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Connecting Taxis and Passengers in South America (Spanish version)
Coles, Peter A.; Edelman, BenjaminCase HBS-915S10EntrepreneurshipSaferTaxi, a taxi booking service in South America must develop its mobilization strategy; that is, it must attract enough passengers and drivers to make its service worthwhile for all. Drivers hesitate to pay for SaferTaxi's smartphones and service unless these will deliver passenger bookings -- and passengers have no reason to sign up unless drivers are available. Meanwhile, regulators question the permissibility of online taxi booking in light...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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Michael Rubin and Fanatics (B)
Higgins, Robert F.; Masko, JohnCase HBS-819082-EEntrepreneurshipStarting at €5.74
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Michael Rubin and Fanatics (A) and (B), Teaching Note
Higgins, Robert F.; Masko, JohnTeaching Note HBS-819134-EEntrepreneurshipTeaching note for cases 819077 and 819082.Starting at €0.00
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Cork'd: Building a Social Network for Wine Lovers
Coles, Peter A.Case HBS-911026-EEntrepreneurshipLindsay Ronga and Gary Vaynerchuk are launching Cork'd, an online social network for wine lovers. Despite Gary's status as a celebrity wine connoisseur, the team faces a significant challenge: several other wine social networks are well established and already have large user bases. How can Cork'd gain traction in this crowded space?Starting at €8.20
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Killing Craigslist: Entrepreneurship in the Online Apartment Rental Market
Coles, Peter A.; Gans, Joshua; Yu, Wei-YuanCase HBS-912009-EEntrepreneurshipJon Pastor and Lawrence Zhou were inspired by the same problem: the Internet was surprisingly unhelpful in the hunt for an apartment. The online apartment rental market was fragmented, opaque, and wrought with misinformation. The leader in this space was the website Craigslist, which was the most highly trafficked classifieds site in the world and the tenth most visited site in the United States despite introducing almost no innovations in its 15...Starting at €8.20
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SaferTaxi: Connecting Taxis and Passengers in South America
Coles, Peter A.; Edelman, BenjaminCase HBS-913041-EEntrepreneurshipSaferTaxi, a taxi booking service in South America must develop its mobilization strategy; that is, it must attract enough passengers and drivers to make its service worthwhile for all. Drivers hesitate to pay for SaferTaxi's smartphones and service unless these will deliver passenger bookings -- and passengers have no reason to sign up unless drivers are available. Meanwhile, regulators question the permissibility of online taxi booking in light...Starting at €8.20
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Mobilizing Networked Businesses
Coles, Peter A.; Edelman, BenjaminCase HBS-911048-EEntrepreneurshipThis module note presents six strategies for mobilizing networked businesses.Starting at €8.20
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SaferTaxi: Connecting Taxis and Passengers in South America, Teaching Note
Coles, Peter A.; Edelman, BenjaminTeaching Note HBS-913063-EEntrepreneurshipTeaching Note for 913041.Starting at €0.00