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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
problems facing business and society, there’s a growing recognition that ... To Zig or to Zag: Forging New Pathways to Scale Caitlin Reimers Brumme 30 Mar 2017 In early February, HBS co-hosted the second Transformative Impact Summit, in... View Details
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Live Online Classrooms | Information Technology
can connect and share ideas with remote participants in incredible new ways. Designed to recreate the look and feel of Harvard Business School’s renowned teaching environment, HBS Live Online Classrooms help scale the reach of our... View Details
- 15 Jul 2025
- News
Bringing Business Insights to Micro-entrepreneurs
tech company?” Koning remembers Tan asking when he learned about the WhatsApp AI assistant Koning and his colleagues had created. Running with the idea, Koning and Kim started working closely with Grab to scale the idea to millions of... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 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
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Nabihah Sachedina
surprised that I took an operations role,” she says. “I had never managed logistics on that scale before. That’s the great thing about being at Harvard: it’s a safe environment for trying things out, to augment my capabilities where I... View Details
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Kristie Gan
and education to families and their children. I can only hope for a day when each child could be free to live dangerously – to find that hidden treasure, to be chased by her ferocious canine, and to finally take that deep, long-awaited breath of crisp air on top of a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
The Changing Nature of Research
the globe. As a leader in management education, Harvard Business School has a strong commitment to improving the practice of management and to advancing a world that is more sustainable and inclusive, healthier, and better educated. As the View Details
- 20 Nov 2018
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New Research and Ideas, November 20, 2018
in sport. Tampa Bay is historically a non-traditional hockey market. The case has substantial comparative team and league data. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/919403-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 319-030 Facebook—Can Ethics View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Businesses Need a Language Strategy
levels of language skills, communication and performance suffer. Q: You have written about English becoming the primary lingua franca in global businesses. Do you see any dangers in that proliferation? Are there cultural assumptions that are made in that process? “The... View Details
Keywords: Re: Tsedal Neeley
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
Here is an excerpt from the chapter, "The Dangers of Going for the Max." One of the most ironic aspects of the fiftieth anniversary of Sir Edmund Hillary's scaling of Mt. Everest was how ephemeral the standards of climbing... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- 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
- 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
- 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
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Chris Wilson-Byrne
amazing opportunity for reflecting on my first semester. And I was surrounded with people who had been through the same things – they were a great sounding board for testing ideas." Contributing to the process "On a scale of one... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Kelp Is on the Way
scale the latter and to offer packaging materials at a price that’s actually viable for that kind of commodity. Between those extremes, Macro Oceans also produces a flexible biopolymer, called alginate, that’s widely used in the food... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
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Global Mission
scale and scope of HBS. To round out our global package, we profile three alumni who have had considerable success applying their MBA skills to cross-border business opportunities. Pictured on our cover, Mark Fields (MBA 1989) has worked... View Details
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Carter Romansky
childhood education or global health delivery. "Many organizations are great at being small- to medium-sized," notes Carter. "I want to help them become huge. The trick is figuring out what you can scale up, what things you... View Details
- 15 Nov 2016
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Classroom Lessons Put Into Practice Abroad
hone their leadership, teamwork, and design thinking skills to prepare for their Brazil immersion. The process informed the goal: to help their partner company attract more young families to the bakery chain and scale the business. “In... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
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Case Study: Power Nappy
The Answers: It depends on the company’s goals. We’ve seen many examples of DTCs that had to scale and go to retail faster than they were ready, due to investor pressure. If Saigal is happy with the current View Details