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- 06 Sep 2022
- Blog Post
To Go-Go: A Foodtech Startup Serves Up Scale in Latin America
eliminating the risk of placing one big bet on a single location or food concept. The model can scale up simply by adding more kitchens, and offerings can be tweaked rapidly in response to data-driven insights. For its part, Foodology... View Details
- October 2023 (Revised April 2024)
- Case
ghSMART & Co: Building and Scaling a Time Smart Firm
By: Ashley Whillans and Sara Coronel Rodriguez
"For ghSMART, freedom is the first principle from which all good things flow”—Geoff Smart, Chairman and Founder, ghSMART. ghSMART was a leadership advisory firm that was grounded in the principle of freedom. Talented Consultants and Partners could work remotely from... View Details
Keywords: Time; Consulting Firms; Time Management; Talent and Talent Management; Employee Relationship Management; Innovation Strategy; Knowledge Sharing; Organizational Culture; Going Public; Partners and Partnerships; Expansion; Reputation
Whillans, Ashley, and Sara Coronel Rodriguez. "ghSMART & Co: Building and Scaling a Time Smart Firm." Harvard Business School Case 924-009, October 2023. (Revised April 2024.)
- September 1982
- Article
Scale Changes and Shared Information in Bargaining: An Experimental Study
By: A. E. Roth and M. Malouf
Roth, A. E., and M. Malouf. "Scale Changes and Shared Information in Bargaining: An Experimental Study." Mathematical Social Sciences 3 (September 1982): 157–177.
- 18 Nov 2021
- News
Five Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation
- March 2017
- Case
Swagbucks
By: Jeffrey F. Rayport and Matthew G. Preble
In early 2016, Chuck Davis, chairman and CEO of Prodege LLC, parent company of the brand promotion business Swagbucks, and Josef Gorowitz, Prodege’s founder and president, must decide whether to acquire MyPoints, a competitor to Swagbucks, after the company’s... View Details
Keywords: Loyalty Management; Scaling; Scale; Entrepreneurship; Human Resources; Employees; Employee Relationship Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Design; Leading Change; Growth Management; Religion; Technology; Online Technology; Internet; Transition; Leadership; Web Services Industry; Technology Industry; United States
Rayport, Jeffrey F., and Matthew G. Preble. "Swagbucks." Harvard Business School Case 817-068, March 2017.
- September–October 2019
- Article
How Purchase Probability Scales Can Shed Light on Consumer Purchase Intentions
By: Rene Befurt and Alvin J. Silk
Market researchers generally, and survey experts specifically, study consumers to learn about their behavior: What are consumers’ opinions, attitudes, thoughts, and actions at the various stages of the buying process? Especially in litigation cases, these and other... View Details
Befurt, Rene, and Alvin J. Silk. "How Purchase Probability Scales Can Shed Light on Consumer Purchase Intentions." Landslide: Advancing Intellectual Property Law 12, no. 1 (September–October 2019): 51–54.
- 2020
- Working Paper
To Infinity and Beyond: Scaling Economic Theories via Logical Compactness
By: Yannai A. Gonczarowski, Scott Duke Kominers and Ran I. Shorrer
Many economic-theoretic models incorporate finiteness assumptions that, while introduced for simplicity, play a real role in the analysis. Such assumptions introduce a conceptual problem, as results that rely on finiteness are often implicitly nonrobust; for example,... View Details
Gonczarowski, Yannai A., Scott Duke Kominers, and Ran I. Shorrer. "To Infinity and Beyond: Scaling Economic Theories via Logical Compactness." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-127, June 2019. (Revised November 2020.)
- September 2022
- Teaching Note
Yinglan Tan: Scaling a Venture Capital Firm in Southeast Asia
By: Josh Lerner
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 823-025. View Details
- 2006
- Case
Managing at Scale in the Long Beach Unified School District
By: James E. Austin, Allen S. Grossman, Robert B. Schwartz and Jennifer Suesse
- 25 Feb 2025
- Blog Post
Alumni Career Journey: Lee Scott (MBA 2023) - Scaling Climate Tech Innovation
they scale their innovative technologies. Given your role at Prime Coalition, are there any trends in climate finance that you’re particularly focused on? Climate tech startups currently face a few key challenges. Investors are... View Details
- September 2022
- Case
AllSpice: GitHub for Hardware Engineers
By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Mel Martin
AllSpice, a software-as-a-service company that built a GitHub-like revision control tool for hardware engineers, was in the midst of preparing for rapid scale when the 2022 market downturn left them with big decisions to make. Cofounder and CEO Valentina Ratner had to... View Details
Keywords: Scaling; SaaS; Strategy; Marketing; Growth and Development Strategy; Resource Allocation; Customer Focus and Relationships; Technology Industry; Electronics Industry; United States
Bussgang, Jeffrey J., and Mel Martin. "AllSpice: GitHub for Hardware Engineers." Harvard Business School Case 823-022, September 2022.
- March 13, 2020
- Editorial
Scale the Price for a Coronavirus Vaccine by the Harm it Averts
By: Amitabh Chandra
Chandra, Amitabh. "Scale the Price for a Coronavirus Vaccine by the Harm it Averts." Boston Globe (March 13, 2020).
- 23 Apr 2025
- Podcast
Scaling Reuse with Vytal: A Circular Economy Conversation with CEO Fabian Barthel
Fabian Barthel, Co-Founder of Vytal, a circular economy packaging-as-a-service startup, joins host Mike Toffel to explore the innovation, behavioral science, and regulations shaping the market for reusable containers for take-out food and beverages. Fabian shares how... View Details
- 2010
- Chapter
Enamored with Scale: Scaling with Limited Impact in the Microfinance Industry
By: S. M. Datar, M. J. Epstein and K. Yuthas
Datar, S. M., M. J. Epstein, and K. Yuthas. "Enamored with Scale: Scaling with Limited Impact in the Microfinance Industry." In Scaling Social Impact: New Thinking, edited by Paul N. Bloom and Edward Skloot. Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
- November 2008
- Article
Are They Really That Happy? Exploring Scale Recalibration in Estimates of Well-being
By: H. Lacey, A. Fagerlin, G. Loewenstein, D. Smith, J. Riis and P. Ubel
Keywords: Happiness
Lacey, H., A. Fagerlin, G. Loewenstein, D. Smith, J. Riis, and P. Ubel. "Are They Really That Happy? Exploring Scale Recalibration in Estimates of Well-being." Health Psychology 27, no. 6 (November 2008): 669–675.
- 2003
- Other Unpublished Work
Scale and Scope Economies in the Global Advertising and Marketing Services Business
By: Alvin J. Silk and Ernst R. Berndt
- Summer 2011
- Article
Mission, Margin, Mandate: The Many Paths to Scale for Impact Investees
By: Brian Trelstad and Robert Katz
Trelstad, Brian, and Robert Katz. "Mission, Margin, Mandate: The Many Paths to Scale for Impact Investees." Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization 6, no. 3 (Summer 2011): 41–53.
- June 2015
- Case
B Lab: Can it Scale Business as a Force for Good?
By: Christopher Marquis and Matthew Lee
To achieve its goal of redefining success in business, B Lab recognizes it needs to scale. Its strategy to do so requires B Lab to depend heavily on new partners, venture into new markets, influence new audiences, and to strike a balance between standards and... View Details
Marquis, Christopher, and Matthew Lee. "B Lab: Can it Scale Business as a Force for Good?" Harvard Business School Case 415-080, June 2015.
- Nov 2011
- Panel Discussion
The Buck Starts Here: Venture Capital's Role in Scaling Energy Innovation
By: Ramana Nanda