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Winning (and Losing) the Olympics: Boston 2024 (A)
Fubini, David G.; Bernstein, Ethan S.; Saadine, Mark; McAra, Sarah; Barnett, JamesCase HBS-418024-ELeadership and People ManagementTwo leadership groups from Boston 2024 negotiate with government bodies, community leaders, and olympic officials in an effort to bring the 2024 Olympics to Boston.Starting at €8.20
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Chances Are Course Selection at HBS and at Kellogg
Halaburda, Hanna; Sesia, AldoCase HBS-711417-EStrategyThe case describes two alternative elective course assignment procedures: Harvard Business School's lottery-based system and Kellogg Graduate School of Management's bidding-based system. The case has been designed to discuss the benefits and drawbacks of each system and their desirability (or lack thereof) depending on the context (the broader business system) within which they are implemented. The case also describes the draft used by the NBA to...Starting at €8.20
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The Black List, Teaching Plan
McGee, Henry W.; McAra, SarahTeaching Note HBS-317087-EEntrepreneurshipTeaching plan supplement to 317027.Starting at €0.00
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Developing an App for That, Teaching Note
Halaburda, Hanna; Gans, JoshuaTeaching Note HBS-711535-EStrategyTeaching Note for 711415.Starting at €0.00
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The Black List
McGee, Henry W.; McAra, SarahCase HBS-317027-EEntrepreneurshipFranklin Leonard founded The Black List in 2005 as an innovative approach to identifying potential hit movie scripts via crowdsourcing. As the annual Black List proved to hold the scripts of some of Hollywood's most successful films, from "Slumdog Millionaire" to "Spotlight," it became widely respected and highly anticipated throughout the industry. In 2012, Leonard uses the momentum to bring The Black List online as a database where unproduced s...Starting at €8.20
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Developing an App for That
Halaburda, Hanna; Gans, Joshua; Burbank, NathanielCase HBS-711415-EStrategyAt a time when ever-rising smartphone sales are driven as much by demand for devices that run must-have third-party apps as by the quality of traditional voice and data services, there is a myriad of challenges facing the software developer who is looking to choose which mobile development software platform to invest in. Written from the perspective of an established consumer bank that is about to commence development on its first downloadable ap...Starting at €8.20
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Analyzing Relative Costs (Spanish version)
Rivkin, Jan W.; Halaburda, HannaCase HBS-713S11Strategyto anticipate how a rival is likely to react to a price change; to predict how a price war may evolve; to test whether a cost advantage it believes it has is real and sustainable; to decide how low a company must bid in order to win a competitive contract from a rival; to identify opportunities for internal cost reduction; to estimate, in the context of an acquisition, how much the costs of an acquired company might be reduced and what a reasona...Starting at €8.20
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The $70K CEO at Gravity Payments
Weiss, Mitchell B.; Norton, Michael I.; Norris, Michael; McAra, SarahCase HBS-816010-ELeadership and People ManagementIn 2015, Gravity Payments CEO Dan Price took a massive pay cut to raise the minimum wage at his company to $70,000 annually. In the wake of a national discussion of wage equality, he was met with cheers and jeers. The company hoped that the buzz from the unorthodox move would generate enough new business to cover the increasing costs of compensation. Did Price make the right move? Would Gravity thrive or even survive?Starting at €8.20
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ShotSpotter
Weiss, Mitchell B.; McAra, SarahCase HBS-817034-EEntrepreneurshipSST offered a subscription-based gunfire detection service, ShotSpotter Flex, to cities across the United States, and a few abroad. Over its 20-year history, SST had mostly honed a reliable business to government sales model, and the company had been focused on expanding to new cities. But Ralph Clark, President and CEO, was also interested in investigating new services. Mass shootings, in U.S. schools to cities abroad, were consistently followed...Starting at €8.20
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Propel
Weiss, Mitchell B.; McAra, SarahCase HBS-818008-EEntrepreneurshipIn 2014, Jimmy Chen, a former product manager at Facebook, founded the start-up Propel to build software for low-income Americans. After conducting in-depth behavioral research, Chen and his small team in New York City began to develop technology to address the burdensome process of accessing benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), commonly known as food stamps. They first designed a mobile site called Easy Food Stamps...Starting at €8.20