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Raksul
Kominers, Scott Duke; Kotosaka, Masahiro; Sato, Nobuo; Kanno, AkikoCase HBS-819115-EEntrepreneurshipRaksul, 2018 Forbes Japan "Startup of the Year," ran an e-commerce platform drawing upon thousands of individual suppliers. Launched as a business-to-business printing services marketplace, Raksul had recently expanded to operate both a logistics/delivery marketplace and a television advertising marketplace. Each marketplace faces its own growth challenges; at the same time, the CEO must consider whether and how each marketplace can enhance the o...Starting at €8.20
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Marketplace Design
Kominers, Scott DukeTeaching Note HBS-821068-EKnowledge and CommunicationStarting at €0.00
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Halliday's OASIS
Kominers, Scott Duke; Tempest Keller, NicoleCase HBS-819106-EEntrepreneurshipWade Watts has won control of the OASIS - a futuristic, immersive virtual reality game world. He must decide on rules, rights, and marketplace design, balancing the founding principles of the OASIS with the platform's potentially negative externalities.Starting at €8.20
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Tesla, Inc. in 2018
Sikochi, Siko; Srinivasan, Suraj; Pitcher, QuinnCase HBS-119013-EAccounting and ControlStarting at €8.20
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Diamond Foods, Inc. (B)
Srinivasan, Suraj; Fisher, NoahCase HBS-114008-EAccounting and ControlStarting at €5.74
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BWX Technologies
Srinivasan, Suraj; Zou, Yuan; Sesia, AldoCase HBS-124071-EKnowledge and CommunicationStarting at €8.20
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Updating Dating
Eisenmann, Thomas R.; Kominers, Scott Duke; Lam, AlanCase HBS-818052-EEntrepreneurshipTo identify design ideas for their own startup, two MBAs compare the different profiling, matching, and monetization approaches employed by five incumbent dating services: Coffee Meets Bagel, OKCupid, Jiayuan, Dating Ring, and HurryDate.Starting at €8.20
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Poppy (B)
Eisenmann, Thomas R.; Kominers, Scott Duke; Huizinga, Jeff; Ciechanover, Allison M.Case HBS-820715-EEntrepreneurshipAvni Patel Thompson, founder and CEO of Poppy, an online marketplace for on-demand childcare, revisits the venture's final months, and discusses the steps she took in the wake of the shutdown. This case explores experiments the company conducted to refineStarting at €5.74
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Feeding America (B)
Kominers, Scott Duke; Lam, AlanCase HBS-818131-EEntrepreneurshipThis case describes how Feeding America, the third-largest nonprofit organization in the US, designed a marketplace for allocating donated food across its network of food banks. It considers the promises and pitfalls of using market-based allocation in the context of a centralized artificial currency market, and evaluates the importance of different design components in making the marketplace efficient and fair for all participants.Starting at €5.74
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Lunchclub: Algorithmic Networking
Kominers, Scott Duke; Gonzalez, GeorgeCase HBS-820051-EEntrepreneurshipAlgorithmic networking startup Lunchclub coordinates in-person meetings between professionals who would have been unlikely to meet. The company faces marketplace design, growth, and monetization challenges: The executive team has to refine Lunchclub's marketplace strategy, and determine whether the company should continue to focus on its current use cases and geographical hubs or expand the platform's scale and scope. And while Lunchclub unlocks ...Starting at €8.20