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- 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
- 08 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019
providing retail, housing and entertainment facilities that catered to Colombia’s middle class. While White Stone’s proposal would solve many of Jaguar’s challenges as a start-up real estate development company, the offer would also... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Nov 2024
- In Practice
Layoffs Surging in a Strong Economy? Advice for Navigating Uncertain Times
time to maintain high standards and efficiency. Leaders of firms from start-ups to tech giants should give themselves the room they need to manage employee performance while shifting headcount to match strategic priorities when the need... View Details
- 24 Mar 2021
- News
Clubs Reaffirm Equity in Community Partners Work; Alumni Angels Invest in Member Education
don’t provide. “We’ve worked with MESO for two consecutive years,” says Lin. “We helped them scale their approach across different markets, and during the pandemic, when the in-person connection to their existing and potential clients... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Web
Faculty & Advisors | MBA
processes that balance contextual and cultural relevance with the contemporary imperative to scale beyond a single instance, and to reach more people and urban places Tom Clay Visiting Lecturer of Business Administration MBA ’97, Harvard... View Details
- 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
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
group, if it existed today, could be. What would their key activities be in our current era? Bower and Paine: We see a new CED as a possible response to the challenge of scaling up the kinds of work by individual firms that we describe in... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Web
Print View - Course Catalog
responsible and ethical AI issues. Implications for Start-Ups and early stage investors. How to build and scale a Gen AI start-up and how to develop an investment thesis... 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
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
has taken an entrepreneurship course at Harvard has evaded this last point—the problem, as Hart put it, of "how nothing ever proceeds according to plan, and how you adapt strategically and tactically." Should a start-up survive,... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 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 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