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Masschallenge, Inc.: Launching a Non-profit Business Accelerator (A)
Gordon K. Adomdza; David T.A. WesleyCase IVEY-9B13M013-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyMassChallenge Inc. is a large non-profit startup accelerator that connects new ventures with other stakeholders within an established business ecosystem. For this new company to engage stakeholders in the numbers envisaged and create a crowd-sourced deal management system, the founders need to develop a model that brings in as many quality or attractive startups as possible. Instead of taking equity in participating ventures as traditional accele...Starting at €8.20
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Launch of the Ford Fiesta Diesel: The World's Most Efficient Car
Francis Spital; David T.A. WesleyCase IVEY-9B10M040-EStrategyThe case describes the challenges faced by Ford and other automobile manufacturers in an era of declining oil reserves and volatile fuel prices. The Ford diesel decision seems to reflect classic thinking constrained by mental models that were developed in a different world. Diesels constitute over 50 per cent of automobile sales in Europe, because fuel is extremely expensive there. If fuel gets extremely expensive in the United States, one would ...Starting at €8.20
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Power Gig: The Rise (and Fall) of Music Games
David T.A. WesleyCase IVEY-9B13A011-EMarketingThe chairman and chief executive officer of a manufacturer of entry-level musical instruments decides to take advantage of the popularity of music video games by creating a gaming division. After spending $30 million on product development, the company launches its first music video game just as the market for this subgenre has fallen into a steep decline. The case discusses the specific attributes of this music video game that may have doomed it...Starting at €8.20
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Pax Ellevate Global Women’s Leadership Fund: Investing Like a Feminist in the #MeToo Era
David T.A. Wesley; Alexandra RothCase IVEY-9B19C013-ELeadership and People ManagementThe senior vice-president for sustainable investing at the U.S.-based Pax World Funds, a leader in socially responsible investing, needed to identify and invest in companies for the company's Pax Ellevate Global Women's Leadership Fund, an investment fund that promoted labour rights through gender equality. The fund had more than US$200 million in assets under management, a 25 per cent one-year rate of return, and a three-year annual rate of retu...Starting at €8.20
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RiotGames: Puede la Cultura sobrevivir al Crecimiento
Groysberg, Boris; Norris, MichaelCase HBS-416S14Leadership and People ManagementEn 2015, Riot Games, el fabricante de la parte superior del juego de PC de la Liga de Leyendas, considera su estrategia de crecimiento a medida que avanza en un nuevo campus en Los Ángeles.Starting at €8.20
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Riot Games: Can Culture Survive Growth, Teaching Note
Groysberg, Boris; Norris, MichaelTeaching Note HBS-416049-ELeadership and People ManagementThis is a teaching note for the case 416016, "Riot Games: Can Culture Survive Growth?" This teaching note gives instructors a guide for a discussion of Riot Games, a fast growing videogames firm with a strong, player-centric culture. It also offers references to research on culture that will allow students to decide whether or not Riot Games' culture will survive its growth.Starting at €0.00
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A Note on Compensation
Bernstein, Ethan S.; Norris, MichaelCase HBS-419020-ELeadership and People ManagementThis note describes the major considerations and frameworks of compensation. Its audience is general managers interested in learning about their own or their employees' compensation.Starting at €8.20
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The Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (Abridged)
Battilana, Julie; Norris, MichaelCase HBS-419058-ELeadership and People ManagementIn 2014, as the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) has just brought former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg on as chairman of the board, Jean Rogers, founder and CEO, struggles with how best to ensure the nonprofit's financial sustainability while pushing for broad acceptance of its nonfinancial accounting metrics.Starting at €8.20
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Eric Hawkins Leading Agile Teams @ Digitally-Born AppFolio (A)
Neeley, Tsedal; Leonardi, Paul; Norris, MichaelCase HBS-419066-ELeadership and People ManagementThis case describes a business decision on whether or not to build a technology solution requested by customers. It offers students an opportunity to analyze how such a decision can impact product development teams, company culture, and business growth prospects. Eric Hawkins, director of engineering at AppFolio-a digital technology firm that offered cloud-based business software to small and medium sized companies-was shocked by an unusual requ...Starting at €8.20
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Nadine Vogel: Transforming the Marketplace, Workplace, and Workforce for People with Disabilities
Ramarajan, Lakshmi; Bowles, Hannah Riley; Norris, MichaelCase HBS-420062-ELeadership and People ManagementIn 2019, Nadine Vogel, founder and CEO of Springboard Consulting, a firm that worked with Fortune 500 companies on issues related to disability and their workforce, faced the decision of the best path forward to grow her small company. Should she built more and better expertise to expand the topics she worked on with her current clientele? Or should she explore the possibility of moving into the new market of smaller businesses?Starting at €8.20