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Some Thoughts on Business Plans (Spanish version)
Sahlman, William A.Case HBS-811S12EntrepreneurshipA framework for assessing new business opportunities and the business plans used to describe them is developed. Useful for aspiring entrepreneurs in MBA programs.Starting at €8.20
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RightNow Technologies (Spanish version)
Sahlman, William A.; Heath, DanCase HBS-819S24EntrepreneurshipThe founder and CEO of a CRM software start-up must decide between an attractive acquisition offer and the opportunity to go public. Discusses the growth of the company--including a lengthy discussion of entrepreneurial bootstrapping--as well as an aborted IPO attempt in 2000. The central question is whether the company will create more value by staying independent or by joining a larger organization.Starting at €8.20
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Innocent Drinks (Spanish version)
Sahlman, William A.; Heath, DanCase HBS-812S14Entrepreneurshipexpansion of the existing product line into Europe, extension of the brand into other product categories, or continued organic growth within the United Kingdom.Starting at €8.20
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Nantero (Spanish version)
Sahlman, William A.; Heath, Dan; Perkins, CarolineCase HBS-818S13FinancePara maximizar su eficacia, los casos de color deben imprimirse en color. Este caso describe una decisión confrontar el fundador de Nantero, una compañía de desarrollo de una nueva tecnología de semiconductores. La compañía necesita recaudar capital de riesgo adicional. Los inversores potenciales han compitiendo visiones para la empresa, y su modelo de negocio. Algunos inversores quieren la compañía para licenciar su tecnología a empresas de semi...Starting at €8.20
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Connection: How the Need to Relate to Oneself and Others Affects Consumer Thinking
Zaltman, Gerald; Zaltman, LindsayBook Chapter HBS-4458BC-EMarketingHumans have a basic need for affiliation. The need to relate to others and to oneself has established connection as a major and pervasive lens through which consumers view the world. This chapter is excerpted from "Marketing Metaphoria: What Deep Metaphors Reveal About the Minds of Consumers."Starting at €8.20
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Resource: How Acquisitions and Their Consequences Affect Consumer Thinking
Zaltman, Gerald; Zaltman, LindsayBook Chapter HBS-4459BC-EMarketingThe deep metaphor of resource relates to capacities or abilities that we use to restore or achieve certain states. This chapter explores how consumers view the world through the lens of resource. This chapter is excerpted from "Marketing Metaphoria: What Deep Metaphors Reveal About the Minds of Consumers."Starting at €8.20
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Dr. John's Products Ltd.
Sahlman, William A.Case HBS-803063-EEntrepreneurshipDescribes an entrepreneur's attempts to invent, manufacture, and distribute an inexpensive electric toothbrush.Starting at €8.20
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Texas Pacific Group--J. Crew
Roberts, Michael J.; Sahlman, William A.; Barley, LaurenCase HBS-808017-EFinanceDescribes Texas Pacific Group's purchase and operation of J. Crew, the catalog and specialty clothing retailer. Highlights the issues involved in financing such a transaction, and then focuses on the operational challenges of turning around the business, and of TPG's intensive involvement in the running of the business. Details the improvements in the business, and then the retrenchment, leaving the business facing a significant debt payment comi...Starting at €8.20
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Pathfinder Capital
Sahlman, William A.; Janower, AndrewCase HBS-396067-EEntrepreneurshipTwo former consultants have raised a search fund and are looking for a company to buy and run. After eight months of looking at deals, they have just signed a letter of intent to buy the second largest book retail chain in Canada in a turnaround situation. They must now decide whether to go through with the deal and, if so, how to raise the necessary financing.Starting at €8.20
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Khosla Ventures: Biofuels Strategy
Lassiter, Joseph B.; Sahlman, William A.; Wagonfeld, Alison BerkleyCase HBS-809004-EFinanceBy 2008, a number of the firm's early cleantech investments were showing promise, and the companies were starting to need significantly more money to create the massive scale required in the energy sector. As Khosla thought about the hundreds of millions of dollars required by his portfolio companies, he wondered how he should position his firm at this stage of development. Should Khosla develop a new fund that focused on later-stage investments?...Starting at €8.20