Economies Of Scale - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2022
News

Singing to the Corn

become a seed bank, and consider a revenue model. Then the students read Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer, a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation. In it, she writes of the inherent wisdom View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Vance Jacobs; Agriculture

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Investor - Entrepreneurship

Student Journey Investor Required Curriculum Elective Curriculum FALL Attend the Rock/CPD Career Panels to learn about careers in VC. Learn about the role of a VC/Investor and recruiting approach. Meet with: Rock Venture Capital Partners... View Details

08 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

A Balanced Scorecard Approach To Measure Customer Profitability

The approach has been successfully applied in more than 100 organizations and readily scales up even to companies with hundreds of thousands of products and services, dozens... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan

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Business Economics Online Course | HBS Online

different forms of auctions See how conjoint analysis can be used to understand customer preferences 12 hrs Module 3 Suppliers and Cost Understand fixed versus variable costs and economies View Details

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Renovating Democratic Capitalism

By: Malcolm S. Salter

This in-process work focuses on how best to address the declining public trust and confidence in democratic capitalism, which many citizens consider to be a cornerstone of our national ideology and identity? While the answer to this question is not entirely clear, I... View Details

07 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

The Better Way to Forecast the Future

Center] Related Reading: The Entrepreneurs Who Invented Economic Forecasting Nowcasting the Local Economy: Using Yelp Data to Measure Economic Activity at Scale RESEARCH PAPER: Bias in Official Fiscal Forecasts: Can Private Forecasts... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Air Transportation; Transportation

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Driving Impact in Emerging Markets with HBS Alum Nneka Chime (MBA 2015) - Recruiting

her challenge and fulfillment while opening doors to new opportunities. Seeking out a challenge Born in Lagos, Nigeria, Nneka developed a passion early in life for contributing to her home country. She noticed that many of the families... View Details

11 Jun 2018
Research & Ideas

Why South Korea's Samsung Built the Only Outdoor Skating Rink in Texas

dollars to tip the scales of justice in local court cases—and companies following such strategies earned much more than local appreciation for their efforts. What’s more, the strategy usually works to return... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Legal Services

16 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

Has COVID-19 Broken the Global Value Chain?

The coronavirus pandemic has not only disrupted lives and businesses, it has illuminated underlying fragilities in the global value chain (GVC) that drives economies around the world. The smartphone you use many times daily is a product... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Charlotte MacDonald

future, Charlotte says she has "a couple of hypotheses to test. My short-term plan is to return to BCG in Toronto. I grew up in a more rural environment, with a slower economy. My long-term ambition is to return home to Atlantic... View Details

Keywords: Consulting

13 Apr 2021
Book

How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations

Unless men embrace their role in eliminating gender bias and barriers, organizations and institutions will never leverage the value that women bring to the workplace. “Most positions of power are still held by men,” says Colleen Ammerman,... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

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Strategy for Universities & Nonprofits - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Strategy Strategy Strategy Explained Business Strategy Creating a Successful Strategy Corporate Strategy The Role of Leaders Related Topics Related Topics Related Topics Strategy & IT Strategy for Universities & Nonprofits... View Details

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Tethys | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

squid, and fish such as bass and sea bream, whose colorful glass tesserae scales would have shimmered and sparkled underwater in the ancient pool. Since early 2016, the Tethys mosaic has been the focus of an... View Details

14 Dec 2016
HBS Seminar

Siobhan O'Mahony and Rebecca Karp, Boston University

01 Jun 2008
News

You Only Thought You Were Republican

if it is not growing, on a sustained basis, faster than the economy as a whole. But when Reagan took office, the debt equaled 30 percent of our GDP versus 60 percent today. This despite Clinton/Gore leaving... View Details

Keywords: Andrew Tobias; national debt; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Government

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Global Business Course | HBS Online

and business on a global scale and prepare for the political, social, and economic factors driving change. 4 weeks 6-8 hours per week 4 modules Self-Paced with regular deadlines This course earns you a Certificate View Details

24 Jun 2021
Blog Post

Celebrating the Past, Crafting the Future Part 2: The First HBS/HKS Class

The first MBA/MPP and MBA/MPA-ID joint degree programs are 10 years old! 89% of HBS | HKS joint degree alumni have told us that they worked in a role allowing usage of both degrees. Learn more about a few... View Details

Portrait Project

Srivatsa Krishna

previous life and work, as the head of a large city government I tried doing so using unusual tools- by courting foreign investments which brought growth, jobs and competition and by implementing innovative e-government solutions, which... View Details

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Why HBS? - Doctoral

Why HBS? Why HBS? Rigorous academic research that influences practice Faculty & Research Harvard Business School faculty are world-class scholars who have had an impact on organizations and economies on every continent. Doctoral students... View Details

25 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Why IT Does Matter

tracked the number of MIPS or CPU cycles on the network from 1990 to 2002. Even using a log scale on the vertical axis would be barely enough to tilt a vertical straight line enough to create something... View Details

Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan

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