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Community-First Public Safety
Weiss, Mitchell B.; Mehta, SarahCase HBS-821005-EEconomicsHow many police officer positions to fund? In August 2020, the question facing St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter, which might have seemed routine to another mayor at another time in another place, was anything but. A pandemic had rendered the city some $19-$34 million short for 2021. Advocates across the country (and nearby) had pointed to a likely pool for budget cuts: police departments. The May 2020 killing of George Floyd, a Black man, in neighbor...Starting at €8.20
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LabCDMX: Experiment 50
Weiss, Mitchell B.; Miguel, Maria FernandaCase HBS-817031-EEntrepreneurshipThere were probably 30,000 public buses, minibuses, and vans in Mexico City. Though, in 2015, no one knew for certain since no comprehensive schedule existed. This was why el Laboratorio para la Ciudad (or LabCDMX) had spawned an effort to generate a map of the labyrinth system that provided an estimated 14 million rides a day. Gabriella G mez-Mont, the Lab's founder and director, had led her team in a project to crowd-source the routes from vol...Starting at €8.20
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U.S. Digital Service
Weiss, Mitchell B.; Sinai, Nick; Norris, MichaelCase HBS-817032-EEntrepreneurshipMikey Dickerson and Haley Van Dyck found themselves far from home and far from certainty about where to take the U.S. Digital Service (USDS) next. In the summer of 2015, they had landed in London to meet with Mike Bracken, director of the United Kingdom's Government Digital Service (GDS). In 2014, President Barack Obama had given USDS a monumental task: transform how the federal government worked for the American people, digitally. The seeds of U...Starting at €8.20
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Testing Autonomy in Pittsburgh (A)
Weiss, Mitchell B.; Urick, BrittanyCase HBS-819059-EEntrepreneurshipPittsburgh's mayor had been among the first to welcome self-driving vehicles, but was now one of many needing to react after a pedestrian fatality involving an autonomous Uber in Arizona. He had originally preferred to roll out "the red carpet" instead of the "red tape". Now he found himself needing to balance technological advancement and the city's economic trajectory against public health and safety concerns and, simply, citizens' fears. Post-...Starting at €8.20
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An (Abbreviated) Perspective on Entrepreneurship
Weiss, Mitchell B.; Henkes, BenjaminCase HBS-820083-EEntrepreneurshipAmong the many competing definitions of entrepreneurship, the one adopted in The Entrepreneurial Manager at HBS was authored by Howard Stevenson in the 1980s and elaborated on in the decades since. Stevenson provided a managerial take on the term; he described entrepreneurship as a distinct approach to management. That approach is the subject of this brief note. The note provides his definition of entrepreneurship ("the pursuit of opportunity wit...Starting at €8.20
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Corrections Corp. of America
Riedl, Edward J.Case HBS-107071-EThis case illustrates a comprehensive valuation of a publicly-traded firm specializing in building and managing prisons. Students must assess the firm's strategy and risks, evaluate key financial reports, derive forecasts of future performance, and use these forecasts to value the firm.Starting at €8.20
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Corrections Corporation of America, Teaching Note
Riedl, Edward J.Teaching Note HBS-109012-ETeaching Note for [107071].Starting at €0.00
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Restaurant Valuation: O'Charley's and AFC
Riedl, Edward J.; Everett, JennyCase HBS-111081-EAccounting and ControlThis case is a comparative analysis of the strategy, accounting, performance, and valuation for two restaurant chains alternatively having a company-owned versus franchising strategy. It requires students to identify these two different strategies, and the related impact on the financial statements, assessment of current performance, and choice of comparable firms and prediction of future performance to perform the valuation.Starting at €8.20
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Coca-Cola: Residual Income Valuation, Teaching Note
Srinivasan, Suraj; Riedl, Edward J.Teaching Note HBS-113065-EAccounting and ControlTeaching note for a case of the same title that introduces students to the residual income (also known as the abnormal earnings) valuation model using the firm Coca-Cola. Students are provided with the primary financial statements (through fiscal 2010) and forecast data/assumptions. These data are used as input into a simple spreadsheet model to derive pro-forma summary financial statements (balance sheet and income statement), as well as Coca-Co...Starting at €0.00
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Bigbelly
Weiss, Mitchell B.; Snively, ChristineCase HBS-816005-EEntrepreneurshipTo accelerate Bigbelly's sales growth and its "smart cities" positioning, its CEO planned to shift his company from equipment sales to a subscription service. Jack Kutner hoped to re-position Bigbelly's solar-powered trash compacting stations beyond trash and recycling and use them also to provide public space Wi-Fi, advertising, and urban intelligence sensors. "One year from now we will no longer sell any machines," Kutner planned to tell the co...Starting at €8.20