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New York Bakery (E)
David Loree; Ken MarkCase IVEY-9B10C023E-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People Management, StrategyA technical consultant is travelling to New York Bakery, and eastern U.S. confectionery company that is under bankruptcy protection. The consultant's task is to assess New York Bakery's readiness for the installation of a new payroll system, which will help it move through the bankruptcy process. By his first week on the job, the consultant realizes that his task is greater than he imagined. In trying to help the organization prepare for the chan...Starting at €5.74
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New York Bakery (I)
David Loree; Ken MarkCase IVEY-9B10C023I-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People Management, StrategyA technical consultant is travelling to New York Bakery, and eastern U.S. confectionery company that is under bankruptcy protection. The consultant's task is to assess New York Bakery's readiness for the installation of a new payroll system, which will help it move through the bankruptcy process. By his first week on the job, the consultant realizes that his task is greater than he imagined. In trying to help the organization prepare for the chan...Starting at €8.20
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New York Bakery (J)
David Loree; Ken MarkCase IVEY-9B10C023J-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People Management, StrategyA technical consultant is travelling to New York Bakery, and eastern U.S. confectionery company that is under bankruptcy protection. The consultant's task is to assess New York Bakery's readiness for the installation of a new payroll system, which will help it move through the bankruptcy process. By his first week on the job, the consultant realizes that his task is greater than he imagined. In trying to help the organization prepare for the chan...Starting at €8.20
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Community-First Public Safety
Weiss, Mitchell B.; Mehta, SarahCase HBS-821005-EEconomicsHow many police officer positions to fund? In August 2020, the question facing St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter, which might have seemed routine to another mayor at another time in another place, was anything but. A pandemic had rendered the city some $19-$34 million short for 2021. Advocates across the country (and nearby) had pointed to a likely pool for budget cuts: police departments. The May 2020 killing of George Floyd, a Black man, in neighbor...Starting at €8.20
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LabCDMX: Experiment 50
Weiss, Mitchell B.; Miguel, Maria FernandaCase HBS-817031-EEntrepreneurshipThere were probably 30,000 public buses, minibuses, and vans in Mexico City. Though, in 2015, no one knew for certain since no comprehensive schedule existed. This was why el Laboratorio para la Ciudad (or LabCDMX) had spawned an effort to generate a map of the labyrinth system that provided an estimated 14 million rides a day. Gabriella G mez-Mont, the Lab's founder and director, had led her team in a project to crowd-source the routes from vol...Starting at €8.20
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U.S. Digital Service
Weiss, Mitchell B.; Sinai, Nick; Norris, MichaelCase HBS-817032-EEntrepreneurshipMikey Dickerson and Haley Van Dyck found themselves far from home and far from certainty about where to take the U.S. Digital Service (USDS) next. In the summer of 2015, they had landed in London to meet with Mike Bracken, director of the United Kingdom's Government Digital Service (GDS). In 2014, President Barack Obama had given USDS a monumental task: transform how the federal government worked for the American people, digitally. The seeds of U...Starting at €8.20
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Testing Autonomy in Pittsburgh (A)
Weiss, Mitchell B.; Urick, BrittanyCase HBS-819059-EEntrepreneurshipPittsburgh's mayor had been among the first to welcome self-driving vehicles, but was now one of many needing to react after a pedestrian fatality involving an autonomous Uber in Arizona. He had originally preferred to roll out "the red carpet" instead of the "red tape". Now he found himself needing to balance technological advancement and the city's economic trajectory against public health and safety concerns and, simply, citizens' fears. Post-...Starting at €8.20
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An (Abbreviated) Perspective on Entrepreneurship
Weiss, Mitchell B.; Henkes, BenjaminCase HBS-820083-EEntrepreneurshipAmong the many competing definitions of entrepreneurship, the one adopted in The Entrepreneurial Manager at HBS was authored by Howard Stevenson in the 1980s and elaborated on in the decades since. Stevenson provided a managerial take on the term; he described entrepreneurship as a distinct approach to management. That approach is the subject of this brief note. The note provides his definition of entrepreneurship ("the pursuit of opportunity wit...Starting at €8.20
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New York Bakery (G)
David Loree; Ken MarkCase IVEY-9B10C023G-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People Management, StrategyA technical consultant is travelling to New York Bakery, and eastern U.S. confectionery company that is under bankruptcy protection. The consultant's task is to assess New York Bakery's readiness for the installation of a new payroll system, which will help it move through the bankruptcy process. By his first week on the job, the consultant realizes that his task is greater than he imagined. In trying to help the organization prepare for the chan...Starting at €8.20
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New York Bakery (H)
David Loree; Ken MarkCase IVEY-9B10C023H-EEntrepreneurship, Leadership and People Management, StrategyA technical consultant is travelling to New York Bakery, and eastern U.S. confectionery company that is under bankruptcy protection. The consultant's task is to assess New York Bakery's readiness for the installation of a new payroll system, which will help it move through the bankruptcy process. By his first week on the job, the consultant realizes that his task is greater than he imagined. In trying to help the organization prepare for the chan...Starting at €8.20