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Nacre (A): la transformación de una idea de laboratorio a una empresa de alto crecimiento: Los retos de comercializar un dispositivo tecnológico innovador
Prats, Mª Julia; Sosna, Marc; Darsch, DaveFocused Case EFC-2Entrepreneurship, Innovation and ChangeEste caso habla sobre un director general que se puso al frente de una spin-off creada a partir de un instituto de investigación, se convirtió en el primer empleado de la nueva empresa y trató de convertir esa idea de laboratorio en un prototipo con el objetivo de producirlo industrialmente y venderlo finalmente a un cliente muy exigente, afrontando entre tanto varias crisis notables. Además de las dificultades para conseguir que el producto (un...Starting at €8.20
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Nacre (B): una cuesta empinada y arriesgada hacia el éxito: Decisiones y consecuencias
Prats, Mª Julia; Sosna, Marc; Darsch, DaveFocused Case EFC-7Entrepreneurship, Innovation and ChangeEste caso B no puede impartirse de manera aislada, pues es una continuación directa del caso "Nacre: cómo convertir una idea de laboratorio en una empresa de alto crecimiento" (A) [EFC-2-E]. En el caso B se describen las decisiones y medidas estratégicas del director general y cómo esta empresa (que tan sólo tenía entre 12 y 15 empleados en aquel momento y subcontrataba los servicios de un gran fabricante) consiguió finalmente cerrar un contrato...Starting at €8.20
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Nacre (A): Turning a Lab Idea into a High-Growth Firm: The challenges of bringing an innovative device technology to market
Prats, Mª Julia; Sosna, Marc; Darsch, DaveFocused Case EFC-2-EEntrepreneurship, Innovation and ChangeThis FocusCase is about a CEO who took over a spin-off from a research institute, became the new firm's employee #1 and tried to turn this lab idea into a prototype, then get it ready for industrialization, and finally sell it to a very demanding client, while facing some significant crises on this way. Beside the challenge of getting the product (an integrated hearing protection and communication device) working and a painful failure with a cont...Starting at €8.20
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Chocolate Artesanal Venezolano: Emprendimiento en Tiempos de Crisis
Fernández Melo, Juan Pablo; Cátedra René Morales Carazo de Emprendimiento; Schill, RyanCase INCAE-31264_SEntrepreneurshipPara 2018, en Venezuela había surgido un grupo de emprendimientos dedicados a la chocolatería artesanal, los cuales nacieron como alternativa para sortear la profunda crisis económica que aquejaba al país sudamericano desde 2014. Mantuano Chocolate, uno de estos emprendimientos, se encontraba en planes de expansión fuera de Venezuela y Giovanni Conversi, fundador de la empresa, reflexionaba sobre el éxito de su modelo de negocios basado en innova...Starting at €8.20
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+58Cacao: Emprendedoras Apasionadas por el Chocolate Artesanal Venezolano
Fernández Melo, Juan Pablo; Vellojín Helíaz, Marcela; Cátedra.René Morales Carazo de EmprendimientoCase INCAE-31276_SEntrepreneurshipLas hermanas Adriana y Teresa Pino se asocian con la diseñadora gráfica Sandra Boesi para crear en 2015 un emprendimiento llamado +58Cacao, en el cual elaboran barras de chocolate con cacao venezolano. La difícil situación económica de Venezuela ocurrida a partir de 2014 les lleva a buscar alternativas laborales que les brinden ingresos adicionales a sus profesiones cotidianas. La creación de este emprendimiento no es tarea fácil, tomando en cuen...Starting at €8.20
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Nacre (B): a Steep and Risky Climb to Success: Decisions & Consequences
Prats, Mª Julia; Sosna, Marc; Darsch, DaveFocused Case EFC-7-EEntrepreneurship, Innovation and ChangeThis case B cannot be taught as a stand-alone case, but is a direct continuation of the FocusCase "Nacre: Turning a Lab Idea into a High-Growth Firm (A)" [EFC-2-E]. This case B describes the strategic decisions and actions of the CEO and how eventually, this firm - with only 12-15 employees at that time (plus a large contract manufacturer) - manages to land a US-$30 million deal with the US Marine Corp. Soon after, this company is acquired by a l...Starting at €8.20
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Gelato: Sustainable production on demand: Facilitating global trade through local production
Jané, Joan; Torrell, MarcCase OIT-20-EEntrepreneurship, Information Technologies, Service and Operations ManagementGelato was launched in 2012, and it has since created the world's largest network for local production and distribution of customized products. Through Gelato's marketplace platform, e-commerce sellers and creators can drive print-on-demand business models by working with printing suppliers to customize products with their own designs to sell them on a per-order basis under their own brand. With the latest funding round of $240 million in August...Starting at €8.20
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El Sistema, Teaching Note
Khanna, Tarun; Miguel, FernandaTeaching Note HBS-718476-EEntrepreneurshipTeaching note for case 816052.Starting at €0.00
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Open English
Bussgang, Jeffrey J.; Mazzanti, LisaCase HBS-814020-EEntrepreneurshipOpen English, a Miami-based startup offering online English language learning services, had more than 30,000 active students across Latin America in 2012. The company had just closed a $43 million financing round in order to rapidly scale its service to the next level. Nicolette Moreno, Co-founder and Vice President of Product Development, felt that a substantial portion of the new funding was needed to rework Open English's platform to enable th...Starting at €8.20