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18 Oct 2021
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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

Keywords: Consumer Products

20 Oct 2020
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Changing the Face of Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital at Harlem Capital

year at HBS, I found that there weren’t any VC funds of scale that had partners of color; the VC funds that did have partners of color were smaller,” Pierre-Jacques said. “And from a diversity perspective, most funds were gender focused... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital / Private Equity

04 Mar 2022
Blog Post

Advice from My HBS Career Journey in Renewable Energy

figuring out exactly what career path that I want to take to have the biggest impact. I built up the operator experience, so now I want to get some investment experience. I will take what I learned at HBS into the investing world to figure out how to deploy capital at... View Details

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Contemporary Black Artists and Public Art | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

HBO Home Entertainment, the digital and DVD program distribution division of Home Box Office. He joined the HBS faculty in 2013 and he co-designed and teaches the courses Arts and Cultural Entrepreneurship, and Scaling Minority... View Details

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Space, Public And Commercial Economics (SPACE) - Course Catalog

transform the kinds and scale of value we derive from space and even our relationship to it, namely by making it a place where we can live and work. At the vanguard of developing these applications is a concept that has inspired space... View Details

31 Jan 2025
News

New York, Boston Alumni Volunteer to Boost Small Businesses

wide array of issues, including revising business plans, scaling operations, marketing, finance, human resources, and more. “For HBS alumni, this is an opportunity to give back to the community by volunteering their time and expertise to... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

25 Aug 2020
Blog Post

Hikma Health + HBS MBAs Crowdsource Largest County-Level COVID-19 Dataset

coupled with any number of other data sources to perform unique and more detailed analyses on factors like demographic disparities, political alignment, or population density in relation to local COVID-19 policies. What’s next for the project? Cray: To View Details

25 Aug 2022
News

Case Study: Sound Check

making sure our existing customers still win and that we can still grow in that market,” says Pemberton. Should LS stick with the formula that’s been working, or should they make the leap to enterprise sales and commit to the scaling it... View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Jun 2018
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Disrupting India’s Dental Market

economies of scale or scope. Dental practices were typically a single office run by the same person who wielded the mirror and probe. Chains usually topped out around a dozen locations, which Singh concluded was the most a medical... View Details

Keywords: Sasha Issenberg

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

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
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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 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

24 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

Are Assets Only for America’s Wealthy?

insurance, CDs, and transaction accounts for the poorest families are difficult to build and scale to the many millions of families who live below the poverty line. Let's use the dot.com dividend to solve this problem.— Peter Tufano... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

07 Dec 2016
Blog Post

Marketing Reimagined: A Recap of the 2016 Marketing Innovation Conference

co-chairs. The day kicked off with a unique keynote. Five executives from successful startups took the stage to answer questions like “How do you acquire new customers & scale a brand while operating without a physical footprint?” or... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports

22 Apr 2022
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Celebrating Earth Day 2022 with the HBS Business and Environment Initiative

my skills and experience to reduce the friction that tough-tech ideas face on their path to scale and bring new technologies to the world, both as an investor and operator. I’m a technologist at heart, but if there's one realization that... View Details

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Navigating Your Worth: AI, Negotiations, and the Nature of Expertise - Course Catalog

and Faculty This course is designed to help students consider how to develop and value their expertise in a world where cognitive skills that were exclusively human are increasingly being built into models that can be scaled and continue... View Details

28 May 2019
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Research Brief: Field Research

philanthropist to give us $1 million to start a nonprofit to design, evaluate, and scale this service.” In 2015, Cole and Kremer launched Precision Agriculture for Development, together with Dan Björkegren of Brown University and Heiner... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Crop Production; Agriculture

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