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15 May 2023
News

From Scientist to Business Leader

tuberculosis. After several years working in the lab, Kim began to wonder if she was in the right role. Then COVID hit, and demand for the company’s products surged. “My CEO asked if I could step away from the bench into a business operations role, because we were... View Details

01 Nov 2019
News

It’s a Small World

I've been at EF for the past 20 years, it's been super exciting. To you give you a sense of the scale of our business, last year we opened up a new EF office or school at a rate of one every other week. If you gauged the number of... View Details

28 May 2019
News

What I Do: Gordon Medenica (MBA 1979)

lottery and gaming for the State of Maryland. A media executive earlier in his career, including 16 years at the New York Times Company, Medenica was drawn by the scale of an industry with estimated annual revenues of over $80 billion, in... View Details

Keywords: Ryan Jones; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

19 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

Climbing the Great Wall of Trust

five-point scale about how much they could rely on those partners to complete tasks effectively (in order to measure cognitive trust), and how much the partners shared the same goals and feelings (in order to measure affective trust).... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

16 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers

Value A transnational brand is the corporate brand of firms that market globally in order to leverage economies of scale and scope, according to HBS professors Douglas Holt, John Quelch, and co-author Earl Taylor of Research... View Details

Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors

20 Feb 2025
Blog Post

IFC India 2025: Building Resilience - Mumbai’s Journey to Sustainable Water Management

challenges. Water Treatment Plant Visit During our visit to the city’s water treatment plant, we were struck by the scale and complexity of Mumbai’s water management system. The facility currently processes 2,800 mega liters of water per... View Details

19 Mar 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: Tata Power - Trombay Thermal Power Plant Takeaways

some storage, is not viable at the scale of energy storage India requires. Nuclear power, on the other hand, is already growing in India and plants can be located on more compact parcels. At present, there are several new reactors under... View Details

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Navigating Your Worth: AI, Negotiations, and the Nature of Expertise - Course Catalog

that were exclusively embodied are increasingly being built into models that can be scaled and continue to learn. Faculty Expertise Prof Cullen is a leading labor economist whose research covers the impact of information and AI for firms,... View Details

18 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals Without Mandates

well as the number of students in our entering MBA cohort (900 or more), it's hard to deny that something on a large scale is being attempted. By contrast, the term "morals" evokes what many people imagine as an individual... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education

22 Mar 2021
Blog Post

3 Key Steps for Crafting Your Retirement with Intention: Advice from Career Coach, Lauren Murphy

scenarios. “You may not have adequately assessed how comfortable you would be with a slower pace. Or, you may find that you’ve packed too many activities in and want to scale back. That’s why it is important to build flexibility into your... View Details

Diane S. M. von Furstenberg

women, von Furstenberg created an entire line of moderately priced fashions and accessories. Though she began in New York boutiques, she was an early pioneer in the use of QVC and the Home Shopping Network to expand the scale and scope of... View Details

Keywords: Fabric & Apparel

Profile

Cathy Zhou

our technology. On top of that, I get to lead, work alongside and learn from a wonderful team, truly own a P&L and scale an organization. I can think of few other roles where I'd be given so much opportunity-- this has been the... View Details

Keywords: Technology

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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact To Zig or to Zag: Forging New Pathways to Scale Caitlin Reimers Brumme 30 Mar 2017 In early... View Details

01 Jun 2013
News

The Long View

research and ultimately a deeper understanding of important real-world problems. At this point, we do have a model that is moving us in the right direction. The question going forward is whether we can scale the impact of the model. We're... View Details

17 Nov 2022
News

Alumni Leaders on Decarbonization Strategies for Combating Climate Change

building efficiency products such as heat pumps and insulation. As the specifics of how that can be applied and utilized are formalized, it should create some tremendous opportunities for incumbent players to de-risk scaling up new... View Details

01 Mar 2018
News

3-Minute Briefing: Lisandra Rickards (MBA 2010)

businesses from startup to scale up. An entrepreneur in the dental equipment business had just serviced a large government contract, which created issues with inventory. He went through our training program, applied for a low-interest... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Sep 2016
News

Up to the Highest Heights

professional kiteboarder Susi Mai that combines high-level kiting and high-value networking. ACTAI Global—now a nonprofit with several thousand members and events around the world—has been called the “new TED,” and kiteboarding has been called the “new golf.” “I don’t... View Details

Keywords: April White

08 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

How to Fashion Your New E-Business Model

as AOL (now AOL Time Warner) are defining the business models that are reshaping the global business landscape and redefining power.— Lynda M. Applegate The point within a value chain where maximum economies of scale and scope are created... View Details

Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate

18 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Breaking Through a Growth Stall

Starting a successful business is often considered the hardest thing entrepreneurs do—but growing an existing venture may be even more difficult. Many companies get stuck on a plateau that inhibits their ability to grow: a scale stopper.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

02 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

Indulgence vs. Regret: Investing in Future Memories

to rate each item on a 7-point scale ranging from practical (1) to pleasurable (7). Keinan also asked the shoppers to circle one of two answers for each item: "Because I need it" or "Because I want to have it (although I... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

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