Publications

February 2011
Supplement

The Fox Islands Wind Project (B)

By: Joseph B. Lassiter III and Evan Richardson

Fox Island Wind Cooperative faces criticism from local residents. View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Renewable Energy; Social Entrepreneurship; Cooperative Ownership; Business and Community Relations; Conflict and Resolution; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology Industry; Maine

Web

Entrepreneurial Finance (Q3) - Course Catalog

capital and receivables financing. Course Content and Educational Objectives The goal of Entrepreneurial Finance is to help managers make better investment and financing decisions in entrepreneurial settings. The course covers all stages of the venture's life cycle... View Details

September 2022
Teaching Note

Yummy: Delivering Value to Venezuela

By: Ayelet Israeli, Jenyfeer Martinez Buitrago and Carla Larangeira

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 522-034. View Details

Keywords: Internet and the Web; Health Pandemics; Business Startups; Growth and Development Strategy; Expansion

01 Mar 2011
News

Swap ’Em If You Got ’Em

Hall (right): An online market for military personnel. Blake Hall (MBA ’10) grew up in a military family, became an Army Ranger, and was a platoon leader in Iraq for fifteen months. A conversation with a fellow veteran about the difficulty of buying and selling... View Details

Keywords: online retail; online shopping; online marketplace; National Security and International Affairs; Government; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

November 2000
Case

beenz.com: Building "The Web's Currency" Into a Global Business

Beenz.com, an incentive-based Web currency and customer management tool, is reassessing its business in August 2000, one year after launch. The original vision was to make the currency globally available and recognized. However, the company's rapid internationalization... View Details

Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Growth Management; Internet and the Web; Marketing; Business Startups

February 2006 (Revised December 2009)
Case

Pixamo-Inc., AG, or OOO?

Andrew Prihodko is forming a new venture, Pixamo, the next generation of online photo management and sharing sites. Pixamo's alpha site has generated over 1,000 users and a lot of information about registration and usage patterns. Prihodko must address a number of... View Details

Keywords: Geographic Location; Globalized Firms and Management; Internet and the Web; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Web Services Industry; Delaware; Switzerland; Ukraine

Find at Harvard

September 1999 (Revised April 2000)
Case

drugstore.com

By: Richard L. Nolan

On a clear day in August 1999 in the new headquarters of drugstore.com, against a backdrop of the Blue Angels flying in formation over Lake Washington practicing for their hydroplane Seafare Cup performance, Peter Neupert was pleased with his company's IPO performance.... View Details

Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Internet and the Web; Problems and Challenges; Business Startups; Retail Industry

05 Aug 2013
News

Up, Up, and Away!

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

17 Nov 2015
First Look

November 17, 2015

Societal and Political Dimensions of Innovation Innovation and Business Growth By: Kerr, William R. Abstract—Innovation and the pursuit of new business opportunities are essential for growth at the firm level; moreover, they provide the foundation for an economy to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

December 2001
Case

Sarah Vickers-Willis: Career Decisions (B)

By: Myra M. Hart, Lynda M. Applegate, Sarah Harden and Susan Saltrick

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Decisions; Leadership; Internet and the Web; Social Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career; Gender; Business Startups