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Wikipedia: Project Esperanza
Piskorski, Mikolaj Jan; Gorbatai, Andreea; Zuzul, TionaCase HBS-712493-EStrategyIn October 2006, Wikipedia was the largest volunteer-run on-line encyclopedia which could be freely read and edited by anyone with internet access. Within almost six years of its founding in 2001, the project had attracted hundreds of thousands of editors who had written over 1.2 million articles in English alone. Almost 10 percent of world-wide internet users accessed Wikipedia at least once a month. Just as Wales was stepping down, the editor c...Starting at €8.20
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Yammer (A)
Piskorski, Mikolaj Jan; Herman, Kerry; Smith, AaronCase HBS-713407-EStrategyIn spring 2012, Yammer was on track to become a highly successful standalone company. Yammer was a leading Enterprise Social Network (ESN), providing companies a private social network in which employees could collaborate securely and efficiently. However, later that year, Microsoft executives unexpectedly reached out with an offer to acquire Yammer for $1.2 billion and integrate Yammer into the Microsoft Office division. An integration with Micr...Starting at €8.20
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Yammer (B)
Piskorski, Mikolaj Jan; Smith, AaronCase HBS-713483-EStrategySupplement to Yammer (A), case 712-494.Starting at €5.74
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Going Social: Durex in China
Piskorski, Mikolaj Jan; Smith, AaronCase HBS-714430-EStrategyWhen Reckitt Benckiser (RB), a leading consumer goods company, first entered China, it encountered significant challenges. RB's strategy relied on selling high margin products supported by cost-effective advertising and distribution, but the highly competitive Chinese market made it hard to sustain high margins, inflated television advertising rates made marketing expensive, and an inefficient distribution system increased costs further. In 2010,...Starting at €8.20
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Zopa: The Power of Peer-to-Peer Lending
Piskorski, Mikolaj Jan; Fernandez-Mateo, Isabel; Chen, DavidCase HBS-709469-EStrategyZopa, a U.K.-based peer-to-peer lending company, connected individual lenders and borrowers via an online interface. The company charged a small fee for completed loan transactions but has not turned a profit. Zopa offered two platforms, Markets and Listings. Markets was an automated system that assembled loans by combining lowest loan offers from different Zopa lenders. Zopa Listings allowed prospective borrowers to post eBay-like listings expla...Starting at €8.20
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mixi (A) and (B), Teaching Note
Piskorski, Mikolaj JanTeaching Note HBS-713488-EStrategyTeaching Note for 709413 and 711412.Starting at €0.00
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Social Strategy at Cisco Systems
Piskorski, Mikolaj Jan; Malter, Daniel; Smith, AaronCase HBS-714475-EStrategyIn April 2013, Jeanne Beliveau-Dunn, vice president and general manager for Learning@Cisco Systems, was planning the future of the Cisco Learning Network, an online platform hosted at Cisco.com. Since its launch in 2008, the Cisco Learning Network provided content to prepare networking professionals for certification exams, as well as social functionalities to let users interact with each other. To help realize the company's vision for "The Inter...Starting at €8.20
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mixi (B)
Piskorski, Mikolaj Jan; Yamazaki, MayukaCase HBS-711412-EStrategySupplements case 709-413.Starting at €5.74
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foursquare
Piskorski, Mikolaj Jan; Eisenmann, Thomas R.; Bussgang, Jeffrey J.; Chen, DavidCase HBS-711418-EEntrepreneurshipThe cofounders of foursquare are deciding how to respond to competitive threats and scale up the organization. Foursquare was a location-based online service that allowed users to "check in" to a location using an application on a smartphone. Foursquare kept track of a user's check-ins, shared them with users' friends, and unlocked "Specials" that gave users discounts at nearby locations. Within a year and a half of its founding the company had 4...Starting at €8.20
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Zopa: el poder del préstamo de persona a persona
Piskorski, Mikolaj Jan; Fernandez-Mateo, Isabel; Chen, DavidCase HBS-712S02StrategyZopa, una compañía de préstamos peer-to-peer basado en Reino Unido se, conectado prestamistas y prestatarios individuales a través de una interfaz en línea. La empresa cobrará una pequeña cuota para las transacciones de préstamo completa, pero no se ha vuelto un beneficio. Zopa ofreció dos plataformas, mercados y anuncios. Mercados era un sistema automatizado que ensambla los préstamos mediante la combinación de ofertas de préstamos más bajas de ...Starting at €8.20