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Groupon Teaching Note
Gupta, Sunil; Weaver, Ray; Lock, Yien HaoTeaching Note HBS-513046-EMarketingOn November 4, 2011, Groupon, a marketing services company that promoted local businesses by selling deeply discounted vouchers for their products and services, completed its initial public offering that valued the company at $17 billion. Within a year Groupon's share price tumbled dramatically as the novelty for consumers started to wear off and merchants began to question the value of Groupon for their businesses. Is Groupon good for merchants?...Starting at €0.00
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SparqU and the Colorado Paradox
Candace Ruiz; Cristin Cornell TarrCase IVEY-W31109-EEntrepreneurship, MarketingIn late 2020, Lynn Wilson, a social entrepreneur and chief executive officer of SparqU, Inc., gave himself one year to turn his company around. SparqU, which offered digital literacy training to underserved and underrepresented communities, had been funded by a workforce grant. But when the grant expired, Wilson left his academic teaching position to focus full-time on SparqU and fulfill his passion for helping Colorado’s people of colour, low in...Starting at €8.20