Publications

March 2017
Case

Swagbucks

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport and Matthew G. Preble

In early 2016, Chuck Davis, chairman and CEO of Prodege LLC, parent company of the brand promotion business Swagbucks, and Josef Gorowitz, Prodege’s founder and president, must decide whether to acquire MyPoints, a competitor to Swagbucks, after the company’s... View Details

28 Nov 2017
News

The no-excuses way to manage healthcare growth

23 Sep 2016
News

Innovating childhood education for America's future growth

Research Summary

Growth and the Quality of Foreign Direct Investment: Is All FDI Equal? (joint with Andrew Charlton)

By: Laura Alfaro

In this paper we distinguish different qualities of FDI to re-examine the relationship between FDI and growth. Establishing the quality of FDI, however, is a difficult concept. Quality, that is the effect of a unit of FDI on economic growth, is a combination and... View Details

March 2012 (Revised May 2012)
Case

Virgin Group: Finding New Avenues for Growth

By: Gary P. Pisano and Elena Corsi

Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Financial Strategy; Organizational Structure

21 Sep 2015
News

HBS Convening Brings Together Leaders & Experts to Focus on Driving Both Growth and Shared Prosperity

September 2007
Case

Still Leading (B3): Gerry House—Impact of a Different Scale

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Lance P. Pierce

Describes how Gerry House made the transition from head of a large school district to leader of a small nonprofit. View Details

Keywords: Transition; Teaching; Secondary Education; Leading Change; Nonprofit Organizations; Transformation; Personal Development and Career; Education Industry

July 1975
Article

An Asymptotic Theory of Growth Under Uncertainty

By: Robert C. Merton

Keywords: Theory; Growth and Development; Risk and Uncertainty

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13 Feb 2025
Blog Post

IFC India 2025: The Coal Dichotomy: Balancing Economic Growth and Decarbonization in India

across the country. The Coal Dichotomy: Balancing Economic Growth and Decarbonization in India When you hear the phrase “coal-fired power plant,” what images come to mind? Smokestacks View Details

July 2022
Case

Yinglan Tan: Scaling a Venture Capital Firm in Southeast Asia

By: Josh Lerner and Richard Zhu

Yinglan Tan considered the future of his young Singapore-based venture capital firm. On the one hand, the intuition that was behind the initial creation of Insignia in 2017 had been proven correct. The venture capital market in Southeast Asia had grown rapidly, driven... View Details

Keywords: E-commerce; Scalability; Globalized Markets and Industries; Venture Capital; International Finance; Growth and Development; Expansion

13 Aug 2021
Blog Post

Exploring Racial Justice with the Scaling Minority Businesses Course

Segneri, now director of the Harvard Innovation Labs and formerly the Director of the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative, had described them. HBS seemed like the perfect place to learn how to become one! What is the View Details

Research Summary

The Effects of Firm Size and Sales Growth Rate on Inventory Turnover Performance in the U.S. Retail Sector

We review and extend recent academic literature on the inventory turnover performance of public-listed U.S. retailers using firm-level financial data. Past research has shown that there is a large variation in the inventory turnover performance of retailers across... View Details

May 1984 (Revised October 1985)
Teaching Note

Dunkin' Donuts (C): Growth Strategy, Teaching Note

By: Benson P. Shapiro

Teaching Note for (9-584-041). View Details

Keywords: Food and Beverage Industry

September 22, 2023
Article

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

By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Oliver Jay

Companies like Slack and Dropbox have pioneered the use of Product-Led Growth (PLG). They start by building a product that’s indispensable for small teams, then count on low friction and customer advocates to expand throughout the organization. PLG works, at least at... View Details

Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Product; Network Effects; Business Strategy

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21 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Are Crummy Products Your Next Growth Opportunity?

explored how great companies often lose their ability to innovate and eventually fail at the hands of much smaller, "disruptive" competitors. "Basically any stock you wish you have owned started out as a disruptive... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

26 Jan 2018
News

Harvard Business School Announces RISE Program to Help Alumni Entrepreneurs Scale Ventures

February 2010
Teaching Note

The Cleveland Clinic: Growth Strategy 2008 (TN)

By: Michael E. Porter, Elizabeth O. Teisberg, Jennifer F Baron and Carolyn Daly

Teaching Note for 709473. View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Value; Restructuring; Groups and Teams; System; Transformation; Expansion; Integration; Alignment; Goals and Objectives; Leading Change; Customer Focus and Relationships; Health Industry; Cleveland; United States; Abu Dhabi; Canada