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HBS Cases: Developing Asia's Largest Slum

Published:	March 15, 2010
Feature:	Lessons from the Classroom

In a recent case study, HBS assistant professor Lakshmi Iyer and lecturer John Macomber examine ongoing efforts to forge a public-private mixed development in Dharavi—featured in the film Slumdog Millionaire. But there is a reason this project has languished for years. From the HBS Alumni Bulletin.

HBS Cases: Looking Behind Google's Stand in China

Q&A with:	John A. Quelch
Published:	February 8, 2010
Feature:	Lessons from the Classroom

Google's threat to pull out of China is either a blow for Internet freedom or cover for a failed business strategy, depending on with whom you talk. Professor John A. Quelch looks behind the headlines in a new case.

Does Product Market Competition Lead Firms To Decentralize?

Authors:	Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen
Published:	January 28, 2010
Paper Release Date:	January 2010
Feature:	Working Papers

There is a widespread sense that over the last two decades firms have been decentralizing decisions to employees further down the managerial hierarchy. Economists have developed a range of theories to account for delegation, but there is less empirical evidence, especially across countries. This has limited the ability to understand the phenomenon of decentralization. Nicholas Bloom, HBS professor Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen assembled a new data set on about 4,000 firms across 12 countries in Europe, North America, and Asia, and then measured the delegation of authority from central headquarters to local plant managers.

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One Strategy: Aligning Planning and Execution

Q&A with:	Marco Iansiti
Published:	March 22, 2010
Feature:	Research & Ideas

Strategy as it is written up in the corporate playbook often becomes lost or muddled when the team takes the field to execute. In their new book, Professor Marco Iansiti and Microsoft's Steven Sinofsky discuss a "One Strategy" approach to aligning plan and action.

Conceptual Foundations of the Balanced Scorecard

Author:	Robert S. Kaplan
Published:	March 17, 2010
Paper Release Date:	March 2010
Feature:	Working Papers

This article documents the precursors of the Balanced Scorecard (BSC) strategic performance management tool and describes the evolution of the BSC since its introduction in 1992 in the Harvard Business Review. During the last 15 years, the BSC has been adopted by thousands of private, public, and nonprofit enterprises around the world. HBS professor Robert S. Kaplan, who created the concept and tool with David Norton, explains the roots and motivation for their original article as well as subsequent innovations that connect it to a larger management literature.

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Great Minds in Business. And They Said it Couldn't be Done…
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Lessons of a Serial Entrepreneur
Stop making excuses and get started
Striking Out On Your Own
The Challenge of Being an Entrepreneur
Value systems the key to being an entrepreneur
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
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What type of entrepreneur are you?
What's Your Entreprenuer IQ?
10 Traits Entrepreneurs and Einstein Share

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Entrepreneurs on Tour--Wannabe Reality TV Show Hits the Road

By: Carol Tice

Where are the Microsofts of tomorrow?

Poplular author, documentarian and former InfoWorld columnist Robert Cringely would like to know. So he's holding a contest to find the 24 most interesting startups outside Silicon Valley and then hitting the road to visit them. His hope is to film the whole process and make a reality TV show out of it.

Launched last week, Cringely's (NOT in Silicon Valley) Startup Tour contest attracted more than 100 nominees in just a few days. By summer, finalists will be chosen and Cringely plans to pack his family into a Winnebago and visit the winners, camera crew in tow. Cringely's project enjoys the backing of the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, home of many entrepreneurial efforts including the Build a Stronger America movement.

Has Your Business Got a Secret?

By: Carol Tice

Recently, I discovered a list of secret menu items that two dozen popular chain restaurants serve only to those in the know. No joke--I devoured it! From wet fries at Arby's (hot fries in cheese sauce) to the Suicide Burger at Burger King (four patties, four cheese slices) to Fatburger's Hypocrite (a veggie burger topped with bacon), secret menu items make regular customers feel special. (Who knew Chili's will actually serve you chili on request?)

Reading the list and enjoying the creative names and items each chain had created, I realized secret menu items aren't just for fast-food places.

Homepreneur Winners Keep Growing Despite Downturn

 By: Carol Tice

Home-based businesses have been steadily earning more respect from the business world for the powerhouse businesses many are building from their back bedrooms. In the past week, CityMax.com announced winners of its Homepreneur of the Year contest. These are home-based e-commerce business owners who've seen rapid growth straight through the downturn. If you need a little inspiration, here are their stories:

Contest winner Marco Barberini quit his gas-jockey job in 2007 to focus on his home-based Web business, OvernightPetTags.com. Barberini told CityMax the site now grosses upwards of $8,000 a month and needs 10 hours a week or less of his time. He found a way to make and ship pet-tags cheaper than the competition, and now his goal is to make sure every pet in America has a tag. His advice: "Most people give up too quickly. Just make sure it's going to be something that's in demand and do it."

