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Kraft Accelerator

registries can drive new disease insights and prove key in advancing early stage research. Wuxi NextCODE’s CMO Richard Williams talks about driving precision medicine research and how to handle, manage, and gain insights from the massive View Details

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Industrial Production & Materials - Business & Environment

technologies. At Athena Cleantech, we are helping companies minimize their carbon footprint while creating an ecosystem for sustainable technologies to scale rapidly.” Prashant Pundrik PLDA 9 Director, Athena Cleantech Pte. Ltd. Lisa Yao... View Details

25 Aug 2022
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Action Plan: Fired Up

indie-music enthusiasts whose lifestyles were in sync with the company’s small, young workforce, he notes, “We didn’t have to wonder what our consumers would like; we shared their passions.” When he accepted the job at the then-Oregon-based Traeger in 2014, Andrus was... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; company culture; barbecue; entertaining; food; marketing; brand

28 May 2019
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Ask the Expert: In Security

credit card companies have become much better at shutting that down quickly.” Now hackers look for personally identifiable information—think birthdays, social security numbers, and addresses—that they can sell on the underground market and use to build synthetic... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; cybersecurity

01 Apr 1998
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Speakers Share Triumphs and Challenges

continued M&A activity among companies seeking economies of scale and scope and attempting to take full advantage of political liberalization, globalization, and emerging markets. This positive business climate, Corzine noted, will be... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

19 Jul 2011
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Brightening the Future

in working with government and NGO players to get his hybrid solar network up and running. “To have large scale and sustainable impact in helping the poor, it is essential to enlist the power of business and the markets in a way that... View Details

Keywords: Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

09 Aug 2017
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"A Balance Between Autonomy and Resources to Help Me Learn."

interests.” By the early winter, Jon had moved to a second phase in which he “narrowed my personal funnel to project development” prospects. Most of the companies he investigated, given their modest scale and early stage of growth,... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

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Stephanie Tilenius

scale up by building communities that spread the word virally. Recently, Stephanie returned to HBS in a different role: as the protagonist in a case professor Tom Eisenmann created about PayPal Merchant Services. “I was really impressed... View Details

22 Nov 2011
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A Storybook Beginning

Valley. At the same time, Worldreader is busy raising money and working with publishers to expand the list of titles that can be downloaded via Africa’s cell phone network. As the organization scales up, Risher says he is relying heavily... View Details

Keywords: Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

04 Jun 2024
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Finding Alignment to Make Impact: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017)

seminars that culminated in recruiting partners extending job offers to students was an especially meaningful experience because she was a part of creating a life-changing impact for young people from underrepresented communities. It was this drive to make an impact at... View Details

23 Feb 2009
Research & Ideas

Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn

he was, and wondered why I had asked. Well, I told him of some rules of thumb I have been working on to isolate entrepreneurial opportunities in a recession, and this question was meant as a test for one of the rules. I knew of several new car dealerships that were... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2006
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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

27 Jan 2014
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Opportunity Abounds

voice in our global economy. One small example: with 92 million Facebook users, India is on track to become the largest Facebook user market by 2016, outgrowing the US with 152 million users. The scale of India’s challenges is also... View Details

Keywords: Technology

24 Sep 2015
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Why We Recruit: Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation

who are some of the most exceptional leaders, to help them scale their innovative ideas for making the world a better place. We have a very collaborative culture and a team of smart and passionate individuals. Our leadership in the... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

05 Dec 2023
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Taking Learning Beyond the Classroom

scaling to drive environmental impact. The panelists emphasized the critical importance of a measurement and accounting system that takes a holistic view of emissions to help make informed decisions and hold every step of the supply chain... View Details

21 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018

increased biosimilar penetration. Our estimates can inform ongoing policy discussions. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54886 forthcoming Manufacturing & Service Operations Management Fluid Teams and Knowledge Retrieval: View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

05 Nov 2019
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Environmental Change and Ground-level Impact

What do you do on a day-to-day basis? It varies quite a lot. In general, I’m focused on thinking about how we’ll scale up our production, first to make more prototypes, and eventually to the point where we are a mature company with... View Details

31 Oct 2019
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5 Things on My Mind in the Second Year of the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program

in two years, we have the summer off to pursue either our own startups or an internship. I spent my summer at Facebook as a Strategy Intern, helping Facebook scale its data center capacity effectively and efficiently. My summer internship... View Details

29 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

'Green Bonds' May Be Our Best Bet for Environmental Damage Control

ownership in a small group of investors—reflecting the smaller subset of investors who place value on environmental benefits, such as funds that have some green or social investing orientation. While the difference in return is admittedly small, it could be a factor in... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy; Utilities; Construction; Green Technology; Public Administration

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America's Digital Divide: Where Workers Are Falling Behind | Working Knowledge

demographic features to each ZIP code, including average income and education data. "The data allowed us to measure with unprecedented precision and scale the actual usage of technology in households," Sadun says. In measuring digital... View Details

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