Growth - Publications - Faculty & Research

December 2018
Case

Good Energy Group PLC

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock

Founded at the end of 1999 by Juliet Davenport and Martin Edwards, Good Energy was the number-two renewable-energy seller in the United Kingdom at the end of 2016, supplying over 71,000 of the country’s 27 million households and small businesses with 100% renewable... View Details

Keywords: Power/Energy; Green Energy; Renewables; Wind Power; Electricity; Power; Strategy Development; Electric Vehicles; Customer Service; Energy Policy; Barriers To Entry; Renewable Energy; Growth and Development Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Business and Government Relations; Problems and Challenges; Strategy; Energy Industry; United Kingdom

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26 Jan 2022
News

Making Peace with Anger

46 employees, and an estimated value of $25 million. Today, Walker & Dunlop is a publicly traded company with a market cap close to $5 billion. While Walker has led massive growth at the company, he realized several years ago that the way... View Details

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Cases & Teaching Notes - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Clinic: Growth Strategy 2015 by Michael E. Porter and Elizabeth O. Teisberg The Cleveland Clinic's health care services are internationally renowned for quality. In 2008, The Clinic began to restructure the organization into teams defined... View Details

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Understanding Health Systems, Payors, and Regulation - Health Care

opportunities to enhance efficiency and quality, and serious fiscal challenges ahead if spending growth is not permanently curtailed. This course will introduce participants to the key strategic problems facing healthcare organizations,... View Details

17 Jan 2011
Research & Ideas

Being the Boss

to be the be-all and end-all of the relationship. They want a personal, human connection, an emotional link. They want you to care about them as individuals. They want you to encourage their growth and development. Research tells us this... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Dec 2019
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Bridging the Gap

institution of higher learning in Ohio State University, and relatively robust economic growth for the Midwest as a whole, YALP participants point out. Yet 34 percent of children who arrive at Columbus public schools aren’t ready for... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Josh Cochran; photographed by Melissa Golden; cross sector collaboration; local government; nonprofits; education; leadership; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

01 Jul 2020
Blog Post

How SVMP Helped Me Take My Next Steps (2+2) and Find Myself

have grown since undergrad but have always had HBS on your mind as a possibility. On top of that, you have SO MUCH to gain! The application process gives you a unique opportunity to learn about yourself and reflect on the growth that... View Details

01 Mar 2024
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Case Study: Testing the Waters

(CureHydration.com), on Amazon, and by more than 13,000 retailers, from Walgreens to Wegmans. The VC-backed company has nine full-time employees and has more than doubled every year while also improving margins, Picasso says. The Question: Having established itself as... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

June 2021
Case

Modern Endowment Management: Paula Volent and the Bowdoin Endowment

By: Luis M. Viceira, Emily R. McComb and Dean Xu

This case examines modern endowment investment management through the lens of a leadership transition between Chief Investment Officers (CIOs). In March 2021, Paula Volent is about to step down as the CIO of the endowment of Bowdoin College after twenty-one years, and... View Details

Keywords: Investment Portfolio; Investment Banking; Growth Management; Investment Return; Capital Markets; Interest Rates; Competition; Cost Management; Risk Management; Financial Liquidity; Performance Evaluation

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01 Dec 2023
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Case Study: Staking a Claim

Illustration by Nhung Lê Kate Terry (MBA 2005) knows that no one attends their fifth-grade career fair and comes home hoping to pursue a career in insurance—but that’s exactly where she wound up. “I really fell in love with it,” she says. As cofounder and CEO of... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Insurance Carriers and Related Activities; Finance

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Cluster Studies - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

result in a convergence effect: the growth rate of an industry within a region may be declining in the level of activity of that industry. At the same time, positive spillovers across complementary economic activities provide an impetus... View Details

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Events - Creating Emerging Markets

Business Archives in India This one-day conference held at the Harvard Business School India Research Center in Mumbai brought together business historians, business archivists, and business practitioners to discuss the role of oral history in the View Details

25 Jan 2010
Research & Ideas

A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy

economists worry a lot about how a country can increase its GDP growth rate, how higher growth of output can be achieved over the long term, and how we can make sure that in the short term total output isn't... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

18 Mar 2016
Blog Post

What is an IFC?

the IFC, my team explored how a city's transportation infrastructure affected its citizens' opinions of government. For example, does having a two hour commute due to traffic dramatically lower citizens' perceptions of the government's competence? In Lima this is an... View Details

06 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

The Problem with Hedge Funds

There is thus no justification for the enormous growth of the hedge funds. It follows that the hedge fund mania is simply the latest of the securities industry's new, new things" for investors—another sales gimmick. Regulating Hedge... View Details

Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills

23 Aug 2016
First Look

August 23, 2016

per-person basis. On the other hand, the Japanese government was calling for financial and governance reform as part of the prime minister’s recently announced economic growth strategy known as “Abenomics.” Although Inaba and his team had... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Oct 2020
Book

Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time

focus away from success equaling economic growth and toward other measures, including the way they value time for individuals. We need to acknowledge the real and significant costs associated with the cultural obsession with financial... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Historical Data & Sources - Business History

values given for: Czech Republic and Slovakia. Download Data Set in Excel Natura Cosméticos Geoffrey Jones and Ricardo Reisen de Pinho, "Natura: Global Beauty Made in Brazil," Harvard Business School Case 9-807-029, October 20, 2012 Geoffrey Jones, "The View Details

28 Jul 2020
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Racism and Digital Design: How Online Platforms Can Thwart Discrimination

inclusivity. "If you're running an online marketplace," he says, "you should think about whether discrimination is likely to be a problem, and what design choices might mitigate the risk of discrimination. If you're optimizing only to short-run View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Travel; Entertainment & Recreation; Service

11 Apr 2012
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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 research findings suggest that... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

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