Economies Of Scale - Publications - Faculty & Research

27 Jun 2019
Research & Ideas

Rituals Strengthen Couples. Here’s Why They’re Good for Business, Too

that translates into higher relationship satisfaction." Note: Participants were asked to rate on a scale of 1-9 their agreement with statements that reflect their relationship commitment, investment, and... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online

final grade be converted into an A-F scale? HBS Online provides the following grades for CORe: Pass with High Honors, Pass with Honors, Pass, and Fail. We cannot draw equivalencies between our grading scale and an A-F grading scale. If... View Details

01 Jun 2023
News

In My Humble Opinion: Very Continental

Ngoyi at the Fund for Export Development in Africa: creating sustainable development at scale. (Courtesy of Marlene Ngoyi) Born in Brussels to Congolese parents and raised in Gabon, Marlene Ngoyi (MBA 2009) has lived and worked in countries including Guatemala, the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; investment; exports; infrastructure; life experience; finance; Finance

26 Jun 2023
Blog Post

ClimateCAP 2023 & ClimateCAP Fellowship

In February 2023, students from top MBA programs across the country gathered in Austin, Texas at the McCombs School of Business for ClimateCAP, The Global MBA Summit on Climate, Capital, & Business. HBS sent a number View Details

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Electricity - Business & Environment

economy for current and future generations.” Moses Esema MBA 2014 Vice President, Renewable Energy Finance, Bank of America Merrill Lynch Molly Middaugh HBS MBA 2018 Product Development Manager, Puget Sound... View Details

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Home Finance

American economy though they did not fully understand its implications. “What does it mean that the number of mortgages on homes is increasing?” wondered census analysts in 1923. “Does it mean growing wealth... View Details

27 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Working to Change the Food System

combine data science, biotechnology, and sustainability. If PicoGreens succeeds at scaling sustainable unit economics for microalgae as a production platform, this would have a staggering impact on many traditional means View Details

30 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Real Estate: The Most Imperfect Asset

As a driver of both the overall economy and of individual wealth, real estate is pretty hard to beat. As Harvard Business School professor Arthur Segel says, real estate is the... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Construction; Real Estate

01 Aug 1998
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High Honors

Ralph M. Barford (MBA '52) Frank Batten (MBA '52) David J. Dunn (MBA '61) Ann M. Fudge (MBA '77) Ellen R. Marram (MBA '70) Robert F. McDermott (MBA '50) Martin V. Marshall (MBA '47, DCS '53), Henry R. Byers Professor of Business... View Details

09 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

OneTen: Creating a New Pathway for Black Talent

necessary to prepare that individual to succeed and work their way up in the organization over time. “By bringing, in effect, demand at scale, I think we’re also going to be able to create a situation where we get supply at scale by... View Details

Keywords: by Rawi E. Abdelal, Katherine Connolly Baden, and Boris Groysberg

20 Feb 2019
Research & Ideas

Rocket-tunity: Can Private Firms Turn a Profit in Space?

obsessed with space, and he bought this old NASA technology for inflatable space habitats and has poured a ton of money into it,” Weinzierl says. One such inflatable pod is currently attached to the International Space Station and holding... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Wallask; Aerospace; Tourism; Transportation

12 Feb 2021
News

How Dunkin’ Donuts Took Over the World

with the management team at the time, to scale back all of those businesses, focus on the diamond in the rough that we had within our midst, the Dunkin’ Donuts business, polish that up, standardize the... View Details

Keywords: brands; leadership; management; strategy; operations; career; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

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By: Vincent Pons

Professor Pons studies questions in political economy and development with the goal of understanding how democratic systems function, and how they can be improved.

He decomposes the electoral cycle into four essential steps: the factors affecting voter... View Details

22 Jul 2019
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How to Be a Digital Platform Leader

becomes, which lowers the likelihood of a winner-take-all outcome. Lastly, the truly successful firms in a platform world tend to have meaningful supply-side scale economies. Markets with large View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

25 Jan 2024
Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #15: Hilton Augustine III on Financing Climate Ventures

Climate Stories Episode #15 – Hilton Augustine III - Finding and Funding Climate Technology Solutions Episode 15 of Climate Stories focuses on recent HBS alumnus, Hilton Augustine III. A veteran of... View Details

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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Bureau of Investigation,” with Tiona Zuzul, Ryan Raffaelli, and Jan Rivkin. William R. Kerr : Winner of the 2019 Axiom Business Book Award Silver Medal in the International Business/Globalization category... View Details

16 Dec 2021
Blog Post

African American Student Union Spotlight on STEM

during an MBA, and the opportunities afforded to you post-MBA related to fundraising and deploying capital, are imperative for scaling impact. When you think about affecting change on a national or global level, an MBA is one clear way to... View Details

06 Feb 2013
What Do You Think?

Is ‘Conscious Capitalism’ an Antidote to Income Inequality?

Summing Up Can "Conscious Capitalism" Become a Viable Antidote to Income Inequality? Conscious capitalism as an antidote to income inequality apparently is an idea that attracts the attention of a diverse community, judging from... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

28 Mar 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: RMZ EcoWorld

(up to 40%), India will require significant continued development to cater for its growing economy and population over the coming decades. Therefore, this site visit offered tremendous insight on one of... View Details

02 Aug 2020
What Do You Think?

Is the 'Experimentation Organization' Becoming the Competitive Gold Standard?

poor data, the lack of a control group, and careless analysis of the results. Experimentation on a large scale has worked for Booking.com, apparently. The Company has employed... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology

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