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- May 2024
- Supplement
Forest Park Capital (A)
By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
Pre-Abstract: Instructors should consider the timing of making videos available to students, as they may reveal key case details.
Abstract: During the Covid-19 Pandemic in 2020, Betsy Harbison formed the search fund Forest Park Capital with the intention of...
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Keywords:
Search Fund;
Entrepreneurship;
Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition;
Acquisition;
Small Business;
Cost vs Benefits;
Decisions;
Business Education;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Leadership Style;
Business or Company Management;
Problems and Challenges;
Web Services Industry;
Web Services Industry;
North America;
Missouri
Ruback, Richard S., and Royce Yudkoff. "Forest Park Capital (A)." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 224-719, May 2024.
- May 2024
- Supplement
Forest Park Capital (B)
By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
Pre-Abstract: Instructors should consider the timing of making videos available to students, as they may reveal key case details.
Abstract: During the Covid-19 Pandemic in 2020, Betsy Harbison formed the search fund Forest Park Capital with the intention of...
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Keywords:
Search Fund;
Entrepreneurship;
Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition;
Acquisition;
Small Business;
Cost vs Benefits;
Decisions;
Business Education;
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Leadership Style;
Leading Change;
Business or Company Management;
Problems and Challenges;
Web Services Industry;
Web Services Industry;
North America;
Missouri
Ruback, Richard S., and Royce Yudkoff. "Forest Park Capital (B)." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 224-720, May 2024.
- May 2024 (Revised May 2024)
- Case
Market by Met Council: Revolutionizing Food Pantries in the Digital Age
By: Elisabeth Paulson and Michael W. Toffel
In fall 2023, the Food Program of Met Council—America’s largest Jewish charity dedicated to fighting poverty—completed the rollout of the newest version of its digital pantry platform to twelve food pantries in the Met Council food pantry network. The digital...
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Paulson, Elisabeth, and Michael W. Toffel. "Market by Met Council: Revolutionizing Food Pantries in the Digital Age." Harvard Business School Case 624-060, May 2024. (Revised May 2024.)
- April 2024
- Teaching Note
“The Wheels on the Bus” Go Electric: Highland Electric Fleets and Partners
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jacob A. Small
Founder Duncan McIntyre developed an innovative service-based business to electrify transportation fleets for school districts and scale through public-private partnerships while contributing to climate change solutions. The case covers the rationale for electric...
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- April 2024
- Article
Detecting Routines: Applications to Ridesharing CRM
By: Ryan Dew, Eva Ascarza, Oded Netzer and Nachum Sicherman
Routines shape many aspects of day-to-day consumption. While prior work has established the importance of habits in consumer behavior, little work has been done to understand the implications of routines—which we define as repeated behaviors with recurring, temporal...
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Keywords:
Ride-sharing;
Routine;
Machine Learning;
Customer Relationship Management;
Consumer Behavior;
Segmentation
Dew, Ryan, Eva Ascarza, Oded Netzer, and Nachum Sicherman. "Detecting Routines: Applications to Ridesharing CRM." Journal of Marketing Research (JMR) 61, no. 2 (April 2024): 368–392.
- March 2024 (Revised April 2024)
- Case
Angel City Football Club: Scoring a New Model
By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Jennifer Fonstad and Nicole Tempest Keller
In January 2024, Kara Nortman, Julie Uhrman, and Natalie Portman, the founders of Angel City Football Club (ACFC) were developing the club’s first three-year strategic plan. Founded in 2020, ACFC had a star-studded investor group, including Portman and celebrities such...
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Keywords:
Sports;
Entertainment;
Entrepreneurship;
Brands and Branding;
Innovation and Invention;
Venture Capital;
Sports Industry;
Entertainment and Recreation Industry;
United States;
California;
Los Angeles
Rayport, Jeffrey F., Jennifer Fonstad, and Nicole Tempest Keller. "Angel City Football Club: Scoring a New Model." Harvard Business School Case 824-192, March 2024. (Revised April 2024.)
