The entrepreneurial venture : readings /
"Newly updated, this comprehensive text covers basic concepts and emerging issues on entrepreneurship. Emphasizing that new venture creation requires planning and skill as well as inspiration, these readings - by leading academics and practitioners - portray the entrepreneur as the ultimate gen...
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| Language: | English |
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Boston, Mass. :
Harvard Business School Press,
1999.
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| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
| Series: | The practice of management series.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction /
- William A. Sahlman ... [et al.]
- Part 1.
- Entrepreneurship... What Is It?
- A Perspective on Entrepreneurship /
- Howard H. Stevenson
- Entrepreneurship Reconsidered : The Team as Hero /
- Robert B. Reich
- Capital Market Myopia /
- William A. Sahlman and Howard H. Stevenson
- The Question Every Entrepreneur Must Answer /
- Amar Bhidé
- Why Be Honest If Honesty Doesn't Pay /
- Amar Bhidé and Howard H. Stevenson
- The Road Well Traveled /
- Amar Bhidé
- Making Business Sense of the Internet /
- Shikhar Ghoosh
- Part 2.
- Strategies and Tactics for Starting, Acquiring, and Growing the Venture
- Section A.
- Evaluating New Venture Opportunities
- Developing Start-up Strategies /
- Amar Bhidé
- Some Thoughts on Business Plans /
- William A. Sahlman
- How to Write a Winning Business Plan /
- Stanley R. Rich and David E. Gumpert
- Purchasing a Business : The Search Process /
- Michael J. Roberts and Ennis J. Walton
- Section B.
- Marshaling Required Resources
- Attracting Stakeholders /
- Amar Bhidé and Howard H. Stevenson
- Bootstrap Finance : The Art of Start-ups /
- Amar Bhidé
- The Financial Perspective : What Should Entrepreneurs Know? /
- William A. Sahlman
- Venture Capital /
- Constance Bagley and Craig Dauchy
- Aspects of Financial Contracting in Venture Capital /
- William A. Sahlman
- The Legal Protection of Intellectual Property /
- Michael J. Roberts
- The Horse Race Between Capital and Opportunity /
- William A. Sahlman
- Strategy vs. Tactics from a Venture Capitalist /
- Arthur Rock
- Section C.
- Managing the Growth Enterprise
- The Challenge of Growth /
- Michael J. Roberts
- Managing Transitions in the Growing Enterprise /
- Michael J. Roberts
- Building the Self-Sustaining Firm /
- Amar Bhidé
- Going Public /
- Constance Bagley and Craig Dauchy
- Why Sane People Shouldn't Serve on Public Boards /
- William A. Sahlman
- How Small Companies Should Handle Advisers /
- Howard H. Stevenson and William A. Sahlman
- Bankruptcy : A Debtor's Perspective /
- Howard H. Stevenson and Michael J. Roberts
- Part 3.
- Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Larger Company
- Tough-minded Ways to Get Innovative /
- Andrall E. Pearson
- Discovery-Driven Planning /
- Rita Gunther McGrath and Ian C. MacMillan
- Disruptive Technologies : Catching the Wave /
- Joseph L. Bower and Clayton M. Christensen
- Managing for Creativity /
- Theresa M. Amabile
- The Business of Innovation : An Interview with Paul Cook /
- William Taylor
- Part 4.
- Entrepreneurship in the Nonprofit Sector
- Virtuous Capital : What Foundations Can Learn from Venture Capitalists /
- Christine W. Letts, William Ryan, and Allen Grossman
- Starting a Nonprofit Venture /
- Alice Oberfield and J. Gregory Dees
- Surviving Success : An Interview with the Nature Conservancy's John Sawhill /
- Alice Howard and Joan Magretta.