; Product development
Academic Discipline: Entrepreneurship
Product Description: In order to successfully execute on innovative ideas generated at the intersection of fields, you will have to fight the seductive urge to remain comfortably within your established network. In fact, many of the resources, processes, and people that made you successful in the past may suddenly be holding you back.
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| How to Leave the Network Behind: Penguins and Meditation—Making Intersectional Ideas Happen
Author(s): Johansson, Frans
Publication Date: 10/01/2006
Product Type: HBS Press Chapter
HBS Number: 4621BC
Subjects: Business growth; Creativity; Innovation; Intellectual capital; Inventions; Product development
Academic Discipline: Entrepreneurship
Product Description: Both people and firms in a value network will have set up processes and procedures that essentially kill off attempts to break out of it. New ideas that do not correspond to the values of the network are often eliminated. This chapter outlines strategies for breaking out of your networks and increasing the chances of successfully executing on innovative ideas that originate at the intersection of fields.
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| Take Risks and Overcome Fear: Airplanes and Serial Entrepreneurs—Making Intersectional Ideas Happen
Author(s): Johansson, Frans
Publication Date: 10/01/2006
Product Type: HBS Press Chapter
HBS Number: 4622BC
Subjects: Business growth; Creativity; Experimentation; Innovation; Intellectual capital; Inventions; Product development; Risk
Academic Discipline: Entrepreneurship
Product Description: Risk taking is essential if you wish to turn your intersectional idea into innovation. How do we find the courage to leave an established network behind, or persevere after failures? This chapter provides some answers.
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| How to Adopt a Balanced View of Risk: Elephants and Epidemics—Making Intersectional Ideas Happen
Author(s): Johansson, Frans
Publication Date: 10/01/2006
Product Type: HBS Press Chapter
HBS Number: 4623BC
Subjects: Business growth; Creativity; Emotions; Innovation; Intellectual capital; Inventions; Product development; Risk management
Academic Discipline: Entrepreneurship
Product Description: When thinking about risk, emotions, and fear in particular, play a big part in our perception of possible loss versus potential gain. What gives some innovators, like Richard Branson of Virgin Atlantic, the courage to pursue risky ideas that emerge from the intersection of fields?
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| Step into the Intersection... and Create the Medici Effect—The Future of Innovation
Author(s): Johansson, Frans
Publication Date: 10/01/2006
Product Type: HBS Press Chapter
HBS Number: 4624BC
Subjects: Business growth; Creativity; Innovation; Intellectual capital; Inventions; Product development
Academic Discipline: Entrepreneurship
Product Description: Today, disciplines and cultures are connecting faster, more often, and in more places than ever before creating more opportunities to explore the intersection of fields as a site for the generation of innovative ideas. The advantage goes to those with an open mind and the willingness to reach beyond their field of expertise.
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| The Power of Unreasonable People: How Social Entrepreneurs Create Markets That Change the World
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| Roots of Unreason, Sources of Power: The Social Entrepreneurs Who Are Changing the World
Author(s): Elkington, John; Hartigan, Pamela
Publication Date: 02/05/2008
Product Type: HBS Press Chapter
HBS Number: 8029BC
Subjects: Developing countries; Disruptive innovations; Emerging markets; Social enterprise
Academic Discipline: Entrepreneurship
Product Description: The authors argue that during periods of extraordinary volatility, disruption, and change, the best place to look for clues to tomorrow's revolutionary business models is at the fringes of the current dysfunctional system. In this chapter, readers meet a new generation of social and environmental entrepreneurs — “unreasonable” people who are pioneering future markets where most would see nightmarish risks. May be used with: (8028BC) Creating Successful Business Models: Lessons from Social Entrepreneurship; (8027BC) Tapping Financial Resources: Lessons from Social Entrepreneurship; (8026BC) Identifying Market Opportunities in Ten Great Divides: How Social Entrepreneurs Are Creating the Markets of the Future; (8020BC) Raising Expectations for Bonsai Consumers: How Social Entrepreneurs Are Creating the Markets of the Future; (8019BC) Democratizing Technology: Leading Sustainable and Scalable Change; (8018BC) Changing the System: Leading Sustainable and Scalable Change; (8017BC) Scaling Solutions: Leading Sustainable and Scalable Change; (8016BC) Lessons for Tomorrow's Leaders: Leading Sustainable and Scalable Change; (8015BC) Where Do Unreasonable Entrepreneurs Cluster?: Social Entrepreneurs Around the World.
