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Sirum: Scaling a “Tech-for-Good” Medication Donation Platform
Siegelman, Russell; Montgomery, LucyCase SGSB-E815-EEntrepreneurshipKiah Williams started SIRUM as a Stanford undergraduate alongside her classmates Adam Kircher and George Wang. Nearly two decades later, the medication donation nonprofit was now operating in five states across the country and had helped facilitate medication donations to reach 150,000 uninsured and underinsured patients. SIRUM’s technology enabled donors with excess medication supply to donate unexpired, sealed, non-opioid medications to those...Starting at €8.20
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Total Venture Design: Creating and Delivering Value
Holloway, Charles; Montgomery, LucyCase SGSB-E823-EEntrepreneurshipCharles Holloway, founder of Stanford’s Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, shares his reflections and learnings on entrepreneurship in this teaching note. Designed to be a hands-on tool for aspiring entrepreneurs, this playbook will frame key questions and provide frameworks to assist in building new ventures.Starting at €8.20
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Mach49 and 2401: Building the Unicorn Within
Siegel, Robert; Montgomery, LucyCase SGSB-E817-EEntrepreneurshipMonifa Porter was in the process of building a product that could work her and her team out of a job. As head of 2401, a subdivision of the corporate innovation and growth company Mach49, Porter was building a technology product that would assist corporations as they designed, built, and scaled new ventures within their existing organization. In late 2022, Porter’s team released a minimum viable product of 2401, and was now in the process of des...Starting at €8.20
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The Golden Triangle: Back in Business (A), Teaching Note
Kerr, William R.; Fuller, Joseph B.; Raman, Manjari; Maruyama, DonaldTeaching Note HBS-819066-EEntrepreneurshipTeaching note for case 818089.Starting at €0.00
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Hot Chicken Takeover
Kerr, William R.; Raman, Manjari; Hull, OliviaCase HBS-819078-EEntrepreneurshipBy December 2018, entrepreneur Joe DeLoss's fried chicken company, Hot Chicken Takeover, has opened three restaurants in Columbus, Ohio using an unconventional employment model that helps people with criminal records get back on their feet. DeLoss is proud of the supportive employment environment he has cultivated, but wonders how to scale it beyond Columbus.Starting at €8.20
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Hot Chicken Takeover, Teaching Note
Kerr, William R.; Raman, Manjari; Hull, OliviaTeaching Note HBS-820021-EEntrepreneurshipTeaching note to case 819078Starting at €0.00
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MarketForce: Building an Operating System for Merchants in Africa
Ciesinski, Stephen; Montgomery, LucyCase SGSB-E809-EEntrepreneurshipTesh Mbaabu started MarketForce to help bring technology to the thousands of Kenyan merchants who ran corner shops that were often a centerpiece of their communities. MarketForce began as an inventory ordering platform for merchants, but has quickly evolved into a comprehensive operating system that merchants can use to unlock new revenue streams and grow their businesses. The team has expanded from Kenya into four new African countries and hope...Starting at €8.20
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CEWD: Closing the Skills Gap
Kerr, William R.; Norris, Michael; Raman, ManjariCase HBS-818081-EEntrepreneurshipIn 2018, Ann Randazzo, executive director of the Center for Energy Workforce Development (CEWD) is assessing the organization's performance since its 2006 founding. Founded to address an imminent retirement bubble of middle skills workers in the utilities industry, CEWD had since expanded its mission to focus on workforce development initiatives to improve the skills and diversity of the industry's workforce. The group was an example of an indust...Starting at €8.20
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The Golden Triangle: Back in Business (A)
Fuller, Joseph B.; Kerr, William R.; Raman, Manjari; Maruyama, DonaldCase HBS-818089-EEntrepreneurshipStarting at €8.20
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Carlypso (B): Pumping the Brakes
Ellis, Jim; Nakache, Patricia; Montgomery, LucyCase SGSB-E546B-EEntrepreneurshipAfter graduating from Stanford Graduate School of Business, Nicholas Heinrichsen and Christopher Coleman launched Carlypso, a peer-to-peer marketplace for selling used cars. Carlypso hoped to disrupt the $400 billion used car market by making it easier and more convenient for both sellers and buyers. However, Carlypso ran into difficulty trying to scale its operations, and pivoted to a reverse auction model, where Carlypso worked with leasing and...Starting at €5.74