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Teaching Note | HBS Case Collection | June 2018

Lovepop

by Ramana Nanda, Robert F. White and Olivia Hull

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Teaching Note for HBS No. 818-015.

Language: English Format: Print 12 pages Purchase

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Nanda, Ramana, Robert F. White, and Olivia Hull. "Lovepop." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 818-099, June 2018.

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Ramana Nanda
Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration (Leave of Absence)
Entrepreneurial Management

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Robert F. White
MBA Class of 1957 Senior Lecturer of Business Administration
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