Comment by Rachel Gutnick, senior associate at Touchdown Ventures

Stanford case study by Brian Rinker, insights by Stanford Business

Major challenges that foreign multinational corporations (MNCs) face when doing business in emerging markets, such as China, can be conceptualized in terms of the risks that host countries' institutions present to them.

This is a provisional study ahead of a full paper presented at the annual conference of the Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ISBE) in Cardiff, Wales, in 2021.

Entrepreneurial ventures are an important source of economic growth and technological advance. China is a vibrant entrepreneurial setting, second only to the US in total startup numbers and funding amounts.

Five qualifications to keep your organization from making dysfunctional decisions

The development and deployment of covid-19 vaccines in less than a year was a stunning achievement for science. But it also illustrated the power of a particular kind of partnership: the strategic alliance.

Corporate venture capital (CVC) teams are responsible for 24% of all venture capital investment, accelerating hundreds of startups a year. Yet CVC teams are potentially missing out on investment opportunities by not doing more to actively seek out and support women entrepreneurs with bankable projects.

Stanford case study: Workboard

Insights from Global Corporate Venturing 2021 by Emmanuel Benhamou, managing director, EAIGG