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  1. Business plans - HBR - Harvard Business Review

    Communicating your idea in a clear, compelling, and persuasive manner is critical when trying to launch a new venture. This Harvard Business Review collection...

  2. How to Write a Winning Business Plan - Harvard Business Review

    A comprehensive, carefully thought-out business plan is essential to the success of entrepreneurs and corporate managers.

  3. How to Write a Great Business Plan - Harvard Business Review

    A great business plan is not easy to compose, Sahlman acknowledges, largely because most entrepreneurs are wild-eyed optimists. But one that asks the right questions is a powerful tool.

  4. How to Write a Winning Business Plan | Harvard Business ...

    Whether you are starting up a venture, seeking additional capital for an existing product line, or proposing a new activity for a corporate division, you will have to write a plan detailing your project's resource requirements, marketing decisions, financial projections, production demands, and personnel needs.

  5. How to Write a Great Business Plan | Harvard Business ...

    William Sahlman suggests that a great business plan is one that focuses on a series of questions. These questions relate to the four factors critical to the success of every new venture: the people, the opportunity, the context, and the possibilities for both risk and reward.

  6. How to Write a Great Business Plan (Harvard Business Review ...

    In "How to Write a Great Business Plan," William A. Sahlman shows how to avoid this all-too-common mistake by ensuring that your plan assesses the factors critical to every new venture; the people--the individuals launching and leading the venture and outside parties providing key services or important resources; the opportunity--what the ...