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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Case Study: Gazelle's New Predators
(MBA 1994) "For a pioneering intermediary like Gazelle, there are in principle two ways (not mutually exclusive) to sustain its advantage over the late but numerous entrants. One is to create network effects by moving to a marketplace intermediation model. The other is... View Details
- 17 Dec 2018
- News
Tomorrow, Transformed
business leadership to accelerate social change COMBATING CLIMATE CHANGE: What does environmental leadership look like in the age of global warming? CODE BREAKERS: Increasing the number of women in positions of leadership READY, SET, LAUNCH: View Details
- 30 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Venture Investors Prefer Funding Handsome Men
to enlarge The researchers recruited a separate panel of 60 seasoned angel investors to watch the videos and code them across several measures, including physical attractiveness—rating the entrepreneurs on a scale of 1 (very unattractive)... View Details
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Independent Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
internal strategy group to determine the appropriate efficient scale for country offices. Explored interactive media approaches for an organization focused on expanding access to financial services for low-income families. Developed a... View Details
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Benefits | Information Technology
a difference in the world, while scaling the School’s impact and pedagogy. By removing some of the barriers to learning, like travel cost and logistics, we can allow more people to benefit from, and contribute to, the HBS classroom... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Research Brief: Hear Me Out
Image by Lincoln Agnew Image by Lincoln Agnew It’s usually not hard to spot the extroverts in the office—or anywhere else. The butterflies of any social gathering, extroverts tend to restore their energy levels by being around other people. But for all their... View Details
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An Educated Investment | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
model, its goal is to increase that number to 4 million by 2018. “My organization is at a critical stage,” she says. “In the next three years we will further scale to 15 districts, 30,000 schools, a team of close to 2,000 staff and 15,000... View Details
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Courses by Faculty - Course Catalog
^ back to top J Course Title Area Term Quarter Credits Archie L. Jones Field Course: Investing for Impact Entrepreneurial Management, Finance, General Management Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Field Course: Scaling Minority Businesses General... View Details
- 31 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018
largest insurance program. To meet this target, the government will rely on technology to effectively scale services, monitor quality, and ensure accountability. While India has seen great strides in informational technology development... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Oct 2021
- News
Alumnae-founded Fintech Startup Secures $29M in New Financing
with this new capital, we'll be able to continue to scale and serve our existing clients as they grow exponentially.” Asked about the confidence of the small business community in the economic recovery, Hodgson expressed optimism. “(T)his... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Addressing the housing needs of India’s poor
to scale up without massive subsidies, as it is owner-driven and bottom-up,” says Mehra, who founded mHS with her husband, architect Marco Ferrario. (Published April 2014) View Details
Eric Boutin
Eric Boutin is a digital health investor, board member, and serial entrepreneur, helping early-stage startups to global pharma companies reimagine healthcare through science and technology. Eric helps founders launch, fund, and scale... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare
- 19 May 2023
- News
Quiet Acceleration
Photo credit: Tesla Photo credit: Tesla Four years into his tenure as Tesla’s CFO, Zachary Kirkhorn (MBA 2013) continues to draw notice for his quiet, effective ability to implement CEO Elon Musk’s vision to scale Tesla into the world’s... View Details
- 06 May 2019
- News
Are You Ready for Veggie Fast-Casual?
he believes has potential to scale nationally. Since selling Panera in 2017, he’s also invested in three other health-conscious cafes based around Boston. Life Alive offers vegetable-filled grain bowls, broth and smoothie bowls, CBD... View Details
- 11 Jun 2014
- News
Improving conditions for climbers' guides in Nepal
After scaling Mount Everest in 2013, Jan Petzel (MBA 2003) transformed his personal triumph into an opportunity to raise funds for the construction of a permanent shelter and medical facility in the Gokyu Lakes region of Nepal for the... View Details
- 21 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Searching for Better Practices in Social Investing
and Mario Morino, cofounder and chairman of Venture Philanthropy Partners (VPP), based in Washington, D.C. Panelists agreed that the goal for philanthropy should be to help an organization scale to the point that it can sustain itself.... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Expanding Summer Fellowships to Support Students
part of the HBS's Arthur Rock Center Accelerator program last year. ShelfLife is a B2B marketplace that enables small businesses to take advantage of economies of scale in the food and beverage packaging supply chain. “Specialty food and... View Details
- 01 Aug 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should CEOs Worry About ‘Too Big to Succeed?’
government intervention " Gerald Nanninga was less willing to accept the notion of "too big to succeed," setting forth several ways of scaling up a company to minimize the burden of size on management. As he put it, "... View Details
- 14 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 14, 2009
chapter in the evolution of the social sciences, the growth of a class of financial analysts, and the commercialization of academic knowledge. Are They Really That Happy? Exploring Scale Recalibration in Estimates of Well-Being Authors:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace