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Young and No Money? Never Mind: The Material Impact of Social Resources on New Venture Growth
By: Mukti Khaire
Although growth is a desirable outcome for new ventures due to the many advantages of large size, most new firms fail to grow, largely due to their limited resources and adaptability. This paper addresses the question of how new ventures grow despite their limited... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Status and Position; Advertising Industry; Chicago; New York (city, NY)
Khaire, Mukti. "Young and No Money? Never Mind: The Material Impact of Social Resources on New Venture Growth." Organization Science 21, no. 1 (January–February 2010): 168–185.
- March 2021
- Teaching Note
Capitalizing Development Costs at Fiat Chrysler Automobiles and Volkswagen
By: Paul M. Healy
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 121-018. View Details
- September/December 1994
- Article
Management Accounting (1984-1994): Development of New Practice and Theory
By: Robert S. Kaplan
Kaplan, Robert S. "Management Accounting (1984-1994): Development of New Practice and Theory." Management Accounting Research 5, nos. 3-4 (September/December 1994): 247–260.
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Cognition and Hierarchy: Rethinking the Microfoundations of Capabilities' Development
Gavetti, G. "Cognition and Hierarchy: Rethinking the Microfoundations of Capabilities' Development." Organization Science 16, no. 6 (November–December 2005): 599–617.
- 15 Sep 2016
- News
Report: US government inaction is hampering economic growth
- 1997
- Book
The Service Profit Chain: How Leading Companies Link Profit and Growth to Loyalty, Satisfaction, and Value
Heskett, J., W. E. Sasser Jr., and L. Schlesinger. The Service Profit Chain: How Leading Companies Link Profit and Growth to Loyalty, Satisfaction, and Value. New York: Free Press, 1997.
- 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
Bermiss, Y. Sekou, Benjamin J. Hallen, Rory McDonald, and Emily Cox Pahnke. "Entrepreneurial Beacons: The Yale Endowment, Run-ups, and the Growth of Venture Capital." Strategic Management Journal 38, no. 3 (March 2017): 545–565.
- June 1990
- Teaching Note
Plus Development Corp. (A) and (B) (Abridged), Teaching Note
- November 1989
- Background Note
Problems in the Development and Manufacture of Defense Systems
By: J. Ronald Fox
Fox, J. Ronald. "Problems in the Development and Manufacture of Defense Systems." Harvard Business School Background Note 390-055, November 1989.
- 06 Oct 2003
- What Do You Think?
Is “the Innovator’s Solution” to Sustained Corporate Growth an Unnatural Act?
be managed effectively on a continuing basis. As Richard Eckel put it, "'Disruptive' is the clue for why the proposed method of sustained growth will fail in most organizations ... B-schools graduate View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- January 1989
- Background Note
Managing Information Technology: System Development
By: James I. Cash Jr. and Thomas H. Davenport
Provides an overview of the system development process in large organizations. Describes traditional life cycle approaches as well as more recent methods, e.g., prototyping. The objective is to familiarize students with the terminology and issues involving system... View Details
Cash, James I., Jr., and Thomas H. Davenport. "Managing Information Technology: System Development." Harvard Business School Background Note 189-132, January 1989.
- 2019
- Chapter
Structural Transformation: A Competitiveness-Based View
By: Christian H.M. Ketels
Ketels, Christian H.M. "Structural Transformation: A Competitiveness-Based View." Chap. 7 in The Oxford Handbook of Structural Transformation, edited by Célestin Monga and Justin Yifu Lin. Oxford University Press, 2019.
- May 1997
- Teaching Note
Product Development Performance, Instructor's Note
By: Marco Iansiti
Focuses on what constitutes product development performance and how it is assessed. Performance, as explained in both the note and in the materials for this three-session module, refers to the performance of both the product and the organizational process producing it.... View Details
- April 2005 (Revised July 2009)
- Case
IBM's Decade of Transformation: Turnaround to Growth
By: Lynda M. Applegate, Robert D. Austin and Elizabeth Collins
Describes IBM's decade of transformation. Provides background on the company's history and the factors that led to its near death in the early 1990s and to its remarkable turnaround during Gerstner's reign as CEO. A rewritten version of an earlier case. View Details
Keywords: History; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leading Change; Transformation; Growth and Development Strategy
Applegate, Lynda M., Robert D. Austin, and Elizabeth Collins. "IBM's Decade of Transformation: Turnaround to Growth." Harvard Business School Case 805-130, April 2005. (Revised July 2009.)
- Article
Simulation, Learning and R&D Performance: Evidence from Automotive Development
By: S. Thomke
Thomke, S. "Simulation, Learning and R&D Performance: Evidence from Automotive Development." Research Policy 27, no. 1 (May 1998): 55–74.
- November 1965
- Case
Caroline Development Corp.
By: Robert O. Schlaifer and Arthur Schleifer Jr.
Schlaifer, Robert O., and Arthur Schleifer Jr. "Caroline Development Corp." Harvard Business School Case 112-022, November 1965.
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Professional Development - Alumni
managerial path for yourself, Harvard ManageMentor is designed to help you achieve your goals and drive business impact. View videos, use handouts and discussion guides, and... View Details