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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Letters to the Editor
Botkin (MBA ’68, DBA ’73) Cambridge, MA A Vote for MVP In the March Bulletin, writer Deborah Blagg touched all the bases in “Local Hero,” her article about San Francisco Giants president Larry Baer (MBA... View Details
- 19 May 2015
- News
Getting Ready for Success
another arranges funding new schools. “Some volunteers get a taste for what is not necessarily monetarily rewarding, but quite rewarding nonetheless, and it changes their perception of life,” she says. After HBS, Huebner moved to California, first to build a risk... View Details
- 17 Feb 2015
- News
The First Five Years: Diogo Castro Freire (MBA 2012)
started with an IndieGogo campaign, which already has the support of 500 people and obtained fiscal sponsorship from the prestigious San Francisco Film Society. Climate change is a story about all of us, so... View Details
- Web
WesTrek 2025: Exploring the future of tech in Silicon Valley - Recruiting
following companies: Applied Intuition , C3 AI , Databricks , Google , Imbue AI , LinkedIn , Lucid , Meta , Microsoft , NVIDIA , Nuro , Perplexity , Scale AI , Skydio , Snowflake , and Uber . Exploring Silicon Valley: First Impressions and New Connections Students... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
HBS Alumnae Chart Career Choices and Transitions
and meetings with alumnae in Boston, New York, and San Francisco to generate ideas about what HBS alumnae wanted and how the School could help. "It was a quest to see whether they were interested in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Michael Depatie
Hotel, here in the Fisherman’s Wharf area. It’s located in the San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park, in a 1907 warehouse that shares a courtyard with the Cannery complex. We preserved many of the... View Details
- Profile
Paris Wallace
this point, we have a pregnancy reported every 60 seconds. When did you first realize you wanted to be an entrepreneur? I grew up outside San Francisco and had a pretty humble background with a single mom... View Details
- Profile
Adam Kanner
The live entertainment industry is known for glitz, glamour and an aura of unparalleled excitement. But for every sold-out Beyonce’ concert or San Francisco Giants game, there are countless live events... View Details
- 11 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #2: Sam Steyer, Greenwork
reach to Los Angeles and the San Francisco Bay area, to make it easier to match jobs with job seekers. As the company grows, Sam envisions launching across the United States, starting with Austin and New... View Details
- 26 May 2022
- News
Northern California Club Honors Noom; LGBTQ Alumni Share HBS Stories
50 years from now?” Both Druyan and Hao say the award has become quite prestigious among the world’s top entrepreneurs and venture capital firms, and winners are excited to be honored by HBS alumni. The event, which is open to the public, has been a gala dinner in... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 28 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Football Stars Debate ‘The Social Capital of the Savvy Athlete’
Nobody understands the power of Twitter better than Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman. In a now-infamous television interview in January after a National Football League playoff game, Sherman briefly ranted against rival Michael Crabtree, referring to the... View Details
- 24 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Watsons: IBM’s Troubled Legacy
the International Business Machines Corporation and its indomitable leader, Thomas J. Watson Sr. As a demonstration of the latest device out of the I.B.M. research laboratories, a letter of congratulation was flashed through the air from View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow
- 02 Jun 2019
- News
A Data-Driven Approach to Gun Policy
meetings in San Francisco and switched on the TV to watch the news. For the next six hours I was transfixed,” he explains. “I don’t get emotional very often, but I was overwhelmed.” Back in Boston, fellow... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
New Ways to Stay Connected
Women’s Leadership Accelerator in San Francisco this past March, where some 250 alumnae participated in a daylong program. Topics determined by the alumnae program committee included career pivots, social... View Details
- Profile
Cristina Ros Blankfein
set than the giant bank usually targets. Her final project, for example, involved the city of San Francisco working with Citibank to create college savings accounts for children starting in kindergarten.... View Details
- Profile
Ruzwana Bashir
decision to head to San Francisco with little more than an impressive resume and an idea. The idea for Peek came to Bashir after she had been planning a trip to Istanbul for her birthday. “I spent 20... View Details
- January 2017 (Revised October 2021)
- Case
Delivering the Goods at Shippo
By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Jeffrey F. Rayport and Olivia Hull
Laura Behrens Wu, CEO of software start-up Shippo, prepares her pitch for a Series A funding round following a successful seed round. Customer adoption of Shippo’s e-commerce dashboard application, which allows small and medium retailers to compare delivery rates... View Details
Keywords: Application Program Interface; API; API Strategy; Customer Cohorts; Churn; Retention; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Business Startups; Strategy; Transition; Customer Focus and Relationships; Technological Innovation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Valuation; Shipping Industry; Technology Industry; Retail Industry; San Francisco; California; United States
Bussgang, Jeffrey J., Jeffrey F. Rayport, and Olivia Hull. "Delivering the Goods at Shippo." Harvard Business School Case 817-065, January 2017. (Revised October 2021.)
- June 2013
- Teaching Note
Rock Health
By: Robert Higgins and Ian McKown Cornell
This is the teaching note associated with HBS Case #813035. The case should enable students to identify emerging challenges, evaluate Rock Health's funding model, debate the effectiveness of its incubation service and assess its long-term viability. View Details
- June 2023
- Case
Block: Creating an Ecosystem of Ecosystems
By: Lauren Cohen, Richard Ryffel, Grace Headinger and Ruoshi Qi
At Investor Day 2022, Block announced a new vision for its businesses: creating an ecosystem of ecosystems. Outside the norm for many public growth companies, Block had recently acquired a variety of new business streams in the creator economy and Bitcoin despite a... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth; Fintech; Company Management; Growth Strategy; Innovation And Strategy; Acquisition; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Change; Finance; Growth Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Communication Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Business Strategy; Financial Services Industry; Technology Industry; United States; California; San Francisco
Cohen, Lauren, Richard Ryffel, Grace Headinger, and Ruoshi Qi. "Block: Creating an Ecosystem of Ecosystems." Harvard Business School Case 223-055, June 2023.
- July 2021
- Case
A Close Shave at Squire
In 2020, just after closing a $34 million Series B financing round, Dave Salvant and Songe LaRon consider how to adjust their business, Squire Technologies, to the new realities posed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Their barbershop technology, including tools to run a shop... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Private Equity; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Applications and Software; Growth and Development Strategy; Health Pandemics; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Technology Industry; New York (city, NY); San Francisco
Bussgang, Jeffrey J., Zoë B. Cullen, William R. Kerr, Benjamin N. Roth, and Michael Norris. "A Close Shave at Squire." Harvard Business School Case 821-073, July 2021.