MIT Sloan Entrepreneurship Case Studies

Explores the challenges justice impacted people encounter when looking for a stable job. Explores the societal and economic impact of the fair chance hiring movement. Analyzes how a startup has incorporated a socially-conscious mission into its business model and how that mission might fair t...

Distinguishes between search costs and transaction costs and identify how platforms reduce each type of friction. illustrates network effects in multi-sided platforms, including both same-side and cross-side effects, and understand their asymmetric nature. applies pricing theory for platforms to det...

In this live, web-based simulation, participants play the role of the founder of a new startup company in the exciting and competitive clean tech sector. Can you develop your technology into a successful company? Each quarter you must set prices, decide how many engineers and sales people to hire, a...

Encourages analysis of the structure of a complex industry in the midst of a major transition, introduces assessing the fit between a company’s strategy and the structural attributes of its industry, and enables evaluatation of how well a company is executing its strategy.

Demonstrates how a start-up can disrupt an established industry known for mediocre service and bad jobs with a good jobs strategy—a human-centered operations strategy that combines investment in frontline employees with carefully made operational choices and strong commitment to values, provides an ...

Introduces students to the MIT Sloan 4 Capabilities Leadership Framework as a way to evaluate a leader’s strengths and weaknesses, and highlights the challenges and trade offs entrepreneurs face in launching new ventures.

Generates class discussion on the challenges entrepreneurs and startups face in commercializing a unique, niche-oriented technology, particularly when the funding that is available may well lead them down a less desirable strategic path.

Illustrates the Indian pharmaceutical and intellectual property environment; and highlight the tradeoffs faced by startups expanding into new sectors.

Explores how the local business and consumer environments affect the ability of a firm in a developing market to copy a western “best practice.”