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Olapic on Amazon.com's Cloud (French Version)
Sieber, Sandra; Zamora, Javier; Sek, Tomasz; Goetschi, BeatCase SI-182-FREntrepreneurship, Information Technologies, Innovation and ChangeOn the morning of April 21, 2011, Alex Dantart, CTO of Olapic, was about to run the final testing of his New York-based IT start-up company's new service, uPhoto. The launch date of this innovative photo crowdsourcing service commissioned by Olapic's first corporate client, the newspaper the New York Daily News (NYDN), was slated for the end of April. Although it seemed that the Internet connection was working, Dantart was puzzled when he realize...Starting at €8.20
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Google 2017 (French Version)
Valor Sabatier, JosepCase SI-197-FRInformation Technologies, Innovation and Change, Service and Operations ManagementJohn Cardinal, a senior partner at the investment firm Maccarron, was worried. One of the largest clients he personally managed - who was also a personal friend - had asked Cardinal to buy $1 million of Google shares, a large proportion of the man's family savings. Cardinal thought he owed it to his friend, and himself, to analyze Google in greater depth before letting his longtime pal invest most of his savings in the search-engine giant.Starting at €8.20
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Padeinvest (French Version)
Roure, Juan; de San José Riestra, AmparoCase E-176-FREntrepreneurship, Finance, Information TechnologiesThis case examines the creation and management of an investment group, PADEINVEST, which was launched by the 2010 PADE graduating class in Madrid to engage in group investment activities in start-ups. The case briefly traces the creation of the group and the motivation behind it, its operating metrics, the assembly of its initial portfolio, and its first investments. The case also uses one of its investments, the third one, to highlight the dif...Starting at €8.20
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Social Lending at Zopa.com (French Version)
Mitchell, Jordan; Sieber, SandraCase SI-163-FRInformation Technologies, Innovation and ChangeZopa.com is the web's first lending exchange where individual borrowers and individual lenders can come together. Borrowers can access funds directly from other individuals instead of dealing with a bank. Since its launch in March 2005, Zopa's model of social lending had been the latest poster child for challenging traditional banks' business models. Despite the hype, many industry observers doubted that a direct model without intermediaries woul...Starting at €8.20