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| Creating Successful Business Models: Lessons from Social Entrepreneurship
Author(s): Elkington, John; Hartigan, Pamela
Publication Date: 02/05/2008
Product Type: HBS Press Chapter
HBS Number: 8028BC
Subjects: Business models; Developing countries; Disruptive innovations; Emerging markets; Social enterprise
Academic Discipline: Entrepreneurship
Product Description: Social and environmental entrepreneurs are learning to channel their convictions, boundless creativity, and ability to amass the necessary resources into building sustainable systems and structures that address the most pressing market failures of our time. In this chapter, the authors examine the three categories of business models that leading social enterprises seem to fall into, discussing the challenges and opportunities of each for mainstream organizations. May be used with: (8029BC) Roots of Unreason, Sources of Power: The Social Entrepreneurs Who Are Changing the World; (8027BC) Tapping Financial Resources: Lessons from Social Entrepreneurship; (8026BC) Identifying Market Opportunities in Ten Great Divides: How Social Entrepreneurs Are Creating the Markets of the Future; (8020BC) Raising Expectations for Bonsai Consumers: How Social Entrepreneurs Are Creating the Markets of the Future; (8019BC) Democratizing Technology: Leading Sustainable and Scalable Change; (8018BC) Changing the System: Leading Sustainable and Scalable Change; (8017BC) Scaling Solutions: Leading Sustainable and Scalable Change; (8016BC) Lessons for Tomorrow's Leaders: Leading Sustainable and Scalable Change; (8015BC) Where Do Unreasonable Entrepreneurs Cluster?: Social Entrepreneurs Around the World.
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| Tapping Financial Resources: Lessons from Social Entrepreneurship
Author(s): Elkington, John; Hartigan, Pamela
Publication Date: 02/05/2008
Product Type: HBS Press Chapter
HBS Number: 8027BC
Subjects: Developing countries; Disruptive innovations; Emerging markets; Entrepreneurial finance; Social enterprise
Academic Discipline: Entrepreneurship
Product Description: This chapter explores some of the more interesting trends in resource mobilization for social and environmental ventures, spotlighting various entrepreneurs and their experience and lessons learned. May be used with: (8029BC) Roots of Unreason, Sources of Power: The Social Entrepreneurs Who Are Changing the World; (8028BC) Creating Successful Business Models: Lessons from Social Entrepreneurship; (8026BC) Identifying Market Opportunities in Ten Great Divides: How Social Entrepreneurs Are Creating the Markets of the Future; (8020BC) Raising Expectations for Bonsai Consumers: How Social Entrepreneurs Are Creating the Markets of the Future; (8019BC) Democratizing Technology: Leading Sustainable and Scalable Change; (8018BC) Changing the System: Leading Sustainable and Scalable Change; (8017BC) Scaling Solutions: Leading Sustainable and Scalable Change; (8016BC) Lessons for Tomorrow's Leaders: Leading Sustainable and Scalable Change; (8015BC) Where Do Unreasonable Entrepreneurs Cluster?: Social Entrepreneurs Around the World.
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| Identifying Market Opportunities in Ten Great Divides: How Social Entrepreneurs Are Creating the Markets of the Future
Author(s): Elkington, John; Hartigan, Pamela
Publication Date: 02/05/2008
Product Type: HBS Press Chapter
HBS Number: 8026BC
Subjects: Developing countries; Disruptive innovations; Economic development; Emerging markets; Market research; Social enterprise
Academic Discipline: Entrepreneurship
Product Description: In this chapter, the authors look at the ten great divides between the fortunate and the not-so-fortunate to emerge from the UN's Millennium Development Goals — including demographics, finance, health and the environment — as pointers to tomorrow's market opportunities. They outline the relevant challenges of each divide and sketch some of the ways that social and environmental entrepreneurs are working to address them. May be used with: (8029BC) Roots of Unreason, Sources of Power: The Social Entrepreneurs Who Are Changing the World; (8028BC) Creating Successful Business Models: Lessons from Social Entrepreneurship; (8027BC) Tapping Financial Resources: Lessons from Social Entrepreneurship; (8020BC) Raising Expectations for Bonsai Consumers: How Social Entrepreneurs Are Creating the Markets of the Future; (8019BC) Democratizing Technology: Leading Sustainable and Scalable Change; (8018BC) Changing the System: Leading Sustainable and Scalable Change; (8017BC) Scaling Solutions: Leading Sustainable and Scalable Change; (8016BC) Lessons for Tomorrow's Leaders: Leading Sustainable and Scalable Change; (8015BC) Where Do Unreasonable Entrepreneurs Cluster?: Social Entrepreneurs Around the World.
