Scale - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

19 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: “The Architecture of Innovation”

investment team, and the rewards can be scaled down accordingly. "One frequent manifestation of these confused objectives is a difficulty in killing projects” But in most programs, the demands on the corporate venturing team are... View Details

Keywords: by Josh Lerner; Financial Services

04 Aug 2003
What Do You Think?

Are We Facing an Attitude Shortage?

problem, according to several readers, is identifying attitude in the first place. Bradburne Millett asks, "What sort of measurements are you contemplating to reveal desired attitudes on the scale needed to recognize their presence... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

29 Feb 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: JSW Steel and Cement and the Quest to Capture Carbon in Hard to Abate Sectors

is economically unviable, and it would require a lot of process innovation to make financial sense and for them to scale it. Despite the potential here, Mr. Acharya doesn’t “see it happening in the next 20 years”. However, regulation... View Details

01 Dec 2019
News

Case Study: Farming It Out

only do so much as a startup. —Glenn Lovelace (MBA 1987) At this stage, the goal should be doing the one thing that is distinctive and value-added very well, and scaling it up to where it is hard for others to duplicate. (Please just be... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Agriculture

16 Dec 2014
First Look

First Look: December 16

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/615027-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 915-404 HandsOn Bay Area: Scaling Up Community Service HandsOn Bay Area, an organization devoted to the performance of (and development of leaders for)... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Apr 2008
Research Event

Venture Capital

capital firms strategize and differentiate. Global strategy—a new form of herd behavior? How to scale up the partnership to the global operations level. Protecting venture capital operations from legal shortcomings and corruption. What... View Details

Keywords: by Josh Lerner; Financial Services

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Alumni-Authored Books | Baker Library

Transforming Your Business to Thrive in the Me-Centric Consumer Revolution . Nava Correa, Arturo: Logra Tu Dream: How 50 Successful Latinos & Latinas Turned Their Dreams Into Reality. Nwuneli, Ndidi: Food Entrepreneurs in Africa: Scaling... View Details

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Reunions: Accelerating Climate Solutions with Professor Jim Matheson (MBA 2001) - Blog - Business & Environment

immerse into the reality of the possible paths forward (trigger warning: many are quite dire). John Doerr 's " Speed & Scale " site (and book) - study the solution areas, tools and OKRs to see what can and must be done, and how well we... View Details

07 May 2020
News

Ensuring Student Equity

2008, the nonprofit has grown to a staff of 35, who work with 2,500 volunteers each year and 50 partner organizations. Before the pandemic, Grumhaus, a former investment banker at Goldman Sachs and founding team member of City Year in Chicago, was preparing to View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

09 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?

of systemic issues that have gradually worsened since the 2007-2008 financial crisis. At the heart of the problem lies the consulting firms’ aggressive pursuit of growth as their primary objective, which has fundamentally reshaped their View Details

Keywords: by David Fubini; Consulting

01 Mar 2013
News

A Healthy Profit

a profit-making opportunity and a legitimate part of the financial-services industry, this scale constraint was lifted. "Only when an economic activity generates above-average returns can it become an industry," says Chu, "and only an... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance

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

14 Jun 2011
First Look

First Look: June 14

Success requires appreciating the diversity at the base of the pyramid and the importance of scale in undertaking ventures there. Witness Manila Water's success in the Philippines and Hindustan Unilever's in South Asia. Failure to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Sep 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

Capitalism Works Better When I Can See What You're Doing

greater support for maintaining or expanding the scale of its programs. Lifting the Veil: The Benefits of Cost TransparencyA firm's costs are typically tightly guarded secrets. Researchers identify when and why firms benefit from... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

24 Feb 2022
Blog Post

African American Student Union Spotlight on the Public Sector

power of the private sector. Business is uniquely effective at scaling sustainable solutions. Ensuring that existing businesses led our interventions enabled us to avoid the all-too-common pitfall in foreign aid: offering band-aid... View Details

01 Mar 2021
Blog Post

Climate Finance SIP

climate risk as an asset owner, measuring climate risk and using metrics in portfolio construction, incorporating physical climate risk into portfolio analysis. The last day turned to financing innovation with a focus on early stage venture, catalytic, and tough tech... View Details

04 Sep 2019
News

A Wide Screen Approach

platforms at once. “Nobody had streamed a service at that scale before,” says Wilson. “We were holding our breath, because we were basically betting our business that this was going to be a successful pivot.” It felt like a sharp turn not... View Details

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