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Bigpoint
Child, M; Chambers, J; Ellis, H; Han, ACase SGSB-E423-EEntrepreneurshipBigpoint was a leading online gaming company with vast international operations. One country that it wanted to enter was the United States, where existing players EA and Zynga, as well as dominant social gaming platforms and the Apple App Store posed considerable challenges. It also needed to restructure its top management to better manage its growth.Starting at €8.20
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Refresh Organics Board of Directors: Three Vignettes - Teaching Note
Child, M; Chamberd, J; Han, ATeaching Note SGSB-E432TN-EEntrepreneurshipGeorge Hausman, co-founder and CEO of Pleasanton, California-based Refresh Organics (fictional), was proud of the business he had built over the past 15 years. Along with a minority partner, Hausman had started Refresh as a distributor of organic produce sourced throughout California. The business had grown steadily, if not explosively, and was now a distributor for organic farms throughout the United States. Refresh’s distribution revenues were ...Starting at €0.00
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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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TwinMed
Child, M; Chambers, J; Han, ACase SGSB-E419-EEntrepreneurshipTwinMed was a nursing home supply business located in Los Angeles. This case details its humble origins and its development, and raises several strategic issues prevalent in Medicare-reimbursed businesses, business-to-business selling, and what to do when there is a sea change in government billing as there was in 1999, with the advent of Medicare’s “PPS” model.Starting at €8.20
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Bigpoint - Teaching note
Child, M; Chambers, J; Ellis, H; Han, ATeaching Note SGSB-E423TN-EEntrepreneurshipBigpoint was a leading online gaming company with vast international operations. One country that it wanted to enter was the United States, where existing players EA and Zynga, as well as dominant social gaming platforms and the Apple App Store posed considerable challenges. It also needed to restructure its top management to better manage its growth.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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Magnus Resch: Transforming the Art Market Through Transparency
McGee, Henry W.; Mehta, SarahCase HBS-319002-EEntrepreneurshipEconomist and entrepreneur Magnus Resch was on a mission to make the art market more transparent. To that end, in 2014, he began building the Magnus app, which catalogued the price and transaction history of millions of works of art. Users could download the app, take a photo of any flat artwork, and the app would display that piece's price along with other pertinent information. Resch believed that such radical transparency would grow the small,...Starting at €8.20
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Magnus Resch: Transforming the Art Market Through Transparency, Teaching Note
McGee, Henry W.; Mehta, SarahTeaching Note HBS-320021-EEntrepreneurshipThis teaching note pairs with a case on economist and entrepreneur Magnus Resch, who is on a mission to make the art market more transparent. He has built the Magnus app, which catalogues the price and transaction history of millions of works of art. Users download the app, take a photo of any flat artwork, and the app returns that piece's price along with other pertinent information. Resch believes that such radical transparency will grow the sm...Starting at €0.00
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TwinMed - Teaching note
Child, M; Chambers, J; ; Han, ATeaching Note SGSB-E419TN-EEntrepreneurshipTwinMed was a nursing home supply business located in Los Angeles. This case details its humble origins and its development, and raises several strategic issues prevalent in Medicare-reimbursed businesses, business-to-business selling, and what to do when there is a sea change in government billing as there was in 1999, with the advent of Medicare’s “PPS” model.Starting at €0.00
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Refresh Organics Board of Directors: Three Vignettes
Child, M; Chamberd, J; Han, ACase SGSB-E432-EEntrepreneurshipGeorge Hausman, co-founder and CEO of Pleasanton, California-based Refresh Organics (fictional), was proud of the business he had built over the past 15 years. Along with a minority partner, Hausman had started Refresh as a distributor of organic produce sourced throughout California. The business had grown steadily, if not explosively, and was now a distributor for organic farms throughout the United States. Refresh’s distribution revenues were ...Starting at €8.20