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• Case | HBS Case Collection | October 2018

  Endeavor Turns 20

  Lynda M. Applegate

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  Applegate, Lynda M. "Endeavor Turns 20." Harvard Business School Case 819-056, October 2018.  View Details

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• Case | HBS Case Collection | December 2016 (Revised October 2018)

  U.S. Digital Service

  Mitchell Weiss, Nick Sinai and Michael Norris

  Mikey Dickerson and Haley Van Dyck found themselves far from home and far from certain about where to take the U.S. Digital Service (USDS) next. In the summer of 2015, they had landed in London to meet with Mike Bracken, director of the United Kingdom’s Government Digital Service (GDS). In 2014, President Barack Obama had given USDS a monumental task: transform how the federal government worked for the American people, digitally. The seeds of USDS had grown out of the rescue of HealthCare.gov, the federal website meant to allow consumers to shop for private health insurance. Its launch and crash in October 2013 had threatened one of Obama’s signature policy achievements. Dickerson and a small team had been drafted to help fix HealthCare.gov and had successfully done so in a matter of months. While in London, Dickerson and Van Dyck wondered, of the other areas that most cried out for new technology approaches, which should be tackled next? Moreover, GDS had embedded satellite teams into the UK’s government agencies to guide, assist, and in some cases control, each agency’s digital presence. Did London hold lessons for if, and how, these teams could be successful in the U.S. government? USDS had begun to experiment with this model too, embedding teams in a handful of departments in the U.S federal government. How could USDS best work with the dozens of agencies that were actually doing the work of government?

  Keywords: public entrepreneurship; Haley Van Dyck; Mikey Dickerson; United States Digital Service; Digital Services; Innovation Teams; Scaling Innovation; 18F; Presidential Innovation Fellows; Government Digital Service; Mike Bracken; Innovation fellowships; Entrepreneurship; Government Administration; Innovation and Management; United States; United Kingdom;

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  Weiss, Mitchell, Nick Sinai, and Michael Norris. "U.S. Digital Service." Harvard Business School Case 817-032, December 2016. (Revised October 2018.)  View Details

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• Supplement | HBS Case Collection | September 2018

  King Arthur Flour Video Supplements

  Paul D. McKinnon and Michael Norris

  These video supplements update the King Arthur Flour case on the latest news and events at the company.

  Keywords: B-Corp; Benefit Corp; Co-CEO; Food and Beverage Industry; Vermont;

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  McKinnon, Paul D., and Michael Norris. "King Arthur Flour Video Supplements." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 419-703, September 2018.  View Details

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