HBSP (USA)
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'It Just Works' (Spanish version)
Eisenmann, Thomas R.; Pao, Michael; Barley, LaurenCase HBS-812S02EntrepreneurshipDropbox is a venture-backed Silicon Valley startup, founded in 2006, that provides online storage and backup services to millions of customers using a "freemium" (free + premium offers) business model. The case recounts Dropbox's history from conception through mid-2010, when founder/CEO Drew Houston must make strategic decisions about new product features, how to target enterprise customers, and whether to pursue distribution deals with smartpho...Starting at €8.20
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How Venture Capitalists Evaluate Potential Venture Opportunities
Roberts, Michael J.; Barley, LaurenCase HBS-805019-EEntrepreneurshipFour venture capitalists from leading Silicon Valley firms are interviewed about the frameworks they use to evaluate potential venture opportunities. Questions include: How do you evaluate the venture's prospective business model? What due diligence do you conduct? What is the process through which funding decisions are made? What financial analyses do you perform? What role does risk play in your evaluation? and How do you think about a potentia...Starting at €8.20
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How to Start an Entrepreneurial Revolution (Spanish version)
Isenberg, Daniel J.Article HBS-R1006AEntrepreneurship(1) Stop emulating Silicon Valley. (2) Shape the ecosystem around local conditions. (3) Engage the private sector early. (4) Favor the high potentials. (5) Get a big win on the board. (6) Tackle cultural change head-on. (7) Stress the roots. (8) Don't overengineer clusters; help them grow organically. (9) Reform legal, regulatory, and bureaucratic frameworks. Each of these is critical to entrepreneurship-yet insufficient to sustain it. They key ...Starting at €8.20
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Contempo Technologies, Inc. and Betty Sievers: A Clash of Interests in an Uncertain Time
Datar, Srikant M.; Jaff, Michael R.; Bowler, Caitlin N.Case HBS-114009-EAccounting and ControlIn an era of rapidly evolving systems of health care delivery, the impact on patients, physicians, hospitals, medical device manufacturers and small business owners are often conflicting. This case highlights these conflicts and stressors from all perspectives, providing unique insights and offering potential options.Starting at €8.20
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Philips' Connected Baby Bottle
Lal, Rajiv; Datar, Srikant M.; Bowler, Caitlin N.Case HBS-519020-EMarketingStarting at €8.20
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The Oakland Athletics: Strategy & Metrics for a Budget
Datar, Srikant M.; Bowler, Caitlin N.Case HBS-118010-EStarting at €8.20
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Tamarin App: Natural Language Processing
Datar, Srikant M.; Bowler, Caitlin N.Case HBS-118015-EAccounting and ControlThis case was written for the EC course "Managing with Data Science." The course provides MBA students with no programming experience an introduction to the field of data science and its applications in business. Students learn to (1) carefully articulate the business ask, (2) reason carefully from the ask; through metrics and models, and outputs; and (3) evaluate outputs from models to (4) develop a plan for action. In this case students explore...Starting at €8.20
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Visualizing Data & Effective Communication
Datar, Srikant M.; Bowler, Caitlin N.Case HBS-118114-EAccounting and ControlStarting at €8.20
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Chateau Winery (B): Supervised Learning
Datar, Srikant M.; Bowler, Caitlin N.Case HBS-119024-EAccounting and ControlThis case builds directly on Chateau Winery (A). In this case Bill Booth, marketing manager of a regional wine distributor, shifts to supervised learning techniques to try to predict which deals he should offer to customers based on the purchasing behavior of those customers closest to them. Topics include: Supervised learning; collaborative filtering; K-nearest neighbor as a modeling technique; collaborative filtering with cosine similarity of ...Starting at €5.74
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Abby Falik at Global Citizen Year
Kaplan, Robert Steven; Barley, LaurenCase HBS-415052-ELeadership and People ManagementAbby Falik, founder and CEO of Global Citizen Year (GCY), quickly read through the most recent news updates regarding the Ebola crisis in West Africa as she prepared for her board call on July 31, 2014. Based in Oakland, California, GCY was a five-year-old not-for-profit with a fiscal year (FY) 2015 budget of $3.5 million. Its mission was to make it much more the norm for graduating high school students in the U.S. to choose a "bridge year." GCY ...Starting at €8.20