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- 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
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
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
- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
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
- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
engineering development. The public company must now find new ways to grow, and Isy Goldwasser, a co-founder and new CEO, must lead the transition while maintaining unique scientific resources. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
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
- First Look
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
- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
to their reliable software and responsive customer service. The company had achieved this growth without the help of any outside financing. The five co-founders of eCW, who treated each other like an extended family, invested years of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Apr 2022
- News
Clean Slate
forming a new national stock exchange, leading early IPOs of Indian companies like Wipro and Infosys, and overseeing early diversity and inclusion initiatives in her role as head of HSBC India. After retiring in 2015, Kidwai co-founded... View Details
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2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
recently named a Thinklist Amplify Nominee by the University of Bath’s Centre for Business, Organizations, and Society. She is also the co-founder of POISED, a micro-community within the Center for Positive Organizations, member of the... View Details
- 21 Dec 2022
- News
HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion
moderator and panel were introduced by Anastasiya Siro (MBA 2023). Moderator: -Evanna Hu, CEO of Omelas; Senior Advisor on Cyber at the International Republican Institute; Non-resident Senior Fellow at Atlantic Council Panelists: -Hoan Ton-That, CEO and View Details
- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
that, we can do that. She was like, run through those ideas again. And one of the ideas was based on an open-source project that I started in my last company with a guy named Lee Holloway, who’s our third co-founder and at Cloudflare. And... View Details
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2025 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
Allurion Therapeutics: Competing in the Age of GLP-1 Drugs Senior Lecturer Satish Tadikonda No additional materials available + More Info – Less Info This modified case discussion does not require pre-reading. Shantanu Gaur, co-founder... View Details
- 28 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
Canadian childcare provider that they had co-founded in the early 2000s and developed into a nearly 100-unit enterprise, are discussing how the company should proceed with its planned U.S. expansion. Kids & Company already has five... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
co-founder and CEO of the Rise Fund, has partnered with The Bridgespan Group, a nonprofit consultancy, to develop an evidence-based methodology for quantifying the impact of prospective Rise investments. Together, they have come up with a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
Vavilov, who had co-founded Bitfury and expanded it substantially from its bitcoin mining roots, felt a blockchain-driven makeover of this sort would take place not just in Georgia's government but also around the world. It was not a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
SolarCity In 2016, electric car manufacturer Tesla announced that it was making an offer to acquire solar panel manufacturer SolarCity in an all-stock offer worth $2.6 billion in Tesla stock. Tesla’s co-founder and CEO, Elon Musk,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
its structuring stage in 2007, through the adverse periods of the global financial crisis and Arab Spring, until 2012. At this time, Hisham El-Khazindar, co-founder and managing director, had to decide on the fate of the project. While... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
313-095 Grupo ABC and Nizan Guanaes's Path from Brazil to the World Internationally recognized Brazilian Nizan Guanaes, co-founder of Grupo ABC, a rapidly growing global advertising firm ranked 18th in 2011, had aspirations to be in the... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
Johannesburg Stock Exchange. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/413038-PDF-ENG Droga5: Launching Jay-Z's Decoded Elberse, Anita, and Kwame Owusu-KesseHarvard Business School Case 513-032 In 2010, David Droga and Andrew Essex, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne