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Tommy Chen: Using Sun Tzu's Art of War in Business
Stephen GraingerCase IVEY-9B17M058-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyIn 2014, the general manager and a director of an Australian building company were seeking an outside investor to provide the company with the needed resources to recover from a disastrous takeover. The two found such an investor in a Chinese entrepreneur and Sun Tzu master based in Hong Kong. To the shock of those involved with the Australian company, the Chinese investor used Sun Tzu war strategies to take over and destroy the smaller Australia...Starting at €8.20
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Resuscitating Monitter
Edelman, Benjamin; Sun, WeiCase HBS-915027-EEntrepreneurshipAfter a Twitter API change and policy change block his fledling startup, solo entrepreneur Alex Holt evaluates his options. Should he double-down with a major investment in new servers, rewriting his app from scratch, and charging users for a service that had prided itself on being free? Or give up and admit defeat? Was there any middle ground?Starting at €8.20
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Yumcha.com.au
Nicole R.D. Haggerty; Rohan BelliappaCase IVEY-9B10M038-EEntrepreneurship, Information Technologies, StrategySet in November 2007, the case is about a soon-to-launch social networking website (Yumcha) in Australia intended for the country's significant Asian population and diaspora. The case describes the process that Yumcha's founder went through in establishing the entity, including her initial motivations and business rationale. The case goes on to describe the dilemma facing the founder in choosing a web developer for the site, including whether to ...Starting at €8.20
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Resuscitating Monitter, Teaching Note
Edelman, Benjamin; Sun, WeiTeaching Note HBS-916007-EEntrepreneurshipTeaching note for case 915027.Starting at €0.00
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MedImmune Ventures, Teaching Plan
Hamermesh, Richard G.; Otazo, AndrewTeaching Note HBS-814039-EEntrepreneurship"MedImmune Ventures" highlights the problems faced by corporate venture capital firms, the challenges of investing in early-stage healthcare, and the difficulty of operating in distant markets.Starting at €0.00
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KangaTech
Lakhani, Karim R.; Ferguson, Patrick J.; Fleischer, Sarah; Hyun Paik, Jin; Randazzo, StevenCase HBS-619049-EEntrepreneurshipOn a warm January afternoon in 2019, Steve Saunders, Dave Scerri, Carl Dilena, and Nick Haslam (see Exhibit 1 for biographies), co-founders of KangaTech, wrapped up the latest round of discussions about the future direction of their sports-technology start-up. Focused on injury prediction and prevention in elite sport, the Melbourne, Australia-based KangaTech prepared to launch a new model of their core product, an integrated exercise frame and ...Starting at €8.20
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Apple Watch: Managing Innovation Resistance
Tania Bucic; Gaganpreet SinghCase IVEY-9B18A005-EEntrepreneurship, Marketing, StrategyHaving affirmed its place in the computer, phone, and music markets, Apple Inc. (Apple) decided to embark on a brand extension strategy, shifting its focus to wearable technologies. With this shift in mind, Apple launched the Apple Watch in April 2015 as an attempt to enter different industries. Apple Watch integrated fitness and health features with Apple’s mobile operating system (iOS) and other Apple products and services. Because Apple owned ...Starting at €8.20
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Solectric: Market Entry Decisions under Uncertainty
Martin J. Bliemel; Elicia M.A. MaineCase IVEY-9B16M004-EEntrepreneurship, StrategySolectric was a small solar power venture located in Sydney, Australia. The founder was an academic entrepreneur who was planning to return to his academic career. A new business development manager had been hired to explore and enter markets with varying degrees of uncertainty and potential profitability. The capital was running out and an unfocused strategy was exacerbating negligible sales revenues. Together, they were faced with the decision ...Starting at €8.20
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Mining and Corporate Social Responsibility: Scotbar Proprietary Limited
David T.A. Wesley; Belinda Wade; Sheila PufferCase IVEY-9B18M099-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyThe chief executive officer of Scotbar Proprietary Limited (Scotbar) in Queensland, Australia, decided to develop a process to convert sandstone to sand, a technique that large multinational mining companies failed to perfect. The stakes could not have been higher, with global environmental disaster looming and the world quickly depleting its reserves of construction sand, severely affecting coastal communities and destroying marine ecosystems in...Starting at €8.20
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Invest or Take: A Venture Capitalist's Ethical Dilemma
Jon CarrickCase IVEY-9B16M057-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyIn May 2015, a managing partner in an Australian venture capital firm faced a major dilemma. As one of five partners, he held the deciding vote on whether his firm, KTN Capital, would take an entrepreneur’s idea for a solar-powered water filter and build a new company around it, or instead, invest in the entrepreneur’s company. The venture capital firm would not be doing anything illegal by taking the entrepreneur’s idea because the entrepreneur ...Starting at €8.20