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Doctor on Demand
Chess, Robert; Golden, JosephCase SGSB-E703-EEntrepreneurshipThis case considers the state of telehealth, or the remote delivery of healthcare services via telecommunications technology, in 2019. Doctor On Demand, a promising start-up in the space, sought to solve the four main challenges that the telehealth industry had faced historically. First, although most Americans who had health insurance coverage through their employers also received telehealth benefits, very few knew about these services, and an...Starting at €8.20
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Arterys
Chess, Robert; Lehman, CameronCase SGSB-SM297-EStrategyFabien Beckers, Founder and CEO of Arterys, walks through the creation of his medical / AI imaging company, including the equity struggles of the founding team, building the right team and final the right channel sales partners.Starting at €8.20
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Stanford Medicine: Health IT Purchasing Decisions in a Comples Medical Organization
Chess, Robert; Kissick RyanCase SGSB-E615-EEntrepreneurship“Stanford Medicine: Health IT Purchasing Decisions in a Complex Medical Organization” examines how a complex medical organization evaluates new health information technology products to pilot, purchase, and utilize. Every year, hundreds of companies pitched their health IT solutions to Stanford Medicine and its associated entities: the Stanford University School of Medicine, Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital Stanford, and Stanford Health Care. ...Starting at €8.20
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GM's Capital Allocation Framework
Foley, C. Fritz; Boland, F. Katelynn; Lemm, MichaelCase HBS-218026-EFinanceIn March of 2015, General Motors announced the details of a newly-established capital allocation framework. This framework provided a target for return on invested capital, guidelines for capital structure choices, and policies related to payouts. Senior managers face questions about how these policies should be implemented and what impact they might have.Starting at €8.20
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Project Moab at Hulu
Foley, C. Fritz; Weber, JamesCase HBS-218050-EFinanceIn 2015, Elaine Paul, CFO of Hulu, and the rest of the senior leadership team, must decide if they should offer a new, advertisement-free subscription service. At the time Hulu distributed a wide variety of content including in season current programming and earned significant revenues from advertising revenues. This choice had strategic implications and required formulating a view on how the video on demand industry would evolve. It also had val...Starting at €8.20
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Transforming Alkermes into a Global Biopharmaceutical Company
Foley, C. Fritz; Haas, NicholasCase HBS-215079-EFinanceIn the summer of 2011, Jim Frates, CFO of Alkermes faced choices about how to finance the acquisition of Dublin, Ireland-based Elan Drug Technologies (EDT) - a deal that was expected to close in the fall. The case describes the history of Alkermes, provides information about the planned merger, and details the funding options. The case gives students the opportunity to analyze the role CFOs play in biopharmaceutical firms, to evaluate the attract...Starting at €8.20
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FINDMINE: Looking for a Break
Chess, Robert; Orleans, AmadeusCase SGSB-E672-EEntrepreneurshipFrom quitting a stable post-MBA job and starting FINDMINE, a start-up in the retail technology space, to finally negotiating venture capital investment offers, Michelle Bacharach—and FINDMINE—had come a long way. Two years of uncertainty with virtually no outside capital raised, a pivot from B2C to B2B, two accelerator programs, and numerous meetings with potential investors and customers had made her an entrepreneur who was comfortable with dif...Starting at €8.20
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Designing Performance Metrics at GoDaddy
Foley, C. Fritz; Lemm, MichaelCase HBS-217004-EFinanceScott Wagner has recently joined GoDaddy, a leading provider of cloud-based software and services that helped individuals and small businesses establish a web presence, in the dual role of chief operating officer and chief financial officer. One of his first tasks is to design a set of performance metrics that can be used to run the business. This case gives students the opportunity to develop a framework for thinking about GoDaddy's business and...Starting at €8.20
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Boston Public Schools' Long Term Financial Plan
Foley, C. Fritz; Wu, Victor; Boland, F. KatelynnCase HBS-218031-EFinanceIn the fall of 2016, the senior leadership team of Boston Public Schools prepared a report indicating that costs were expected to grow faster than revenues for many years to come. They faced questions about whether the projections would be believed and about how to present, prioritize, and implement potential reforms that would help balance the budget.Starting at €8.20
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iRelaunch: From Career Break to Career Re-entry
Chess, Robert; Hornblower, JocelynCase SGSB-SM325-EStrategyThis case is primarily about the opportunity for mid-career professionals to return to work after a career break. It focuses on the company iRelaunch, which helps companies develop and implement career re-entry programs and connects employees and employers. The case protagonist is Carol Fishman Cohen, co-founder of iRelaunch. The case also touches on the different types of return to work programs and includes a vignette on Chevron which highlig...Starting at €8.20