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Rick's Dilemma
Segel, Arthur I; Wu, Charles F; Eppler, Ben; Yog, SidCase HBS-215006-EFinanceIn 2014, Rick is serving as a trustee for a large family trust whose principle asset is a plot of prime real estate in the Upper East Side of Manhattan. The land is currently subject to a ground lease which pays $4.6 million annually, with resets every 20 years at 4.5% of the appraised value of the land. The next reset is in 2022, and in the meantime Rick must make a decision on whether it might be better for the trust's beneficiaries to sell the...Starting at €8.20
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Winning (and Losing) the Olympics: Boston 2024 (A)
Fubini, David G.; Bernstein, Ethan S.; Saadine, Mark; McAra, Sarah; Barnett, JamesCase HBS-418024-ELeadership and People ManagementTwo leadership groups from Boston 2024 negotiate with government bodies, community leaders, and olympic officials in an effort to bring the 2024 Olympics to Boston.Starting at €8.20
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The Black List
McGee, Henry W.; McAra, SarahCase HBS-317027-EEntrepreneurshipFranklin Leonard founded The Black List in 2005 as an innovative approach to identifying potential hit movie scripts via crowdsourcing. As the annual Black List proved to hold the scripts of some of Hollywood's most successful films, from "Slumdog Millionaire" to "Spotlight," it became widely respected and highly anticipated throughout the industry. In 2012, Leonard uses the momentum to bring The Black List online as a database where unproduced s...Starting at €8.20
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The $70K CEO at Gravity Payments
Weiss, Mitchell B.; Norton, Michael I.; Norris, Michael; McAra, SarahCase HBS-816010-ELeadership and People ManagementIn 2015, Gravity Payments CEO Dan Price took a massive pay cut to raise the minimum wage at his company to $70,000 annually. In the wake of a national discussion of wage equality, he was met with cheers and jeers. The company hoped that the buzz from the unorthodox move would generate enough new business to cover the increasing costs of compensation. Did Price make the right move? Would Gravity thrive or even survive?Starting at €8.20
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ShotSpotter
Weiss, Mitchell B.; McAra, SarahCase HBS-817034-EEntrepreneurshipSST offered a subscription-based gunfire detection service, ShotSpotter Flex, to cities across the United States, and a few abroad. Over its 20-year history, SST had mostly honed a reliable business to government sales model, and the company had been focused on expanding to new cities. But Ralph Clark, President and CEO, was also interested in investigating new services. Mass shootings, in U.S. schools to cities abroad, were consistently followed...Starting at €8.20
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Propel
Weiss, Mitchell B.; McAra, SarahCase HBS-818008-EEntrepreneurshipIn 2014, Jimmy Chen, a former product manager at Facebook, founded the start-up Propel to build software for low-income Americans. After conducting in-depth behavioral research, Chen and his small team in New York City began to develop technology to address the burdensome process of accessing benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), commonly known as food stamps. They first designed a mobile site called Easy Food Stamps...Starting at €8.20
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El dilema de Rick
Segel, Arthur I; Wu, Charles F; Eppler, Ben; Yog, SidCase HBS-215S09FinanceEn 2014, Rick es que actúa como un depositario de una gran confianza de la familia cuyo principal activo es una parcela de bienes raíces de primera en el Upper East Side de Manhattan. La tierra es actualmente objeto de un contrato de arrendamiento de tierra que paga $ 4.6 millones de dólares anuales, con restablece cada 20 años en el 4,5% del valor de tasación de la tierra. El siguiente restablecimiento es en el año 2022, y mientras tanto Rick de...Starting at €8.20
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Reworking Office Space: Industry City, Brooklyn
Segel, Arthur I; Baum, Andrew; Lietz, Nori Gerardo; Wu, Charles F; Yog, SidCase HBS-216075-EFinanceJamestown is contemplating how to best lease a portion of their new development along the Brooklyn waterfront, Industry City. The 6 million square foot, mixed-use development is meant to accommodate Brooklyn's growing innovation, creative, and "maker" communities. Jamestown is intrigued by the recently revived trend of "shared office space," championed by WeWork and originated by well-known players like Regus. The case is intended to introduce th...Starting at €8.20
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Improving Repurchase Rates at zulily
Teixeira, Thales S.; McAra, SarahCase HBS-516083-EMarketingIn February 2015, zulily co-founder CEO, Darrell Cavens faced a major challenge in his business, a Seattle-based daily deals site that catered to moms. The more he spent to acquire new customers, the less he retained them in the form of repeat purchases. This was an entirely new conundrum in the company. Up to that point, customer repeat purchase rates had been incredibly consistent. Cavens and his executive team had just discovered this adverse ...Starting at €8.20