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- October 2020 (Revised November 2023)
- Case
COVID-19 Testing at Everlywell
By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Olivia Hull
In March 2020, as COVID-19 spreads rapidly across the U.S., Everlywell founder Julia Cheek considers how to respond as a small start-up specializing in at-home lab testing. After making dramatic budget cuts, she decides to pivot the organization to address the... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Business Strategy; Venture Capital; Health Care and Treatment; Health Disorders; Leading Change; Technology Adoption; Digital Platforms; Competitive Strategy; Science; Adaptation; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Crisis Management; Social Entrepreneurship; Ethics; Government Legislation; Health; Health Testing and Trials; Health Pandemics; Consumer Products Industry; Health Industry; Technology Industry; Texas; United States
Bussgang, Jeffrey J., and Olivia Hull. "COVID-19 Testing at Everlywell." Harvard Business School Case 821-001, October 2020. (Revised November 2023.)
- Profile
Phillip Michael Strazzulla
Strazzulla said. To that end, companies pay LifeGuides to post job openings, interact with users and recruit the right prospects to become employees. In just a short time, LifeGuides has signed up a dozen client companies including growth stage tech companies and big... View Details
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
enough. Fisher had an opportunity; his successor had a crisis. What can leaders do before the depth and scope of their companies' crises come into focus? How can they initiate major transformations proactively? As researchers and managers who have been involved in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
Limits of Peer Effects on Startup Team Performance By: Hasan, Sharique, and Rembrand Koning Abstract— We conduct a field experiment at an entrepreneurship bootcamp to investigate whether interaction with proximate peers shapes a nascent... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- Person Page
Media
Media
This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- Web
Leading Change and Organizational Renewal | HBS Online
excellent for anyone who wishes to learn more about a particular subject area or further develop their career." Corina Cristea Lavoie Corporate Services Manager at Debevoise & Plimpton LLP Identify and analyze performance and opportunity... View Details
- 03 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 3, 2007
available for download Banking Deregulation, Financial Constraints, and Entrepreneurship Authors:William R. Kerr and Ramana Nanda Abstract We study how U.S. branch banking deregulations affected the entry of new firms in the non-financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- March 2021 (Revised August 2024)
- Case
Hotwire.com: Navigating Through Turbulence
By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Manny de Zarraga and Eric Levine
On September 10, 2001, after speaking at an industry conference at New York’s World Trade Center, Hotwire co-founder Spencer Rascoff boarded a flight from Newark to San Francisco. After returning home, Rascoff awoke the next morning to a phone call informing him that... View Details
Keywords: September 11; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Business Growth and Maturation; Disruption; Decisions; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Growth Management; Digital Platforms; Problems and Challenges; Risk and Uncertainty; Expansion; Internet and the Web; Leading Change; Leadership Style; Air Transportation Industry; Tourism Industry; San Francisco
Rayport, Jeffrey F., Manny de Zarraga, and Eric Levine. "Hotwire.com: Navigating Through Turbulence." Harvard Business School Case 821-084, March 2021. (Revised August 2024.)
- 24 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Trick of Balancing Business and Government
Moyo,International Finance Corporation Yet over the course of the hour-and-a-half long panel session, the conversation kept circling back to the question of true ownership: Who creates these institutions, and for whom? How can African... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=42640 Managing Risks: Towards a Contingency Theory of Enterprise Risk Management By: Mikes, Anette, and Robert Kaplan Abstract—Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) has become a crucial component of contemporary View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- April 2001 (Revised July 2001)
- Case
Verge Software (A)
By: Dorothy A. Leonard and Elizabeth Kind
Scott Rozic, CEO of start-up Verge Software, has just told his board that he is taking the company in a totally new direction, moving from enterprise knowledge management software to Internet direct marketing. This case covers the start-up of the business, and Rozic's... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Investment; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Business or Company Management; Business Strategy; Technological Innovation; Applications and Software; Management Teams; Governing and Advisory Boards; Business Startups; Decision Choices and Conditions; Product Development; Information Technology Industry; United States
Leonard, Dorothy A., and Elizabeth Kind. "Verge Software (A)." Harvard Business School Case 601-065, April 2001. (Revised July 2001.)
