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New Business Creation: The Art of Starting Companies at GE
Higgins, Robert F.Case HBS-817058-EEntrepreneurshipStarting at €8.20
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Formula E Championship Racing (A)
Higgins, Robert F.; Weber, JamesCase HBS-819011-EEntrepreneurshipFormula E founder and CEO Alejandro Aga obtained the rights to develop a new electric car racing series from the F d ration Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). Agag needed to develop the series from scratch-developing a race car, finding teams willing to race, cities willing to host races, and sponsors, media partners, and investors willing to fund the series. The first race was one year away. How should Agag go about developing this new seri...Starting at €8.20
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Formula E Championship Racing (B)
Higgins, Robert F.; Ma, Susie L.; Weber, JamesCase HBS-819012-EEntrepreneurshipFormula E's season three is nearly complete. CEO Alejandro Agag needs to examine his business model to ensure the racing series is positioned to grow sustainable in the years to come.Starting at €5.74
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Formula E Championship Racing (A) and (B), Teaching Note
Higgins, Robert F.; Weber, JamesTeaching Note HBS-819101-EEntrepreneurshipTeaching note for cases 819011 and 819012.Starting at €0.00
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Whistle Sports: An Online Sports Network for Millennials
Higgins, Robert F.; Snively, ChristineCase HBS-816006-EEntrepreneurshipBy January 2015, Whistle Sports, a multi-platform sports network for millennials, had attracted over 54 million online subscribers on Youtube, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, Google+, and Vine. It established partnerships with several professional sports leagues and amassed 225 partner channels on YouTube. Its revenue was largely generated through advertisements featured on YouTube. Whistle Sports recently announced that it raised $32 million in Se...Starting at €8.20
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DraftKings and the Future of Fantasy Sports
Higgins, Robert F.; Kelley, JuliaCase HBS-819074-EEntrepreneurshipFounded in 2012, DraftKings helped change the fantasy sports landscape by popularizing daily fantasy sports (DFS), or short-term fantasy sports tournaments that offered big cash prizes to winners. The company's valuation exceeded $1 billion by 2015, but DraftKings soon faced intense scrutiny from government agencies about whether its business model violated federal laws preventing sports betting and online gambling. Then, in May 2018, the U.S. Su...Starting at €8.20
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Street League Skateboarding
Higgins, Robert F.; Snively, ChristineCase HBS-817145-EEntrepreneurshipIn 2013, Street League Skateboarding, a professional skateboarding league founded in 2010, just concluded its annual Street League World Tour. The growing action sports property had purchased time on ESPN2 to air its events, and though ESPN was the most-watched sports television network in the U.S., Street League President Brian Atlas had become impatient with the network's lack of support. Atlas planned to meet with network representatives in th...Starting at €8.20
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Michael Rubin and Fanatics (A)
Higgins, Robert F.; Masko, JohnCase HBS-819077-EEntrepreneurshipIn 2016, Michael Rubin's Fanatics was the U.S.' largest sports e-commerce company, and operator of the official online store for all the major American sports leagues. That year, Fanatics began to dabble in manufacturing licensed sports merchandise, securing limited permissions from leagues to manufacture apparel in response to 'micro-moments,' sudden surges of interest in a team or player that were too abrupt for the league's usual licensees to ...Starting at €8.20
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Predilytics
Higgins, Robert F.; Lobb, AnnelenaCase HBS-813023-EEntrepreneurshipThe management team at Predilytics, a healthcare analytics firm, must decide whether to accept a Series A venture capital financing deal. The company provided analytic services to healthcare plans, typically Medicare Advantage plans, in efforts to draw conclusions from massive amounts of patient data. The company still had enough funding from a seed round to operate on a low-key basis for a few more months, but the team hoped to move forward aggr...Starting at €8.20