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Michael Phelps: "It's Okay to Not Be Okay"
Groysberg, Boris; Knoop, Carin-Isabel; Norris, MichaelCase HBS-421044-ELeadership and People ManagementIn 2020, Michael Phelps, the most decorated Olympian of all time, with 28 medals in various swimming events, was now retired. As he looked back on his 20+ year athletic career, he considered what had gone into making him the greatest of all time-the highs and lows, successes and struggles. He had lived with mental health issues for much of his life, going public with his struggles in 2015, when he talked about his depression and suicidal thoughts...Starting at €8.20
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Nacre (B): a Steep and Risky Climb to Success: Decisions & Consequences
Prats, Mª Julia; Sosna, Marc; Darsch, DaveFocused Case EFC-7-EEntrepreneurship, Innovation and ChangeThis case B cannot be taught as a stand-alone case, but is a direct continuation of the FocusCase "Nacre: Turning a Lab Idea into a High-Growth Firm (A)" [EFC-2-E]. This case B describes the strategic decisions and actions of the CEO and how eventually, this firm - with only 12-15 employees at that time (plus a large contract manufacturer) - manages to land a US-$30 million deal with the US Marine Corp. Soon after, this company is acquired by a l...Starting at €8.20
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Regency Capital Partners: The Heat Is On
Grabenwarter, Uli; Mitchell, Jordan; Mayer F.; Liechtenstein, HeinrichCase F-827-EFinanceA senior manager at Durable Capital Partners (DCP) must decide between two investments for the company's seventh private equity fund by evaluating each investment memoranda. The first investment calls for DCP to be a junior partner in a syndicated deal. By investing in the first company, DCP's fund would be fully invested and the company could begin to fundraise for its eighth fund. The second investment, is in DCP's ideal range in terms of size ...Starting at €8.20
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Infinite Blue... With Finite Budget: Pricing a Cruise in the Aegean
Markakis, MihalisCase OIT-7-EService and Operations ManagementThe Director of Sales of a cruise line, operating in the eastern part of the Mediterranean Sea, is exploring the "crazy" idea of her niece, an MBA student, that the company should offer cruises that are tailored to young people like her. To make a case to her aunt, and help her pitch the idea to the company's CEO, the niece decides to poll her MBA classmates on how much they would be willing to pay for her dream week-long cruise in the Aegean, if...Starting at €8.20
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Can the Eurozone Survive
Roscini, Dante; Schlefer, JonathanCase HBS-713034-EEconomicsThe sovereign debt crisis that took Greece by storm in 2010 began to spread to other European markets. Within a few months Ireland and Portugal had also lost access to the sovereign debt markets and had to rely on supranational loans for their financing. The risk of further contagion was clear and present. Political leaders continued to seek measures to stem the crisis and to avoid the larger economies of Spain and Italy becoming involved. The Eu...Starting at €8.20
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Gelato: Sustainable production on demand: Facilitating global trade through local production
Jané, Joan; Torrell, MarcCase OIT-20-EEntrepreneurship, Information Technologies, Service and Operations ManagementGelato was launched in 2012, and it has since created the world's largest network for local production and distribution of customized products. Through Gelato's marketplace platform, e-commerce sellers and creators can drive print-on-demand business models by working with printing suppliers to customize products with their own designs to sell them on a per-order basis under their own brand. With the latest funding round of $240 million in August...Starting at €8.20
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Mismanagement of Fiscal Policy: Greece's Achilles' Heel
Tulsi JayakumarCase IVEY-9B17M142-EStrategyIn December 2016, the debt-stricken Greek government announced the distribution of a sizeable “Christmas gift” to its low-income pensioners, a one-time bonus that would cost the government €617 million. This cost was in addition to suspending increases in the value-added tax on some Greek islands. These plans were in clear violation of the terms of a bailout provided to Greece by Eurozone nations in 2015, which required Greece to implement auster...Starting at €8.20
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Nacre (A): Turning a Lab Idea into a High-Growth Firm: The challenges of bringing an innovative device technology to market
Prats, Mª Julia; Sosna, Marc; Darsch, DaveFocused Case EFC-2-EEntrepreneurship, Innovation and ChangeThis FocusCase is about a CEO who took over a spin-off from a research institute, became the new firm's employee #1 and tried to turn this lab idea into a prototype, then get it ready for industrialization, and finally sell it to a very demanding client, while facing some significant crises on this way. Beside the challenge of getting the product (an integrated hearing protection and communication device) working and a painful failure with a cont...Starting at €8.20