Scale - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Feb 2021
Blog Post

SIPs in 2021

the four days focused on a separate strategy: public market opportunities and risks, large scale investments through pension funds, measuring and integrating physical risks into investments, and scaling... View Details

01 Dec 2004
News

Retirement's Changing Face

be determined. Snoey says that riding has replaced his other great love, mountain climbing. Scaling over fifty mountains around the world, including Mount McKinley, Alpamayo, Kilimanjaro, Orizaba, and Mont Blanc, took its physical toll... View Details

Keywords: Personal Services

30 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

India’s Ambitious National Identification Program

you can't prove who you are.” The scope and scale of the project, and its progress so far in already enrolling 200 million people, make this the largest-scale project of its kind in the world, says Harvard Business School Professor Tarun... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

Portrait Project

Alyza Keshavjee

whispering in her ear, congratulating her on her promotion. You may find me in Geneva, working to scale the same solutions that made her successful. Either way, you'll find me, humbled by the challenge and committed to preserving her... View Details

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Europe - Global Activities 2021

players, such as Just Arrived, to initiate change. They, in turn, pressure decision makers to create conditions for them to reach scale and depth. Ultimately, you see, they drive progress in each other.” “ The case presents a range of... View Details

01 Jun 2012
News

What Industrial Policy?

manufacturing in this country might look a lot more attractive.) By subsidizing other industries so generously, we have tilted the scales away from manufacturing. Thus, its decline is not completely a result of “natural” market forces.... View Details

Keywords: Gary P. Pisano; Agriculture; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance; Health, Social Assistance; Manufacturing

25 Mar 2016
News

Putting Faith in a Good Education

Peru, Rwanda, Liberia, and Burkina Faso, to help improve the learning environment. He hopes to scale Edify, from affecting nearly 400,000 children currently to 2 million children in the next decade. It’s an ambitious objective that draws... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

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In the News - Entrepreneurship

Scaling a Family Business While Maintaining Founding Values Re: Henry McGee 17 Dec 2024 Marketplace In Many Cities, a Century-Old Dinner Model Is Getting New Life Re: Michael Kaufman 10 Dec 2024 Family Capital The FamCap25 – Women, Boston... View Details

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

The Knowledge Coach

employees against incompetence and inability to scale up with the company. In interviewing Majmudar, we thought we had reached the end of the knowledge transfer chain. But no. He was coaching three of his friends who were starting up... View Details

Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap

01 Jun 2022
News

Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students

ventures—brings together many of them to discuss critical issues they’re facing, and faculty are a part of those conversations. Our alumni who have founded and scaled successful companies have been very willing to come back and be a part... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

23 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Strategy for Small Fish

a fundamental change in technology strategy models. In a vertically integrated setting, a company needs to develop into a massive organization and cover a broad variety of business areas in order to scale and survive. This makes View Details

Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien

14 Oct 2020
Blog Post

Creating the Minority Renaissance for Venture Capital: Interview with Henri Pierre-Jacques and Jarrid Tingle, Managing Partners at Harlem Capital

weren’t any VC funds of scale that had partners of color; the VC funds that did have partners of color were smaller,” he said. “And from a diversity perspective, most funds were gender focused versus racially focused.” With an... View Details

10 Jul 2015
Blog Post

Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught?

business development roles. That class, called Launching Technology Ventures, is dedicated to helping train executives in the art of launching, building and scaling startups. Some people wonder whether entrepreneurship can be taught. The... View Details

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HBS - From The Dean

digital transformation, which means creating a digital research infrastructure and a delivery platform where we can scale our impact exponentially. The third engine is leveraging the power of Harvard University, building bridges to the... View Details

19 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

Climbing the Great Wall of Trust

five-point scale about how much they could rely on those partners to complete tasks effectively (in order to measure cognitive trust), and how much the partners shared the same goals and feelings (in order to measure affective trust).... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

16 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers

Value A transnational brand is the corporate brand of firms that market globally in order to leverage economies of scale and scope, according to HBS professors Douglas Holt, John Quelch, and co-author Earl Taylor of Research... View Details

Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors

19 Nov 2013
First Look

First Look: November 19

this "operational transparency" in government services-seeing the work that government is doing-expressed more positive attitudes toward government and greater support for maintaining or expanding the scale of government... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Apr 2007
What Do You Think?

Will Market Forces Stop Global Warming?

Summing Up Debate on this month's questions occurred on at least three levels. Is global warming occurring? Do humans (primarily through CO2 emissions) have much to do with it? Should we rely on market forces to provide appropriate responses, or will this require... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Energy; Utilities

24 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

Managing Alignment as a Process

product category to attract the customer into the store (measured by the category market share); (2) sharing real estate in malls by building clusters of SMI stores and brands (measured by sales per square foot and multi-store traffic); (3) purchasing economies of... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Consumer Products; Retail

Profile

Sheila Lirio Marcelo

assets to build something that could be expanded beyond a single niche. “From day one, because of my learning at Upromise, where it was my job to lead the building of that product, I had to learn about scale and platform. So from... View Details

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