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Aaron Chadbourne

For Aaron Chadbourne, entrepreneurship began early. "As soon as I could talk, I was put to work in my grandmother's business – selling vegetables at a roadside picnic table piled high with corn." As Aaron grew up, he helped with... View Details

01 Dec 2002
News

Faculty Updates

also devote time to the Center for Organizational Fitness, an organization he cofounded that helps senior managers enable a strategic change process. William J. Poorvu, the MBA Class of 1961 Adjunct Professor in Entrepreneurship, Emeritus, has retired. An authority on... View Details

October 2018
Supplement

Zenefits Board of Directors (B)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Will Hurwitz

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Ethics; Business Model; Corporate Accountability; Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Governance; Crisis Management; Entrepreneurship; Human Resources; Leadership; Risk Management; Venture Capital; Technology Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Information Technology Industry; United States; California

01 Dec 2011
News

Knowing the Score

campaign—still one of the most creative promotions any network has ever produced about itself—and the methodology behind it. ESPN has had many corporate owners over the years, and the famous edict of Watergate’s “Deep Throat” to “follow... View Details

Keywords: James Andrew Miller; Organizational Behavior; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

01 Feb 1999
News

Newman's Own Brand of Charity

Newman's Own, Inc., lunched with Dean Kim B. Clark, and fielded students' questions at an informal hour-long gathering sponsored by the Social Enterprise Club. The case, written by Initiative on Social Enterprise chair Professor James E. Austin for the MBA elective... View Details

13 Jan 2009
First Look

First Look: January 13, 2009

afield. Planning a Start-Up? Seize the Day...Then Expect to Work All Night Author:Noam Wasserman Publication:Harvard Business Review 87, no. 1 (January 2009) Abstract If you dream of starting your own business, it's better to leave the View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

September 1992
Case

Star Cablevision Group (A): Harvesting in a Bull Market

By: William A. Sahlman

First case in a series of six cases that follow the experience of a cable television company as it adjusts to the rapid rise and precipitous decline of the stock market in the late 1980s. In this case Don Jones, the company's founder and owner, sees the rise in public... View Details

Keywords: Behavioral Finance; Financial Markets; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Restructuring; Corporate Strategy; SWOT Analysis; Wealth; Business Cycles; Entertainment and Recreation Industry

August 2011 (Revised August 2013)
Case

Career at a Crossroad: Roopa Rao

By: Noam Wasserman and Lisa Brem

Akhil Patel is passionate about his business idea: an innovative green technology fuel cell. He wants to dive in and commit to his startup, but Roopa Rao, his fiancée, is much more risk averse, his parents don't approve of the startup, and Akhil has an enticing... View Details

Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Business Startups; Business Growth and Maturation; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Work-Life Balance; Family and Family Relationships

August 2011
Case

Ockham Technologies (A): Building the Team

By: Noam Wasserman

Describes the issues facing a founder-ceo regarding building a board, assembling an executive team, managing tension between co-founders, and outsourcing development work. View Details

Keywords: Selection and Staffing; Recruitment; Governing and Advisory Boards; Management Teams; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Information Technology

November 2007
Case

Ockham Technologies: Living on the Razor's Edge (Abridged)

By: Noam T. Wasserman

Describes the issues facing a Founder-CEO regarding building a board, assembling an executive team, managing tension between co-founders, and outsourcing system development work. The abridged version does not include the introduction and final sections of the full case... View Details

Keywords: Selection and Staffing; Recruitment; Governing and Advisory Boards; Management Teams; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Information Technology

16 Feb 2016
First Look

February 16, 2016

experience. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50573 2015 Shaping Entrepreneurial Mindsets: Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Leadership Development Design Thinking and Innovative Problem Solving By: Datar,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Europe Lags in Pharmaceuticals and Biotech

do not have access to the drugs or drug makers do not receive a fair reimbursement, panelists said. Lessons Of A Lemon-aid Stand But differences are as much cultural as regulatory. Cultural differences favor entrepreneurship and... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Biotechnology; Health; Pharmaceutical; Technology

Web

Latin America - Global Activities 2021

of the Latin America Research Center (LARC), is about a difficult personnel decision Bruck, a rising star in the Argentina-based Amazon rival, faced. In 2017, as corporate sales director at MercadoLibre, she managed a smart and dedicated... View Details

June 2010 (Revised September 2010)
Case

Atlantis Paradise Island Resort & Casino: Improving Performance with a New Vision and Mission

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Gabriele Piccoli

Atlantis Paradise Island adopted a new vision and mission to provide its guests and employees an enhanced brand experience. The dilemma Atlantis faced was how to integrate the new vision and mission into all the brand touch points in order to improve customer... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Customer Satisfaction; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Employee Relationship Management; Brands and Branding; Service Delivery; Mission and Purpose; Performance Improvement; Accommodations Industry