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- 07 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 7, 2009
support the R&D and scale necessary to enter such sophisticated capital-intensive industries. There were no firms with the deep technological roots or the skill base to even begin. Yet government planners recognized the challenges of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Oct 2017
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New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017
1990s, these two historical trends met, as the concept of sustainable development spread to large conventional corporations, and visionary green firms scaled or were acquired by conventional big businesses. The concept of sustainability... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Uncovering Racial Discrimination in the ‘Sharing Economy’
accuracy.) The researchers also hired a team of workers through the crowdsourcing marketplace Amazon Mechanical Turk (AMT), a popular source of data processing assistance. The workers examined the property photos on each listing and rated them on a seven-point View Details
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Blockbuster! Why Star Power Works
Q: Why is it so effective? A: A wide range of factors explains its success. For one, strong brands and high production values matter. Scale also brings marketing advantages: It is relatively cost-efficient to advertise those tent-pole... View Details
- 25 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 25
scale and influence in the technology industries that fall under the incidence of their assets. We also discuss some efficiency issues raised by the growing prominence of patent merchants. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 27
firm's business rather than the scale of the firm's prior lobbying efforts. These results support the existence of significant barriers to entry in the lobbying process. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 27
and Organizational Issues Thomas Eisenmann and Alison Berkley WagonfeldHarvard Business School Note 812-100 This note discusses the organizational challenges that startups often encounter as they begin to scale rapidly, along with... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 3, 2009
record of serving emotionally and behaviorally troubled youth and their families, with higher success rates and lower costs than most child services providers. Yet expanding to offer its services on a broader scale proved challenging.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Jan 2018
- First Look
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 a long time ago, “Excellence... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2024
- In Practice
The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities
batteries. No American battery company comes close to CATL. Under intense political pressure, the project has been delayed and scaled back. A Michigan plant was set to create 2,500 jobs. Ford was to retain 100 percent ownership in a... View Details
- 21 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 21
across and within metropolitan areas, but the endogeneity of these measures bedevils interpretation. Chinitz (1961) hypothesized that coal mines near Pittsburgh led that city to specialization in industries, like steel, with significant View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Advertising: It’s Not ‘Mad Men’ Anymore
industry that "remains relatively unconcentrated at both firm and holding company levels, diverse in scale and scope, geographically dispersed, and highly competitive." This structure, Silk says, is well suited to serve the heterogeneous... View Details
- 01 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Crowdfunding a Poor Investment?
democratize entry and allow for more experimentation to take place," says Nanda. "On the other hand, skeptics will say that these are companies that should not have been funded in the first place, and when it's time to scale up... View Details
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
IBM Finds Profit in Diversity
meet—and provided new opportunities for mentoring The task force structure has been copied on a smaller scale within specific business units. Even without a mandate from corporate brass, most units have created their own diversity... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
- 08 Nov 2016
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November 8, 2016
reached a scale of approximately $150 million of funds in use for receivable purchases, the co-founders planned to tap into the securitization market for capital by issuing asset-backed securities (ABS), collateralized by a pool of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
419-016). Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/419019-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 418-010 SOS Group: Scaling a Social Enterprise Conglomerate By 2016, SOS Group, the largest social enterprise group in France, was... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social... View Details
- 24 Jan 2017
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First Look at New Research: January 24, 2017
realized. Our model aligns with many observed empirical regularities, and we quantify our framework by matching Census Bureau operating data with patent data for U.S. firms. We observe that internal innovation scales moderately faster... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 5
focuses on scaling a venture's sales process and provides a methodology for identifying core customers and some implications for governance criteria and potential product changes as well as sales management. Paper: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 3, 2008
energy philanthropy, scale EF to meet the sector's needs, and utilize the strengths of its grantees and their networks. He must determine how the foundation can achieve greater impact by leveraging not only its own resources, but also... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace