Growth And Scaling - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 May 2013
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Road Trip

share what we learn with a larger, supportive community of fellow entrepreneurs, professors, venture capitalists, and anyone else committed to entrepreneurship. We'd like this trip to be a growth engine for... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Management

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 growth stymied the Vision... View Details

01 Dec 2020
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Digital Health Care: Empowering Consumers

in the growth of retail medical centers, too. If they are conveniently located, people will take care of minor medical issues, such as an ache, or a mole that might be cancerous. Most people also prefer them to hospitals overwhelmed with... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Jun 2009
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Letters to the Editor

further in the near term and/or increase domestic borrowing vastly. An expanded federal role in the economy will crowd out financing available for productive private investment and diminish growth View Details

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services

01 Jun 2017
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Case Study: Something New

creating the best cost structure in the market. But the company wanted to compete primarily on quality not price. To that end, it struck exclusive deals with suppliers and marketing partners. Where they are today: The company continues to... View Details

Keywords: April White

24 Mar 2016
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A Fitness Industry Innovator Powers On

rebranding the club, and those that followed, as 24 Hour Fitness—would alter the industry forever, with 24 Hour Fitness growing to 420 clubs, 20,000 employees, and over $1 billion in annual revenues. “In the... View Details

01 Dec 2008
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A Force for Good

renovation. And although Fouraker had stopped the School’s runaway growth and shored up its finances, there were no guarantees that times would remain good, especially as the... View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Wood Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Rail Transportation; Transportation

01 Apr 1999
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Africa Business Club Discusses Continent's Opportunities

described President Clinton's Partnership for Economic Growth and Opportunity in Africa, a plan to stimulate trade with the continent, spur greater private-sector investment, View Details

07 Aug 2018
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DreamBox Learning Breaks New Ground

popular adaptive learning companies, specializing in math .Across the U.S., Mexico, and Canada, DreamBox serves nearly 3 million students and 120,000 teachers. Today, the company is announcing $130 million... View Details

01 Feb 1998
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Kicking Off a Startup: Jennifer Rottenberg (MBA '96)

Women's sports is one of the hottest growth sectors in the business of sports. A case in point is the National Soccer Alliance (NSA), a new women's professional soccer league currently in the startup phase. With exhibition games, special... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

09 Jul 2019
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The Road to Impact

kids mathematics or to teach non-English speakers how to read English in third grade, or how to better inhibit suicidal patients from taking their own lives,” he notes. Offensend is currently focused on increasing the organization’s visibility View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov; Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 1999
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Myra Hart Named to Professorship

firmly rooted in practice. She was one of four founding officers of Staples, the office supplies superstore. She subsequently served as the company's vice president of operations and group vice president of View Details

21 Jul 2022
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How Sumner Feldberg Helped Transform Retail

Wall Street Journal. That initiated a period of growth for the company, which went public in 1962. In time Feldberg also helped establish the BJ’s Wholesale Club and T.J. Maxx retail chains, which bought... View Details

Keywords: Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

12 Jul 2021
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Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

pandemic, with topics such as the divisive paranoia of coronavirus; the burdens and blessings of quarantine; and a bucket list for lockdown. In June she launched a podcast focused on finding View Details

01 Jun 2018
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Up by the Roots

growth preventing it from achieving critical mass. Ironically, it was the financial crisis of 2008 that gave the city’s fintech scene the jolt it needed to reach the next level. Suddenly, the big banks had much less money to throw at... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustrations by Dan Page

01 Dec 1997
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Short Takes

employers and employees. "The growth of staffing agencies suggests that we may be witnessing a slow recasting of the economy's institutional matrix where people are emerging as bundles of skills,... View Details

Keywords: Judith Ross

14 Jan 2014
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Spreading the Seeds of Entrepreneurship

outstanding in terms of job and population growth and quality of life. That research led me to write a book, Boomtown USA: The 7½ Keys to Big Success in Small Towns, published... View Details

Keywords: CEO (Creating Entrepreneurial Opportunities); Educational Services; Agriculture; Manufacturing

27 Oct 2016
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Paying It Forward

inventory losses by alerting retailers when items are given free-of-charge to friends and family by purposely not being scanned by a clerk (called “sweethearting”), when barcodes are covered, when items are left in a shopping cart, or... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

31 Jan 2025
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New York, Boston Alumni Volunteer to Boost Small Businesses

When the HBS Club of New York (HBSCNY) launched its Small Business Partnership Initiative (SBPI) in 2020, its goal was to simply help small businesses survive the COVID pandemic with guidance from a small group of volunteer alumni advisors. Now, nearly five years on,... View Details