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| Raising Expectations for Bonsai Consumers: How Social Entrepreneurs Are Creating the Markets of the Future
Author(s): Elkington, John; Hartigan, Pamela
Publication Date: 02/05/2008
Product Type: HBS Press Chapter
HBS Number: 8020BC
Subjects: Developing countries; Disruptive innovations; Economic development; Emerging markets; Social enterprise
Academic Discipline: Entrepreneurship
Product Description: This chapter examines how social entrepreneurs are partnering with the poor, helping empower growing numbers of bonsai (or BOP — bottom of the pyramid) consumers. The authors insist that these entrepreneurial projects are not alternatives to public and private sector action, but early indicators of the seismic market developments that are soon to come. May be used with: (8029BC) Roots of Unreason, Sources of Power: The Social Entrepreneurs Who Are Changing the World; (8028BC) Creating Successful Business Models: Lessons from Social Entrepreneurship; (8027BC) Tapping Financial Resources: Lessons from Social Entrepreneurship; (8026BC) Identifying Market Opportunities in Ten Great Divides: How Social Entrepreneurs Are Creating the Markets of the Future; (8019BC) Democratizing Technology: Leading Sustainable and Scalable Change; (8018BC) Changing the System: Leading Sustainable and Scalable Change; (8017BC) Scaling Solutions: Leading Sustainable and Scalable Change; (8016BC) Lessons for Tomorrow's Leaders: Leading Sustainable and Scalable Change; (8015BC) Where Do Unreasonable Entrepreneurs Cluster?: Social Entrepreneurs Around the World.
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| Democratizing Technology: Leading Sustainable and Scalable Change
Author(s): Elkington, John; Hartigan, Pamela
Publication Date: 02/05/2008
Product Type: HBS Press Chapter
HBS Number: 8019BC
Subjects: Developing countries; Disruptive innovations; Economic development; Emerging markets; Social enterprise; Technology
Academic Discipline: Entrepreneurship
Product Description: In this chapter, the authors study four clusters of entrepreneurs whose technological ventures will improve the future for a growing proportion of the burgeoning human population. May be used with: (8029BC) Roots of Unreason, Sources of Power: The Social Entrepreneurs Who Are Changing the World; (8028BC) Creating Successful Business Models: Lessons from Social Entrepreneurship; (8027BC) Tapping Financial Resources: Lessons from Social Entrepreneurship; (8026BC) Identifying Market Opportunities in Ten Great Divides: How Social Entrepreneurs Are Creating the Markets of the Future; (8020BC) Raising Expectations for Bonsai Consumers: How Social Entrepreneurs Are Creating the Markets of the Future; (8018BC) Changing the System: Leading Sustainable and Scalable Change; (8017BC) Scaling Solutions: Leading Sustainable and Scalable Change; (8016BC) Lessons for Tomorrow's Leaders: Leading Sustainable and Scalable Change; (8015BC) Where Do Unreasonable Entrepreneurs Cluster?: Social Entrepreneurs Around the World.
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| Changing the System: Leading Sustainable and Scalable Change
Author(s): Elkington, John; Hartigan, Pamela
Publication Date: 02/05/2008
Product Type: HBS Press Chapter
HBS Number: 8018BC
Subjects: Competitive advantage; Developing countries; Disruptive innovations; Economic development; Emerging markets; Social enterprise
Academic Discipline: Entrepreneurship
Product Description: In addition to science and technology, today's social entrepreneurs are exploring new approaches to governance, property rights, and market transformations. In this chapter, the authors look at some of the ways in which these entrepreneurs are working to change the system and suggest that mainstream companies that follow their lead have an opportunity to shape future market rules and get a jump on competitors. May be used with: (8029BC) Roots of Unreason, Sources of Power: The Social Entrepreneurs Who Are Changing the World; (8028BC) Creating Successful Business Models: Lessons from Social Entrepreneurship; (8027BC) Tapping Financial Resources: Lessons from Social Entrepreneurship; (8026BC) Identifying Market Opportunities in Ten Great Divides: How Social Entrepreneurs Are Creating the Markets of the Future; (8020BC) Raising Expectations for Bonsai Consumers: How Social Entrepreneurs Are Creating the Markets of the Future; (8019BC) Democratizing Technology: Leading Sustainable and Scalable Change; (8017BC) Scaling Solutions: Leading Sustainable and Scalable Change; (8016BC) Lessons for Tomorrow's Leaders: Leading Sustainable and Scalable Change; (8015BC) Where Do Unreasonable Entrepreneurs Cluster?: Social Entrepreneurs Around the World.
