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- 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
- 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).
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- Spring 2014
- Article
What Impact? A Framework for Measuring the Scale & Scope of Social Performance
By: Alnoor Ebrahim and V. Kasturi Rangan
Organizations with social missions, such as nonprofits and social enterprises, are under growing pressure to demonstrate their impacts on pressing societal problems such as global poverty. This article draws on several cases to build a performance assessment framework... View Details
Ebrahim, Alnoor, and V. Kasturi Rangan. "What Impact? A Framework for Measuring the Scale & Scope of Social Performance." California Management Review 56, no. 3 (Spring 2014): 118–141.
- June 2019
- Teaching Note
Careem: Base Camp or Mountain Peak? Designing an OS for Scaling
By: Shikhar Ghosh and Shweta Bagai
Teaching Note for HBS No. 819-049. View Details
- December 2023 (Revised January 2025)
- Supplement
Research In Motion: Launching and Scaling the World's First Smartphone Empire (B)
By: Tatiana Sandino and Samuel Grad
Sandino, Tatiana, and Samuel Grad. "Research In Motion: Launching and Scaling the World's First Smartphone Empire (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 124-060, December 2023. (Revised January 2025.)
- December 2023 (Revised January 2025)
- Case
Research In Motion: Launching and Scaling the World's First Smartphone Empire (A)
By: Tatiana Sandino and Samuel Grad
In 2005, Research In Motion’s (RIM) BlackBerry smartphone was a sensation. After its launch in 1999, the groundbreaking BlackBerry had captured the hearts and minds of corporate America through its secure wireless email service. The device was so addictive and... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Innovation and Management; Technological Innovation; Business or Company Management; Management Style; Product Development; Managerial Roles; Growth and Development Strategy; Technology Industry; United States; Canada
Sandino, Tatiana, and Samuel Grad. "Research In Motion: Launching and Scaling the World's First Smartphone Empire (A)." Harvard Business School Case 124-023, December 2023. (Revised January 2025.)
- 2003
- Chapter
The Evolution of Advanced Large Scale Information Infrastructure in the United States
By: Shane Greenstein, Mercedes Lizardo and Pablo Spiller
Greenstein, Shane, Mercedes Lizardo, and Pablo Spiller. "The Evolution of Advanced Large Scale Information Infrastructure in the United States." In Down to the Wire: Studies in the Diffusion and Regulation of Telecommunications Technologies, edited by Allan Shampine, 3–36. Nova Science Publishers, 2003.
- Web
Impact on a Global Scale | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Impact on a Global Scale “We are living at an extraordinary point in the arc of history,” says Tom Tierney (MBA 1980). “Countless leaders, from social entrepreneurs to corporate executives to public servants, are aggressively committing... View Details
- 04 Dec 2024
- Podcast
Using AI to Fight Wildfires: How Dryad Networks is Scaling Climate Technology
Carsten Brinkschulte is the CEO of Dryad, a company that leverages AI to detect wildfires early and prevent catastrophic damage. Carsten shares his journey from a telecom entrepreneur to climate tech innovator, explaining how Dryad’s solar-powered sensors and mesh... View Details
- Summer 2018
- Article
Scale versus Scope in the Diffusion of New Technology: Evidence from the Farm Tractor
By: Daniel P. Gross
Although tractors are now used in nearly every agricultural field operation and in the production of nearly all crops, they first developed with much more limited application. Early diffusion was accordingly rapid in these narrower applications but limited in scope... View Details
Keywords: Technology Diffusion; Spatial Technology Diffusion; Farm Tractors; R＆D; General-purpose Technologies; Technology Adoption; Agribusiness; Transportation; Research and Development; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; United States
Gross, Daniel P. "Scale versus Scope in the Diffusion of New Technology: Evidence from the Farm Tractor." RAND Journal of Economics 49, no. 2 (Summer 2018): 427–452.