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  • 16 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 16

Company from 2008 to 2014 as led by CEO and co-founder Howard Schultz. The case offers executives and students an opportunity to examine in depth how Schultz and his team saved Starbucks from near collapse, by both executing a deep,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 1

sale was prompted by a co-founder who wanted to sell his share of the business. The case explores the rationale for owners to monetize at least a portion of their company's value and the sales process. Additionally, it compares two... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Jan 2020
  • News

What It Takes

Schwarzman is chairman, CEO, and co-founder of Blackstone, and the founder of the Schwarzman Scholars, a graduate fellowship program housed at the new Schwarzman College in Tsinghua University in Beijing. He has just written a new book,... View Details
  • 21 May 2018
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Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area

of international affairs at Harvard, explored the rise and fall of global empires. Two afternoon panels dug deep into the challenges and opportunities in the Crossroads region and considered innovation in emerging economies. Alumni panelists included: Hiran Embuldeniya... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 06 Sep 2016
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September 6, 2016

challenges facing Moleskine, an Italian-based consumer products company known for its oilcloth-covered notebooks once used by Ernest Hemingway and Vincent van Gogh. CEO Arrigo Berni and co-founder Maria Sebregondi aim to transform the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 22 Mar 2016
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March 22, 2016

were preordered, generating $2.6 million in sales. On one snowy morning in January, CEO Steve Chambers met with co-founder and Chief Scientist Dr. Cynthia Breazeal and newly hired VP of Consumer & Development Relations Lynda Smith to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

to Ovia Health In late 2016, Paris Wallace, the CEO of Ovia Health, and the rest of the company’s co-founders faced a difficult decision about the best way to grow Ovia Health’s revenue. Founded in 2012, Ovia Health specialized in mobile... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 11 Oct 2016
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October 11, 2016

this section. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/117104-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 817-038 Collage.com: Scaling a Distributed Organization Kevin Borders and Joe Golden, co-founders and co-CEOs of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 14

of corruption. But after initial successes-buoyed by visibility generated from mass street protests against corruption in 2011-traffic to the website has slowed. The question before spouses, ex-bankers, and ipaidabribe.com co-founders... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 18

after paying a two-times premium for Sirtris with his desire to retain Christoph Westphal, Sirtris's co-founder and CEO, and other key individuals at the company. His desire to protect Sirtris from GSK's size and bureaucracy occurs in a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 30 Jul 2025
  • News

Play with Purpose

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi. This is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Born in Chevy Chase, Maryland, Josh Harris (MBA 1990) attended NFL games at the old RFK Stadium in D.C. as a young child, and recalls being stunned by the... View Details
  • 12 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 12, 2008

the case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808163 The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis Harvard Business School Case 408-003 Marc Buoniconti is the co-founder of the Miami Project to Cure Paralysis, a nonprofit... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 3

Verne Global: Building a Green Data Center in Iceland Thomas Steenburgh and Nnamdi OkikeHarvard Business School Case 509-063 Verne Global, a pioneering startup created to build the first large-scale data center in Iceland, faces critical challenges regarding its green... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 6, 2007

Nayak, co-founder of the Bangalore-based start-up, Tejas Networks, is faced with two completely different opportunities to choose between: pursing a short-term, quantifiable but unprofitable contract with Tejas' biggest telco customer in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 25

Charter School Facilities Fund (CACSFF) and Chairman, CEO, and Co-Founder of Canyon Capital Realty Advisors, found himself at a loss for words. Turner was in the midst of raising capital for the CACSFF, a vehicle designed to promote the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 13

Laura Arjona, and Emily ZhangHarvard Business School Case 712-410 AppDirect is a start-up that offers small businesses software-as-a-service solutions through a business app marketplace and portal. Daniel Saks, co-founder and co-CEO, is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 18, 2007

Andrew Banks and Royce Yudkoff were considering raising a 5th fund for their media-focused private equity firm, ABRY Partners. ABRY had a strong track record that the co-founders attributed to their group's deep knowledge of the media... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Dec 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017

Harvard Business School, the co-founders of greeting card company startup Lovepop need capital to cover the company’s operating costs and must choose between two seed financing offers. One offer is from an angel group and the other from a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 18

positions ranged from lawyer, judge, preacher, entrepreneur to the first African American commissioner of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and to the head of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) to the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017

School Case 817-117 King Digital Entertainment Riccardo Zacconi was the co-founder and CEO of King Digital Entertainment, the video game company that had quickly established itself as the world’s leading maker of casual games for mobile... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne