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- 13 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 13, 2007
A. Desai, and C. Fritz Foley Abstract This paper examines how costly financial contracting and weak investor protection influence the cross-border operational, financing and investment decisions of firms. We develop a model in which... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Faculty Retirements
served as senior associate dean for Faculty Planning and Development and coordinated the opening of HBS's research office in Hong Kong in 1999. Hayes has written and published widely. Three of his articles have won McKinsey Awards for the... View Details
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Once in a Lifetime Opportunities | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
skills,” she says. “To address the difficult challenge of scaling social enterprises, you need sharp business skills.” As Kasia approached graduation and researched her post-graduate possibilities, the stars aligned when she saw Acumen, a... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: In Security
credit card companies have become much better at shutting that down quickly.” Now hackers look for personally identifiable information—think birthdays, social security numbers, and addresses—that they can sell on the underground market and use to build synthetic... View Details
- 09 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
"A Balance Between Autonomy and Resources to Help Me Learn."
interests.” By the early winter, Jon had moved to a second phase in which he “narrowed my personal funnel to project development” prospects. Most of the companies he investigated, given their modest scale and early stage of growth,... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 22 Nov 2011
- News
A Storybook Beginning
goal of touching a million kids’ lives by 2015” by providing them with e-readers. Risher developed the idea for the venture during a world tour with his family that combined sightseeing with hands-on community improvement activities such... View Details
- 12 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 12
development of Kvadrat's retail sales operations, the implementation of new Human Resources practices, and the execution of a new organizational design. Was such an extensive growth, turnaround, and internal View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Exchange: Lessons from the Edge
Image by John Ritter Professors Geoff Jones and Tarun Khanna had been toiling away from their respective HBS offices for many years, each of them interested in emerging markets but expressed through different disciplines: Jones, a historian, was studying how the world... View Details
- 02 Jan 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
stall a company’s scaling efforts. To prevent this from happening, companies must make core processes like recruiting, interviewing, and development a real priority in daily practice. As Aristotle emphasized... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Apr 2022
- News
Home Grown
kind of scaling itself up and mobile internet coming to the foray, developing countries will actually kind of rise because you know, now every consumer would have a computing device in their hands. And if... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
A Jolt for the African Coffee Industry
as a cash crop, so they tended not to drink it,” says Chijioke Dozie. In Rwanda, Dozie saved the washing station by banding it together with two others, generating the volume necessary to justify further investment. But the new scale only... View Details
- 18 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Big Deals: Financing Large-Scale Investments
regularly." More and more companies are turning to project finance to support large capital investments, and the trend is likely to continue due to privatization, deregulation, and globalization. "In an increasingly global business environment, achieving... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
New Releases
Apparel and Textile Industries is based on eight years of study. The keys to success in an age of product proliferation, the authors found, are no longer economies of scale and cheap labor but an up-to-the-minute knowledge of what is... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
leadership and discover the leader hidden in you. Level Up: Rise Above the Hidden Forces Holding Your Business Back By Stacey Abrams, Lara Hodgson (MBA 1998)and Heather Cabot Penguin It’s never been easier to start a business—and it’s never been harder to View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Globalization Revisited
should become “global” by standardizing the production, distribution, and marketing of their products across all countries. Sameness meant efficiency and would be more profitable than difference. From economies of scale would flow... View Details
- 04 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
Finding My Passion in the Startup Space
crazy pace of tech developments and feel the intense energy around you. Unfortunately, the company I worked for eventually shut down. I decided to take a few weeks off and head to Greece on vacation. I felt the uncertainty that comes in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Case Study: Glass Half Full
leave them in bins that are collected for free by Neutrall’s partner. “In the process of building an American carbon-neutral supply chain, our partners essentially allowed us to build and scale a private, local recycling network,” notes... View Details
- 16 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
Finding my Passion in the Startup Space
Valley, work and learn from amazing people, and launch and manage new product lines in the home services space. For someone who is passionate about startups, living in Silicon Valley is extremely exciting. Every day you get to witness the crazy pace of tech View Details
- 24 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
African American Student Union Spotlight on the Public Sector
before and during the MBA program. Leah Azeze (MBA 2023) Where is your hometown? Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. What was your pre-MBA industry and role? International Development / Senior Program Manager. Post-MBA industry and role? Consulting /... View Details
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Entrepreneurial Sales 102: Building the First Sales Team - Course Catalog
sell.” -Dean Nohria This course explores the complex subject of how to build, manage, and scale the first sales force including how to: Hire your first salesperson and sales leader Develop a scalable demand... View Details