Business Owners Doing Crummy, Feeling Upbeat

By: Carol Tice

There's a real paradox out there in small-business land: American business owners have seen business shrink more drastically than have owners anywhere else in the developing world. Yet, most say they're feeling upbeat about 2010.

A study from City Business Journals Network showed 75 percent of business owners feel business prospects will be either "a lot better" or "a little better," a level not seen since before the recession.

A study done by CareerBuilder showed cautious optimism and improving metrics. Only 11 percent of owners surveyed thought they'd have trouble accessing credit this year, down from 17 percent in 2009. CareerBuilder's 2010 Job Forecast showed 20 percent of employers planning to add permanent workers this year, up from 14 percent last year.

States Step up with Small-Business Assistance

By: Carol Tice

While some small-business owners continue to groan over the slowness of federal movement to aid them, many states are stepping up with their own assistance programs. Some of the aid is trickling down from the federal stimulus bill, some comes from state and local agencies, while some funds seem to be flowing from nonprofits and other organizations.

If you're looking for financial assistance for your business, it's time to investigate the options closer to home--you may be surprised at how much help is out there.

For instance, North Carolina Governor Bev Purdue announced a statewide small-business initiative, Biz Boost, last week. Already successfully piloted in Charlotte, the program gives small businesses access to experts who can help with financial issues such as applying for credit, cash-flow management and cost reduction.
In Connecticut, Gov. Jodi Rell announced $250,000 in available grants for small manufacturers in her states. For its part, Massachusetts took over a privately administered small-business insurance program and slashed the fees, projecting the move would save $300 per employee for businesses in the program.

Your 2010 Small-Business Tax Strategy

  By: Carol Tice

There hasn't been a zanier year in recent memory to try to do some tax planning for business owners. But there are a few basic strategies that are sure to work, no matter what Congress does in 2010.

For those who don't closely follow the tax scene, there are a heck of a lot of provisions up in the air, awaiting Congressional review. For instance, this is supposed to be the year the estate tax falls to zero for just one year. But don't bet on it, as President Barack Obama has indicated he's not in favor of this single-year tax break and wants 2010 estate taxes set to a level similar to other recent years. At the same time, expect activist business groups such as the American Family Business Institute to campaign for a permanent repeal of this "death tax."

The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act  had some nice business tax breaks in it, including increased bigger first-year and bonus depreciation write-offs. Tax watchers such as Kiplinger believe these will be extended into 2010, but we don't know for sure. Also possibly extending: the COBRA changes that made businesses pick up much of the premiums for laid-off workers.

Figure Skating's Lessons for Small-Business Success

By: Carol Tice

Every Olympics, one of the big highlights for me is watching the figure-skating competitions with my family. This year, I find myself not just enjoying the amazing lifts and jumps, but thinking on the many ways in which these amazing athletes' achievements can provide inspiration for small-business owners.

Here's some tips for business success I gleaned from watching figure skating:

1. Be willing to invest a lot of effort before expecting a payoff. These athletes train for four long years for their Olympic moment, spending hundreds of hours of time practicing without any recognition whatever. Sometimes, as with this year's gold-medal pairs skaters Shen Xue and Zhao Hongbo of China, they have an injury and can't compete, and then they train for four more years for another shot.

In our instant-gratification society, the skaters' commitment reminds us that sometimes it's a long slog before your hard work will be recognized. Everyone dreams of instant business success, but great businesses are usually built slowly, over many years. If you hang in there, one day you might find an opportunity to create something truly amazing, that could take your business to a whole new level.

Joseph Benoit: Small Business Finance Strategist Good for the Environment, Good for Business Cost-effective strategies for greening your business By Joseph Benoit   |   March 17, 2010

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In April, many Americans will celebrate the 40th anniversary of Earth Day, a day designed to inspire awareness and appreciation for our environment and teach its citizens how they can live a “greener" existence. Amid the escalating costs of doing business, going green is not only good for the environment, it’s smart business.

Reader Stories: Unique Entrepreneurial Businesses & What Makes Them Successful

By Mitchell York, About.com Guide

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A business school professor once suggested his students look for the best small business ideas and opportunities in "the space between the elephant's toes." He meant that the best, most profitable businesses are often ones that few people have ever heard of and that are hard to imitate. Start those kinds of ventures, the professor said, and you have a higher probability of charging aggressive prices and achieving robust profit margins -- provided, of course, that you have a legitimate niche with enough customers. So, what's your space between the elephant's toes? And how's it working out?

