Scale Development - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2022
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Case Study: Your Call Is Important to Us

selection is potentially the most critical question a founder can answer during the scaling stage of a startup. As is well understood by VCs (but less so by founders!), small companies rarely do more than one thing well; efforts to hedge... View Details

Keywords: Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services

25 Feb 2020
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Valuing U.S. National Parks and Programs by Linda J. Bilmes (MBA 1984) Routledge In Valuing U.S. National Parks and Programs, author Linda J. Bilmes develops a comprehensive framework to calculate the... View Details

19 May 2022
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Leading to Salvation

with them long enough (because they weren’t very well-managed), if you’ll stay with them long enough, we’ll do it. So what I did is I got MEDA, the Metropolitan Economic Development Association, to lend them money to pay their taxes. And... View Details

03 Mar 2020
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Can This Man Change the American Diet?

in the Boston area, Clover serves an always-changing, all-vegetarian menu to a 90 percent non-vegetarian customer base. In this episode of Skydeck, associate editor Julia Hanna takes listeners behind the scenes at a Clover food View Details

Keywords: Agriculture

01 Jun 1997
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Sorting Myth from Reality at Hong Kong Conference

dynamism. China's economy, he reported, has been growing at a rate of over 10 percent a year in this decade, on a scale the world has never known. China's chaos stems from the lack of preparation before reforms began - including a lack of... View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes

01 Jun 2019
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City on a Hill

eight years below the national average.) But with its manifold offerings and programs, all of which feed one another in ways both obvious and subtle, the school is a model for a radically diverse approach to economic development that... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Clay Cook

01 Jun 2006
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India Arrives

developing economic powerhouse. In the evening light, silhouettes of high-rises under construction punctuate the modern skyline, and a gleaming urban mall stands ready to serve Mumbai’s growing, consumer-oriented middle class. This is the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

10 Mar 2021
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New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts

Alumni Books Intelligence Isn’t Enough: A Black Professional’s Guide to Thriving in the Workplace By Carice Anderson (MBA 2006) Jonathan Ball Publishers Professional development manager, coach, and consultant Carice Anderson shares her... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Jun 2016
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How Do We Win the Cyberwar?

analogy of cyberdefense as a castle—a favorite of his—he tends to the moats, the walls, and the gates. Get past those, and he deploys the dogs. And he’s watched many people scale walls, break gates, evade dogs, and leave with your AmEx... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai

26 Feb 2020
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Phoenix Rising

ruling radical left-wing SYRIZA party. During the campaign, Mitsotakis pledged to bulldoze the barriers that have long made Greece a difficult place to do business and set spinning a virtuous cycle of foreign and domestic investment, job creation, and growth of a View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

07 Sep 2021
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Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2

range from not developing a deep enough bench of rising leaders to not saying “I don't know enough”. . But why did you feel the need to own those mistakes publicly? JI: This is a complicated story. The GE story. I wasn't comfortable with... View Details

01 Dec 2009
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The Fab Four

hairstylist, a carpenter, or an MBA. My priorities today are significantly different than they were thirty years ago. After I left HBS, I was very focused on developing my skills, learning new things, and surviving in a big corporation.... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; contests; Technical and Trade Schools; Educational Services; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Dec 2015
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Golden State of Mind

comment is spoken in an offhand way, but that ability to understand how a business will scale has been a key factor in some of DFJ’s enormous multiple returns. Today, DFJ spans affiliate networks in more than 30 cities around the world... View Details