Airbnb- A Disruptive Innovator

Airbnb- A Disruptive Innovator
Case Code: ITSY089
Case Length: 21 Pages
Period: 2008-2015
Pub Date: 2016
Teaching Note: Available
Price: Rs.400
Organization: Airbnb
Industry: Travel
Countries: US, Global
Themes: innovation, Sharing Economy, Startup
Airbnb- A Disruptive Innovator
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Abstract

The case is about a San Francisco-based home-sharing website, Airbnb, which served as a platform for people to rent out their underutilized spaces. The idea for Airbnb, or Airbed and breakfast, was born in 2007, when some delegates to a conference held in San Francisco, found all the hotels booked and no accommodation available. Two friends, Brian Chesky (industrial designer) and Joe Gebbia (also a designer) decided to rent out extra space in their apartment to some of these delegates. In the process, they made more than US$ 1,000.

This gave them the idea of taking the business forward and AirBed and Breakfast Inc. was incorporated in 2008. They were then joined by Nathan Blecharczyk, a technical architect...

Issues

The case is structured to achieve the following teaching objectives:

  • Understand the emergence of innovative business models.
  • Study how innovative business models help companies grow and gain competitive advantage.
  • Study how innovation drives economic competitiveness.
  • Understand various concepts like disruptive innovation, sharing economy, and collaborative consumption.
  • Identify the role of entrepreneurs in any industry and the challenges they face while establishing a startup.
  • Understand how Airbnb’s innovative business model helped it become one of the largest hoteliers in the world, without owning any assets.

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Keywords

Disruptive innovation, collaborative consumption, Airbnb, sharing economy, startup, service innovation, disruption, business models, marketplace platform model

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