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The Boston Beer Company: New CEO
Wing, Christina R.; Iansiti, MarcoCase HBS-619021-EService and Operations ManagementStarting at €8.20
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EducationSuperHighway
Steven Kaplan, Robert; Bildner, James; Kind, LizCase HBS-116027-EAccounting and ControlStarting at €8.20
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LinkedIn Corporation, 2012
Yoffie, David B.; Kind, LizCase HBS-713420-EStrategySince its inception in 2003, LinkedIn had become a leading Silicon Valley institution with a brand name that was recognizable throughout the U.S. and in many countries overseas. As of March 2012, LinkedIn was the world's largest professional network on the Internet with $522.2 million in revenue in 2011 and more than 150 million members in over 200 countries. Unlike other major social networking sites, LinkedIn focused exclusively on fostering co...Starting at €8.20
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Serious Materials
Steenburgh, Thomas; Kind, LizCase HBS-511111-EMarketingSerious Materials is a start up who is moving into clean tech markets. The company's first product, QuietRock, originated the sound proofing drywall category and created a steady stream of revenue. It was now considering how to expand its product line to compete in the rapidly developing green building markets. How should Serious Materials go to market when they launch their highly anticipated Serious Windows and EcoRock product lines? What do th...Starting at €8.20
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Google Glass
Eisenmann, Thomas R.; Barley, Lauren; Kind, LizCase HBS-814102-EEntrepreneurshipIn early 2014, business development executives at Google were formulating a distribution strategy for Glass, a wearable computer that projected information on a display viewable with an upward glance. Options, which were not mutually exclusive, included 1) continuing to sell Glass directly through online channels; 2) creating an open platform to allow any eyewear manufacturer to create frames compatible with Glass; and 3) negotiating a partnershi...Starting at €8.20
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Neurotrack and the Alzheimer's Puzzle
Hamermesh, Richard G.; Kind, Liz; Knoop, Carin-IsabelCase HBS-816072-EEntrepreneurshipElli Kaplan founded Neurotrack in 2012 with a breakthrough non-invasive cognitive diagnostics test that will detect Alzheimer's Disease in its earliest pre-symptomatic stages. While the company has gained great traction in the three years since it was started, with no therapeutic product available in the foreseeable future Kaplan is considering whether it is time to change the company's business model.Starting at €8.20
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Affinity Labs, Inc.
Lassiter, Joseph B.; Kind, LizCase HBS-809019-EEntrepreneurshipIn November 2006, Chris Michel left Military.com, which he founded in 1999, to start Affinity Labs, a global network of online communities. That month, Michel raised a Series A round of venture funding and established a partnership with Monster, which he had sold Military.com to. Within its first year of operations, Affinity Labs launched eight vertical portals including PoliceLink, NursingLink, TechCommunity, and IndiaOn. While the company was w...Starting at €8.20
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Bill Cummings: The Cummings Way
Wing, Christina R.; White, Robert F.; Norris, MichaelCase HBS-619038-EService and Operations ManagementIn 2019, Bill Cummings, founder of Cummings Properties and Cummings Foundation and billionaire signer of the Giving Pledge, is winding down his roles at his company and foundation. How should the management move the company forward?Starting at €8.20
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Verengo Solar Plus!
Sahlman, William A.; Lassiter, Joseph B.; Kind, LizCase HBS-812049-EEntrepreneurshipIn the three years since Bishop and Button purchased Verengo in a leveraged buyout (LBO), the company had gone through dramatic changes. Initially a residential windows and insulation firm, after the economic recession of 2008 the company switched gears and began offering solar installations to local residential customers. Aided by favorable regulatory changes and a consumer financing partnership, Verengo's solar business took off and became the ...Starting at €8.20
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Gera Developments: Leadership at a Crossroads
Wing, Christina R.; Masko, JohnCase HBS-621018-EKnowledge and CommunicationFor decades, Gera Developments (Gera) was a boutique family-owned real estate development firm in Pune, India. But since 2000, managing director Rohit Gera had turned the company into a dynamic innovator in housing solutions for urban Indian families. Over the 2010s, Gera had multiplied its area under development threefold; it had introduced its new ChildCentric vision of family housing villages (which incorporated children's academies in skills ...Starting at €8.20