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01 Mar 2006
News

Chandler Donates Papers to Baker Library

Alfred Sloan for the GM president’s autobiography; and manuscript versions of his numerous articles and of influential books such as Strategy and Structure, The Visible Hand (winner of the Pulitzer in 1978), and Scale and Scope. The Baker... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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AllWorld Network - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

scaling growth and job creation. Winning companies will go public and become icons known around the world. Governments will benefit from real-time research on leveraged policy interventions. An expanding base of entrepreneurs will be... View Details

28 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

It’s India Above China in New World Order

government should speed up its reforms in the internal sector rather than scale back external sector reforms. Q: On the influence of émigrés, you write, "With the help of its diaspora, China has won the race to be the world's... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

16 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Peeling Back the Global Brand

"don't touch the brand" school of thought, admitted Schroiff. Yet Henkel also wrestled with questions of economies of scale and consumer penetration. "If you were to flood Europe with standardized products under a few brand... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Consumer Products; Retail

04 Mar 2025
Blog Post

WesTrek 2025: Exploring the future of tech in Silicon Valley

sixteen organizations, marking a 33% increase from the previous trek. Students visited the following companies: Applied Intuition, C3 AI, Databricks, Google, Imbue AI, LinkedIn, Lucid, Meta, Microsoft, NVIDIA, Nuro, Perplexity, Scale AI,... View Details

Keywords: Technology

25 Apr 2018
Blog Post

Policy, Practice, Leadership & Impact: Making a Difference with the HBS/HKS Joint Degree

long-term view Prior to pursuing a joint degree at HBS and HKS, I worked with the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) in Southern Africa, supporting the Ministries of Health in Swaziland, Zimbabwe, Malawi, and South Africa to scale up... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

16 Jul 2024
Blog Post

Advancing Health Equity: Social Enterprise Summer Fellow Simona Stancov (MBA 2025)

tests and medications — can get to the people who need them. My projects at CHAI focus on helping governments in Central and West Africa with the finance work that enables this solution delivery. So far, I’ve enjoyed the opportunity to support partners with: A donor... View Details

01 Mar 2019
News

Case Study: Off to a Fine Art

“It’s been a great boost, and top-line results followed.” What’s ahead: Last spring the company raised $15 million in Series B funding, which will help GAIA expand into other densely populated urban areas in Mexico, as well as on the mobile and retail fronts. The... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

03 Dec 2018
Research & Ideas

How Companies Can Increase Market Rewards for Sustainability Efforts

flavijus For the first time, a link has been drawn between public sentiment about a company’s sustainability practices and how that company is valued in the market. The results are important both for investors searching for under-valued, socially responsible companies,... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

08 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

A Manager’s Guide to International Strategy

then scale economies have the potential to be an obvious global advantage. Down To Cases The book's case examples and detailed decision-making maps offer a practical guide to some of the complex issues that emerge from doing business... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

25 Feb 2020
News

Beyond the Plastisphere

bacteria, previous attempts to manufacture it at industrial scale were stymied by the need for expensive feedstocks such as sugar and seed oils. Full Cycle, however, coaxes microbes to make PHA from organic waste—banana peels, newspapers,... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; Plastics and Rubber Products Manufacturing; Manufacturing

28 May 2019
News

Case Study: Building the Base

needs to grow to around 50,000 subscribers to show traction. Of course, his current subscribers would like a more premium offering, which might draw in more users. But this is the classic entrepreneur’s dilemma: If the base product cannot show reasonable View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

05 Oct 2016
News

Harvard to Open Life Sciences Lab

Harvard students, equip scientific startups with the lab resources and programming needed to grow and scale life science ventures, and generate insights and expertise about what it will take for Harvard to continue to build a successful... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Scientific Research and Development Services

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Ty Geri | MBA

matters. Professional goals: My long-term goal is to build and scale technology products that enable people to live healthier lives in a sustainable world. I think the way to get there is by learning from and collaborating with people who... View Details

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The Roundtables - Entrepreneurship

Rock 100 Boston: The Roundtables Rock 100 Boston: The Roundtables is an intimate gathering for HBS rising entrepreneurial alumni from New England. The October 18-19, 2018 event features small group discussions led by HBS faculty and ‘Rock Star’ Advisory Board members... View Details

01 Jun 2014
News

School Ties

education and business competitiveness." Balancing the Books Four ways that business is partnering with PK-12 Enabling innovation. Companies in San Antonio, Texas, worked to gain voter approval for a tax increase to fund quality prekindergarten programs. View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

21 Aug 2019
Blog Post

Leveraging Academic Opportunities to Attain My Post-HBS Job

leverage two opportunities during my final semester. One was an Independent Project (IP), and the other was the final project for the Scaling Technology Ventures course. Career Exploration Using Alternative Methods In the fall... View Details

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Responsibilities and Acceptable Use - Research Computing Services

Ensure that you routinely monitor your interactive and batch jobs , so that you can terminate them if they stall or become idle. Remember that resources 'in use' are not available to anyone else. Please do scaling tests if planning large... View Details

01 Dec 2017
News

The First Five Years: Emmanuel Straschnov (MBA 2012)

people build things was very rewarding to him, and he felt he could do this at a larger scale for general-purpose programming. Josh started working on this idea in December 2011, more as a personal project; it wasn't even called Bubble... View Details

03 Mar 2015
First Look

First Look: March 3

advertising strategy, and leather sourcing issues. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/514078-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 815-070 The Grommet The Grommet, an online product launch platform, was at the brink of View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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