Sarah Vickers-Willis, HBS MBA 1999, is faced with an important career decisions: It redirects Internet startup, she helped found or join in the formation of a non-profit company with a social mission? Sarah, a young Australian business executive, has always tried to "find room" for what is important to her in her career. Its solutions career started when she decided to interrupt a successful career in consulting to Australia to attend the Harvard Business School and continued through to its base (with three other classmates HBS) acceleration of the Internet start-up. This case is evidence of a more active participation of Sarah with a small non-profit company dedicated to improving the financial education of young women, and ends with the decision: Should she stay with the company she helped found, or it has to go to the entrepreneurial firm with a social mission? "Hide
by Myra M. Hart, Lynda M. Applegate, Susan Saltrick, Sarah Harden Source: Harvard Business School 15 pages. Publication Date: December 12, 2001. Prod. #: 802111-PDF-ENG
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