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October 2016 (Revised July 2018)
Case

CLHS: Scaling a New Venture

By: Lynda M. Applegate, Gabriele Piccoli and Joaquin Rodriguez

November 2017
Teaching Note

State Street—The Development and Growth of SHE

By: Vikram Gandhi and Lynn Schenk

Teaching Note for HBS No. 317-040. View Details

Keywords: Finance

November 1999 (Revised June 2000)
Case

AGENCY.COM (B): Managing Rapid Growth

By: Thomas J. DeLong, Ashish Nanda and Scot H. Landry

AGENCY.COM continues on its path of rapid growth, emerging as a leading interactive consulting firm. Its growth leads to new challenges related to the integration of diverse operations and the financing of future growth. View Details

Keywords: Growth Management; Problems and Challenges; Entrepreneurship; Internet; Consulting Industry

Keywords: pediatric cancer research; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations

01 Mar 2006
News

Scaling Peaks for Cancer Research

MOUNTAIN CLIMBING TRIO: Bishop, Murphy, and Serafini stay in shape. Three HBS students are out to set a world record by scaling the seven tallest mountains on seven continents in seven months — all to raise... View Details

March 2018
Case

Transportation Infrastructure Investment and Low U.S. Growth

By: Julio J. Rotemberg

February 2010 (Revised March 2013)
Teaching Note

Burt's Bees: Balancing Growth and Sustainability (TN)

By: Christopher Marquis

Teaching Note for [410704]. View Details

2003
Other Unpublished Work

Scale and Scope Economies in the Global Advertising and Marketing Services Business

By: Alvin J. Silk and Ernst R. Berndt

Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Advertising; Marketing; Advertising Industry

January 2018 (Revised February 2025)
Teaching Note

Collage.com: Scaling a Distributed Organization

By: Christopher Stanton and Shikhar Ghosh

Teaching Note for HBS No. 817-038. View Details

Keywords: Internet and the Web; Organizational Structure; Competitive Strategy; Employees; Business Startups; Growth and Development Strategy

October 1993 (Revised September 1994)
Background Note

Accounting for Productivity Growth

By: Forest L. Reinhardt

Introduces students to the arithmetic of the accounting for national productivity growth. It defines labor productivity, capital productivity, and total factor productivity, describes the relationships among them, and discusses the phenomena that cause them to change... View Details

Keywords: Performance Productivity; Macroeconomics; Analytics and Data Science; Government and Politics; Mathematical Methods; United States; Singapore

05 Dec 2016
News

Scaling Up at Five Below

(photo by Jane M. Von Bergen / Philadelphia Inquirer) (photo by Jane M. Von Bergen / Philadelphia Inquirer) It’s the holiday season and emoji merchandise is flying off the shelves—especially poop emoji (sorry). Chalk it up to the... View Details

Keywords: Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

16 Jun 2015
News

3 Secrets to Scaling Your Business

10 Sep 2015
News

How Israeli Startups Can Scale

August 2006 (Revised September 2008)
Case

Duane Morris: Balancing Growth and Culture at a Law Firm

By: Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

After nearly 100 years as a mid-size regional law firm, Duane Morris entered a period of spectacular growth led by CEO Sheldon Bonovitz. Originally founded by Quakers, the firm had a distinct organizational culture featuring a number of unique or unusual business... View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Culture; Competitive Advantage; San Francisco

18 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Breaking Through a Growth Stall

identify your core customers and build a scalable platform for growth around them. That's the message from Frank V. Cespedes, the MBA Class of 1973 Senior Lecturer of Business Administration at Harvard... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

November 2018 (Revised October 2019)
Case

Warby Parker: Scaling a Startup

By: Ranjay Gulati and Sam Yogi

September 2017 (Revised October 2017)
Case

Scaling Yesware—The Star Performance Framework

By: Shikhar Ghosh and Christopher Payton