Business Growth and Maturation - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Jun 2019
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Alumni in France honor self-made entrepreneurs; Shih talks trade in Buffalo

Cizik Professor of Management Practice in Business Administration, teaches in the MBA and Executive Education programs. According to HBSCB president Bing Sherrill (MBA 1962), about 45 alumni from HBS,... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Dec 2014
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Five Degrees of Doriot

big business ideas had to hit up wealthy private investors for funding. ARD’s model fostered the growth of a new generation of entrepreneurs—a group that Doriot held in high regard. “An average idea in the... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; George Doriot; Educational Services

01 Dec 2008
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Alumni Books

Breakthrough Marketing Plans: How to Stop Wasting Time and Start Driving Growth by Tim Calkins (MBA ’91) (Palgrave Macmillan) Most marketing plans are a waste of time — too long, complicated, View Details

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26 Jun 2025
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The Vinyl Revival

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Caren Kelleher (MBA 2010) was at HBS, she started managing bands, mainly as a way to stay involved in an industry that she loved. It was right... View Details

01 Sep 2009
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Faculty Books

and skilled people to accomplish what relief agencies could not: an information system and supply chain that managed the flow of relief supplies. IBM’s actions exemplify an emerging View Details

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01 Dec 2011
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Making the Case for Leadership

understand that our connected style can help us win all the deals we want and get all the business results our shareholders want, that’s really the broad concept here.” Nor has View Details

01 Mar 2019
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From Das’s Desk

plays in finding balance in work and life. Anxiety and fear. How to deal with the unknown and unexpected along the way. Work-life imbalance. What to do when faced with the... View Details

24 Apr 2014
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Transforming the landscape of agriculture in Nigeria

produce enough healthy foods, they hope to combat malnutrition, provide jobs, and reduce the need for costly imports. “We’re excited to source local products, and it also makes View Details

01 Sep 2012
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What’s the Big Idea?

institutions in order to increase farmers’ efficiency, yields, product quality, and sustainability. This leads to a bigger revenue pie for farmers and the companies that do View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

01 Dec 2015
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Giving Advice

(courtesy of Susan Wolf Ditkoff) The philanthropy economy is booming. Last year, America’s charitable giving totaled $358.38 billion, equaling 2.1 percent of GDP—a number last attained in prerecession 2004. With that growth have come a... View Details

01 Apr 2000
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The World at a Click

Like so many dot-com businesses these days, the Internet travel industry is, well, taking off. Among the e-travel elite are Travelocity.com, known for the depth of its travel content and bolstered by... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelly

10 Mar 2021
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In My Humble Opinion: A Timely Tension

expands Patagonia’s business in the rapidly growing and increasingly profitable used-clothing market, which can cut the carbon, waste, and water footprint of a purchase by 82... View Details

Keywords: April White

10 Aug 2015
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A Talent Pipeline for Society’s Challenges

nonprofit sector, but decided to get business experience first,” she recalls. “When I was ready to make that jump, I found that I had a business background but I didn’t have a network, View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

01 Jun 2010
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M.I.A. Boards

a Professor of Management Practice at HBS who serves on the boards of ExxonMobil and Goldman Sachs, told a forum of directors in 2008, “Serving on a board is about one thing: It’s about responsibility for the preservation View Details

Keywords: John Gillespie;David Zweig; Finance

06 Jun 2017
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Is the Real Estate Market Going to Collapse?

In a wide-ranging Los Angeles Times interview Robert Sulentic (MBA 1984), president and CEO of CBRE Group Inc. (long known as Coldwell Banker & Co.), is bullish about the real estate market, the future of brick-and-mortar retail, View Details

01 Dec 2003
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DonorsChoose: Teaming Up with Teachers

start-up into a sustainable national organization. With plans to expand next year into North Carolina, Chicago, and Denver, the organization’s leaders see management of its rapid growth as a major challenge.... View Details

Keywords: Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations

01 Oct 2000
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Books

a business landscape replete with possibilities, they select a single modern-day example -- the electronic computer -- as the focus of their study. Baldwin and Clark argue that the computer industry could... View Details

01 Apr 2001
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Beyond Accommodation

from his study group and from Recordings for the Blind, which made audiotapes of all his cases and other required texts. He became the first blind person to graduate from HBS. “The View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; AT&T; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations

09 Mar 2021
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Bridging the Gap

yet, the crisis has shed light on areas where business leaders can make an important difference, such as supporting schools and programs that enable students to gain skills and... View Details

18 Sep 2014
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Room to grow: global expansion in the middle ground

Israeli companies have pursued novel and successful growth strategies that provide valuable lessons to others. In his research, Elie Ofek, the T. J. Dermot Dunphy Professor of View Details

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