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• Case | HBS Case Collection | September 2019 (Revised September 2020)

  Gina Wilcox

  Leslie Perlow, Jeff Steiner and Matthew Preble

  A Harvard Business School alumna discusses her life trajectory.

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  Perlow, Leslie, Jeff Steiner, and Matthew Preble. "Gina Wilcox." Harvard Business School Case 420-045, September 2019. (Revised September 2020.)  View Details

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• Case | HBS Case Collection | August 2020

  Gerald Chertavian

  Leslie Perlow and Matthew Preble

  Gerald Chertavian (HBS 1992) finds himself at a personal crossroads. It is 1999--the height of the dot com-bubble--and Chertavian and his business partners have just sold their Internet-based business for $83 million. His share of the sale’s proceeds means that he has met his goal of securing his young family’s financial well-being. Now, at age 35, he debates what to do next with his life. As a young man entering Harvard Business School, he made himself a promise: once he secured his family’s finances, he would found the non-profit organization that he first envisioned while volunteering with disadvantaged youth in New York City. He wanted to create an organization that trained young adults in the skills needed to start building successful careers, and to connect them with employers who could provide real-world job opportunities. Was now the time to launch this organization? Or, should Chertavian take one of the several attractive job offers that had come his way following the high-profile sale of his company, make even more money, and then launch his organization at some later date in the future from an even stronger financial position?

  Keywords: Social Enterprise; Personal Development and Career; Decision Choices and Conditions;

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  Perlow, Leslie, and Matthew Preble. "Gerald Chertavian." Harvard Business School Case 421-030, August 2020.  View Details

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• Case | HBS Case Collection | August 2020

  Sangu Delle

  Leslie Perlow and Matthew Preble

  By 2020, Sangu Delle (MBA 2016) has already made significant progress towards his life-long goal of solving Africa’s myriad and diverse challenges. At 33 years old, he is the founder and chairman of the for-profit Golden Palm Investments Corporation, CEO of Africa Health Holdings Limited, author of a book on entrepreneurship in Africa, founder of a nonprofit (Cleanacwa) that brings improved fresh water infrastructure to African towns and villages, and serves in numerous other volunteer and trustee roles. He believes that he needs to work at scale and across national borders in order to solve the problems that he has identified, but he cannot help but wonder: are his efforts simply too big and too broad? Would it make more sense for him to focus on just one (or a few) industries, causes, or geographies, and perhaps grow from there? Could he reasonably expect to have meaningful impact by going for scale right away?

  Keywords: Impact; impact investing; mental health; social capitalism; Entrepreneurship; Investment; Health Care and Treatment; Personal Development and Career; Health Industry; Africa;

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  Perlow, Leslie, and Matthew Preble. "Sangu Delle." Harvard Business School Case 421-031, August 2020.  View Details

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