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- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
to do whatever was necessary to gain scale and capture market share. They discovered that they generally didn't have enough to fund all the businesses in which they were trying to compete. So they had to get out of some businesses or at... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
original limited partners was in place. (By the 1980s, six more families had been added to the group.) At a time when venture capital was little more than a cottage industry that operated on a small scale and invested at a slow pace,... View Details
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
partnership with the local government and received financing support from a local bank. The case asks students to discuss the potential for scaling this model across China. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
1999 by chairman and CEO Michael Bronner, had all the scale anyone could ask for: to create a national customer-loyalty program (like airlines' frequent-traveler mileage points) which would pay consumers rebates on their shopping—not in... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- Web
Past Issues - Alumni
new generation of investors—and what happens when finance becomes a common language Happy Returns HBS celebrates reunions on a grand scale Complete Table of Contents June 2022 Alumni Achievement Awards 2022 This year’s recipients of the... View Details
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
co-headlining arena tour with hip-hop superstar Kanye West has been cancelled. Carter knows that continuing the tour, but doing so solo, comes with huge risks, but scaling it back to smaller theaters or postponing the tour altogether has... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
The book Capitalism at Risk first appeared in 2011. The problems it identified with social inequality, global trade strife, and environmental degradation have only accelerated by 2020. The new edition of Capitalism at Risk, subtitled How Business Can Lead, is expanded... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
says. “Now manufacturing is back. We can compete with the best in the world because we tightened our belts during a difficult time.” “The economy has truly opened up,” Mittal remarks. “The main challenge of operating in India today is to View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
by the importance of the issue to the 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 the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
challenges students to think about target customer identification and talent management in a start-up environment. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/818001 Harvard Business School Case 915-418 The China Dairy... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
wrestled with for years. German firms needed more scale and centralization—and looked to American examples in the great "rationalization" mania of the 1920s. Americanization and the bureaucratization of German corporations went... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
insurgent's clear mission and purpose, an unambiguous owner mindset, and a relentless obsession with the front line) can resolve the predictable crises of growth. Scalability Rules: Principles for Scaling Web Sites by Martin L. Abbott... View Details
- 12 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs
a token hire. Knowing the extended team around the business is diverse, can allay these concerns. Ask your investors to help sell the business to prospective candidates. This can be especially critical if you’re trying to hire a senior team member or a View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- Web
HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer
economic impact of the pandemic, the primary objective was to avoid layoffs and furloughs. The School scaled back on myriad expenses, curbed overtime, and froze pay rates for faculty and exempt staff. As a result, salaries and benefits... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
counting. The six months Masha spent traveling the countryside to set up the Village Promoter program helped him see the scale of the challenges facing Nigerian farmers. The biggest problem wasn't the labor force—he'd never seen anyone... View Details
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
salinity; and poses strategic choices for a start-up company operating at the intersection of business, agriculture, and climate change. Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=709019 CalPERS'... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
manage its operations for another three years. At that point, Murphy says, “I wasn’t sure if I wanted to keep being the guy on the ground in the developing world or get the credentials to become more involved in the big picture.” His acceptance to HBS tipped the View Details
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
of its two highest valuations. The utilities are scaled so that the market clears with the participants' purchases proportional to their entitlements. The method is generalized to arbitrary bargaining sets and existence is proved. For two... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
first, but eventually she went back to working forty hours a week. After more than a year of being pulled in too many directions, she made the decision to leave and start a part-time consulting practice in Boston. Although she is still working, she recalls struggling... View Details
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/518038-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 419-048 Associação Saúde Criança: Trying to Break the Cycle of Poverty and Illness at Scale Dr. Vera Cordeiro founded the NGO Associação Saúde Criança in... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman