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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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Wes Hall and the BlackNorth Initiative
Ghosh, Shikhar; Morgan Westner, Marilyn; Satchu, RezaCase HBS-821056-EWes Hall founded Kingsdale Advisors and built it into one of Canada's leading shareholder services and advisory firms. Influenced by the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement and a series of social injustices-specifically the death of George Floyd in police cStarting at €8.20
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Keurig: Confidential Information for Negotiation with Green Mountain Coffee Roasters
Eisenmann, Thomas R.; Ghosh, Shikhar; Sebenius, James K.Case HBS-812102-EEntrepreneurshipCase provides confidential information for students assuming the role of senior executives of Keurig, a startup that has developed an innovative "portion pack" coffee brewing solution, in a negotiation to license technology to Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (GMCR). The negotiation will determine the royalty to be paid to Keurig by GMCR, who will bear capital expenditures, and determine whether GMCR secures exclusive distribution rights to Keurig'...Starting at €8.20
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Green Mountain Coffee Roasters: Confidential Information for Negotiation with Keurig
Eisenmann, Thomas R.; Ghosh, Shikhar; Sebenius, James K.Case HBS-812103-EEntrepreneurshipCase provides confidential information for students assuming the role of Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (GMCR) senior executives in a negotiation to license technology from Keurig, a startup that has developed an innovative "portion pack" coffee brewing solution. The negotiation will determine the royalty to be paid to Keurig by GMCR, who will bear capital expenditures, and determine whether GMCR secures exclusive distribution rights to Keurig's ...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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Anthology: Pivoting the Business Model
Ghosh, Shikhar; Payton, ChristopherCase HBS-817066-EEntrepreneurshipIn July 2014, after 18 months and eight unsuccessful product launches, the CEO of Yabbly has agreed to sell his company to a larger, well-funded startup, providing a return of capital for his investors and a home for his team. Two weeks prior to the scheduled closing, the team launches a final experiment based on the results of a customer interview. After creating a quick landing page and announcing the product launch through social media channel...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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Anthology: Pivoting the Business Model, Teaching Note
Ghosh, Shikhar; Bagai, ShwetaTeaching Note HBS-820061-EEntrepreneurshipTeaching note to case 817066Starting at €0.00
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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