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- January 2009 (Revised December 2009)
- Supplement
Playing with Fire at Sittercity (B)
By: Noam T. Wasserman and Rachel Gordon
To help her finance her aggressive expansion plans, Genevieve Thiers plans to raise venture capital for the first time. She has spent the last six long years building Sittercity into the nation's leading babysitting web service, larger than all of its competitors...
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Entrepreneurship;
Venture Capital;
Problems and Challenges;
Risk Management;
Agreements and Arrangements;
Service Operations;
Family and Family Relationships;
Competition;
Expansion;
Internet
Wasserman, Noam T., and Rachel Gordon. "Playing with Fire at Sittercity (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 809-010, January 2009. (Revised December 2009.)
- January 2009 (Revised December 2009)
- Case
Playing With Fire at Sittercity (A)
By: Noam T. Wasserman and Rachel Gordon
To help her finance her aggressive expansion plans, Genevieve Thiers plans to raise venture capital for the first time. She has spent the last six long years building Sittercity into the nation's leading babysitting web service, larger than all of its competitors...
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Keywords:
Business Growth and Maturation;
Family and Family Relationships;
Expansion;
Venture Capital;
Entrepreneurship;
Agreements and Arrangements
Wasserman, Noam T., and Rachel Gordon. "Playing With Fire at Sittercity (A)." Harvard Business School Case 809-009, January 2009. (Revised December 2009.)
- May 2004 (Revised December 2004)
- Case
Slingshot Technology, Inc. (B)
By: Lynda M. Applegate and Elizabeth Collins
Slingshot Technology Inc. (STI) is a privately held software start-up founded in 1995 focused on identifying emerging spaces in the IT services industry and partnering with vendors selling promising but unproven technologies in those spaces. The vendors used STI to...
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Keywords:
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Private Ownership;
Opportunities;
Partners and Partnerships;
Information Technology;
Entrepreneurship;
Applications and Software;
Intellectual Property;
Business Startups;
Information Technology Industry
Applegate, Lynda M., and Elizabeth Collins. "Slingshot Technology, Inc. (B)." Harvard Business School Case 804-023, May 2004. (Revised December 2004.)
- 05 Dec 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Walmart Defying Economic Gravity?
Summing Up When Does Friction Trump Scale in the Corporate Life Cycle? This month's column raised the issue of size limits on an organization's ability to compete In today's global economy. The specific case in point was Walmart and...
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- July 2021 (Revised January 2024)
- Case
Fynd
By: Ranjay Gulati, Kairavi Dey and Rachna Tahilyani
Fynd is a fast-growing venture that in 7 years since its founding has become India's largest omnichannel retail company with real-time access to over 9,000 stores' offline inventory. It started as a B2B business supporting retailers who didn’t have an online business,...
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- December 2022 (Revised May 2024)
- Background Note
Brief Note on Staggered Boards
By: Lynn S. Paine and Will Hurwitz
This background note discusses the evolution, use, and prevalence of staggered boards. By comparison with unitary boards whose members are all elected annually for one-year terms, staggered boards are divided into subsets of directors, with one subset up for election...
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Keywords:
Corporate Governance;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Business History;
Trends;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
United States
Paine, Lynn S., and Will Hurwitz. "Brief Note on Staggered Boards." Harvard Business School Background Note 323-040, December 2022. (Revised May 2024.)
- 06 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Renewable Energy: Winds at Our Back?
When American energy entrepreneur Jim Gordon envisioned the first offshore wind farm lining the horizon a few miles off the coast of the eastern United States, he perhaps did not factor in blowback from almost every angle. Gordon's nearly 10-year battle to gain...
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- 16 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
How HBS Supported My Career Transitions During and After Graduation
Mike Anders (MBA 2020) grew up in the suburbs of Washington, DC. After attending Northwestern University, he began a career in tech working for a legal services startup in Chicago called Envoy Global. He moved to San Francisco after HBS...
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- 06 May 2021
- Blog Post
The Extraordinary Things We Do on Ordinary Days: A Mother’s Day Tribute
As this academic year comes to an end and I think back on its many triumphs and tough days, I want to take a moment to appreciate what brought us to HBS. My husband, Austin, is an RC student, and we moved to campus last summer with our...