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Turn past customers into your best source of new business

By Paul Green

There are two ways to boost sales in your business: either get more customers, or sell more to your existing customers.
Most businesses focus their time and resources on acquiring new customers. But that’s crazy! Persuading someone to buy from you the first time is really hard.
Existing customers are already in a relationship with you. And as long as you didn’t screw up, it’s easier for you to talk to them, and then sell them something else.
Where most businesses fall down is forgetting to keep in touch. Look through your files - how many one off jobs have you done for a customer who you’ve never spoken to again? It’s likely a number of those customers will have had extra work they COULD have put your way, had you stayed top of mind.
Here’s the secret to turning past customers into your best source of new business (and it’s simple): Build a system to stay in touch with every single customer as long as you can

Guide to soft selling for small businesses

Sales are the lifeblood of any business, as it is ultimately profitable sales that put the money in the bank. Many business owners stereotypically think that in order to bring in the sales, they must train themselves/staff to be pushy salesmen, but it doesn’t have to be this way. Sales expert Richard White explains the principles of soft selling and how tactics such as story telling can help build long lasting and profitable relationships. Most people would tend to agree that ‘People do business with people they know, like, and trust’. If that is true then if we want to increase the amount of business we do from each customer then we should be working on becoming more known, more liked, and more trusted.
The most important of these three elements and where the more aggressive style of selling fails miserably is on the trust element. Unfortunately, many pushy salespeople who have failed to close the deal did not succeed because the customer naturally assumed that the sales person was only interested in their money! Soft Selling on the other hand is about being more effective at building long-term profitable relationships based on trust and a win-win relationship.

About Rob Ryan

Rob Ryan founded Ascend Communications in 1989. Rob served as President, CEO, and Chairman of Ascend, taking it public Friday the thirteenth of May, 1994, at $13.00 per share. In 1995 Rob and Terry started Entrepreneur America.

Rob gained his first experience in Local Area Networking as a Systems Analyst at Lawrence Livermore Lab in the mid-seventies working on the first non-military extension of Arpanet, the precursor to the Internet.

He became a principle architect of Dec Net with Digital Equipment Corp. in the late seventies, then authored the Intel portion of the Ethernet Specification which set the local area network standard in the early eighties. He joined Ungermann-Bass as Director of Engineering in 1982, leaving in 1983 to found his first company, SoftCom, which was sold to Hayes Microcomputer in 1984. In 1989, Rob left Hayes with three engineers to found Ascend.

10 Businesses You Can Run From Home

Posted by Matthew Toren, on March 5th, 2010

Interested in starting a business?  This post is the first in a series that will detail 100 Business Ideas.  Each week, we’ll post an article describing 10 businesses in a specific category.  This week’s post gives you ideas for businesses you can work out of your home.  A future post will discus Internet businesses, so they aren’t on this week’s list.  Stay tuned for all the lists, and then look forward to the compilation post with all 100 ideas.  There is no lack of opportunities to be self employed.  Just pick an idea that appeals to you, and go for it.
Backyard Plant Nursery
If you have a green thumb and love both plants and people, this is the business for you.  Did you know that most of your local nurseries don’t grow most of their own plants?  They actually buy them from small, specialized growers.  You can easily become one of their suppliers.  The key is to specialize in specific kinds of plants – the ones that are in demand.  The only way to find out which plants those are is to ask.  Get started in this business for just a few hundred dollars after talking with local nurseries to find out what they’re looking for.  Want to know more? Check out this book.
Personal Shopper
You say going to the mall and the grocery store are your idea of a good time?  How would you like to get paid to shop?  Personal shoppers are popular in many areas.  Generally, the larger the city you live in and the more affluent the city, the more prominent this business will be (think San Francisco, Miami, and Scottsdale), but personal shoppers can thrive just about anywhere.  The best part is – there are low to no startup costs.  Print some flyers to post around town or put an ad on Craigslist, and you’re on your way!  From there, networking and referrals will fuel your growth.  If you think this is the business for you and you have 50 bucks to spend, get this book.

Entrepreneur Magazine: March 2010

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From a Lean Year, a Rich Vintage
As the top of the wine market crashes, new entrepreneurs like James Stewart are bringing high-end grapes to the masses.

Ways of Being Entrepreneur For Ordinary People

Ways of Being Entrepreneur For Ordinary People
 
By M. Suyanto, STMIK AMIKOM Yogyakarta
After having a positive mental attitude as a foundation to become entrepreneurs, creating a dream and trying to catch up, take steps to start a business without money, knowing the secret or business catapulted strategy, then the fifth step is to accept failure as a lesson. Failure is a label that often we associate with an action that did not work and so applied, these labels make us say people who are unable or people who fail. This decreases our enthusiasm to become a successful person.

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