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February 2019 (Revised May 2021)
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Electric Car Wars, 2018

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock

Electric cars had long been championed by environmentalists as a superior solution to the internal combustion engine (ICE), but, despite large government incentives and strong pioneering efforts by a few automakers over the years, electric and hybrid cars and light... View Details

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Special Assistant to the CEO | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

home to Detroit.” The Kresge Foundation offered both, and it had a history of hiring Leadership Fellows in the past. “Their scope of work, especially in Detroit, was aligned with my interests. I knew it would be quite strategic for me,... View Details

01 Sep 2016
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How I Got to Google

essentially the same—but the scope of my products has increased in size. My first role at Google was working on features on a product for Google Checkout. Now I get to work in health search, which accounts for one in 20 queries on... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Aug 2013
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A Cure for Cold Storage

million people die every year from vaccine-preventable diseases," says Schrader, who led Vaxess to another win at HBS's 2013 New Venture Competition this spring. Compare that number to the 1.8 million annual global deaths from HIV and the 1.3 million deaths from... View Details

Keywords: Morrell, Daniel; vaccines; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

08 May 2025
Blog Post

Startup Roots and Engineering Ambitions: Lizzie Matusov (MS/MBA 2022)

maximize the number of walks per day. It’s a fun story to look back on, but it also highlights that, from an early age, I was passionate about bringing ideas to life. As I grew older, that desire only expanded in scope and scale. When I... View Details

March 2022 (Revised September 2022)
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Can Papaya Global Keep Scaling Fast?

By: Daniel Isenberg and William R. Kerr

Companies that employ people all around the world also need to pay those people. That can be an exceedingly complex task, though - defining terms of employment, complying with global regulations, and working with huge quantities of data, among other obstacles,... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Scaling And Growth; Job Design and Levels; Compensation and Benefits; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Global Range

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December 2020
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Unwanted Attention: Swiss Multinationals and the Creation of International Corporate Guidelines in the 1970s

By: Sabine Pitteloud

During the last decade, we have seen an increased opposition to globalization. Within this wave of criticism, firms and more specifically multinational corporations have been major targets, accused of multiple wrongdoings, such as social dumping, fiscal evasion, job... View Details

Keywords: Multinationals; Guidelines; Lobbying; Business History; Multinational Firms and Management; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Global Range; Switzerland

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Summer 2020
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Is It Time to Rethink Globalized Supply Chains?: The COVID-19 Pandemic Should Be a Wake-up Call for Managers and Prompt Them to Consider Actions That Will Improve Their Resilience to Future Shocks

By: Willy C. Shih

The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the complex interdependencies of globalized supply chains. While these global multistage production networks had spread during a relatively benign environment of falling trade barriers and increasing interdependencies among countries,... View Details

Keywords: Supply Chains; Pandemic; Resilience; Supply Chain Management; Supply Chain; Global Range; Health Pandemics; Disruption; System Shocks; Crisis Management; Manufacturing Industry; United States; Asia; Europe; China

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20 Oct 2015
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Internalizing Global Value Chains: A Firm-Level Analysis

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro, Pol Antras, Davin Chor & Paola Conconi

November 1993 (Revised September 1995)
Supplement

Block 16: Management's Perspective

By: Malcolm S. Salter and Susan E.A. Hall

Supplements Block 16: Conoco's Green Oil Strategy (A). Reviews the environmental challenges facing the oil industry throughout upstream and downstream operations, and oil companies' competitive responses. Reviews Conoco's and Du Pont's environmental initiatives in more... View Details

Keywords: Local Range; Operations; Environmental Sustainability; Perspective; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy

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31 Jan 2018
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Tiffany Nida’s Amazon Journey: “I Continue to Grow Because They Keep Giving Me Responsibility.”

about from a mentor who has been extraordinarily proactive in my career,” Tiffany explains. “The scope of my new assignment challenged me to grow; I would manage a team of about fifteen people, more than I had ever managed before.” This... View Details

Keywords: Technology

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Scaling Technology Ventures - Course Catalog

is the business model? Scope and Speed : How does a venture scale by expanding into new geographies, products, and markets? What does it take to manage multiple revenue streams? How fast should your expansion or diversification take... View Details

04 Sep 2019
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In My Humble Opinion: Status Update

employees to more than 1,000, while its community of users expanded from 300 million to more than a billion. Despite the big-picture scope and pace of her latest role, Levine still finds time to enjoy the small, user-generated moments... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

12 Apr 2018
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: The Trouble with Tariffs

likely get more serious. Huawei, the Chinese telecommunications equipment maker that has effectively been barred from selling into US markets, is now a leading innovator, and through sheer scale and scope of its engineering, is making... View Details

Keywords: by Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing; Auto; Steel; Air Transportation; Technology; Telecommunications

25 Oct 2006
Op-Ed

Fixing Executive Options: The Veil of Ignorance

The latest corporate governance crisis is buried in the details of executive compensation contracts. Don't like the timing of the stock option grant you got or the strike price of the contract? No worries! It turns out that this is nothing an eraser can't fix. While... View Details

Keywords: by Mihir Desai & Joshua Margolis

01 Mar 2025
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Audit: War & Peace

you get to the negotiation table but also, and more important, the conditions, the scope of what is being addressed, how to structure the right process, and how to control the frame of the negotiation. These are things that can change... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Illustration by Matt Rota

01 Dec 2003
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HIV/AIDS and Business

Forty-two million people around the globe live with HIV/AIDS; an additional 80 million may be infected by 2010, with new cases concentrated in Russia, India, China, Nigeria, and Ethiopia. The scope of the epidemic is so staggering that... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance

02 Nov 2020
Blog Post

2+2 Where Are They Now Spotlight: Tyler Teykl (MBA 2017)

international projects in the Gulf States and Asia before working in Alaska for two years. I was liberated to be fully focused at work without the distraction of scoping or applying to graduate schools. Alaska Alaska Where are you... View Details

21 Aug 2019
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Leveraging Academic Opportunities to Attain My Post-HBS Job

needs to scope out a project and get a faculty member on board as a supervisor. My objective for the spring semester was to work on an IP that resembled professional work as preparation for returning to the real world. At the same time, I... View Details

June 2011 (Revised March 2013)
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Wal-Mart Update, 2011

By: David B. Yoffie and Renee Kim

In 2011, Wal-Mart was the world's largest company with $420 billion in sales and operations in 14 countries. Yet it found itself searching for the right growth strategy moving forward. U.S. same-store sales had declined for eight consecutive quarters and Wal-Mart was... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Business Growth and Maturation; Growth and Development Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Global Range; Business Strategy; Retail Industry

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