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Target: Creating a Data-Driven Product Management Organization
Siegel, Robert; Kingbo, DavidCase SGSB-SM308-EStrategyAs retail shopping has changed with the rise of e-commerce, Target Corporate, one of the largest retail stores in the United States, made the strategic decision to invest in developing a core data science and technology team to remain competitive in its physical and online shopping experiences. The company hired a team of technologists who initially worked at enhancing the company’s digital and mobile solutions, but soon began influencing the com...Starting at €8.20
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Glassdoor: The Fundraising Journey (A)
Siegel, Robert; Orleans, AmadeusCase SGSB-E673A-EEntrepreneurshipFrom his time as a young engineer at Microsoft in 1993, to the challenge of building Glassdoor from the ground up until it reached a valuation of over $1 billion, in 2018, Robert Hohman had come a long way. Now, from his spacious office with a picturesque view of Richardson Bay in Mill Valley, California, Hohman confronted one of the most important decisions of his life. Glassdoor, the company he cofounded in 2007 with Rich Barton and Tim Besse,...Starting at €8.20
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23andMe: A Virtuous Loop
Siegel, Robert; Conn, JeffreyCase SGSB-E688-EEntrepreneurshipThis case describes 23andMe CEO and cofounder Anne Wojcicki’s founding story and her recent attempts to scale the company’s direct-to-consumer genetic testing franchise while simultaneously expanding its pharmaceutical development aspirations.Starting at €8.20
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Tender
Siegel, Robert; Mansfield, ImogenCase SGSB-E752-EEntrepreneurshipThe Tender case follows the journey of Miles Parker from his early days of joining an equipment financing company as a partner to the company’s founder, through pivoting the company’s product, and working with several different investors including high-net-worth individuals and private equity.Starting at €8.20
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Klöckner: Operations During Transformation
Siegel, Robert; Scott, MitchelCase SGSB-E-721-EEntrepreneurshipThe Eyewitness Surveillance II case tells the story of Rush Arnold and RT McCloy, friends who met while studying at Wharton, who raise a search fund under the name Channelstone Partners. In the fall of 2010, after having spent two-thirds of their search fund capital and reviewed over 200 companies, they came across Eyewitness Surveillance, a company specializing in the use of video technology to protect the assets of car dealerships. Eyewitnes...Starting at €8.20
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2003 HBR List: Breakthrough Ideas for Tomorrow's Business Agenda (Spanish version)
Harvard Business ReviewArticle HBS-R0304GThe events of this past year have prompted intense soul-searching in many quarters and led us, in this year's list of the best business ideas, to reassess some of the most basic assumptions about strategy, organizations, and leadership. We began by reconsidering the role of the leader. Discussions of leadership focus almost exclusively on the CEO. But attention also needs to be paid to the other people who make organizations work: the followers--...Starting at €8.20
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Cherrypicks (Spanish version)
Kerr, William R.Case HBS-816S13EntrepreneurshipCherrypicks is a Hong Kong communications start-up approaching a large Korean mobile operator for a partnership to take the operator's products to markets outside of Korea. SK Telecom's (SKT) Ring Back Tones (RBT) product is a spectacular success in South Korea, but the partnership will require major changes in Cherrypicks' business model. Further complicating matters, SKT is also a strategic investor in Cherrypicks, a very large service provider...Starting at €8.20
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Younger Women at the Top
Harvard Business ReviewArticle HBS-F0704C-ELeadership and People ManagementMore women than men at Fortune 1000 firms have reached executive officer positions in their 30s, 40s, and 50s--and they've done it faster. Still, nearly half of those companies lack female executive officers altogether.Starting at €8.20
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How to Teach Pride in "Dirty Work"
Harvard Business ReviewArticle HBS-F0709B-ELeadership and People ManagementEmployees in stigmatized occupations can be helped with an array of techniques to cope with or even feel proud of their jobs, including developing an occupational ideology to confer a more positive image on the work; creating social buffers such as professional associations; and avoiding specifics in conversation with outsiders.Starting at €8.20
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The Secret to Job Growth: Think Small
Glaeser, Edward L.; Kerr, William R.Article HBS-F1007C-EStrategyWith job growth lagging, local communities will be tempted to use tax breaks to attract big employers, but new research by Harvard economist Edward L. Glaeser and William R. Kerr of Harvard Business School indicates that's a misguided approach-growth is highly correlated with an abundance of small firms, not the presence of a few big ones.Starting at €8.20