Business plans

Lessons on leadership and strategic discipline from Tim Cook’s 15-year tenure as Apple’s CEO.

The structural traps that undermine enterprise negotiations—and how to escape them.

Two years ago, licensing deals with AI developers amounted to about $75 million. This year the figure will be about $20 billion—and next year it could be twice that.

How to innovate by combining old ideas

Four research-backed principles to help you determine what’s right for your company.

Before launching or investing in one, ask these critical questions.

Startup founders need to network with customers, investors, and other stakeholders.

Here’s how to build one.

Organizations need to understand how the pandemic is changing behaviors and habits.

Many early-stage startups acquire funding through contests in which founders take turns pitching their companies before a panel of investors. Based on...

To succeed, a new company must rally investors, staff, customers, and the media around a good story. But often that narrative turns out to be wrong, and...

As a 100-year-old cooperative of dairy farms with shared production and distribution resources, Cabot has long championed a different kind of capitalism:...

Many CEOs avoid thinking about succession and may even sabotage the board's efforts at planning for it. As a result succession is delayed, the next CEO...

What makes a successful startup team? One common answer is that prior startup experience, product knowledge, and industry skills predict the success of...

Don’t write a plan before you understand your customer.

The Syracuse University professor Carl Schramm argues that contrary to the teaching at many business schools, entrepreneurs really have no alternative...

Entrepreneurship, even in the form of part-time work to complement a traditional day job, can provide a useful hedge against economic uncertainty and...

It’s particularly important if you plan to raise money.

A business plan that asks -- and answers -- the right questions is a powerful tool.

Large business networking events are traditional, and the question often is not whether you should attend, but how to make the most of such events when...