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...

In mid-2018, the U.S. auto industry was in the early stages of what many believed would be a significant evolution in how people thought about and used cars. The future would be dominated by electric and autonomous vehicles. Car ownership in which people paid for a hard asset with all its bells and ...

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 ...

In October 2000, with just a couple of weeks until the three-month-old car sharing startup closed on its first round of funding, Zipcar co-founder Robin Chase made an alarming discovery: the amount of revenue that Zipcars had generated for the month of September was half of what she estimated. After...

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.

Biocon India Group has just formed a new subsidiary, Clinigene, to provide services in clinical trials. Concerns abound, however, as to whether this new subsidiary could prove to be a distraction or worse to this enzyme and pharmaceutical manufacturer.

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