HBSP (USA)
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Blockchain for Government (Spanish version)
Weiss, Mitchell B.; Corsi, ElenaCase HBS-820S07EntrepreneurshipIn the Republic of Georgia, legend had it their land was a precious gift from God he had intended to keep for his mother. But over time, the land had been under intermittent threat from without and within. In 2017, the Bitfury Group, which Valery Vavilov had co-founded, had helped publish 300,000 Georgian land titles onto the blockchain, making them immutable and, many believed, unhackable. What came next, Vavilov's team envisioned, were smart p...Starting at €8.20
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Hacking Heroin, Teaching Note
Weiss, Mitchell B.; Mehta, SarahTeaching Note HBS-820063-EEntrepreneurshipThis teaching note pairs with a case that is used in a course on Public Entrepreneurship, for a first module on ""ideas."" The case is designed to help students work through the question: where do new ideas to stubborn problems come from? And, in particular, the question of looking to insiders vs. outsiders for new ways forward. It may be useful for looking at that question generally, and also in the specific context of hackathons. Are they a use...Starting at €0.00
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Bigbelly, Teaching Note
Weiss, Mitchell B.; Snively, Christine; Mehta, SarahTeaching Note HBS-820064-EEntrepreneurshipTeaching note for case 816005.Starting at €0.00
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Airbnb in Amsterdam (A)
Weiss, Mitchell B.; Moloney, Emer; Dessain, VincentCase HBS-817013-EEntrepreneurshipIn February 2014, Amsterdam became the first city to issue new regulations specifically to allow home-sharing. Airbnb's Molly Turner, Global Head of Civic Partnerships; her colleagues at the San Francisco based home-sharing platform; and her counterparts in Amsterdam's city leadership now had to make the new rules function well. By the summer of 2014, the question of how exactly to do that remained unsettled. A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) t...Starting at €8.20
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Public Entrepreneurship, Course Overview Note
Weiss, Mitchell B.Case HBS-818006-EEntrepreneurshipThis course is rooted in the belief that there is a large opportunity for creating value and solving large public problems if there are more inventors and builders inside government and more inventors and builders outside government, building for it. The course was created to advance that opportunity. It is designed for students who anticipate founding or joining private startup companies that sell to (or around) government to solve public proble...Starting at €8.20
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Urban Us
Weiss, Mitchell B.; Peronto, PhoebeCase HBS-818115-EEntrepreneurshipShaun Abrahamson and Stonly Baptiste aimed to invest in what they called "urbantech superheroes." At Urban Us, the seed-stage urban technology-focussed venture capital firm the two started in 2012, they looked for startups innovating around the future of cities. By 2017, they had assessed over 700 potential deals. Each one required a go/no-go decision, and four along the way were no different in that regrad. Of Remix, SeamlessDocs, Starcity, and ...Starting at €8.20
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LabCDMX: Experiment 50, Teaching Note
Weiss, Mitchell B.; Higgins, MattTeaching Note HBS-818135-EEntrepreneurshipTeaching note for case 817031.Starting at €0.00
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SOFWERX: Innovation at U.S. Special Operations Command
Leonard, Herman B.; Weiss, Mitchell B.; Hyun Paik, Jin; Herman, KerryCase HBS-819004-EEntrepreneurshipJames "Hondo" Geurts, the Acquisition Executive for U.S. Special Operations Command was in the middle of his Senate confirmation hearing in 2017 to become Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Research, Development and Acquisition. The questions had a common theme: how would Geurts's experience running an innovative procurement effort for U.S. Special Forces units enable him to change a much larger-and much more rigid-organization like the U.S. Nav...Starting at €8.20
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Shield AI
Weiss, Mitchell B.; Steinlage, A.J.Case HBS-819062-EEntrepreneurshipShield AI's quadcopter - with no pilot and no flight plan - could clear a building and outpace human warfighters by almost five minutes. This was not to say that it was better than the warfighters or would replace their jobs, but it was evidence that autonomous robots deployed in this fashion could keep up with the pace of operators, serve as a force multiplier, and help protect civilian and service member lives. But was it evidence that the Shie...Starting at €8.20
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ofo
Weiss, Mitchell B.Case HBS-819063-EEntrepreneurshipDai Wei and his co-founders grew Beijing-based ofo from a school-based startup to a bike-share behemoth in a matter of months, topped an all-out market-share battle fueled with almost $1 billion in venture capital, provided 2 billion bicycle rides, soaked up the majority of the bike manufacturing capacity in all of China, and then, in July of 2017, hit pause. The proximate reason for halting their purchase of new bicycles was a supply imbalance: ...Starting at €8.20