Scaling Technologies - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Oct 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters

Again Rohit Deshpande, Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing. ORGANIZATIONAL DESIGN Tip: Use technology to scale your organization to current conditions An old canard applies to today's environment:... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2024
News

Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books You Got This! A Straightforward, No-Nonsense Playbook for Crushing 130+ Workplace Challenges By Heidi Abelli (MBA 1993) Palmetto Publishing Stepping into the corporate world can feel like navigating a labyrinth, especially when... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

24 May 2011
First Look

First Look: May 24

responsibility. Working PapersInducement Prizes and Innovation Authors:Liam Brunt, Josh Lerner, and Tom Nicholas Abstract We examine the effect of prizes on innovation using data on awards for technological development offered by the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Nov 2021
News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

innovation to develop technologies that create energy using the earth’s renewable resources. We can move quickly when a solution is promising. We can deploy capital in flexible ways to scale solutions across... View Details

Research Summary

Clinical Trials as a setting for Health Policy and Management Research

The clinical trial marketplace is in flux. A decade ago, pharmaceutical firms almost exclusively conducted the study of their novel drug compounds within major academic medical centers. But today, industry-sponsored clinical trials are increasingly using community... View Details

30 Mar 2018
What Do You Think?

What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?

giving it more independent leadership, (2) provide more “community training” on the use of user data, (3) “invest in reducing fake articles,” (4) publish a quarterly “report to Congress” regarding “detailed privacy issues/actions”, and (5) “Start a large View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Information Technology; Information Technology

14 Jun 2011
First Look

First Look: June 14

Success requires appreciating the diversity at the base of the pyramid and the importance of scale in undertaking ventures there. Witness Manila Water's success in the Philippines and Hindustan Unilever's in South Asia. Failure to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Dec 2019
Book

Creating the Experimentation Organization

simulation and rapid prototyping to optimize product development and R&D. “After that, I thought I was done,” he says. Since then, however, there has been a rise in new technology platforms that allows experimentation to innovate on... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog

Operations Management) Suraj Srinivasan Spring 2026 Q4 1.5 Strategy Execution Robert Simons Spring 2026 Q4 1.5 Systems for Scaling Ventures (SSV) (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management) Tatiana Sandino Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0... View Details

30 Nov 2007
What Do You Think?

What Is Management’s Role in Innovation?

"a theoretical sweet spot where scale fosters innovation, beyond which the complexity starts to stifle it?" A third executive will raise questions concerning the impact of the Internet on the management of these processes. He... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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Tsedal Neeley | About

and global expansion, and regularly conducts research and advises organizations on scaling cultural change. She has authored three award-winning books on organizations, technology, and transformation. The Digital Mindset: What It Really... View Details

14 Mar 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: SELCO - Last Mile Solar Powered Energy for Rural India

of the inaugural India Climate IFC, students visited a semi-urban public healthcare facility which was outfitted with a full rooftop solar installation and multiple solar powered technologies provided by SELCO. SELCO (“Solar Electric... View Details

14 Dec 2016
HBS Seminar

Siobhan O'Mahony and Rebecca Karp, Boston University

13 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Career Journey: Karan Khimji, Co-Founder of 44.01

mineralization reaction. With our technology, CO2 is turned to rock in under a year and can never escape back into the atmosphere. What about this technology excites you? The advantage of our process is that it's truly permanent and it's... View Details

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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory

bond" (SIB) to the United States. SIBs were a novel, albeit complex financing instrument to allow private investment capital to fund and scale social service providers, wherein government repaid investors based on performance. Tracy... View Details

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Research - Race, Gender & Equity

Alptug Yorulmaz We study funding gaps on Kickstarter across multiple ethnic groups from 2009 to 2021. Scaling the concept of racially salient events, we quantify the close co-movement of minority funding gaps in crowd-funding to inflamed... View Details

15 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

The New Global Business Manager

by those three views at the table, and create the process for its debate and resolution. The role of top management is to create channels of engagement and the forums for interaction to facilitate that process, and to put a thumb on the View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

06 Aug 2021
Book

Steve Jobs and the Rise of the Celebrity CEO

to watch one’s back. Amelio was an able technologist. He held a PhD in physics from Georgia Tech. He had extensive experience in the semiconductor industry and deeper knowledge of technology than Steve. He might have been a successful CEO... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

04 Feb 2022
Book

Beyond the Cold War: Reinventing Socialism in 5 Countries

Although many view socialism through the rigid lens of Soviet orthodoxy, it has always been a work in progress and an evolving and adaptable ideology on a global scale, says Harvard Business School Marvin Bower Associate Professor Jeremy Friedman. In his new book, Ripe... View Details