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- 01 Jun 2011
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Mr. Start-Up
getting customer feedback, and just being good at executing, then it could work in a variety of fields. But my hunch is our dramatic user growth and financial successes happened partly because we were in a highly leveraged environment. In... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Case Study: On the Table
with the country’s young and growing middle class. With funding from angel investors, the company launched in Mexico City in October 2014 with 3 employees; now it has more than 50 employees, 35 percent growth month over month, and an... View Details
- 13 Mar 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)
classmates for two years built poise, which is incredibly important when you’re constantly in front of customers, retailers, investors, or even the Sharks! Wiegele: “We also took a digital marketing strategy and e-commerce class... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
will drive organizational success and provide innovative growth opportunities for both the business and the individual. Based on her more than thirty years at Chick-fil-A, most of which have been spent as vice president of corporate... View Details
- 01 Feb 2018
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HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
retiring from the active faculty in 1998. Uyterhoeven authored or coauthored numerous cases, teaching notes, articles, and books, including Business Policy: Managing Strategic Processes, whose eighth edition was published in 1995; View Details
- 19 Sep 2012
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On a Sound Track
through the business world is a great advantage. The IPO went well? Yes, we raised nearly $190 million, which enabled us to retire debt and go in some new directions. My main challenge now is managing growth and our increasing... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
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September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
Playbook to Fuel Business Growth By Satyam Kantamneni (GMP 14, 2013) Wiley In his book, UXReactor co-founder Satyam Kantamneni distills 25 years of industry experience into a pragmatic approach to help organizations advance in the highly... View Details
- 22 Jul 2019
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A Way Forward for Women
to help them understand and overcome the barriers women face is seeking governance roles. “It was painful to hear their stories. I hate any inequality,” Groysberg says. “I said, ‘If it bothers me so much, I should teach and make a difference.’” Jeanette Gorgas... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Private Sector and Public Interest Meet at Global Leadership Forum
opportunity — and a strategy for growth — in creating clean and sustainable industrial technologies and systems. “We’ve been stunned by the impact not just on our bottom line but in terms of what it means... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Making Their Way
Chirchirillo was able to establish a foothold in China. That import model, however, was only intended to be an interim strategy to build a global capability, and in 2008, Chirchirillo purchased a precision metal-stamping company in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
development and real estate have become synonymous with economic growth and prosperity. Tracking land reforms and urban development nationally and in three cities in one Chinese region, the study reveals that the initial liberalization of... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
her to-do list. After an extensive RFP process, she is leading the organization through a full strategy review with McKinsey. It’s a first for the NGO and a major investment. But it’s time to start shifting from a pattern of opportunistic... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
economic. - Michael Porter "Many approaches to revitalizing the inner city have focused on the social problems, but the more fundamental issues are often economic," notes HBS professor Michael E. Porter, a world-renowned strategy and... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
Wildlife to Winetasting "The driving force behind the region's growth is South Africa," says HBS professor Richard H.K. Vietor, the faculty chairman of the conference and the author of a 1997 comprehensive case study that looks at the... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 30 Sep 2010
- News
Diversifying the Nigerian Economy
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
housing prices were rising, derivatives and mortgage-backed securities produced handsome returns. “Until about eighteen months ago, this strategy worked well,” Rose said. But when the housing bubble burst, it was clear that the “checks... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
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Fair Trade
uses were bound by age-old religious and cultural beliefs. Yet somehow these delicate flora became the foundation of a global industry made strong by a century of virtually uninterrupted growth that not even economic meltdowns and world... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
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Blockbuster Deals
industry) will ultimately be successful. Those associated with growth and so-called synergies - such as the Time Warner acquisition of Turner - will ultimately be viewed as unwise. Today's activity, he notes, is more like the "disastrous"... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2018
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Making Sense of the Modern Startup
MBA course, in which he would combine then-emerging thinking at HBS about entrepreneurship with some new kinds of financial strategies he had been roughing out. Entrepreneurial Finance seemed like a logical name for the course. Almost... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2005
growth in developing countries,” she observes. “I’m very determined in what I’m going to do, even if it takes a little longer to get there.” — JH Julian Flannery Flannery When serendipity knocks, Julian Flannery isn’t afraid to answer. In... View Details