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| Scaling Solutions: Leading Sustainable and Scalable Change
Author(s): Elkington, John; Hartigan, Pamela
Publication Date: 02/05/2008
Product Type: HBS Press Chapter
HBS Number: 8017BC
Subjects: Developing countries; Disruptive innovations; Economic development; Emerging markets; Social enterprise
Academic Discipline: Entrepreneurship
Product Description: In order to tackle the great challenges of achieving sustainable development, we need to learn how to scale and replicate the more sustainable solutions and mobilize collective effort in ways rarely seen outside of wars and space races. This chapter sounds the alarm for companies to plug into the ideas and actions of social and environmental entrepreneurs as they start to develop their own scale-up plans. May be used with: (8016BC) Lessons for Tomorrow's Leaders: Leading Sustainable and Scalable Change; (8015BC) Where Do Unreasonable Entrepreneurs Cluster?: Social Entrepreneurs Around the World; (8018BC) Changing the System: Leading Sustainable and Scalable Change; (8029BC) Roots of Unreason, Sources of Power: The Social Entrepreneurs Who Are Changing the World; (8028BC) Creating Successful Business Models: Lessons from Social Entrepreneurship; (8027BC) Tapping Financial Resources: Lessons from Social Entrepreneurship; (8026BC) Identifying Market Opportunities in Ten Great Divides: How Social Entrepreneurs Are Creating the Markets of the Future; (8020BC) Raising Expectations for Bonsai Consumers: How Social Entrepreneurs Are Creating the Markets of the Future; (8019BC) Democratizing Technology: Leading Sustainable and Scalable Change.
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| 15 pp.
| Lessons for Tomorrow’s Leaders: Leading Sustainable and Scalable Change
Author(s): Elkington, John; Hartigan, Pamela
Publication Date: 02/05/2008
Product Type: HBS Press Chapter
HBS Number: 8016BC
Subjects: Developing countries; Disruptive innovations; Economic development; Emerging markets; Leadership; Social enterprise
Academic Discipline: Entrepreneurship
Product Description: It takes courage to attempt the apparently impossible, but great innovators and entrepreneurs have embraced such challenges. In this chapter, the authors offer some guidance on what others can do to help support the work of social and environmental entrepreneurs and other change makers and provide some important takeaways for tomorrow's leaders. May be used with: (8015BC) Where Do Unreasonable Entrepreneurs Cluster?: Social Entrepreneurs Around the World; (8017BC) Scaling Solutions: Leading Sustainable and Scalable Change; (8018BC) Changing the System: Leading Sustainable and Scalable Change; (8029BC) Roots of Unreason, Sources of Power: The Social Entrepreneurs Who Are Changing the World; (8028BC) Creating Successful Business Models: Lessons from Social Entrepreneurship; (8027BC) Tapping Financial Resources: Lessons from Social Entrepreneurship; (8026BC) Identifying Market Opportunities in Ten Great Divides: How Social Entrepreneurs Are Creating the Markets of the Future; (8020BC) Raising Expectations for Bonsai Consumers: How Social Entrepreneurs Are Creating the Markets of the Future; (8019BC) Democratizing Technology: Leading Sustainable and Scalable Change.
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| Where Do Unreasonable Entrepreneurs Cluster?: Social Entrepreneurs Around the World
Author(s): Elkington, John; Hartigan, Pamela
Publication Date: 02/05/2008
Product Type: HBS Press Chapter
HBS Number: 8015BC
Subjects: Developing countries; Disruptive innovations; Emerging markets; Social enterprise
Academic Discipline: Entrepreneurship
Product Description: This chapter provides a brief examination of where social entrepreneurs (gathered from the Schwab Foundation's worldwide list) are located around the world and why they cluster in particular countries and regions. May be used with: (8029BC) Roots of Unreason, Sources of Power: The Social Entrepreneurs Who Are Changing the World; (8028BC) Creating Successful Business Models: Lessons from Social Entrepreneurship; (8027BC) Tapping Financial Resources: Lessons from Social Entrepreneurship; (8026BC) Identifying Market Opportunities in Ten Great Divides: How Social Entrepreneurs Are Creating the Markets of the Future; (8020BC) Raising Expectations for Bonsai Consumers: How Social Entrepreneurs Are Creating the Markets of the Future; (8019BC) Democratizing Technology: Leading Sustainable and Scalable Change; (8018BC) Changing the System: Leading Sustainable and Scalable Change; (8017BC) Scaling Solutions: Leading Sustainable and Scalable Change; (8016BC) Lessons for Tomorrow's Leaders: Leading Sustainable and Scalable Change.
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