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IPODERAC: Finding the Path Towards Sustainability
Francisco Alberto Layrisse Villamizar; Gerardo Fernández LozanoCase IVEY-9B12M066-EEntrepreneurship, StrategySince 1966, the Rehabilitation Institute of Puebla Civil Association (IPODERAC) had dedicated itself to providing a home and education for children who had been abandoned in the streets of Mexico. Using an educational model based on the concept of personal development through honourable work, IPODERAC had successfully combined its desire to be financially self-sufficient with its goal of teaching educational values, responsibility, and discipline...Starting at €8.20
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Founders Factory
Rayport, Jeffrey; Barnett, JamesCase HBS-821009-EEntrepreneurshipIn January 2020, Brent Hoberman and Henry Lane Fox, co-founders of Founders Factory, a venture capital fund with an accelerator and incubator program funded by investment from corporate partners, consider international expansion strategies.Starting at €8.20
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Redesigning the Wedding Dress Experience: A Podcase with Leslie Voorhees and Calley Means of Anomalie, Teaching Note
Rayport, Jeffrey; Lafkas, JohnTeaching Note HBS-7226-EEntrepreneurshipTeaching note for 7125.Starting at €0.00
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Delivering the Goods at Shippo
Bussgang, Jeffrey J.; Rayport, Jeffrey; Hull, OliviaCase HBS-817065-EEntrepreneurshipLaura Behrens Wu, CEO of software start-up Shippo, prepares her pitch for a Series A funding round following a successful seed round. Customer adoption of Shippo's e-commerce dashboard application, which allows small and medium retailers to compare delivery rates between shipping providers and print package labels, has been steady in the nine months since it went live. But traction with the firm's developer-friendly product, an API that allows la...Starting at €8.20
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Swagbucks
Rayport, Jeffrey; Preble, MatthewCase HBS-817068-EEntrepreneurshipIn early 2016, Chuck Davis, chairman and CEO of Prodege LLC, parent company of the brand promotion business Swagbucks, and Josef Gorowitz, Prodege's founder and president, must decide whether to acquire MyPoints, a competitor to Swagbucks, after a significant cultural transformation that the company has just gone through. Over the preceding two years, Davis and Gorowitz had grown Swagbucks from a relatively small venture staffed by people from G...Starting at €8.20
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IPODERAC: Finding the Path Towards Sustainability (Spanish version)
Francisco Alberto Layrisse Villamizar; Gerardo Fernández LozanoCase IVEY-9B12MS66Entrepreneurship, StrategyDesde 1966, la rehabilitación Instituto de Puebla Asociación Civil (IPODERAC) se había dedicado a proporcionar un hogar y educación para los niños que habían sido abandonados en las calles de México. Utilizando un modelo educativo basado en el concepto de desarrollo personal a través de trabajo honorable, IPODERAC había combinado con éxito su deseo de ser financieramente autosuficiente con su objetivo de enseñanza de los valores educativos, respo...Starting at €8.20
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Catalant: The Future of Work
Eisenmann, Thomas R.; Rayport, Jeffrey; Snively, ChristineCase HBS-817103-EEntrepreneurshipCatalant, founded in 2013 as an online marketplace where MBAs could bid on consulting projects posted by small- to medium-sized businesses, had expanded by 2016 to provide Fortune 1000 companies with access to over 35,000 independent experts. The founders envisioned extending their matching solutions to help enterprises staff projects with a mix of current employees and external experts, hypothesizing that the "future of work" would involve more ...Starting at €8.20
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Codecademy: Where to Next
Rayport, Jeffrey; Mailman, Max; Ascherman, SarahCase HBS-821093-EEntrepreneurshipStarting at €8.20