Publications

February 2025
Technical Note

Lessons from the Magnificent Seven and Other Remarkable High Growth Companies

By: Hubert Joly and Kayti Stanley

Educators

2008
Working Paper

The Contingent Nature of Public Policy and Growth Strategies in the Early Twentieth-Century U.S. Banking Industry

By: Christopher Marquis and Zhi Huang

While effects of public policy are one of the foundations of organizational theory, less explored is how these effects may depend on other external environmental factors. We focus on how policy is a necessary, but not sufficient, condition to understand the growth... View Details

Keywords: Banks and Banking; Business History; Growth and Development Strategy; Business and Government Relations; Banking Industry; United States

June 2018
Teaching Note

The Transformation of Microsoft

By: C. Fritz Foley and F. Katelynn Boland

Teaching Note for HBS No. 218-048. In early 2015, Amy Hood, CFO of Microsoft, and the rest of the senior leadership team faced a set of fundamental choices. The firm had opportunities to serve customers in ways that would be associated with higher growth but lower... View Details

Keywords: Growth; Corporate Finance; Valuation; Growth Management; Communication Strategy; Transformation; Information Technology Industry; Computer Industry; United States

July 7, 2023
Article

3 Crucial Factors to Manage Your Company’s Growth Without Losing Its Spark

By: Ranjay Gulati

Keywords: Growth Management; Entrepreneurship

Article

Are Crises Good for Long-term Growth? The Role of Political Institutions

By: Alberto Cavallo and Eduardo Cavallo

This paper provides empirical evidence for the importance of institutions in determining the outcome of crises on long-term growth. We show that once unobserved country-specific effects and other sources of endogeneity are accounted for, political institutions affect... View Details

Keywords: Growth; Democracy; Macroeconomics; Growth and Development; Financial Crisis; Economic Growth; Government and Politics

October 2018
Teaching Note

Recipe for Success: Growth and Evolution at Cafe Cupcake (Brief Case)

By: Anthony Mayo and Heather Beckham

Teaching Note for HBS No. 919-509. View Details

2004
Working Paper

The Use of Bootstrapping by Women Entrepreneurs in Positioning for Growth

By: C. G. Brush, N. M. Carter, E. J. Gatewood, P. G. Greene and Myra M. Hart

13 Dec 2022
News

Are You Curious? If You Aren’t, You’re Stunting Your Professional Growth

22 Sep 2023
News

How Software Companies Can Avoid the Trap of Product-Led Growth

25 Oct 2022
News

Why Sharing Economic Growth with the Community Is Good Business

24 Sep 2016
News

Revitalizing small businesses is key to drive America's economic growth

20 Nov 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Entrepreneurship and Business Groups: An Evolutionary Perspective on the Growth of the Koç Group in Turkey

Keywords: by Asli M. Coplan & Geoffrey Jones

April 2020
Article

Long-term Firm Growth: An Empirical Analysis of U.S. Manufacturers 1959–2015

By: Giovanni Dosi, Marco Grazzi, Daniele Moschella, Gary P. Pisano and Federico Tamagni

Firm growth is an essential feature of market economies, shaping together macroeconomic performance and the evolution of industry structures. As a potential indicator of organizational “fitness” within a competitive environment, firm growth is also a central concern to... View Details

Keywords: Firm Growth; Organizations; Growth and Development; Theory; Analysis; Production; Data and Data Sets

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2003
Working Paper

Internet Companies' Growth Strategies: Determinants of Investment Intensity and Long Term Performance

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann

Keywords: Internet and the Web; Growth and Development Strategy

June 2020
Teaching Note

Career Karma: Growth in a Time of Global Uncertainty (A) and (B)

By: Laura Huang and Elizabeth Jiang

March 2017
Article

Entrepreneurial Beacons: The Yale Endowment, Run-ups, and the Growth of Venture Capital

By: Y. Sekou Bermiss, Benjamin J. Hallen, Rory McDonald and Emily Cox Pahnke

This paper investigates the social context of entrepreneurship in organizational sectors. Prior research suggests that firm foundings are driven by collective patterns of activity—that is, by patterns of prior foundings—including support from related markets as well as... View Details

Keywords: Signals; Social Salience; Venture Capital; Higher Education; Organizations; Entrepreneurship; Investment

Panel Discussion

Chief Executive Officers’ Dialogue: Towards an Agenda for Inclusive Growth in Africa

By: Robert Gumede, Aziz Mebarek, Jubril Adewale Tinubu, Catherine Samba-Panza, Euvin Naidoo, Donald Kaberuka and Lerato Mbele

December 4, 2012
Article

Business Leaders Are More Than Profiteers, as They Deliver Growth in an Efficient, Fair Manner

By: Karthik Ramanna

The legitimacy of market capitalism rests on its ability to deliver freedom, prosperity, and growth in a manner that is efficient and fair. The pursuit of profit is a central but not the only element of capitalism. There are many circumstances, such as when lobbying... View Details

Keywords: Capitalism; Leadership; India