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Living on the Razor's Edge (Spanish version)
Wasserman, NoamCase HBS-813S11EntrepreneurshipDescribes the issues facing a founder-CEO regarding building a board of directors, assembling an executive team, managing tension between co-founders, and outsourcing system development work.Starting at €8.20
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Ockham Technologies (B): Building the Board (Spanish Version)
Wasserman, NoamCase HBS-814S11EntrepreneurshipDescribe los problemas que enfrenta el fundador-director general en relación con la construcción de un tablero, el montaje de un equipo ejecutivo, la gestión de tensión entre los co-fundadores, y la externalización de trabajo de desarrollo.Starting at €5.74
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Roshan: Beyond Pioneering Success in Afghanistan
Chu, Michael; Arora, NamrataCase HBS-316030-EStarting at €8.20
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IMAX: Scaling Personalized Learning in India
Kim, John Jong-Hyun; Chu, Michael; Tahilyani, RachnaCase HBS-316108-EIMAX is a provider of comprehensive testing and personalized content across mid-range and low-cost private K-10 schools in India. It aims to improve learning outcomes by providing schools with an integrated product suite including textbooks, workbooks, assessments, feedback reports, personalized worksheets and teaching support material. Its founders however, view their B2B strategy as a seeding strategy to eventually form a B2C education ma...Starting at €8.20
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Assembling the Startup Team
Wasserman, NoamCase HBS-812122-EEntrepreneurshipNothing can bedevil a high-potential startup more than its "people problems." These problems typically result from choices that founders make as they add team members to their startup team. Three characteristics of startup teams must be aligned for these teams to function well: relationships, roles, and rewards (the Three Rs). Early decisions that founders make about the Three Rs can significantly affect their startup's direction and success. Thi...Starting at €8.20
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Embrace
Chu, Michael; Bloom, David E.; Wagonfeld, Alison BerkleyCase HBS-814001-EEntrepreneurshipStarting at €8.20
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Aaron's: Household Goods for the U.S. Base of the Pyramid
Chu, Michael; Smithgall, CharlesCase HBS-311047-ETo maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. With $2.5 billion system-wide revenues, Aaron's, a major rent-to-own supplier to the US base of the pyramid, continues to grow in the recession, but CEO R.C. Loudermilk, Jr. wonders how long the company can sustain the fast growth rate of its past. Founded in 1955, and publicly-listed since 1982, Aaron's success has paralleled the emergence of the rent-to-own industry as a m...Starting at €8.20
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YES BANK: Mainstreaming Development into Indian Banking
Chu, Michael; Arora, NamrataCase HBS-311063-EYES BANK, founded in 2003 and highly successful, has consistently been profitable meeting the Indian government's Priority Sector Lending (PSL) requirements, unlike virtually all other private sector banks, which view PSL activity as a necessary but loss-making part of their portfolio. To do this, YES BANK created a distinct Development Banking practice, under the purview of the Corporate Finance division. But now, the Development Banking team is...Starting at €8.20
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CreditEase: Taking Inclusive Finance Online
Chu, Michael; Ji, John S.; Dai, Nancy HuaCase HBS-316151-EThe world's largest peer-to-peer (P2P) lender annually disbursing over a million loans totaling $10 billion, China's CreditEase, must decide whether to IPO in the NYSE its online lending platform, Yirendai, before the year-end window closes in 2015. Yirendai sought to capture its customers and make virtually instantaneous credit decisions online. CreditEase's commercial success makes funding Yirendai's growth not an issue. P2P lending in China, a...Starting at €8.20
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Pixability: Bettina's Board Walk
Wasserman, Noam; Braid, YaelCase HBS-814021-EEntrepreneurshipBettina Hein, founder-CEO of Pixability, is meeting with her board of directors to discuss her startup's fundraising prospects and the recent strategic pivot. Though Bettina loves the entrepreneurial exhilaration of "riding a rollercoaster every day," the company's current cash position gives them only a four-month runway. For Bettina, though they can at times be tense, board meetings and their preparation have become an exercise in reflection th...Starting at €8.20