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Trunk Club - Teaching Note
Grousbeck, I; Kissick, RTeaching Note SGSB-E458TN-EEntrepreneurshipThe Trunk Club case begins with a description of the company’s business model and the path that led the main protagonist, Brian Spaly, to the CEO post. Four vignettes compose the main body of the case. The first vignette outlines a series of challenges faced by Spaly during his first ninety days running the business, most notably a situation in which Spaly’s top salesperson threatens to leave with the company’s top five sales reps to start a co...Starting at €0.00
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Convenient MD - Teaching note
Grousbekc, I, H; Kissick, RTeaching Note SGSB-E550TN-EEntrepreneurshipThe ConvenientMD case highlights the role of emotion and ambiguity in business interactions. ConvenientMD, led by co-CEOs Gareth Dickens and Max Puyanic, operated urgent care centers (UCCs) in the northeastern United States. UCCs are medical facilities that provide treatment for a variety of injuries and illnesses at a fraction of the cost of hospitals. The case, which examines ConvenientMD in its nascent and high-growth years, is divided into...Starting at €0.00
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Practice Fusion - Teaching note
Chess, R; Kissick, RTeaching Note SGSB-E589TN-EEntrepreneurshipCentered on Practice Fusion, a free web-based electronic health record (EHR) company based in San Francisco, the Practice Fusion case examines the rapid growth of EHR systems in the United States from 2009 to 2014. The case discusses the challenges associated with adopting an EHR system (also referred to as an electronic medical record [EMR] system) from the standpoint of health care providers, both large and small. It also examines the benefit...Starting at €0.00
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Mesosphere: Creating Lasting Value on Top of Open Source Software - Teaching note
Siegel, R; Kissick, RTeaching Note SGSB-E600TN-EEntrepreneurship“Mesosphere: Creating Lasting Value on Top of Open Source Software” explores the challenges associated with building a company on top of open source software. In 2013, Florian Leibert, Ben Hindman, and Tobias Knaup founded Mesosphere. By combining proprietary software products with an open source software called Apache Mesos, Mesosphere developed a single platform called the datacenter operating system (DC/OS). With the DC/OS, companies could ...Starting at €0.00
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Stripe: Increasing the GDP of the Internet - Teaching Note
Siegel, R; Kissick, RTeaching Note SGSB-E601TN-EEntrepreneurshipIn 2009, brothers Patrick and John Collison began working on a start-up called Stripe that made it simple for companies to send and receive money around the world. By the end of 2016, Stripe had expanded far beyond an online payment mechanism. Fueled by a belief that the Internet and developers would drive rapid economic growth across the world, Stripe created tools for social commerce and online marketplaces, as well as products to facilitate ...Starting at €0.00
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Business Talent Group: Growing the Market for Independent Business Talent - Teaching note
Chess, R; Kissick, RTeaching Note SGSB-E621TN-EEntrepreneurshipIn 2007, Jody Greenstone Miller founded Business Talent Group (BTG), a company that connected top independent professionals, including consultants and executives, with global companies for project-based work at a lower cost and with more precision than traditional consulting. From BTG’s inception, Miller and cofounder Amelia Warren Tyagi believed that the way people work—and the way companies use talent—was changing for several reasons. High-en...Starting at €0.00
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Pear VC - Teaching Note
Siegel, R; Kissick, RTeaching Note SGSB-E630TN-EEntrepreneurshipIn 2014, Mar Hershenson and Pejman Nozad teamed up to form Pear VC, a venture capital firm that invested in start-ups spanning three stages of company development: 1) pre-seed, which Pear termed “soil”; 2) seed; and 3) Series A. The duo had known each other for well over a decade before creating Pear VC. And while they have very different backgrounds—Hershenson had founded several companies after receiving her PhD in electrical engineering, whi...Starting at €0.00
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The London 2012 Olympic Games, Teaching Note
Gourville, John T.; Bertini, MarcoTeaching Note HBS-511027-EMarketingTeaching Note for 510039.Starting at €0.00
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Tenet Health - Teaching note
Chess, R; Kissick, RTeaching Note SGSB-E534TN-EEntrepreneurshipThis case focuses on major strategic challenges faced by Tenet Healthcare (Tenet), a U.S.-based health care provider, in 2014. It discusses major changes to the health care provider industry over the previous decade―customer, demographic, reimbursement, structural, technological, financing, and regulatory―and raises questions related to the strategic direction Tenet should pursue in response to these changes. The case emphasizes two primary dec...Starting at €0.00
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Carlypso: Overcoming Bumps in the Road in the Used Car Industry - Teaching note
Reiss, P; Kissick, RTeaching Note SGSB-E546TN-EEntrepreneurshipCarlypso: Overcoming Bumps in the Road in the Used Car Industry” explores various challenges associated with scaling a start-up. In 2013, Christopher Coleman and Nicholas Hinrichsen cofounded Carlypso, a company that simplified the process of buying and selling used cars. Over the course of two years, Coleman and Hinrichsen ran into a series of challenges that prevented Carlypso from selling cars more efficiently. The case highlights several o...Starting at €0.00