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• Case | HBS Case Collection | January 2019 (Revised November 2020)

  Ribbon Home: iBacking for Real Estate

  Marco Di Maggio and Sarah Gulick

  In November 2018, Shaival Shah, the founder and CEO of Ribbon Home had to decide on the next steps for the company. Ribbon had introduced a program that backs consumers with cash offers without creating a loan structure in order to help them compete with iBuyers, such as Zillow Offers and Opendoor. Ribbon had experienced a successful launch in Charlotte, North Carolina which prompted urgent strategic questions. Among them was the appropriate funding model – whether Ribbon be mainly a platform for others to fund transactions, or should it buy and hold homes on its balance sheet, which it could securitize and sell using a line of credit.

  Keywords: consumers; real estate; Property; Finance; Market Platforms; Business Model; Decision Making; Real Estate Industry; Technology Industry;

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  Di Maggio, Marco, and Sarah Gulick. "Ribbon Home: iBacking for Real Estate." Harvard Business School Case 219-059, January 2019. (Revised November 2020.)  View Details

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• Case | HBS Case Collection | January 2020 (Revised November 2020)

  Crisis at the 11th Hour

  David G. Fubini, Rebecca Henderson, Sarah Gulick and Trevor Fetter

  A successful lawyer describes an important decision she had to make as a young attorney about whether to disclose information in a contract.

  Keywords: Contracts; Agreements and Arrangements; Attorney and Client Relationships; Rank and Position; Trust; Decisions; Legal Services Industry; New York (city, NY);

  Citation:

  Fubini, David G., Rebecca Henderson, Sarah Gulick, and Trevor Fetter. "Crisis at the 11th Hour." Harvard Business School Case 320-041, January 2020. (Revised November 2020.)  View Details

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• Teaching Note | HBS Case Collection | May 2020 (Revised October 2020)

  San Francisco Ballet: On 'Pointe' for the Future

  Rohit Deshpandé and Nicole Tempest Keller

  An examination of the strategic challenges facing the SF Ballet in 2019 due to changes in demographics, lifestyles, and the city of San Francisco itself

  Keywords: Social Enterprise; Entrepreneurship; Arts; Demographics; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Strategy; United States; San Francisco;

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  Deshpandé, Rohit, and Nicole Tempest Keller. "San Francisco Ballet: On 'Pointe' for the Future." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 520-115, May 2020. (Revised October 2020.)  View Details

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