Business Growth - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2025
News

On The Case: The Base Factor

Managing Customers for Growth. She designed it for students who want to grow their own business, help others grow theirs, or be better able to evaluate growth trajectories as a potential investor. Ascarza developed “Madrigal: Conducting a... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

December 1970 (Revised December 1977)
Background Note

Stages of Corporate Development (Part I)

By: Bruce R. Scott

Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation

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July 2000 (Revised February 2001)
Case

ZEFER: Building and Positioning an e-Business Consulting Company

By: Richard L. Nolan, George Francis Westerman III and Matthew Sandoval

Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Consulting Industry

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01 Jun 2001
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Character Studies: The Class of 2001 Graduates

year’s 844 graduates appear destined to influence the world of business — and the world at large — as they make their mark in the decades ahead. From this group, the Bulletin had the difficult task of selecting six individuals to... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

01 Dec 2003
News

Alumni Bookshelf

Press) Drawing from residents’ reminiscences, newspaper accounts, company newsletters and histories, and local records, Carlson looks at towns in Oregon, Washington, and Idaho and the impact that companies have had on them. Restructuring for View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

11 May 2018
News

Nigerian Tech Startup has Local—and Global—Impact

here.” The piece goes on the note Andela’s rising impact, with 1,000 coders (and growing) supporting tech companies “from New York to Pittsburgh to San Francisco.” That growth is helping build not just firms abroad, but bringing stable... View Details

03 Oct 2017
News

Can Bezos’s Ties to Boston—and HBS—Seal the Deal?

Harvard Business School in 1997, Bezos has invested in a handful of local companies—and bought others, sometimes pulling their leaders out to Seattle to work with him directly. He has overseen the growth of... View Details

Keywords: Retail Trade

09 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?

of systemic issues that have gradually worsened since the 2007-2008 financial crisis. At the heart of the problem lies the consulting firms’ aggressive pursuit of growth as their primary objective, which has fundamentally reshaped their... View Details

Keywords: by David Fubini; Consulting

21 Sep 2015
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A Sustainable Success Story

Crown Maple, the flourishing maple sugaring business the Turners started in 2010 has helped them achieve both goals. Known for its distinctively rich flavor—achieved, in part, through sustainable, certified-organic harvesting practices... View Details

09 Jul 2008
Research & Ideas

Starbucks’ Lessons for Premium Brands

Starbucks' announcement that it will close 600 stores in the United States is a long-overdue admission that there are limits to growth. In February 2007, a leaked internal memo written by founder Howard Schultz showed that he recognized the problem that his own View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Retail

July 1967 (Revised September 1982)
Case

Head Ski Co., Inc.

By: Howard H. Stevenson

Describes the development of the company to its present preeminence in high-priced skis and the avenues that it can follow to obtain new growth. View Details

Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Growth and Development Strategy; Manufacturing Industry; Sports Industry

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01 Jun 2018
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Disrupting India’s Dental Market

late 2010. He was satisfied with the quality of his care until, hovering above the spittoon, he spotted black fungal algae encircling the drain. Something about the entire business struck Singh, an entrepreneur with experience in... View Details

Keywords: Sasha Issenberg

December 2011
Teaching Note

Building Watson: It's not so elementary my dear! (TN)

By: Willy Shih

Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation

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01 Mar 2015
News

A Boomtown's Echo

those kinds of projects. No siree. We remember last time around.’ ” Myers is managing director of Dallas/Ft. Worth–based Boldmore Growth Partners, and launched the Internet service provider Bakken Wireless in 2012 to serve the region’s... View Details

Keywords: Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining

01 Dec 2017
News

2017 in Energy: A Future of Lower Energy Prices

of healthy, albeit relatively slow, economic growth in the developed world and increasing urbanization in developing economies, we expected to see growing demand for oil and natural gas and a subsequent price spike. We saw the growing... View Details

Keywords: Sarah Wright (MBA 1997), founder, Hull Street Energy

06 Nov 2017
Research Event

Who is Responsible for the Future of Cities?

have to make sense of this.” It was a fitting introduction to a multidisciplinary panel called The Future of Cities, which considered urban growth from as many diverse perspectives as there were panelists. Hosted by the Harvard View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

Student-Profile

Sagar Saxena

While applying for graduate programs, Sagar Saxena (he/him) was unsure about whether he had the right background to pursue a PhD in Business Economics at HBS because he had not taken graduate-level courses in mathematics or economics.... View Details

21 Nov 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

The New Challenge of Leading Financial Firms

challenges that an executive can undertake, requiring mastery of talent management, change management, and ethics. “The business today is much more complex than ten or twenty years ago" —Paul M. Healy "The View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services