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Giving Birth to Ovia Health
Bussgang, Jeffrey J.; Kelley, JuliaCase HBS-818004-EEntrepreneurshipIn late 2016, Paris Wallace, the CEO of Ovia Health, and the rest of the company's co-founders faced a difficult decision about the best way to grow Ovia Health's revenue. Founded in 2012, Ovia Health specialized in mobile and web applications in the women's health space. After building a strong user base with its original app, Ovia Fertility (which helped women conceive by tracking ovulation and other factors), the young company launched a secon...Starting at €8.20
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Entrepreneurship for All, Teaching Plan
Applegate, Lynda M.; Kelley, JuliaTeaching Note HBS-818027-EEntrepreneurshipTeaching plan for case 818007.Starting at €0.00
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Intermountain Healthcare: Pursuing Precision Medicine
Hamermesh, Richard G.; Giusti, Kathy; Huckman, Robert S.; Kelley, JuliaCase HBS-818018-EEntrepreneurshipHeadquartered in Salt Lake City, Intermountain Healthcare operates 23 hospitals and hundreds of clinics in Utah and Idaho and provides insurance to approximately 850,000 patients through its insurance arm, SelectHealth. In 2013, Intermountain, known for its commitment to improving health care outcomes and lowering costs by reducing treatment variation, made the surprising decision to invest significant resources in an innovative precision medicin...Starting at €8.20
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Sidewalk Labs: Privacy in a City Built from the Internet Up
John, Leslie K.; Weiss, Mitchell B.; Kelley, JuliaCase HBS-819024-EEntrepreneurshipBy the time Dan Doctoroff, CEO of Sidewalk Labs, began hosting a Reddit "Ask Me Anything" session in January 2018, he had only nine months remaining to convince the people of Toronto, their government representatives, and presumably his parent company Alphabet, Inc., that Sidewalk Labs' plan to construct "the first truly 21st-century city" on the Canadian city's waterfront was a sound one. Along with much excitement and optimism, strains of conce...Starting at €8.20
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Choosy
Bussgang, Jeffrey J.; Kelley, JuliaCase HBS-819054-EEntrepreneurshipFounded in 2017, Choosy is a data-driven fashion startup that uses algorithms to identify styles trending on social media. After manufacturing similar items using a China-based supply chain, Choosy sells them to consumers through its website and social media pages. Since its official launch in July 2018, Choosy has been fine-tuning its business model. Now, in September 2018, founder and CEO Jessie Zeng must decide what the startup's next steps sh...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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Intermountain Healthcare: Pursuing Precision Medicine, Teaching Note
Hamermesh, Richard G.; Huckman, Robert S.; Kelley, JuliaTeaching Note HBS-820019-EEntrepreneurshipTeaching note for case 818018.Starting at €0.00
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Giving Birth to Ovia Health, Teaching Plan
Bussgang, Jeffrey J.; Kelley, JuliaTeaching Note HBS-820088-EEntrepreneurshipTeaching plan for case 818004.Starting at €0.00
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Entrepreneurship for All
Applegate, Lynda M.; Kelley, JuliaCase HBS-818007-EEntrepreneurshipEntrepreneurship for All (EforAll) is a Lowell, Massachusetts-based nonprofit that hosts business accelerators for entrepreneurs in underserved communities. By mid-2017, EforAll has five office locations in Massachusetts, and its leadership and the Board of Directors must decide whether EforAll is ready to open its first out-of-state office. Students are asked to consider a variety of factors - including funding, hiring, population demographics, ...Starting at €8.20
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The Powers That Be (Internet Edition): Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft
Rayport, Jeffrey; Kelley, Julia; Schwalb, NathanielCase HBS-818111-EEntrepreneurshipAs of early 2018, five U.S. technology companies-Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and Microsoft-were among the largest companies in the world. Similarly, three Chinese technology firms-Baidu, Alibaba, and Tencent, or BAT-had emerged as global players due in part to the protection of China's "Great Firewall," which made it more difficult for foreign companies to compete in Chinese markets. As these companies continued to scale by branching into ne...Starting at €8.20