- March 2024
- Case
Amperity: First-Party Data at a Crossroads
By: Elie Ofek, Hema Yoganarasimhan and Alexis Lefort
In the summer of 2023, Amperity management was facing a critical decision on its future direction. Given the dramatic changes occurring within the digital advertising ecosystem, as concerns over consumer privacy placed limits on the ability to engage in third-party...
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- March 2024
- Teaching Note
Sonder Holdings Inc.: Using Technology to Solve Hospitality’s Frictions
By: John A. Deighton and Leora Kornfeld
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 922-039. Digital disruption is challenging the hospitality industry. Traditional hotels face competition from platforms, most visibly Airbnb but also the homeshare divisions of online travel agencies such as Expedia and Booking.com, that...
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- March 2024
- Case
Kashat: Navigating the Uncertainties of the Egyptian Fintech Market
By: Paul A. Gompers and Ahmed Dahawy
Karim Nour, the founder of Kashat, an Egyptian nano-lending fintech company, is contemplating how to manage the growth of his startup. Over the summer of 2022, Kashat's loan disbursements had grown by nearly 40%, fueled by macroeconomic instability in Egypt. However,...
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- March 2024
- Case
Funderbeam: Teaming Up or Going Alone?
By: Paul A. Gompers, Elena Corsi and Orna Dan
Funderbeam, a global platform founded in Estonia to enable start-ups to run private syndications and secondaries while offering liquidity for private equity investors, was at a crossroads. Over its ten-year run, the company had expanded its services and areas of...
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Keywords:
Decision Making;
Business Exit or Shutdown;
Transition;
Leading Change;
Business or Company Management;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Law;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Financing and Loans;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Ownership Stake;
Expansion;
Financial Services Industry;
Estonia;
Republic of Ireland;
United Kingdom;
Singapore
- March 2024 (Revised April 2024)
- Case
“The Wheels on the Bus” Go Electric: Highland Electric Fleets and Partners
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Jacob A. Small
Founder Duncan McIntyre developed an innovative service-based business to electrify transportation fleets for school districts and scale through public-private partnerships while contributing to climate change solutions. The case covers the rationale for electric...
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Kanter, Rosabeth M., and Jacob A. Small. "“The Wheels on the Bus” Go Electric: Highland Electric Fleets and Partners." Harvard Business School Case 324-107, March 2024. (Revised April 2024.)
- March 2024
- Case
East Rock Capital: 'Talent is the Best Asset Class'
By: Boris Groysberg, Sarah L. Abbott and Izzy Yeoh
Adam Shapiro and Graham Duncan launched East Rock Capital, LLC in 2006 with a seed investment from Stuart Miller, executive chairman of Lennar Corporation. East Rock managed long-term assets for high-net-worth families, primarily working with external managers who had...
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Keywords:
Alternative Assets;
Hiring;
HNW Products And Services;
Recruiting;
Marketing Strategy;
Hedge Funds;
Wealth Management;
Asset Management;
Private Equity;
Financial Institutions;
Financial Services Industry;
United States
Groysberg, Boris, Sarah L. Abbott, and Izzy Yeoh. "East Rock Capital: 'Talent is the Best Asset Class'." Harvard Business School Case 424-017, March 2024.
- February 2024
- Case
Korea Venture Investment Corporation
By: Paul A. Gompers and Billy Chan
Paul Gompers, pgompers@hbs.edu; Billy Chan, bchan@hbs.edu; Andrew Mickle, amickle@hbs.edu
3/6/2024
Yes
venture capital, fund of funds, startup, startup ecosystem, south korea, han river zium, big basin capital, capstone partners
Entrepreneurship; business...
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurship;
Society;
Finance;
Investment;
Financial Services Industry;
Asia;
South Korea
- February 2024
- Case
AGENTS.inc: Pathways to Growth at an AI Startup
By: Frank Nagle, Manuel Hoffmann, Karoline Ströhlein and Susan Pinckney
The case describes the history of AGENTS.inc. Despite being a small startup, with only four employees, that had never had a funding round, the company boasted an impressive client portfolio including multiple Fortune 500 companies. While AGENTS.inc had been an early...
