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Bulb 2017: Launch
Wells, John R.; Weinstock, BenjaminCase HBS-719441-EStrategyRapid Growth" (719-442). It describes the launch of Bulb, a renewable energy supplier entering the highly competitive UK market in August 2015. By the end of March 2017, Bulb had grown to supply 29,311 properties, well ahead of its Launch Plan of 23,166 and beyond the point of breakeven. It had been a slow start, and growth had been volatile, reaching a rate of over 3,000 new members per week at one point, putting severe strains on service level...Starting at €8.20
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Celata Bioinnovations
Wells, John R.; Weinstock, BenjaminCase HBS-720427-EIn December 2019, Jon Hu (Harvard Business School MBA, 2019) and Dr. Samantha Dale Strasser, co-founders of Celata Bioinnovations, were raising $1 million to launch their company. They had founded Celata less than six months earlier with the aim of redefining the drug discovery process. Celata's platform used novel data types and a unique data integration process to generate hypotheses about proteins that were involved in the formation and progre...Starting at €8.20
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The Indian Premier League, 2020
Wells, John R.; Weinstock, BenjaminCase HBS-721362-EStrategySince its founding in 2008, the Indian Premier League (IPL), India's eight-week Twenty20 (T20) cricket competition, had become one of the most popular and lucrative sporting leagues in the world. In 2019, the IPL attracted 462 million TV viewers and 300 million digital viewers, and the total IPL ecosystem was estimated to be worth $6.8 billion. Key to the IPL's success was its league structure, which shared central revenues with its eight perman...Starting at €8.20
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Behavior Change for Good
Bazerman, Max H.; Luca, Michael; Lawrence, MarieCase HBS-920049-EStarting at €8.20
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Behavioural Insights Team (B)
Luca, Michael; Rooney, PatrickCase HBS-915025-EMarketingExamines the founding of the United States of America during the second half of the eighteenth century. Focuses on: 1) the reasons why the American colonists rebelled against Britain (1763-1774); 2) the problems the new nation confronted during the War of Independence and under the Articles of Confederation (1775-1788); 3) the main issues taken up at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia (1787); and 4) the enormous challenges facing Alexa...Starting at €5.74
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Launching Yelp Reservations (B)
Luca, Michael; Mohan, Kevin P.; Rooney, PatrickCase HBS-916004-EStarting at €5.74
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Managing Diversity and Inclusion at Yelp (B)
Luca, Michael; Schwartzstein, Joshua R.; Subramani, GauriCase HBS-918012-ELeadership and People ManagementStarting at €5.74
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Airbnb (A) (Spanish version)
Edelman, Benjamin; Luca, MichaelCase HBS-914S09Information TechnologiesAfter widely-publicized complaints of destructive guests and unreliable hosts, online apartment rental site Airbnb explores mechanisms to facilitate trust between guests and hosts. Flexible online reputation systems can collect and share information with ease, but Airbnb must decide which information guests and hosts should have to provide and how much flexibility each should have in selecting whom to do business with. A full-featured system coul...Starting at €8.20
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State of Charge: The Massachusetts Energy Storage Initiative
Wells, John R.; Weinstock, BenjaminCase HBS-719448-EStrategyIn early 2017, Judith Judson (Harvard Business School MBA, 2000), Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources (DOER), was reflecting on the results of the initiative she had led to identify the contribution advanced electricity storage could make to electricity generation and distribution in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The study was the first major output from the $10 million Energy Storage Initiative (ESI) launched by...Starting at €8.20
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Salary Finance
Wells, John R.; Weinstock, BenjaminCase HBS-720355-EStrategyIn April 2019, Asesh Sarkar, co-founder and chief executive of Salary Finance Limited, a London-based FinTech, faced tough choices. Sarkar had founded Salary Finance with Dan Cobley and Daniel Shakhani in 2015. The company's value proposition was quite siStarting at €8.20