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  • 20 Jul 2020
  • News

Don’t Chase Growth With MongoDB

  • December 2006
  • Comment

Comments on Glenn Hubbard's Business, Knowledge, and Global Growth

By: Scott Snook and Rakesh Khurana
Keywords: Business Ventures; Information; Knowledge; Growth and Development
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    Best-selling and New Cases by Ben Esty

    Best-Selling (MOST POPULAR) Cases:  

      1) Eaton: Portfolio Transformation & Cost of... View Details

    • 2015
    • Working Paper

    Business Groups Exist in Developed Markets Also: Britain Since 1850

    By: Geoffrey Jones
    Diversified business groups are well-known phenomena in emerging markets, both today and historically. This is often explained by the prevalence of institutional voids or the nature of government-business relations. It is typically assumed that such groups were much... View Details
    Keywords: Business Groups; Business History; Economic History; Conglomerates; Entrepreneurship; Globalization; Management; Organizations; United Kingdom
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    • July–August 2013
    • Article

    Six Ways to Sink a Growth Initiative

    By: Donald L. Laurie and J. Bruce Harreld
    The conventional wisdom about how best to pursue growth—launch a slew of initiatives in high-potential areas; appoint some promising young managers to lead them; locate them safely away from the established businesses—is a recipe for failure, according to the authors.... View Details
    Keywords: Failure; Growth and Development Strategy
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    • March 1998 (Revised December 1998)
    • Case

    BCI Growth III: May 1993

    By: Josh Lerner
    A Vermont solid-waste company seeks mezzanine financing to finance its strategy of acquiring and consolidating local competitors. The mezzanine private equity group must decide whether this investment offers an attractive risk-return tradeoff. View Details
    Keywords: Private Equity; Business Growth and Maturation; Consolidation; Wastes and Waste Processing; Acquisition; Service Industry; Vermont
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    • 2019
    • Working Paper

    Intelligent Design of Inclusive Growth Strategies

    By: Robert S. Kaplan, George Serafeim and Eduardo Tugendhat
    Improving corporate engagement with society, as advocated in the Business Roundtable’s 2019 statement, should not be viewed as a zero-sum proposition where attention to new stakeholders detracts from delivering shareholder value. Corporate programs for sustainable and... View Details
    Keywords: Inclusion; Sustainability; Performance Measures; Environmental Sustainability; Social Issues; Strategy; Governance; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Stakeholder Relations
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    • March 2004
    • Case

    L.L. Bean: A Search for Growth

    By: Rajiv Lal, Walter J. Salmon and James Weber
    In mid-2003, CEO Chris McCormick felt L.L. Bean was in a good position to begin to grow again. For nearly 90 years, the company sold clothing and gear for outdoor enthusiasts through its catalogs and a single retail store in Freeport, Maine. In the three decades prior... View Details
    Keywords: Business History; Restructuring; Growth and Development Strategy; Cost Management; Sales; Performance Improvement; Diversification; Distribution Channels; Resignation and Termination; Retail Industry; Web Services Industry
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    • November 1994
    • Case

    AB Astra: Growth with Quality

    By: Mary E. Barth and David F. Hawkins
    Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Quality; Pharmaceutical Industry
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    • February 2017
    • Case

    Yemeksepeti: Growing and Expanding the Business Model through Data

    By: William R. Kerr, Gamze Yucaoglu and Eren Kuzucu
    In October 2016, Nevzat Aydin, co-founder and CEO of Yemeksepeti, the Turkish online food-ordering company, was looking over the company's quarterly results and projections for the upcoming year with his management team. It had been almost a year and a half since Aydin... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurial Management; Entrepreneurial Ventures; Turkey; Big Data; Customer Focused Organization; Service Management; Continuous Improvement; Data Analysis; Internet; Growth Strategy; Technological Change; Information Systems; Entrepreneurship; Corporate Strategy; Analytics and Data Science; Analysis; Customer Focus and Relationships; Emerging Markets; Service Operations; Competitive Advantage; Performance Improvement; Internet and the Web; Growth and Development Strategy; Information Technology; Value Creation; Food and Beverage Industry; Turkey
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    • September 2016 (Revised September 2017)
    • Case

