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Airbnb in Amsterdam (B)
Weiss, Mitchell B.; Moloney, Emer; Dessain, VincentCase HBS-817014-EEntrepreneurshipIn December 2014, the City of Amsterdam and Airbnb announced an MOU to promote responsible home-sharing and to simplify the payment of tourist tax for hosts in the City. It was the most comprehensive agreement that Airbnb had with any city in the world. It's final provision read, "The parties trust that theirs will be a fruitful cooperation." However, both sides were uncertain about how the agreement would be received. Molly Turner, Airbnb's Glob...Starting at €5.74
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Sustainability at IKEA Group (Spanish version)
Rangan, V. Kasturi; Toffel, Michael W.; Dessain, Vincent; Lenhardt, JeromeCase HBS-519S16StrategyBy 2014, IKEA Group was the largest home furnishing company, with EUR28.5 billion of sales, and planned to reach EUR50 billion by 2020, mainly from emerging markets. At the same time, IKEA Group had adopted in 2012 a new sustainability strategy that focused the company's efforts on its entire value chain from its raw materials sourcing to the lifestyle of its end consumers. The plan especially centered on wood, which represented 60% of IKEA Group...Starting at €8.20
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Airbnb in Amsterdam (A)
Weiss, Mitchell B.; Moloney, Emer; Dessain, VincentCase HBS-817013-EEntrepreneurshipIn February 2014, Amsterdam became the first city to issue new regulations specifically to allow home-sharing. Airbnb's Molly Turner, Global Head of Civic Partnerships; her colleagues at the San Francisco based home-sharing platform; and her counterparts in Amsterdam's city leadership now had to make the new rules function well. By the summer of 2014, the question of how exactly to do that remained unsettled. A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) t...Starting at €8.20