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- 25 May 2015
- Blog Post
RapidSOS Wins the HBS New Venture Competition
HBS is an incubator of ideas. Students come to campus for two years to collaborate, innovate, and dream big. There are many entrepreneurial opportunities and resources available for budding startups and young entrepreneurs – and one...
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- October 2007 (Revised May 2008)
- Case
Transforming Korea Inc: Financial Crisis and Institutional Reform
By: Laura Alfaro and Renee Kim
South Korea, as one of the Asian "tiger" economies, transformed itself into the world's 11th largest economy and major exporter by 1996, emerging from being one of the lowest income countries in the region back in the 1960s. Yet one year later in 1997, Korea was swept...
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Keywords:
Development Economics;
Financial Crisis;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Business and Government Relations;
South Korea
Alfaro, Laura, and Renee Kim. "Transforming Korea Inc: Financial Crisis and Institutional Reform." Harvard Business School Case 708-007, October 2007. (Revised May 2008.)
- 31 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
Why I Spent This Summer Coding
The summer between RC and EC year represents a great opportunity for risk-free exploration. Encouraged by our outcome at the New Venture Competition and the funding I would receive as a Rock Summer Fellow, I forwent a business internship...
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Technology
- 13 May 2015
- Blog Post
Former Engineer Gives Consulting a Test Drive
how applicable the knowledge I gained at HBS was. I previously thought of myself as a so-so student in Finance classes, but in McKinsey, I was really able to draw on finance skills I didn’t realize I had picked up from classes! How did...
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- 06 Jan 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Should Management Deal With “Anonymous”?
Summing Up The title of this wrap-up and the one that accompanied this month's original column basically just deletes "Wikileaks." The original title was my mistake. The intent was not to direct attention to Wikileaks in a...
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by James L. Heskett
- October 2016
- Case
Supercell
By: William R. Kerr, Benjamin F. Jones and Alexis Brownell
Supercell is a young Finnish smartphone game company with an unusual team structure and company philosophy. It is already one of Finland’s most valuable companies, and despite being only six years old, it has put up some impressive numbers: as of 2016, it has released...
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Keywords:
Supercell;
Finland;
Video Games;
Firm Structure;
Startups;
Games, Gaming, and Gambling;
Groups and Teams;
Video Game Industry;
Finland
Kerr, William R., Benjamin F. Jones, and Alexis Brownell. "Supercell." Harvard Business School Case 817-052, October 2016.
- 06 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Businesses Need a Language Strategy
distinct competitive advantage. While sometimes difficult to implement, Neeley and Kaplan argue that organizations that effectively marry language strategy with their global talent management process gain a leg up on the competition....
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Re: Tsedal Neeley
- 22 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
The Forward Fellowship Convinced Me That I Belong at HBS
Hi, my name is Heather Jackson, and I am not supposed to be at Harvard Business School. No, I don’t mean I was an ‘admissions mistake’ (though every single admit, myself included, has thought this countless times). I mean, by every possible statistic, I shouldn’t be...
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- 01 Mar 2018
- What Do You Think?
Two Decades Later, is the 'New Economy' Finally Here?
reliance on non-renewable or non-recyclable resources a sustainable economy will not emerge until graduate schools research and teach how to identify and manage the existential risks referred to above.” Nick C teed up the appropriate...
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by James Heskett
- Web
Annual Cost of Attendance - MBA
complementary fellowships , outside scholarships , and student loans , up to the Cost of Attendance for the academic year. A Shared Investment in Your Future $92,000 average need-based scholarship awarded over two View Details
- May 2004
- Supplement
Slingshot Technology, Inc. Supplement: Partnership Agreements
By: Lynda M. Applegate and Elizabeth Collins
Slingshot Technology Inc. (STI) is a privately held software start-up founded in 1995 focused on identifying emerging spaces in the IT services industry and partnering with vendors selling promising but unproven technologies in those spaces. The vendors used STI to...
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Keywords:
Entrepreneurship;
Business Startups;
Emerging Markets;
Partners and Partnerships;
Intellectual Property;
Information Technology Industry;
Consulting Industry
Applegate, Lynda M., and Elizabeth Collins. "Slingshot Technology, Inc. Supplement: Partnership Agreements." Harvard Business School Supplement 804-025, May 2004.