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Keywords:
Business Growth and Maturation;
Business Model;
Business Startups;
Small Business;
Transformation;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Decisions;
Entrepreneurship;
Venture Capital;
Financial Strategy;
AI and Machine Learning;
Digital Platforms;
Technological Innovation;
Copyright;
Management;
Growth and Development;
Market Timing;
Ownership;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Competition;
Open Source Distribution;
Entrepreneurial Finance;
Computer Industry;
Europe;
Germany
Nagle, Frank, Manuel Hoffmann, Karoline Ströhlein, and Susan Pinckney. "AGENTS.inc: Pathways to Growth at an AI Startup." Harvard Business School Case 724-444, February 2024.
- February 2024
- Case
Tabby: Winning Consumers' Digital Wallets
By: Eva Ascarza and Fares Khrais
Hosam Arab (MBA 2009), cofounder and CEO of Tabby, a Saudi-based fintech startup, raised its Series D funding round in October 2023, four years after its inception, valuing it as a regional unicorn. Tabby's core product, a buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) service, allowed...
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Keywords:
Business Model;
Business Startups;
Risk Management;
Competitive Strategy;
Expansion;
Financial Services Industry;
Financial Services Industry;
Saudi Arabia
Ascarza, Eva, and Fares Khrais. "Tabby: Winning Consumers' Digital Wallets." Harvard Business School Case 524-056, February 2024.
- February 9, 2024
- Article
The Rise of Consumer Crypto
By: Steve Kaczynski and Scott Duke Kominers
Although non-fungible tokens are often misunderstood and even derided, they remain a general and flexible solution for establishing and tracking ownership in the digital domain. As a superior solution to existing technology in many areas of the consumer economy, their...
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Keywords:
Cryptocurrency;
Crypto Economy;
NFTs;
Non-fungible Tokens;
Internet Of Everything;
Market Design;
Technological Innovation;
Demand and Consumers;
Web Services Industry
Kaczynski, Steve, and Scott Duke Kominers. "The Rise of Consumer Crypto." Project Syndicate (February 9, 2024).
- February 2024
- Case
Shore Capital Partners: The Next Ten Years
By: Boris Groysberg and Kerry Herman
Private equity firm Shore Capital Partners is at an inflection point, after 12 years of phenomenal growth and success. Now, as the partners consider options, should Shore remain micro-cap focused, or move into more mid-cap investments? Should Shore hold investments...
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- 2023
- Working Paper
When Insurers Exit: Climate Losses, Fragile Insurers, and Mortgage Markets
By: Pari Sastry, Ishita Sen and Ana-Maria Tenekedjieva
This paper studies how homeowners insurance markets respond to growing climate losses and how this impacts mortgage market dynamics. Using Florida as a case study, we show that traditional insurers are exiting high risk areas, and new lower quality insurers are...
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Keywords:
Insurance;
Natural Disasters;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Insurance Industry;
Florida
Sastry, Pari, Ishita Sen, and Ana-Maria Tenekedjieva. "When Insurers Exit: Climate Losses, Fragile Insurers, and Mortgage Markets." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-051, February 2024. (SSRN Working Paper Series, No. 4674279, December 2023.)
- January 2024
- Case
Post-Wirecard: BaFin under Mark Branson
By: Jonas Heese, Carlota Moniz and Daniela Beyersdorfer
In November 2023, Mark Branson, the head of Germany's Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin), reflected on the efficacy of the reforms initiated since the Wirecard scandal. BaFin had been discredited after Wirecard’s downfall in 2020. The press had derided it...
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Keywords:
Accounting;
Crime and Corruption;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Government Administration;
Failure;
Trust;
Financial Services Industry;
Financial Services Industry;
Germany
Heese, Jonas, Carlota Moniz, and Daniela Beyersdorfer. "Post-Wirecard: BaFin under Mark Branson." Harvard Business School Case 124-078, January 2024.
- January 2024
- Case
Runa
By: Paul Gompers and Carla Larangeira
In early 2022, Courtney McColgan, founder and CEO of Runa, a human resources and payroll Software-as-a-Service platform, faced an unexpected tech market downturn. Founded in 2018, Runa catered to small and medium-sized businesses in Mexico, offering an affordable and...
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