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Sunshine Fresh: Choosing a Business Location
Lawrence A. Plummer; Simon ParkerCase IVEY-9B17M073-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyIn July 2014, the president and co-owner of Sunshine Fresh Inc. (Sunshine), a food service manufacturing company in Totowa, New Jersey, needed to make a decision about the best location for the company’s new West Coast expansion. Sunshine had built a strong reputation on the U.S. East Coast for high-quality refrigerated kosher pickles. Among Sunshine’s most valued clients were several casinos located in Atlantic City, New Jersey, and headquartere...Starting at €8.20
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DuPont Sustainable Solutions (B): Becoming Independent
Simon Parker; Ramasastry ChandrasekharCase IVEY-9B20M129-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyIn August 2019, the newly appointed chief executive officer of DSS was planning for his company’s future. He had two main questions to address: Having emerged from the shadow of DuPont, how should his new company be reorganized into an independent enterprise? As a stand-alone enterprise, would DSS gain credibility among its clients and employees?Starting at €5.74
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Zillow Offers: Winning Online Real Estate 2.0, Teaching Note
Di Maggio, Marco; Viceira, Luis M.; Kelley, JuliaTeaching Note HBS-221071-EFinanceTeaching note for case 220021.Starting at €0.00
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Luminar: Leveraging Big Data Using Corporate Entrepreneurship
Simon Parker; Ramasastry ChandrasekharCase IVEY-9B14M063-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyEntravision, a leading Español-language broadcasting company in the United States that targets Hispanic Americans, has just set up a digital analytics division called Luminar, which uses Big Data to focus a company’s marketing to a particular set of consumers. The idea of launching Luminar has been mooted by an outsider who is a friend and protegé of the company’s founding chairman. As the incumbent president of the new division, he is grappling ...Starting at €8.20
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Entrepreneurs at Twitter: Building a Brand, a Social Tool or a Tech Powerhouse (Spanish version)
Simon Parker; Ken MarkCase IVEY-9B10MS28Entrepreneurship, StrategyTwitter has become an incredibly popular micro-blogging service since its launch in 2006. Its founders have ambitious plans for the service, and are backed by hundreds of millions of dollars of venture capital funding, which values the company at $3.7 billion in 2011. Twitter seems to attract a diverse audience of users, such as political organizers looking to disseminate information to their followers; businesses looking to reach out, in real ti...Starting at €8.20
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Devium's Dash: Crowdfunding a Venture on Kickstarter
Simon Parker; Ken MarkCase IVEY-9B12M097-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyIn 2010, a hybrid entrepreneur working at a full-time job has come up with the idea for his first product, a smartphone car stereo. He has invested $10,000 of his own money plus $3,000 from an early investor to develop his prototype. He needs to put together a viable commercialization plan and is considering crowdfunding as a viable funding source. He also needs to decide whether to distribute his product through direct sales or a traditional ret...Starting at €8.20
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Valuing Snap After the IPO Quiet Period (A)
Di Maggio, Marco; Esty, Benjamin C.; Saldutte, GregCase HBS-218095-EFinanceSnap, the disappearing message app, went public at $17 per share on March 2, 2017, making its two 20-something founders the youngest self-made billionaires in the country. Over the next three weeks, 14 analysts made investment recommendations on Snap: twoStarting at €8.20
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Valuing Snap After the IPO Quiet Period (B)
Di Maggio, Marco; Esty, Benjamin C.Case HBS-218096-EFinanceAnalyzes Snap's value and analyst recommendations following the events described in the A case.Starting at €5.74
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Valuing Snap After the IPO Quiet Period (A), (B), and (C), Teaching Note
Di Maggio, Marco; Esty, Benjamin C.Teaching Note HBS-218101-EFinanceTeaching note for cases 218095, 218096, and 218116.Starting at €0.00
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Valuing Snap After the IPO Quiet Period (C)
Di Maggio, Marco; Esty, Benjamin C.; Saldutte, GregCase HBS-218116-EFinanceAnalyzes Snap's value and analyst recommendations following the events described in the B case.Starting at €5.74