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Copenhagen School of Entrepreneurship: Business Incubation in the Danish Context
Robert D. Austin; Dana Minbaeva; Demetra DimokopoulosCase IVEY-9B17M116-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyIn 2015, the Copenhagen School of Entrepreneurship (CSE), the largest business incubator in Denmark, was admitting 100–125 new start-ups each year and attracting external funding of US$33 million from both public and private sources—all with an annual budget of US$435,000, funded exclusively by the Copenhagen Business School. Like most business incubators, CSE worked to provide entrepreneurs with training, mentorship, and investors, and to enhanc...Starting at €8.20
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Sort Through Your Options: Developing Your Boomer Career Strategy
Erickson, TamaraBook Chapter HBS-5097BC-ELeadership and People ManagementAs a Boomer in the wonderful post-"empty nest" and pre-"old age" midlife years, you have an unprecedented opportunity for satisfaction, productivity, exploration, and creativity-for reinventing yourself. This chapter provides some guidance for sorting through the many available options and forming a career strategy. This chapter is excerpted from "Retire Retirement: Career Strategies for the Boomer Generation."Starting at €8.20
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The Events and Trends that Have Shaped You: Who Is Generation Y, and What Does that Mean for Your Career
Erickson, TamaraBook Chapter HBS-7812BC-EMany of our most powerful impressions are formed when we are teenagers. These impressions shape our assumptions not only about the world but also the role of work within it. As a generation, Gen Y's have been impacted by influential events like 9/11, and a technology environment that had most of them at computers since their earliest days. Also important are the cultural trends and family ties they grew up with, such as working mothers and a pro-...Starting at €8.20
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IPremier Co. (A): Denial of Service Attack
Robert D. Austin; Larry Leibrock; Alan MurrayCase HBS-601114-EService and Operations ManagementDescribes a new CIO trying to manage a denial of service (DOS) attack against his e-retailing business. The attack and its aftermath provide students an opportunity to discuss the business issues that are interwoven with computer security issues.Starting at €8.20
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JPMorgan Chase & Co.: Open Banking
Robert D. Austin; Jashan PuniyaCase IVEY-9B21M060-EInformation Technologies, Knowledge and CommunicationJPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPMC), one of the world’s largest banks, was confronting the advent of open banking in its retail banking business. In late 2020, policy makers and regulators were advocating movement toward open banking with growing enthusiasm as a way to stimulate competition in the financial services sector and thus, encourage greater value creation for consumers.
JPMC, however, seemed to embrace open banking while also resisting i...Starting at €8.20
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Tokyo Jane
Robert D. Austin; Dana Minbaeva; Simon SchaferCase IVEY-9B14M085-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyTokyo Jane is an accessible fashion jewelry company that makes and markets its products as “luxury for less” by designing, importing and selling fashion jewelry pieces that look luxurious but cost only a fraction of the high-priced items that inspired them. Finished products are air-shipped to company headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark from factories in China, stocked in the head office and delivered to 400 retail partners —small fashion boutiqu...Starting at €8.20
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Understanding the Link Between Crisis and Innovation
Robert D. Austin; Thomas Watson; Mark HealyArticle IVEY-9B20TD02-EStrategyThe COVID-19 pandemic has businesses around the world experimenting—but it is what happens when things go wrong that separates the innovators from the wannabes.Starting at €8.20
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Mircom Technologies Ltd. (B): Reflections of the CEO
Robert D. Austin; Laurel C. Austin; R. ChandrasekharCase IVEY-W28581-EInformation TechnologiesSupplemental product to W28457.Starting at €5.74
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Knight Capital Americas LLC
Robert D. Austin; Darren MeisterCase IVEY-9B15E008-EInformation TechnologiesIt took 19 years to build Knight Capital Americas LLC into the largest market maker on the New York Stock Exchange, but on August 1, 2012, it took only 45 minutes for the firm to be wiped out by an information technology (IT) problem: a change in the company's software caused it to lose more than $450 million dollars in less than an hour. Although it was ultimately saved from bankruptcy when it was acquired two days later, the terms of acquisitio...Starting at €8.20
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Introduction: Gen Y's in the Workplace
Erickson, TamaraBook Chapter HBS-6309BC-EChances are good that you, as a member of Generation Y, will not find today's workplace immediately well matched to your preferences and style. Much of that stems from generational gaps - the different ways that you and your Boomer or Gen X coworkers view the world. Your success will depend on understanding how other generations think and work, and how you can plug in to work effectively with them. This chapter is excerpted from "Plugged In: The...Starting at €8.20