William A. Sahlman, Howard H. Stevenson, Michael J. Roberts and Amar Bhid are professors at Harvard Business School.

Introduction by William A. Sahlman, Howard H. Stevenson, Michael J. Roberts, and Amar Bhidé
Part 1-Entrepreneurship-What Is It?
1. A Perspective on Entrepreneurship by Howard H. Stevenson
2. Entrepreneurship Reconsidered: The Team as Hero by Robert B. Reich
3. Capital Market Myopia by William A. Sahlman and Howard H. Stevenson
4. The Question Every Entrepreneur Must Answer by Amar Bhidé
5. Why Be Honest If Honesty Doesn't Pay by Amar Bhidé and Howard H. Stevenson
6. The Road Well Traveled by Amar Bhidé
7. Making Business Sense of the Internet by Shikhar Ghoosh
Part 2-Strategies and Tactics for Starting, Acquiring, and Growing the Venture
Section A: Evaluating New Venture Opportunities
8. Developing Start-up Strategies by Amar Bhidé
9. Some Thoughts on Business Plans by William A. Sahlman
10. How to Write a Winning Business Plan by Stanley R. Rich and David E. Gumpert
11. Purchasing a Business: The Search Process by Michael J. Roberts and Ennis J. Walton
Section B: Marshaling Required Resources
12. Attracting Stakeholders by Amar Bhidé and Howard H. Stevenson
13. Bootstrap Finance: The Art of Start-ups
14. The Financial Perspective: What Should Entrepreneurs Know? by William A. Sahlman
15. Venture Capital by Constance Bagley and Craig Dauchy
16. Aspects of Financial Contracting in Venture Capital by William A. Sahlman
17. The Legal Protection of Intellectual Property by Michael J. Roberts
18. The Horse Race Between Capital and Opportunity by William A. Sahlman
19. Strategy vs. Tactics from a Venture Capitalist by Arthur Rock
Section C: Managing the Growth Enterprise
20. The Challenge of Growth by Michael J. Roberts
21. Managing Transitions in the Growing Enterprise by Michael J. Roberts
22. Building the Self-Sustaining Firm by Amar Bhidé
23. Going Public by Constance Bagley and Craig Dauchy
24. Why Sane People Shouldn't Serve on Public Boards by William A. Sahlman
25. How Small Companies Should Handle Advisers by Howard H. Stevenson and William A. Sahlman
26. Bankruptcy: A Debtor's Perspective by Howard H. Stevenson and Michael J. Roberts
Part 3-Innovation and Entrepreneurship in the Larger Company
27. Tough-minded Ways to Get Innovative by Andrall E. Pearson
28. Discovery-Driven Planning by Rita Gunther McGrath and Ian C. MacMillan
29. Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave by Joseph L. Bower and Clayton M. Christensen
30. Managing for Creativity by Theresa M. Amabile
31. The Business of Innovation: An Interview with Paul Cook by William Taylor
Part 4-Entrepreneurship in the Nonprofit Sector
32. Virtuous Capital: What Foundations Can Learn from Venture Capitalists by Christine W. Letts, William Ryan, and Allen Grossman
33. Starting a Nonprofit Venture by Alice Oberfield and J. Gregory Dees
34. Surviving Success: An Interview with the Nature Conservancy's John Sawhill by Alice Howard and Joan Magretta

Covering every phase of the venture, this collection of essays by leading academics and practitioners is designed to serve as a handbook for entrepreneurs, teachers and students of the entrepreneurial process.