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  • 26 Mar 2024
  • Blog Post

IFC India: Financing the Climate Transition in India

dry lease) model is recognized as a strategic move. This shift allows for rapid scaling of the bus fleet without the need for substantial upfront capital. Collaboration with Private Actors: While BEST excels in expanding the government... View Details
  • 13 Mar 2023
  • Blog Post

Career Journey: Karan Khimji, Co-Founder of 44.01

energy transition and to offer jobs and commercial opportunities to people and businesses that are currently dependent on the energy sector. What’s next for 44.01? How do you see it scaling? There is peridotite all over the world, so in theory we could View Details
  • Profile

Enrico Ferrari

technology, he spent nights and weekends learning how to code; soon, he started developing his own algorithms to scale and automate digital marketing campaigns, a skill he applied to successfully expand a classifieds business into fifteen... View Details
Keywords: Tech
  • 26 Nov 2001
  • Research & Ideas

How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers

small part of the larger whole. To a certain extent, this is because of the advantages of specialization that Adam Smith identified in pin manufacturing as long ago as 1776 in The Wealth of Nations. However, it goes beyond the economies of View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto
  • 15 Jan 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Managing the Family Business: It Takes a Village

business wedded to it, and in some situations there are measurable benefits that tip the scale in favor of unitary leadership. So let's take a closer look at this model. Unitary Leadership The person chosen for this role is generally the... View Details
  • 04 Apr 2023
  • Blog Post

Maersk’s Journey to Decarbonize Shipping

profit into long-term investments that aligned with the company’s decarbonization goals. Maersk has a unique scale that makes its decarbonization targets particularly important, with the company singlehandedly responsible for... View Details
  • 16 Aug 2022
  • Op-Ed

Now Is the Time for Entrepreneurs to Play Offense

companies. As one of my CEOs put to me, wryly: “In my January board meeting, I wasn’t hiring and scaling fast enough and told to ‘go, go’, go’. In my April board meeting, I was burning too fast and was told to ‘stop, stop, stop’.” Her... View Details
Keywords: by Jeffrey Bussgang
  • Web

Rafaella Sadun | About

, the Executive Time Use Study , and the first large scale management survey in hospitals, MOPS-H , conducted in partnership with the US Census Bureau. Her work has helped uncover the extent to which the diffusion of “basic” management... View Details
  • Web

Global Business Course | HBS Online

and business on a global scale and prepare for the political, social, and economic factors driving change. 4 weeks 6-8 hours per week 4 modules Self-Paced with regular deadlines This course earns you a Certificate of Completion from HBS... View Details
  • July 2019 (Revised May 2021)
  • Case

Acelerex

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
In early 2019, Randell Johnson, Founder and Chief Executive of Acelerex, was reflecting on the company’s first year of rapid growth and the challenges of scaling the business that lay ahead. Acelerex was riding the waves of change taking place in electrical power grids... View Details
Keywords: Energy; Energy Sources; Growth Management; Expansion; Global Strategy; Cash Flow; Energy Industry; Web Services Industry; Consulting Industry
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  • 22 Feb 2022
  • News

Breaking News

offers a test case that the National Trust will learn from and scale up in other communities across the country. Here, Hansen Shapiro talks with the Bulletin about making local news sustainable, the interplay between investment and impact... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Dana Smith; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
  • 04 Feb 2014
  • What Do You Think?

Has Listening Become a Lost Art?

recorded voice thanked me for cooperating and assured me that the poll would take only two minutes. The first question was, "On a scale of 1 (low) and 5 (high) how would you rate your overall experience?" I pressed the "1" on my phone.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 01 Jan 2013
  • News

Joanna M. Jacobson, MBA 1987

game-changing ideas," SGP is both a foundation and a pro bono consulting firm focusing on nonprofit scale and systemic change, primarily in Massachusetts. "We find social entrepreneurs with promising ideas and work alongside them as... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 01 Apr 2000
  • News

Student "Treks" Lead to Jobs and Opportunities

search consultants. The program featured a banquet and keynote address by Scott D. Cook (MBA '76), cofounder and chairman of Intuit, Inc. At the London-based Eurotrek, a program featuring the topics "Entrepreneurship in Europe," "Achieving View Details
  • 09 Mar 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Why Entrepreneurs Should Go Work for Government

developed an on-demand bus service for routes underserved by public transportation. The innovations are happening at a scale large enough to even attract venture capital investment, despite past VC skepticism about funding public... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • July 1996 (Revised August 2024)
  • Case

Innovative Opportunities to Manage Health Care Delivery

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and D. Scott Lurding
The purpose of this case is: To familiarize the students with the changing landscape of health care delivery, through chains of retail medical centers and those offering value-based care (VBC).

To discuss fundamental managerial decisions about their... View Details
Keywords: Managed Care; Capitation; Strategy
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  • 14 Oct 2015
  • HBS Seminar

Scott Stern, Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management

  • Web

Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online

to expect on module quizzes or the final exam. Can my CORe final grade be converted into an A-F scale? HBS Online provides the following grades for CORe: Pass with High Honors, Pass with Honors, Pass, and Fail. We cannot draw equivalencies between our grading View Details
  • 21 Nov 2022
  • Blog Post

HBS Student Club Spotlight: Sustainability Club

before HBS building and scaling a deeptech company for AI development. I came to HBS with a desire to continue pursuing entrepreneurship with a renewed focus on climate and when I came to campus I was pleasantly surprised to find sizable... View Details
  • 15 Jun 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Remembering Alfred Chandler

study business. But, starting in the early 1960s, he produced an extraordinary series of books—Strategy and Structure, The Visible Hand, and Scale and Scope—that established the workings of the business organization as a legitimate field... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne