Provides best practices and ideas for launching new business ventures

Includes index.

Beating the odds when you launch a new venture / Clark G. Gilbert and Matthew J. Eyring -- Finding competitive advantage in adversity / Bhaskar Chakravorti -- The questions every entrepreneur must answer / Amar Bhidé -- Making social ventures work / James D. Thompson and Ian C. MacMillan -- The global entrepreneur / Daniel J. Isenberg -- Giving up the CEO seat / Jeffrey Hollender -- The founder's dilemma / Noam Wasserman -- Why entrepreneurs don't scale / John Hamm -- Meeting the challenge of corporate entrepreneurship / David A. Garvin and Lynne C. Levesque.