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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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Alicia Keys
Groysberg, Boris; Lobb, Annelena; Mehta, SarahCase HBS-420033-EEntrepreneurshipThis case explores the life and career of Alicia Keys, the 15-time Grammy winning singer-songwriter and producer. Set in 2019, it covers the evolution of Keys's 18-year musical career and additional passions, including acting, entrepreneurship, social justice activism, and collecting art with her husband, rapper and music producer Swizz Beatz. Now a mother of two young sons and with no intentions of slowing down, Keys considers what the next phas...Starting at €8.20
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Hacking Heroin
Weiss, Mitchell B.; Mehta, SarahCase HBS-818010-EEntrepreneurship"Hacking Heroin" was the first hackathon that Annie Rittgers, founder of Cincinnati-based 17a, had organized or even attended. "There will continue to be a lot of preventable overdose deaths and wasted potential if the opioid crisis continues unabated," she said. "Bright spots and positive momentum matter when it comes to directing the energy that exists in Cincinnati toward addressing the epidemic." Now though, days before Hacking Heroin in June...Starting at €8.20
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Swizz Beatz
Groysberg, Boris; Lobb, Annelena; Mehta, SarahCase HBS-420034-EEntrepreneurshipThis case explores the life and career of rapper and music producer Swizz Beatz. Set in 2019, it covers the evolution of Swizz's musical career and his new venture into the commercial art market.Starting at €8.20
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Magnus Resch: Transforming the Art Market Through Transparency
McGee, Henry W.; Mehta, SarahCase HBS-319002-EEntrepreneurshipEconomist and entrepreneur Magnus Resch was on a mission to make the art market more transparent. To that end, in 2014, he began building the Magnus app, which catalogued the price and transaction history of millions of works of art. Users could download the app, take a photo of any flat artwork, and the app would display that piece's price along with other pertinent information. Resch believed that such radical transparency would grow the small,...Starting at €8.20
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Magnus Resch: Transforming the Art Market Through Transparency, Teaching Note
McGee, Henry W.; Mehta, SarahTeaching Note HBS-320021-EEntrepreneurshipThis teaching note pairs with a case on economist and entrepreneur Magnus Resch, who is on a mission to make the art market more transparent. He has built the Magnus app, which catalogues the price and transaction history of millions of works of art. Users download the app, take a photo of any flat artwork, and the app returns that piece's price along with other pertinent information. Resch believes that such radical transparency will grow the sm...Starting at €0.00
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Carrum Health: Scaling Bundled Payments
Huckman, Robert S.; Mehta, SarahCase HBS-617017-EEntrepreneurshipFounded in 2014, Carrum Health helped self-insured employers located in three markets (San Diego, California; Seattle, Washington; and San Francisco, California) save money on their employees' planned surgeries. It did so by contracting directly with top-quality hospitals located within the area, and negotiating a set fee (known as a bundled payment) for each of five common surgical procedures: knee replacement, hip replacement, cervical spinal f...Starting at €8.20
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Elon Musk: Balancing Purpose and Risk
Ghosh, Shikhar; Mehta, SarahCase HBS-817040-EEntrepreneurshipStarting at €8.20
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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