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TH!NK: The Norwegian Electric Car Company
Lassiter, Joseph B.; Kiron, DavidCase HBS-808070-EEntrepreneurshipTo maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. On August 1, 2007, 61-year-old Jan-Olaf Willums' plane was flying along the Greenland coastline on his way back to Norway after intense discussions with several prominent U.S. venture capital investors, among them Kleiner Perkins and Rockport Capital Partners, about investing in a plan to accelerate his company's entry into the North American market. A successful engineer, e...Starting at €8.20
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Bernd Beetz: Creating the New Coty
Jones, Geoffrey G.; Kiron, DavidCase HBS-808133-EEntrepreneurshipConsiders the creation of one of the world's largest beauty and fragrance companies by Bernd Beetz, appointed chief executive of Coty Inc. in 2001. The case opens with the creation of a new Russian subsidiary in the wake of the global financial crisis, and examines how a virtually new company was created over the previous years. In 1990 the German consumer goods company Benkiser began acquiring fragrance and cosmetics brands with the intent of de...Starting at €8.20
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MINTing Innovation at NewYork-Presbyterian (A) and (B), Teaching Note
Hamermesh, Richard G.; Kiron, DavidTeaching Note HBS-811010-EEntrepreneurshipTeaching Note for 810004.Starting at €0.00
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Aquion Energy
Eisenmann, Thomas R.; Kiron, DavidCase HBS-811047-EEntrepreneurshipTo maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. Leaders at Aquion Energy, a Pittsburgh-based battery start-up, are deciding on a market entry strategy. Should they pursue the large but unproven grid utility market or a smaller, but higher margin market?Starting at €8.20
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Gene Patents (A)
Hamermesh, Richard G.; Kiron, David; Andrews, PhillipCase HBS-811089-EEntrepreneurshipIn March 2010, U.S. District Court Judge Robert Sweet overturned 30 years of legal precedent and ruled that unaltered human genes could not be patented. This case reviews patent law and how it relates to our increasing knowledge of the Human Genome. The case issues deal with the potential implications of Judge Sweet's decision for biotechnology entrepreneurs and investors.Starting at €8.20
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TH!NK: The Norwegian Electric Car Company (Spanish Version)
Lassiter, Joseph B.; Kiron, DavidCase HBS-809S09EntrepreneurshipPara maximizar su eficacia, los casos de color deben imprimirse en color. El 1 de agosto de 2007, plano de 61 años de edad, Jan-Olaf Willums' estaba volando a lo largo de la costa de Groenlandia en su espalda manera de Noruega después de intensas discusiones con varios inversores de capital riesgo de EE.UU. prominentes, entre ellas Kleiner Perkins y Rockport Capital Partners, unos invertir en un plan para acelerar la entrada de la compañía en el ...Starting at €8.20
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Sirtris Pharmaceuticals: Living Healthier, Longer
Stuart, Toby; Kiron, DavidCase HBS-808112-EEntrepreneurshipDescribes a set of key strategic decisions facing the scientific founder and CEO of a promising, Early stage bio-pharmaceuticals company.l Should the company establish a proposed alliance with a pharmaceutical firm? Should it create a nutraceuticals business in parallel to its effort to develop anti-aging therapeutics? And, should it in-license a second drug development candidate?Starting at €8.20
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MINTing Innovation at NewYork-Presbyterian (A)
Hamermesh, Richard G.; Kiron, DavidCase HBS-810004-EEntrepreneurshipSeveral top surgeons at NewYork-Presbyterian hospital (NYP) are receiving financial and administrative support to advance their surgical device inventions through the earliest stages of commercialization.Starting at €8.20
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1366 Technologies: Scaling the Venture
Lassiter, Joseph B.; Nanda, Ramana; Kiron, David; Richardson, EvanCase HBS-811076-EEntrepreneurshipTo maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. For some time, 1366's co-founders, Frank van Mierlo and Ely Sachs, had faced a choice, which was now made all the more stark: 1366 could expand to produce silicon wafers itself, raising the required capital from "friendly" investors and building shipment volume slowly, or 1366 could accelerate its market entry dramatically by partnering with the Asian manufacturers that had ...Starting at €8.20
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The Huffington Post
Eisenmann, Thomas R.; Stuart, Toby; Kiron, DavidCase HBS-810086-EEntrepreneurshipIn Feb. 2010, management of the Huffington Post, a fast-growing but not-yet-profitable Internet newspaper that aggregates blog posts from unpaid contributors and excerpts of stories originally published by other news sites, faces a number of decisions about its growth strategy. Foremost, Huffington Post management must determine whether to rely to a greater extent upon social networking technologies (e.g., Facebook, Twitter) to select and present...Starting at €8.20