Firm Growth - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jan 2008
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Anand G. Mahindra, MBA 1981

Mahindra. “From the corporate center, we provide services—financial skills and help with branding, for instance—and monitor the financial targets very closely, but we are essentially allowing professional executives to do their job.” To transform an old-line Indian... View Details

01 Jun 2022
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Making It Count

Weighted Accounts (IWA) Project has set about tackling accountability, a major hurdle on the path to an impact-driven economy. While the number of firms reporting their own ESG data has grown exponentially, and companies of all stripes... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

13 Jul 2017
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Making Friends with Mother Nature

Donald K. Clifford Jr. wrote the book on how high-performance, midsize companies beat their competition, but growth in the world of nature has always been closest to his heart. “The natural world was always my great interest,” says... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

12 Apr 2023
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Step Change

startup scene. In addition to moving home, she'd had open heart surgery and changed jobs several times. Meanwhile, Egypt had become a hotbed of startup activity. Last fall, Enan stepped into the role of partner at San Francisco-based VC View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

01 Feb 1997
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Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management

are many communities that must be satisfied." Venture Capital and Private Equity The pool of U.S. private-equity funds has grown on the order of 2,500 percent in the past decade-and-a-half. Venture Capital and Private Equity (VCPE), a course taught since 1993, focuses... View Details

15 Jan 2020
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The Business of Access

take Lisle’s business know-how—she had led revenue generation and growth opportunities in the private sector at companies like Oracle, Zefer, and Wellbourne International—and apply it to nonprofits rooted in the social services. The... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

30 Sep 2014
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Life Lessons on the Open Seas

on the island of Nantucket off Massachusetts, serves more than 1,000 children, adults, and veterans every year. “I’m a firm believer in growing only as fast as you can control the quality of your product,” says Callahan. “We’ve served... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Sep 2020
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We Rise

encouraging: Recent years have seen a growth in funds focused on underserved populations, and limited partners have shown more interest in increasing the number of women and people of color in venture firms... View Details

Keywords: April White; Finance

01 Jun 1996
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1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"

the explosive growth of the Internet." Detailing how the Internet is revolutionizing the communications industry, Taffel spoke of the "paradigm shifts" that new technology can bring and how they are frequently ignored by industry leaders.... View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

01 Dec 2003
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An Authentic Leader

When Bill George (MBA ’66) talks about leadership, people listen. And well they should. For a decade, he quietly grew a midsized Minnesota medical-device maker into a world-class medical technology company. When George joined Medtronic in 1989 as president and COO, the... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Feb 1997
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Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS

start up an unusually innovative venture. It was a "launch" truly deserving of that designation - a company that would rocket commercial payloads into space. Today, the firm they established, Orbital Sciences Corporation, having broadened... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry and Susan Young; profiles by Garry Emmons

01 Dec 2010
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The Transformers

launch Bridgespan. Over the years, the firm has assisted HBS professors in writing several social enterprise cases, and two have been written about Bridgespan itself. For his part, Tierney is chair of the HBS Social Enterprise... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

06 Dec 2021
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Truth Be Told

that it can prevent additional costs or bigger fraud events. Dey: There are a lot of issues that well-meaning managers and boards may not know about. There may be something bad going on in one subsidiary, or one factory, or with one supervisor. If there is a way that... View Details

Keywords: April White; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

30 Oct 2017
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Giving Minorities a Playbook for Career Success

had he majored in business in college, so he arrived never having read a case or used a spreadsheet. “I learned so much; the journey for me was big,” Rice recalls. “I think I got more intellectual growth out of it than a lot of my peers... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

01 Dec 2015
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015

senior partner at the executive search firm Spencer Stuart. He offers advice on generating valuable introductions, nailing interviews, negotiating compensation, cultivating a mentor, and knowing when to change jobs or industries. Sunset... View Details

23 Sep 2021
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Confronting Sustainability in Business; Pro-Bono Consulting for Black-Owned Companies

professor in Executive Education at the Kellogg School at Northwestern University. “The OPN is a way to provide support to Black-owned businesses that are ready for growth but lack a few tools,” she says. “Our function is to help with... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jan 2002
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Marjorie M.T. Yang (MBA '76)

more than $500 million, Esquel makes more men's cotton shirts than any other company in the world. Guiding the firm to such prominence has been Margie Yang, a combination of energy, style, and determination who gave up her job at First... View Details

21 Nov 2017
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Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy

leverage technology to coordinate a fleet of distributed assets and stabilize the grid as intermittent renewables continue to come down in cost. That feat, to change the way our world is powered, is undoubtedly a tech venture.” Cecily Kovatch (MBA 2002) Founder, Fueled... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; solar power; wind power

12 May 2022
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Turning a Moment into a Movement

first seat on a public board at Altimeter Growth Corporation, a special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC). Since launching in September 2020, the Board Challenge’s singular mission has been to increase the representation of Black... View Details