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August 2015
Case

Yabbly (A)

By: Shikhar Ghosh and Christopher Payton

In November 2013, with less than 10 months of cash on hand, Tom Leung, the founder and CEO of Yabbly, must decide where to focus his resources. His startup, a question-and-answer application for shopping decisions, had benefited from a strong showing at the SXSW... View Details

Keywords: Startup; Mobile; Online Product Reviews; Consumer Products; Business Model; Business Plan; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Innovation Strategy; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Internet and the Web; North America; United States; Washington (state, US); Seattle

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01 Jun 2017
News

Supercharged

electric buses to transit agencies across the country, says that his business “has to a large extent gone mainstream,” with orders coming in from some of the biggest cities in the US, including Seattle and Chicago. But mass transit is,... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustrations by Tavis Coburn

24 Apr 2020
Op-Ed

Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19

optimal: “We’re going to miss that camaraderie, the badgering that goes back and forth, and the direct communication with the coaches, teammates who lean over and whisper to help out on a play,” said John Schneider, the Seattle Seahawks’... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Abbott , Boris Groysberg, Tali Groysberg, and Abhijit Naik; Sports

01 Mar 2004
News

Toy Story

enthusiastic Tait was working on an idea for a game and wanted to run it by Furlong. When the pair met for breakfast at the Hi Spot Cafe in Seattle the next Saturday at 7 a.m., the bleary-eyed Furlong was surprised to learn that Tait was... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; toys; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

21 May 2019
Blog Post

Asian Pacific American Heritage Month at HBS

have been as a “foreigner”. I will continue wading further and further away from the comfort of familiarity, no matter how challenging it may be. “It’ll be fine I’ve been doing this my whole life” Stan Chang - MS/MBA ‘20 Tell us about your background: I was born in... View Details

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Faculty & Advisors | MBA

engineering team, which she has grown to more than 150 engineers in Seattle and San Francisco. She started coding when she was five on an Apple IIe, and has built software and led teams at high-growth tech companies for almost twenty... View Details

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