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HBSP (USA)
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New Urban Mechanics, Teaching Note
Weiss, Mitchell B.; Piltch, MatthewTeaching Note HBS-320036-EEntrepreneurshipTeaching note for case 315075.Starting at €0.00
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Community-First Public Safety
Weiss, Mitchell B.; Mehta, SarahCase HBS-821005-EEconomicsHow many police officer positions to fund? In August 2020, the question facing St. Paul Mayor Melvin Carter, which might have seemed routine to another mayor at another time in another place, was anything but. A pandemic had rendered the city some $19-$34 million short for 2021. Advocates across the country (and nearby) had pointed to a likely pool for budget cuts: police departments. The May 2020 killing of George Floyd, a Black man, in neighbor...Starting at €8.20
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EverTrue: Mobile Technology Development B
Kerr, William R.; Brownell, AlexisCase HBS-813123-EEntrepreneurshipSupplement for case 813122Starting at €8.20
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Homestrings, Inc.: Diaspora-Based Financing and the Crowd Funding of Development
Kerr, William R.; Brownell, AlexisCase HBS-814031-EEntrepreneurshipHomestrings is an online investment platform for overseas diasporas to link financially with their home countries. The founder believes crowd-funding can become a pillar for development, but U.S. regulatory hurdles and resources constraints are substantial. The company is considering targeting non-diaspora investors, introducing new products like insurance or banking, and related expansion strategies.Starting at €8.20
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The Entrepreneurial Manager: Spring 2021
Weiss, Mitchell B.; Henkes, BenjaminCase HBS-820082-EEntrepreneurshipThis is the course overview note for "The Entrepreneurial Manager," taught in the first year at Harvard Business School. Students will learn how to be opportunity-driven managers and how to lead under uncertainty. They'll learn how to identify opportunities, how to design and develop integrated operating models to pursue those opportunities, how to resource those activities amidst uncertainty, and, ultimately, how (and if) to scale them. The note...Starting at €8.20
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An (Abbreviated) Perspective on Entrepreneurship
Weiss, Mitchell B.; Henkes, BenjaminCase HBS-820083-EEntrepreneurshipAmong the many competing definitions of entrepreneurship, the one adopted in The Entrepreneurial Manager at HBS was authored by Howard Stevenson in the 1980s and elaborated on in the decades since. Stevenson provided a managerial take on the term; he described entrepreneurship as a distinct approach to management. That approach is the subject of this brief note. The note provides his definition of entrepreneurship ("the pursuit of opportunity wit...Starting at €8.20
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LabCDMX: Experiment 50
Weiss, Mitchell B.; Miguel, Maria FernandaCase HBS-817031-EEntrepreneurshipThere were probably 30,000 public buses, minibuses, and vans in Mexico City. Though, in 2015, no one knew for certain since no comprehensive schedule existed. This was why el Laboratorio para la Ciudad (or LabCDMX) had spawned an effort to generate a map of the labyrinth system that provided an estimated 14 million rides a day. Gabriella G mez-Mont, the Lab's founder and director, had led her team in a project to crowd-source the routes from vol...Starting at €8.20
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U.S. Digital Service
Weiss, Mitchell B.; Sinai, Nick; Norris, MichaelCase HBS-817032-EEntrepreneurshipMikey Dickerson and Haley Van Dyck found themselves far from home and far from certainty about where to take the U.S. Digital Service (USDS) next. In the summer of 2015, they had landed in London to meet with Mike Bracken, director of the United Kingdom's Government Digital Service (GDS). In 2014, President Barack Obama had given USDS a monumental task: transform how the federal government worked for the American people, digitally. The seeds of U...Starting at €8.20
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Supercell, Teaching Note
Kerr, William R.; Jones, Benjamin; Brownell, AlexisTeaching Note HBS-817055-EEntrepreneurshipTeaching note for case 817052.Starting at €0.00
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Transformation at Eli Lilly & Co. (A)
Kerr, William R.; Brownell, AlexisCase HBS-817070-EEntrepreneurshipFaced with the imminent loss of 40% of its revenues due to patent expirations, pharma giant Eli Lilly sets out on a dramatic transformation process in 2009. The case considers how Lilly restructured the organization into business areas to aid better decision making, faster innovation and clearer customer insight; the forward guidance and minimum performance guarantees that Lilly provided to the market during the transformation; the difficult HR a...Starting at €8.20