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ofo, Teaching Note
Weiss, Mitchell B.; Oseguera Rodriguez, MarianaTeaching Note HBS-819157-EEntrepreneurshipTeaching note to case 819-063Starting at €0.00
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Bigbelly
Weiss, Mitchell B.; Snively, ChristineCase HBS-816005-EEntrepreneurshipTo accelerate Bigbelly's sales growth and its "smart cities" positioning, its CEO planned to shift his company from equipment sales to a subscription service. Jack Kutner hoped to re-position Bigbelly's solar-powered trash compacting stations beyond trash and recycling and use them also to provide public space Wi-Fi, advertising, and urban intelligence sensors. "One year from now we will no longer sell any machines," Kutner planned to tell the co...Starting at €8.20
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Bigbelly, Teaching Note
Weiss, Mitchell B.; Snively, Christine; Mehta, SarahTeaching Note HBS-820064-EEntrepreneurshipTeaching note for case 816005.Starting at €0.00
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TraceTogether
Weiss, Mitchell B.; Mehta, SarahCase HBS-820111-EEconomicsBy April 7, 2020, over 1.4 million people worldwide had contracted the novel coronavirus (COVID-19). Governments raced to curb the spread of COVID-19 by scaling up testing, quarantining those infected, and tracing their possible contacts. It had taken Singapore's Government Technology Agency (GovTech) and Ministry of Health (MOH) all of eight weeks to develop the world's first nationwide deployment of a Bluetooth-based contact tracing system, Tra...Starting at €8.20
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Propel
Weiss, Mitchell B.; McAra, SarahCase HBS-818008-EEntrepreneurshipIn 2014, Jimmy Chen, a former product manager at Facebook, founded the start-up Propel to build software for low-income Americans. After conducting in-depth behavioral research, Chen and his small team in New York City began to develop technology to address the burdensome process of accessing benefits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), commonly known as food stamps. They first designed a mobile site called Easy Food Stamps...Starting at €8.20
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ShotSpotter
Weiss, Mitchell B.; McAra, SarahCase HBS-817034-EEntrepreneurshipSST offered a subscription-based gunfire detection service, ShotSpotter Flex, to cities across the United States, and a few abroad. Over its 20-year history, SST had mostly honed a reliable business to government sales model, and the company had been focused on expanding to new cities. But Ralph Clark, President and CEO, was also interested in investigating new services. Mass shootings, in U.S. schools to cities abroad, were consistently followed...Starting at €8.20
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Shield AI
Weiss, Mitchell B.; Steinlage, A.J.Case HBS-819062-EEntrepreneurshipShield AI's quadcopter - with no pilot and no flight plan - could clear a building and outpace human warfighters by almost five minutes. This was not to say that it was better than the warfighters or would replace their jobs, but it was evidence that autonomous robots deployed in this fashion could keep up with the pace of operators, serve as a force multiplier, and help protect civilian and service member lives. But was it evidence that the Shie...Starting at €8.20
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LabCDMX: Experiment 50, Teaching Note
Weiss, Mitchell B.; Higgins, MattTeaching Note HBS-818135-EEntrepreneurshipTeaching note for case 817031.Starting at €0.00
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GovDelivery
Weiss, Mitchell B.Case HBS-816020-EEntrepreneurshipIs government the biggest, worst customer in the world? And is that a reason for venture investors to back companies that sell to government or to stay away? It had been seven years since Scott Burns joined his friend Zach Stabenow to get a company called GovDocs off the ground. In that time, they had evolved from a provider of government-mandated labor law posters to the country's largest sender of government-to-citizen emails. GovDelivery, as t...Starting at €8.20
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Testing Autonomy in Pittsburgh (A)
Weiss, Mitchell B.; Urick, BrittanyCase HBS-819059-EEntrepreneurshipPittsburgh's mayor had been among the first to welcome self-driving vehicles, but was now one of many needing to react after a pedestrian fatality involving an autonomous Uber in Arizona. He had originally preferred to roll out "the red carpet" instead of the "red tape". Now he found himself needing to balance technological advancement and the city's economic trajectory against public health and safety concerns and, simply, citizens' fears. Post-...Starting at €8.20