Long-term Growth - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 May 2017
First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16

case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/217071-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 817-114 Flatiron School In late 2016, the founders of Flatiron School, a startup offering 12-week coding bootcamps, are formulating their growth... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

07 Jun 2023
Blog Post

My One Case: MBA Class of 2023 Looks Back

middle-skill workforce. What case made an impact on you and why?The “QuikTrip” case stands out for me. The case features a CEO who is expanding his business to a new market and must decide what kind of growth strategy to pursue. In the... View Details

14 Aug 2007
First Look

First Look: August 14, 2007

prompting a takeover, than at engaging in long-term corporate governance or operating issues. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-004.pdf Correlated Equilibrium and Nash Equilibrium as an Observer's Assessment of the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

July–August 2013
Article

Building Sustainable Cities

By: John D. Macomber

By 2050 the number of people living in cities will have nearly doubled, to 6 billion, and the problems created by this rampant urbanization are among the most important challenges of our time. Of all resource-management issues, the author argues, water, electricity,... View Details

Keywords: Growth Management; Urban Development; Entrepreneurship; Infrastructure; City

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June 2021
Case

HelloSelf: Launch

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock

In April 2021, Charles Wells, founder and CEO of HelloSelf was reflecting on the company’s progress since it launched two years earlier. HelloSelf’s goal was to help the mentally ill recover and those who were mentally fit to stay well and feel even better. To do this,... View Details

Keywords: Mental Health; Health Care and Treatment; Internet and the Web; Growth and Development Strategy; Great Britain

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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research

15 Oct 2024 What Sequoia Capital Can Teach Leaders About Sustaining Long-Term Growth Re: Jo Tango & Christina M. Wallace 07 Oct 2024 Election 2024: Why Demographics Won't Predict the Next President Re:... View Details

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company

must decide whether to extend this relationship through some formal contractual arrangement. Humana's two divisions transacted extensively with one another before its spin-off, and abruptly cutting these ties risked doing long-term harm... View Details

Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson

10 May 2021
Research & Ideas

Who Has Potential? For Many White Men, It’s Often Other White Men

people—other white men. Meanwhile, white women and people of color who were recruited from the same competitive MBA pool received more mundane work, including tasks they had already mastered. This disparity in development had long-term... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Company, where he put together the collaborative team that founded Fairchild Semiconductor. After moving to California in 1961, Rock and investor Tommy Davis formed Davis & Rock, which posted an extraordinary 40 percent annual growth rate... View Details

01 Feb 2022
Book

Innovation Isn’t Just for Startups: How Big Companies Can Succeed

Corporate Explorers at IBM in 2000, as the computer giant launched Emerging Business Opportunities (EBOs), a management program designed to identify, fund, and guide new growth businesses. IBM initially incubated seven, then, over 20, new... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

16 Jun 2021
HBS Case

Cruising in Crisis: How Carnival Is Riding Out the COVID-19 Storm

including the massive infusion of liquidity and confidence into capital markets that took place under the Federal Reserve’s and US government’s various COVID-relief programs, a belief in the long-term growth... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Travel

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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

on pressing societal problems such as global poverty. This article draws on several cases to build a performance assessment framework premised on an organization's operational mission, scale, and scope. Not all organizations should measure their View Details

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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

Faculty & Researchers Faculty & Researchers Project Co-Chairs Joseph B. Fuller Professor of Management Practice Joseph Fuller is a Professor of Management Practice at the Harvard Business School, the co-director of the school’s long-term... View Details

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Curriculum - Business & Environment

Acquisitions, Value Creation Under Polman's leadership, Unilever focused on long-term shareholder value accretion with a multi-stakeholder approach that emphasized global growth in revenues and earnings... View Details

18 Nov 2022
HBS Case

What Does It Take to Safeguard a Legacy in Asset Management?

companies, US mid-sized companies, international small companies, and international equity. Brown’s teams use revenue instead of market capitalization to define their areas of focus, and search for companies with high long-term View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

16 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

Your Customers Have Changed. Here's How to Engage Them Again.

to give them a better chance of surviving. In contrast, industries with increasing customer demand—grocery stores, online entertainment, teleconference providers, and their suppliers—need to adjust to this directional reality at a slower, yet definitely needed, pace to... View Details

Keywords: by Rohit Deshpandé, Ofer Mintz, and Imran S. Currim; Retail; Service

11 Jan 2021
Research & Ideas

Is A/B Testing Effective? Evidence from 35,000 Startups

experimentation For managers, implementing an experimentation strategy is about more than installing software and conducting a single experiment. It requires a long-term commitment. The effects Koning and his colleagues found often did... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

that credit growth dynamics and bank lending channels vary across these loan types using credit-registry data for Spain and Peru. The effects of monetary policy propagating through banks’ balance sheets are primarily driven by cash flow... View Details

11 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

The High Risks of Short-Term Management

Companies that manage for short-term gain rather than long-term growth have been blamed for everything from popularizing celebrity CEOs to causing a significant chunk of the current financial crisis. Now new... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

13 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

Do Private Equity Buyouts Get a Bad Rap?

benefit society: asset stripping, short-term profit at the expense of workers, and long-term stability. “There are certainly a lot of concerns around whether these kind of transactions are indeed fomenting inequality by getting rid of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services; Banking

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