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Heather Evans (Spanish version)
Stevenson, Howard H.; Roberts, Michael J.Case HBS-306S09EntrepreneurshipFocuses on the efforts of Heather Evans, a second-year MBA student, and her attempts to start her own dress business. Examines the business plan and the process of acquiring control over the financial and human resources necessary to implement the plan.Starting at €8.20
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Currency Hedging Review (Spanish version)
Tufano, Peter; Poetzscher, CameronCase HBS-203S14FinanceThe chief financial officer of a rapidly growing U.S.-based software firm that sells its process-control software to industrial users around the globe must review the goals, strategies, and policies of the firm's currency hedging program. This review is prompted by changes in the firm's business, notably its acquisition of a United Kingdom subsidiary, other growing overseas expenses, and its recent initial public offering.Starting at €8.20
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HealthCo
Ellis, Jim; Mansfield, ImogenCase SGSB-E762-EEntrepreneurshipThis case follows the decision of two Stanford Graduate School of Business classmates, Heather Fernandez and Daniele Farnedi, to start a company together. It explores the criteria they used to assess ideas, how the pair identified an opportunity in consumer health care, and how they started testing urgent care clinic software concept. The case culminates with making a go or no-go decision.Starting at €8.20
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D2Hawkeye: Growing the Medical IT Enterprise
Higgins, Robert F.; Kazan, Brent; Lamontagne, SophieCase HBS-808006-EEntrepreneurshipIn mid-March 2007, Chris Kryder sat in his office and thought about how to best finance his company's growth. Over the previous five years as founder and CEO of D2Hawkeye, a Waltham, Massachusetts-based healthcare analytics company, Kryder had grown the firm from a six-person start-up into a leading developer and provider of medical analytics in the U.S. He had three term sheets in hand-two from strategic investors and one from a venture capital ...Starting at €8.20
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Smartix: Swinging for the Fences
Wasserman, NoamCase HBS-808116-EEntrepreneurshipVivek Khuller has built Smartix by attracting classmates to co-found it with him, learning how to pitch it to top VC firms and potential strategic partners, and honing the concept and business model by testing it in smaller venues. Now, he is facing the implications of the choices he has made in each of these areas and has to decide how to manage those implications.Starting at €8.20
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MedVal Ventures
Herzlinger, Regina E.Case HBS-308087-EIs medical travel a viable business opportunity? A group of MBA students consider the pros and cons of starting a business that would send people from the U.S. to India for elective non-emergency surgeries.Starting at €8.20
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Identifying Venture Opportunities
Rohan, Dennis; Hornblower, JocelynCase SGSB-E323-EEntrepreneurshipThis note explores the idea identification stage of becoming an entrepreneur. It covers common sources of inspiration for ideas, such as career, education, hobbies and interests. It discusses the importance of team creation, execution and passion. It emphasizes 4 different categories of trends that create opportunities for new businesses to emerge, illustrated with examples. Finally, the note covers testing the basic viability of an idea, inc...Starting at €8.20
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Clutch Group: Should Abhi Shah Grab This Opportunity
Isenberg, Daniel J.Case HBS-809065-EEntrepreneurshipAbhi Shah ('06) co-founding CEO of Clutch Group in the US and Bangalore, must decide whether to risk a law suit by recruiting an entire legal services team from a large US corporation. His decision and how he implements it will have a dramatic impact on the legal process outsourcing startup.Starting at €8.20
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Skyhook Wireless (Spanish version)
Ghosh, Shikhar; Eisenmann, Thomas R.Case HBS-817S09EntrepreneurshipTed Morgan, the founder of Skyhook Wireless just received a call from Steve Jobs of Apple asking for a meeting. Ted must decide how to prepare for a meeting that could finally give Skyhook an anchor customer. Ted and his team have worked for three years to build a new approach to location based services that uses WiFi rather than the well-established satellite based GPS technology. Skyhook's approach is more accurate than GPS in urban areas and, ...Starting at €8.20
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Skyhook Wireless
Ghosh, Shikhar; Eisenmann, Thomas R.Case HBS-809119-EEntrepreneurshipTed Morgan, the founder of Skyhook Wireless just received a call from Steve Jobs of Apple asking for a meeting. Ted must decide how to prepare for a meeting that could finally give Skyhook an anchor customer. Ted and his team have worked for three years to build a new approach to location based services that uses WiFi rather than the well-established satellite based GPS technology. Skyhook's approach is more accurate than GPS in urban areas and, ...Starting at €8.20