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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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Atlantic Aviation Corporation: División Westwind
Bonoma, Thomas V.Case HBS-505S05MarketingPlantea cuestiones sobre el control y controlar los costos de demostración de vuelo para el avión de negocios Westwind. vicepresidente de marketing de Atlántico está preocupado por el aumento de los costos de demostración, pero no desea negar sólidas perspectivas de un paseo de evaluación. Se le pide al gerente general de la división de formular una política de cumplir ambos objetivos. Previsto para el uso en la sección de política de marketing d...Starting at €8.20
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Boston Whaler, Incorporated: gestión de la red de distribuidores
Bonoma, Thomas V.; Kane, Margaret L.Case HBS-512S16MarketingSr. Joseph Lawler, presidente de Boston Whaler, Inc. (BWI) recién nombrado, considera que una mejor gestión de concesionarios es la clave para el crecimiento continuo de su empresa. BWI fabricó un alto precio, el rendimiento de la línea de alta potencia y otros barcos para los mercados recreativas, comerciales y de otro tipo. Sus 250 distribuidores eran servidos por una pequeña fuerza de los directores regionales. La mayoría de los comerciantes n...Starting at €8.20
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Escuela Outward Bound Hurricane Island
Bonoma, Thomas V.; Clark, Bruce H.Case HBS-515S18MarketingEl huracán Island Outward Bound, una pequeña escuela, sin fines de lucro que ayudó a la educación experimental pionero en los Estados Unidos, se ha recuperado recientemente de una crisis financiera. Los estudiantes toman el papel de la nueva gerente de marketing de la escuela, que está preparando su primer plan de marketing para la organización. Frente a un presupuesto de marketing apretado, los estudiantes deben elegir entre varios programas de ...Starting at €8.20
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IDS Financial Services (Spanish version)
Bonoma, Thomas V.; Drumwright, Minette E.Case HBS-520S14MarketingScarce managerial talent, sales force turnover, and client attrition were potential problems underlying IDS' disappointing performance at mid-year 1987. The marketing vice president had three potential "fixes": 1) increasing or decreasing the $35 million budget for marketing programs, 2) accelerating the expansion of the 6,746-person sales force numerically, and 3) emphasizing the strategic geographical expansion of the sales force. The teaching ...Starting at €8.20
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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
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AMD: A Customer-Centric Approach to Innovation
Ofek, Elie; Barley, LaurenCase HBS-507037-EStrategyAMD's launch of the Opteron microprocessor in 2003 has allowed the company to make inroads into the lucrative server segment. A long-time follower to Intel, AMD management felt it was in a position to lead the microprocessor industry in new directions. However, in 2006 it was not clear whether Opteron's success in the server segment would translate into success in other microprocessor segments, notably corporate desktop and laptop, and whether th...Starting at €8.20
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EFI, Inc. (A)
Godes, David B.; Barley, LaurenCase HBS-508044-EMarketingEFI has a unique sales compensation challenge. They cannot allocate sales credit for their core product to individual salespeople. So, they've historically paid the sales force as a team. This has worked out fine, since they've been a near-monopoly seller of a single product category. However, this has changed. Not only are they facing new competition in their core product bu they also have diversified into other products that allow them to ident...Starting at €8.20
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EFI, Inc. (B)
Godes, David B.; Barley, LaurenCase HBS-508045-EMarketingThis is a follow-on case to EFI, Inc. (A). It reports on Dean Mills' decision to implement a new compensation approach that pays 25% of salespeople's bonus, based on their individual sales of software add-on products. He also recommends making public each salesperson's performance against their goal in a report that ranked salespeople from top to bottom each period. Students are asked to react to this new plan.Starting at €5.74