    Zalora Philippines: From Growth to Profitability

    By: Donald Ngwe and Thales Teixeira
    In May 2015 Paulo Campos, co-founder and CEO of Zalora Philippines, found himself at a crucial turning point in his young company’s development. In just three years, Zalora had come from entering the Philippine fashion retail industry as an unknown quantity to becoming... View Details
    Keywords: Internet and the Web; Business Subsidiaries; Business Growth and Maturation; Fashion Industry; Retail Industry; Sweden; Southeast Asia; Philippines
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    • January 2019 (Revised October 2019)
    • Case

    Rural Taobao: Alibaba's Expansion into Rural E-Commerce

    By: Tarun Khanna, Ryan Allen, Adam Frost and Wesley Koo
    Alibaba's Rural Taobao initiative had been launched in 2014 as a public service initiative to increase e-commerce adoption in China’s remote rural areas. In the first two iterations of the initiative, dubbed “1.0” and “2.0,” Alibaba had partnered with local businesses... View Details
    Keywords: Strategy; Business Growth; Ecommerce; Corporate Social Responsibility; Business And Government; Emerging Market; Digital Platforms; Internet and the Web; Emerging Markets; Rural Scope; Growth and Development Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Government Relations; Decision Making; E-commerce; China
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    • 21 Sep 2009
    • News

    Harvard Business School Program To Help Media Executives Identify Growth Opportunities In Rapidly Changing Industry

    • December 2023 (Revised February 2024)
    • Case

    21Seeds: Taking Shots at Breakout Growth

    By: Elie Ofek, Julian De Freitas, Michael Moynihan and Nicole Tempest Keller
    21Seeds, a female-founded flavor-infused tequila startup launched in 2019, had made inroads into the alcoholic beverage industry by focusing on an underserved consumer segment in spirits—women, primarily in their 30s and 40s, many of whom were moms—and by following a... View Details
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Startups; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Product Positioning; Distribution Channels; Sales; Food and Beverage Industry
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    • Web

    IFC India 2025: The Coal Dichotomy: Balancing Economic Growth and Decarbonization in India - Blog - Business & Environment

    urgent need to cut emissions while fueling economic growth and improving livelihoods? Visiting Tata Power’s Trombay Plant Our morning began with an in-depth discussion of a new HBS case study on Tata Power.... View Details
    • October 2021
    • Case

    Yildiz Holding's Corporate Strategy: Managing Diversification for Growth

    By: Juan Alcácer and Esel Çekin
    The case opens in May 2018 with Nurtaç Ziyal Afridi, chief strategy and growth officer of Yıldız Holding, a Turkish conglomerate, reflecting on the group’s diversification journey. In ten years, the group had achieved a remarkable growth through diversification: seven... View Details
    Keywords: Strategy; Diversification; Growth Management; Mergers and Acquisitions; Global Strategy; Restructuring; Food and Beverage Industry; North America; United Kingdom; Turkey; Asia
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    • January 2013 (Revised April 2015)
    • Case

    Affinity Labs: Valuing Customer Growth

    By: Joseph B. Lassiter III and Elizabeth Kind
    In November 2006, Chris Michel left Military.com, which he founded in 1999, to start Affinity Labs, a global network of online communities. That month, Michel raised a Series A round of venture funding and established a partnership with Monster, which he had sold... View Details
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Demand and Consumers; Partners and Partnerships; Social and Collaborative Networks; Online Technology
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    • 14 Apr 2014
    • News

    U.S. Corporate Tax System Stifling Growth

    • 13 Dec 2018
    • News

    HBX Launches Course to Help Startup Leaders Navigate Rapid Growth and Change

    • 18 Jul 2023
    • Interview

    Jeffrey Rayport on Product Market Fit, Profit Market Fit and Whiplash, and More

    By: Jeffrey F. Rayport and Doug Levin
    This episode of "Lessons from Startup Life" podcast features Jeffrey Rayport, Senior Lecturer of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. Jeffrey specializes in teaching and researching growth-stage technology ventures and their scalability. Prior to... View Details
    Keywords: Scaling And Growth; Start-up; Diversity; Equity; Inclusion; Technology; Business Startups; Product Marketing; Business Growth and Maturation
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