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  • November 2016
  • Case

ShotSpotter

By: Mitchell Weiss and Sarah McAra
SST, Inc. offered a subscription-based gunfire detection service, ShotSpotter Flex, to cities across the United States in addition to a few abroad. Over its 20-year history, SST had mostly honed a reliable business-to-government sales model, and the company had been... View Details
Keywords: ShotSpotter; SST; Internet Of Things; IoT; Smart Cities; Public Entrepreneurship; Enterprise Sales; Scaling And Growth; Government; Public Sector; Innovation; Ralph Clark; Entrepreneurship; Sales; Innovation and Invention; Public Administration Industry; California; United States
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Weiss, Mitchell, and Sarah McAra. "ShotSpotter." Harvard Business School Case 817-034, November 2016.
  • 22 Jun 2017
  • News

ShotSpotter: A Gunfire Detection Business Looks for a New Market

    ShotSpotter

    SST offered a subscription-based gunfire detection service, ShotSpotter Flex, to cities across the United States, and a few abroad. Over its 20-year history, SST had mostly honed a reliable business to government sales model, and the company had been focused on... View Details
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    Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership

    Corporation, 1975–2000 Edward G. Budd E. G. Budd Company, 1912–1946 Ralph Budd Great Northern Railroad, 1919–1932 Herbert P. Buetow Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing, 1953–1963 Warren E. Buffett Berkshire Hathaway, 1969–Present Morgan G.... View Details
    • 01 Jun 2016
    • News

    Ears to the Ground

    division. When Ralph Clark (MBA 1993) took over as CEO of ShotSpotter in 2010, he inherited a groundbreaking technology and a broken business model. The company uses sensors, strategically placed throughout... View Details
    Keywords: Jason Feifer; photography by Vance Jacobs
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    Campaign Leadership Committee - Alumni

    Co-Chairs Mark E. Nunnelly MBA 1984 Mark A. Stevens MBA 1989 Honorary Chairs Jane Batten The James S.C. Chao and Ruth Mulan Chu Chao Family Kim B. Clark Margot Connell Ian M. Cumming MBA 1970** Raymond T. Dalio MBA 1973 Thomas F. Frist... View Details
    • 21 Mar 2019
    • News

    Helping Veterans Build Careers

    intelligence officers who have also risen to become commanding officers, including John Byington (MBA 2002), Ralph Cacci (MBA 2000), Tucker Bailey (MBA 2004), and Brad Boyer (MBA 1993). “AFAA members were definitely my people at HBS,”... View Details
    Keywords: Jill Radsken
    • 01 Dec 2002
    • News

    Alumni Honorees Urge Students to Emphasize Ethics

    helm, The Esquel Group makes more men's cotton shirts than any other company in the world, producing private-label apparel for high-end chains like Brooks Brothers and designers like Ralph Lauren. Egon P. S. Zehnder (MBA '56) Founding... View Details
    • 18 Aug 2021
    • News

    Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

    donation to support groups working on social Justice, Ralph Clark (MBA 1993), CEO of ShotSpotter, told CNBC, “Five million or $10 million is interesting, but give me three VPs.” View Details
    • 14 Mar 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research, March 14

    expanding to new cities. But Ralph Clark, President and CEO, was also interested in investigating new services. Mass shootings, in U.S. schools to cities abroad, were consistently followed with calls to his office: “Do you have a solution... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 16 Dec 2020
    • Blog Post

    Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

    equip a new generation of leaders to advance equity and opportunity for all.” In response to Facebook’s donation to support groups working on social Justice, Ralph Clark (MBA 1993), CEO of ShotSpotter, told... View Details
    • 01 Dec 2008
    • News

    A Force for Good

    and the result was a stunning new campus resource that soon proved its worth to the School. Former Deans Kim Clark and John McArthur, with HBS professor emeritus Michael Jensen, at a three-day faculty symposium, “Breaking New Ground,”... View Details
    Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Wood Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Rail Transportation; Transportation
    • 01 Dec 2016
    • News

    Alumni Books of 2016

    Point, Part 2: A Documentary History of the Utah War, 1858–1859 by William P. MacKinnon (MBA 1962) (The Arthur H. Clark Company) This is the second volume of MacKinnon’s history of the Utah War, an armed confrontation between the... View Details
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