Growing New Corporate Businesses: From Initiation to Graduation

Sebastian Raisch
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Sebastian Raisch
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Geneva School of Economics and Management, University of Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland
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Michael L. Tushman
Michael L. Tushman
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Harvard Business School, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts 02163
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Sebastian Raisch

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Sebastian Raisch

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Geneva School of Economics and Management, University of Geneva, CH-1211 Geneva, Switzerland

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Michael L. Tushman

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Harvard Business School, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts 02163

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Published Online:26 Sep 2016https://doi.org/10.1287/orsc.2016.1081

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The authors wish to thank Sarah Kaplan and three anonymous reviewers for their support in developing this paper. They also thank Costas Andriopoulos, Pratima Bansal, Julian Birkinshaw, Heidi Gardner, Wendy Smith, Mary Tripsas, and Alexander Zimmermann, as well as the participants of a faculty workshop at the Harvard Business School, for their valuable comments on earlier versions of the paper.

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