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- 08 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 8
and conditions and then leveraging that experience to develop disruptive innovations targeted at a global market. Scale and entrepreneurship—god and small things—can, indeed, cohabit and thrive in the developing world. This combination... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Do Social Movements Sway Voters? Not Really, Except for One
time and the large number of protesters who took to the streets may have been factors. “Clearly the scale of the protest matters, but it cannot just be that.” “If you ask anyone to cite important [protests] that took place in the US in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jul 2018
- Blog Post
Embracing Entrepreneurship & the Asian American Community
launch Fish Sauce, I took advantage of the Entrepreneurs in Residence (Eir) at HBS to learn about building the podcast. In the summer, I received the Rock Summer Fellowship so we could continue scaling out our operations; from hosting our... View Details
- 15 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Navigating the Future of Renewable Energy at Port Esbjerg
and a presentation by Total Energies, and a walkthrough of the port’s district heating plant. Port Esbjerg offered us a unique perspective on how a port can be a central hub in the transition to renewable energy. Adapting Infrastructure for Green Giants To cater to the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
One Student’s HBS Journey
interests choral conducting, prime numbers, carpentry, writing, and yoga. She spent the January Term backpacking around Africa by herself before joining the HBS Outdoors Club to scale Mt. Kilimanjaro. In a regular Harbus column, titled... View Details
- 04 Jan 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Sustain Organization Diversity?
been winning the competition repeatedly. As Working Knowledge reader John Sandvik put it: “A scale tipped to either side is not ideal the balance already is far in favor of the largest businesses, and some of the changes they have managed... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 19 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Privacy Protection Notices Turn Off Shoppers
privacy notice at checkout, with language drawn from actual notices used by Nordstrom and Macy’s; other’s didn’t. Asked to rate on a scale of 1 to 100 how likely they were to go through with the purchase, the notice-aware group averaged... View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Activist Investors Became Respectable
online well before any regulatory filing disclosed his holdings in the company. These tactics may have been designed for drama, but the investment strategy and its scale are nothing unusual today. Activist shareholders and the hedge funds... View Details
- 16 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
What Loyalty? High-End Customers are First to Flee
differences from market to market in what types of customers you attract and retain," Buell says. In one market, the company may be at the top of the service scale and attract "high maintenance" customers who tend to be... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 29 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
Merging the Worlds of Finance, Investing, and Environmental Impact
grow companies. Earlier this year we launched our buyout fund focused on scaling mature companies in the sector, which I now co-lead. Can you give me an example of a deal you’ve worked on recently? We’re just closing on our first deal... View Details
- 04 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
Finding My Passion in the Startup Space
aspirational in the early days (especially considering the market conditions in Greece at the time). Blueground has managed to scale seamlessly with over 2,500 apartments and 400 team members in nine cities; New York, Los Angeles, San... View Details
- 30 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Leadership That Defines you – Reflecting on my Time at HBS
inspire change on a global scale and challenge our understanding of society. Two months ago, I graduated from Harvard Business School. It still feels like a dream that I was even admitted. I feel so blessed and grateful to have had the... View Details
- 03 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Companies Can Increase Market Rewards for Sustainability Efforts
sentiment have been undervalued.” Domino's vs. Cheesecake Factory In one of the paper’s examples, Domino’s Pizza and The Cheesecake Factory both scored an average ESG performance of 5.2 (out of 10) on MSCI’s scale based on factors that... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Case Study: Glass Half Full
leave them in bins that are collected for free by Neutrall’s partner. “In the process of building an American carbon-neutral supply chain, our partners essentially allowed us to build and scale a private, local recycling network,” notes... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Alumni Take Action to Improve US Competitiveness
to work on, got data, used their networks, and persevered till they saw results,” she says. “What was the secret sauce that made it all happen?” The goal, Raman says, is to continue to expand the scope and scale of alumni efforts,... View Details
- 16 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
Finding my Passion in the Startup Space
conditions in Greece at the time). Blueground has managed to scale seamlessly with over 2,500 apartments and 400 team members in nine cities; New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, Chicago, Washington D.C., Dubai, Istanbul and... View Details
- 20 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Much Is Freedom Worth? For Gig Workers, a Lot.
(Oberholzer-Gee says food-delivery drivers tend to work shorter shifts, and so are less likely than other gig economy workers to use the work as a primary income source.) “This suggests that the ability to scale working hours up or down... View Details
- 15 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
A Mass Crisis Can Overwhelm Health Care. Liberia Found a Solution.
country, Liberia, that was able to meet a similar, deadly threat by supplementing a health care system emerging from decades of civil strife with a cadre of less trained, but highly capable, community health workers. Could the Liberian model help with COVID-19 and... View Details
- 11 May 2020
- Op-Ed
Immigration Policies Threaten American Competitiveness
It is no secret that immigration has reshaped American innovation. Immigrants are the backbone of America’s most innovative industries, provide a quarter of our patent applications, and are numerous among our science and engineering superstars. Taken from World... View Details
Keywords: by William R. Kerr