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Founders Factory
Rayport, Jeffrey; Barnett, JamesCase HBS-821009-EEntrepreneurshipIn January 2020, Brent Hoberman and Henry Lane Fox, co-founders of Founders Factory, a venture capital fund with an accelerator and incubator program funded by investment from corporate partners, consider international expansion strategies.Starting at €8.20
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Redesigning the Wedding Dress Experience: A Podcase with Leslie Voorhees and Calley Means of Anomalie, Teaching Note
Rayport, Jeffrey; Lafkas, JohnTeaching Note HBS-7226-EEntrepreneurshipTeaching note for 7125.Starting at €0.00
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Swagbucks
Rayport, Jeffrey; Preble, MatthewCase HBS-817068-EEntrepreneurshipIn early 2016, Chuck Davis, chairman and CEO of Prodege LLC, parent company of the brand promotion business Swagbucks, and Josef Gorowitz, Prodege's founder and president, must decide whether to acquire MyPoints, a competitor to Swagbucks, after a significant cultural transformation that the company has just gone through. Over the preceding two years, Davis and Gorowitz had grown Swagbucks from a relatively small venture staffed by people from G...Starting at €8.20
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Delivering the Goods at Shippo
Bussgang, Jeffrey J.; Rayport, Jeffrey; Hull, OliviaCase HBS-817065-EEntrepreneurshipLaura Behrens Wu, CEO of software start-up Shippo, prepares her pitch for a Series A funding round following a successful seed round. Customer adoption of Shippo's e-commerce dashboard application, which allows small and medium retailers to compare delivery rates between shipping providers and print package labels, has been steady in the nine months since it went live. But traction with the firm's developer-friendly product, an API that allows la...Starting at €8.20
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Chewy.com (A)
Rayport, Jeffrey; Preble, MatthewCase HBS-818079-EService and Operations ManagementIn late 2013, Ryan Cohen, cofounder and CEO of the fast growing online pet food and pet products retailer Chewy.com, has to make a "bet the company decision"-whether to keep working with Chewy's third-party logistics (3PL) provider to fulfill customer orders, or whether to take this critical function in-house. Cohen worries that the company's 3PL will not be able to serve Chewy's customers as it continues to grow, and reaching scale is essential ...Starting at €8.20
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Where Is Advertising Going. Into 'Stitials (Spanish version)
Rayport, JeffreyArticle HBS-F0805AMarketingIt's high time to shift our focus from the "avails" in media content to those in consumers' lives - that is, where, when, and how people might be receptive to relevant commercial messages.Starting at €8.20
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Web Site Blues (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Maruca, Regina Fazio; Siegel, David; Carpenter, Candice; Ticoll, David; Rayport, JeffreyArticle HBS-99209-EMarketingSo far, Rachel Soltanoff's instincts had been right. As CEO in this fictional case study, she had successfully navigated TradeRite Software's transition from a news service for stockbrokers to a $70 million provider of shrink-wrapped software geared toward both brokers and the growing day-trader market. Now a well-financed start-up, Stocknet.com, was testing a very competitive product that traders could download directly over the Web. And TradeRi...Starting at €8.20
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Peabody Essex Museum: What Next
Rangan, V. Kasturi; Rayport, JeffreyCase HBS-520009-EMarketingDan Monroe, successful CEO of PEM, engineered a major transformation. Successor will either stay or change the course. The case describes the 25-year transformation of Peabody Essex Museum, which was created in 1993 by the merger of two sub-scale predecStarting at €8.20
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What Serves the Customer Best? (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Nunes, Paul F.; Driggs, Woodruff W.; Herman, David; Rayport, Jeffrey; Dull, Stephen; Scafido, JoeArticle HBS-R0610A-EMarketingAs president of Scotch whisky maker Glenmeadie, Bob Littlefield is pleased to see the results of his CMO's recent marketing initiatives. There are new interactive capabilities on the company's Web site, a product information call center, and numerous other customer interfaces designed to deepen consumers' connection to the brand. Thanks to these front-end innovations, sales are up--and largely because of more loyal purchasing behavior, research s...Starting at €8.20