Scale Development - Publications - Faculty & Research

July 2019 (Revised May 2021)
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Acelerex

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock

In early 2019, Randell Johnson, Founder and Chief Executive of Acelerex, was reflecting on the company’s first year of rapid growth and the challenges of scaling the business that lay ahead. Acelerex was riding the waves of change taking place in electrical power grids... View Details

Keywords: Energy; Energy Sources; Growth Management; Expansion; Global Strategy; Cash Flow; Energy Industry; Web Services Industry; Consulting Industry

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19 Jun 2018
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Summer 2018 RAND Journal of Economics Scale versus Scope in the Diffusion of New Technology: Evidence from the Farm Tractor By: Gross, Daniel P. Abstract—Although tractors are now used in nearly every agricultural field operation and in... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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Curriculum - Business & Environment

experience, where students will get to observe and interact with business leaders engaged in decarbonization including renewable energy production and storage, and sustainable production of industrial and consumer goods.. For the full listing, click here . IFC: India;... View Details

19 Sep 2023
Blog Post

2023 Summer Internships in Business & Environment

critical battery materials for the energy transition. They have developed an electro-extraction technology that saves up to 90% carbon emissions relative to traditional refining technologies. The technology has a small footprint that can... View Details

04 Aug 2023
Blog Post

Aaron Sabin (MS/MBA 2023): Engineering a Climate Change Solution by Cutting the Cost of Carbon Capture

cost and scale. Most current methods power the carbon capture process with heat—a relatively inefficient energy source—making it expensive. More efficient methods are earlier in development but once they become more mature and proven out,... View Details

28 Mar 2024
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Rooms with a View

Alexander Mirza (MBA 1997) has spent two decades in the hospitality industry, opening and growing major hotel brands, including Hilton, Starwood, and Caesars, with locations around the world. And with each new project, Mirza faced the same primary challenge. “It didn’t... View Details

Keywords: April White; photos by Christina Gandolfo; Hospitality

19 Jan 2023
Research & Ideas

What Makes Employees Trust (vs. Second-Guess) AI?

they were more likely to accept it even though they couldn’t tell what was behind it. Their resulting stocking decisions were 26 percent closer to the recommendation than the average choice. Why? Because they trusted their own peers who had worked with the programmers... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

06 Jul 2023
News

Lessons from Major League Baseball's Game-Changing Innovations

The technology that MLB Advanced Media developed is now the backbone of Disney Plus—that was a multi-billion dollar deal. I think understanding how that got developed is a real interesting case study. Can... View Details

26 May 2023
Blog Post

Bringing Space Tech Back to Earth

struggled to manage its finances in order to scale up. Those two jobs spurred Sweeney to join the M.S./M.B.A. program in order to add entrepreneurship to her engineering skills. “I realized I didn’t want to just assume that if someday I... View Details

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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

School, 2014. William R. Kerr Dimitri V. D'Arbeloff - MBA Class of 1955 Professor of Business Administration William Kerr is the D’Arbeloff Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Bill is Senior Associate Dean for Faculty View Details

14 Oct 2015
HBS Seminar

Scott Stern, Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management

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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

environmental dimension of CSR. Spring 2014 Article What Impact? A Framework for Measuring the Scale & Scope of Social Performance By: Alnoor Ebrahim and V. Kasturi Rangan Organizations with social missions, such as nonprofits and social... View Details

29 Mar 2022
Book

5 Qualities That Help Companies Thrive for Decades—Even Centuries

Shetty, a cardiac surgeon and founder of Narayana Health, built a financially viable enterprise at scale by pioneering low-cost heart surgery for tens of thousands of low-income patients. Shetty was motivated by the widespread... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

December 5, 2024
Article

A Consensus Definition of Creativity in Surgery: A Delphi Study Protocol

By: Alex Thabane, Tyler McKechnie, Phillip Staibano, Vikram Arora, Goran Calic, Jason W. Busse, Sameer Parpia and Mohit Bhandari

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Clear definitions are essential in science, particularly in the study of abstract phenomena like creativity. Due to its inherent complexity and domain-specific nature, the study of creativity has been complicated, as evidenced by the various... View Details

Keywords: Creativity; Health Care and Treatment; Outcome or Result; Measurement and Metrics

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Entrepreneurial Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research

required to succeed as an entrepreneurial manager. The knowledge, skills, tools, and frameworks that TEM develops are built upon the foundation of your other RC courses including TOM, LEAD, LCA, FRC, Marketing, Strategy, and Finance,... View Details

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Nonprofit Strategy & Governance | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

social entrepreneurs and their funders as they seek to advance the enterprise from startup to scale. It focuses on the evolution of four social entrepreneurs and their decision-making paths as they attempt to scale their respective... View Details

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Online Business Strategy Course | HBS Online

Professionals General Managers Consultants and Investors Develop a powerful, value-based strategy to achieve greater success for your team and organization. Participating in the student discussions was empowering. It ignited a drive... View Details

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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni

decarbonized future? How can we–and must we–reimagine our approaches to finance to accomplish our climate goals? This session will demonstrate how financiers along the capital stack are examining climate risk, return, and opportunity to seed, pilot, and View Details

06 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

Does Hybrid Work Actually Work? Insights from 30,000 Emails

rated the productivity of workers on a seven-point scale from “unsatisfactory” to “excellent” in categories such as ability, cooperation, job knowledge, creativity, productivity, and quality of work. Hybrid is the right balance In all... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand

24 Apr 2023
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What Does It Take to Build as Much Buzz as Booze? Inside the Epic Challenge of Cannabis-Infused Drinks

industries. They all add up to extra costs and burdens for young businesses trying to establish themselves, says Israeli, the Marvin Bower Associate Professor of Business Administration. The challenges include operating at scale when... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage

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