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
The Fab Four
to that time, things are more normalized and sane. We’re seeing more experienced, repeat entrepreneurs who have created valuable companies and been through the IPO cycle and the M&A cycle. I think entrepreneurship and innovation are still... View Details
- August 1999 (Revised February 2000)
- Case
Cisco Systems, Inc.: Acquisition Integration for Manufacturing (A)
By: Steven C. Wheelwright, Charles A. Holloway, Nicole Tempest and Christian G. Kasper
Describes the procedures and processes used by Cisco Systems in its acquisition of high-technology firms. Its goal is to retain key engineering talent and to leverage existing product development efforts, but to quickly merge acquired companies its own systems and... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Leveraged Buyouts; Acquisition; Integration; Mergers and Acquisitions; Production; Activity Based Costing and Management; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Management; Technological Innovation; Talent and Talent Management; Human Resources; Manufacturing Industry; Technology Industry; England
Wheelwright, Steven C., Charles A. Holloway, Nicole Tempest, and Christian G. Kasper. "Cisco Systems, Inc.: Acquisition Integration for Manufacturing (A)." Harvard Business School Case 600-015, August 1999. (Revised February 2000.)
- 19 Jun 2017
- News
How Women's Basketball Conquered Europe
following, lucrative corporate sponsorships, and paid the players relatively high wages. Around this time, Bruce Levy (MBA 1977) became the first ever agent for women's professional basketball, negotiating player contracts around the... View Details
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
much more radical change (sacking of Troy / innovation). Democratizing Entry: Banking Deregulations, Financing Constraints, and Entrepreneurship Authors: William Kerr and Ramana Nanda Abstract We study how US branch banking deregulations... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- September 2000
- Background Note
Professional Services Module Two: External Strategy for Sustained Competitive Advantage
By: Thomas J. DeLong, Ashish Nanda and Scot H. Landry
Concerns itself with the strategic dynamics which influence organizations externally. View Details
Keywords: Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Business Plan; Service Operations; For-Profit Firms; Power and Influence; Measurement and Metrics; Business Processes; Management Practices and Processes; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques
DeLong, Thomas J., Ashish Nanda, and Scot H. Landry. "Professional Services Module Two: External Strategy for Sustained Competitive Advantage." Harvard Business School Background Note 801-008, September 2000.
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
happen to move money. Technology is core to what they do, and it has been core to what they do forever.” (photo by Chris Sorensen) New York even had parts of the proper ecosystem already in place. As HBS professor Josh Lerner, an authority on View Details
- May 2024
- Supplement
DRSi (A)
By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
In March of 2019, Jen Ransom Fuller purchased DRSi. DRSi, located in Bellevue, Washington, printed and reproduced architectural plans and drawings. Fuller planned to use her first year of ownership to learn the business and to run it in much the same way as the seller.... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Small Business; Cost vs Benefits; Decisions; Business Education; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Business or Company Management; Problems and Challenges; Health Pandemics; Selection and Staffing; Employee Relationship Management; Production; Logistics; Safety; United States; Washington (state, US)
Ruback, Richard S., and Royce Yudkoff. " DRSi (A)." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 224-717, May 2024.
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
tremendous value. He cites a number of innovators, executives, artists, academics, teachers, and role models who embody his vision of goodness. Jumping Ship: From the Heart of Corporate Australia to the World of Social Investment by... View Details
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Faculty & Advisors | MBA
commercialization to market leadership. He is a former US Army Ranger. In addition to work with MS/MBAs, Tom has also taught Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Harvard College Thomas R. Eisenmann Howard H. Stevenson Professor of Business... View Details