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Lehman Brothers
Nicholas, Tom; Chen, DavidCase HBS-810106-EEntrepreneurshipIn 2008, the U.S. financial system was in a state of crisis and Lehman Brothers went from a major Wall Street investment bank to an insolvent institution. It was a swift end for a firm that had its beginnings over 150 years prior. What would be the firm's legacy? And how, if at all, had its activities changed the course of American history?Starting at €8.20
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The American Dream in History
Nicholas, Tom; Chen, DavidCase HBS-808134-EEntrepreneurshipStarting at €8.20
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The Indian Removal Act and the
Nicholas, Tom; Medoff, Ari; Smith, RavenCase HBS-812079-EEconomicsNative Americans were subjected to a protracted and painful process of forced removal from their land. The case provides "first hand" evidence on the debate over Indian removal as it took place during the early nineteenth century. The first document is excerpted from Andrew Jackson's First Annual Message to Congress in 1829 and the second document from Jackson's Second Annual Message in 1830, the year the Indian Removal Act was passed. The third ...Starting at €8.20
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Kleiner-Perkins and Genentech: When Venture Capital Met Science
Hardymon, G. Felda; Nicholas, TomCase HBS-813102-EEntrepreneurshipGenentech is a rare success story in the biotechnology industry. Hundreds of billions of dollars of venture capital have been invested without the expected transformational effects. Established in 1976, Genentech was to develop the new science of recombinant DNA into viable therapeutic products with mass market appeal, something that most scientists agreed was at least a decade away. The founders, Herbert Boyer and Robert Swanson had limited fina...Starting at €8.20
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Samuel Colt: An American Gun Maker
Nicholas, Tom; Verkamp, CaseyCase HBS-815061-EEntrepreneurshipSamuel Colt not only perfected and patented the technology for a gun that could fire multiple times without reloading, but he also developed and applied early principles of mass production more completely than anyone had done before. Until the nineteenth century, weapons manufacture, like most industries, had been the exclusive domain of skilled craftsmen, whose families had typically been in the trade for generations. Colt substituted specialize...Starting at €8.20
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The Flint, Michigan Sit-Down Strike, Teaching Note
Stanton, Christopher; Nicholas, TomTeaching Note HBS-818107-ETeaching note for case 817005.Starting at €0.00
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Napalm: From Soldiers Field to Trang Bang
Nicholas, Tom; Akins, Jonas PeterCase HBS-815060-EEntrepreneurshipNapalm is one of the most destructive weapons ever to be invented. Yet, at its original inception it was nothing more than a technical challenge, and it was never intended to be used in indiscriminate antipersonnel warfare. The pathway of its development by a Harvard research scientist to its use in flamethrowers by U.S. ground troops in World War Two, and as an incendiary device during the Vietnam War (1959-75) was unanticipated. Many of the ear...Starting at €8.20
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The Flint, Michigan Sit-Down Strike
Nicholas, Tom; Stanton, Christopher; Preble, MatthewCase HBS-817005-EFor roughly six weeks between late December 1936 and February 1937, a major strike at several critical General Motors (GM) plants in Flint, Michigan essentially halted the corporation's U.S. production and resulted in significant gains for the nascent United Automobile Workers of America union and the Committee for Industrial Organization, both of which had supported the strike. The Flint, Michigan Sit-Down Strike represented a stunning victory f...Starting at €8.20
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Jay Gould, "The Most Hated Man in America"
Nicholas, Tom; Masko, John; Preble, MatthewCase HBS-819006-ERailroad magnate Jay Gould, a controversial figure in the history of U.S. capitalism, was a disruptive influence on an industry that had previously relied on formal and informal agreements to move traffic long distances across lines operated by different companies. Gould and his competitors replaced these agreements with consolidation and system-building, a process which led to the rise of government regulation of railroads in the 1880s and to wi...Starting at €8.20
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The Ice King
Nicholas, TomCase HBS-808094-EEntrepreneurshipProvides an opportunity to examine the risk-reward tradeoff and the travails of entrepreneurial venturing in the nascent U.S. economy. Traces the origins and development of Frederic Tudor's Ice Company, a business which developed during the 19th century to hack chunks of ice from New England freshwater ponds and transport it by ship for sale around the globe. Explores how Tudor managed operations in ports as far flung as New Orleans, Charleston, ...Starting at €8.20