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- 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
- 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
- Blog Post
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
- 16 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
What Happens When Zambian Schoolgirls Receive Negotiation Training
women throughout Africa and, indeed, around the world, given the low-cost nature of the model and its potential for scaling up in the future. That is a primary reason McGinn and her colleagues have already made their curriculum available... View Details
Keywords: Re: Kathleen L. McGinn
- 01 Jun 2010
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Social Reporting
nonprofits to achieve their missions. How Do I Sell Csr To Investors And Other Stakeholders During A Financial Crisis? Corporate Social Responsibility in a Downturn Financial turmoil is not a reason to scale back on CSR programs—quite the... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 10 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - Innovations to Address the Global Water Crisis
area.” – Page 18-19 of Interview Transcript Watch this video clip and download Anil Jain’s full interview transcript to learn how Jain Irrigation continues to invest in R&D and innovation in order to both scale their business and... View Details
- 28 Jan 2011
- News
HBS Faculty Approves Curriculum Innovation
characterized the FIELD course as a "step change" that builds on experiences first-year students already get on a smaller scale and in a variety of ways. Significantly, the FIELD course "ups the ante" in three key content areas:... View Details
- 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
- 20 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Long-Term Fix to US Competitiveness
day or two a week at a major corporations, receive mentorship, and are matched with a "work buddy." The model should be scaled up to include the state's other 14 community colleges, she said. Gregory Bialecki, secretary for the... View Details
Keywords: by Stephanie Schorow & Harvard Gazette
- 18 Nov 2021
- News
Strength in Numbers
what’s working with respect to mental health, and also bring scale and resources to bear, so that we can help these organizations and create a network effect? We will identify synergies across our grantee web to find opportunities where... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Read All About It: Journalism Can Be Profitable
news content creation business. Creating high-quality news content is an expensive endeavor and one that doesn’t scale that easily. These companies are platforms that can aggregate consumer demand and sell advertising against that. It’s... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Realities of the Refugee Crisis
seen this scale of refugee crisis since the aftermath of World War II. Second, from the late 1990s, the EU has been putting in place common border policies and a common asylum system, but this new institutional infrastructure has not been... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments
likely to continue due to privatization, deregulation, and globalization. “In an increasingly global business environment, achieving minimum efficient scale in production requires massive capital investment,” Esty explains. In one case... View Details
- 07 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 7
invest in external R&D to acquire new product lines and in internal R&D to improve their existing product lines. A baseline model derives the theoretical implications of weaker scaling for external R&D versus internal R&D,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
investing, bringing transparency to the financial services market, and enabling retail investors to invest their capital in a way that aligned with their values. However, getting to scale and profitability in the crowded robo-advisors... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Apr 2022
- News
Home Grown
kind of scaling itself up and mobile internet coming to the foray, developing countries will actually kind of rise because you know, now every consumer would have a computing device in their hands. And if that were to be true, then... View Details
- 04 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
African American Student Union Spotlight on Tech
experience and resources, I could support tech-centric underrepresented founders in building and scaling their ventures and establishing themselves as pillars within their respective communities. Ideally, this would have a cascading... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
A Jolt for the African Coffee Industry
as a cash crop, so they tended not to drink it,” says Chijioke Dozie. In Rwanda, Dozie saved the washing station by banding it together with two others, generating the volume necessary to justify further investment. But the new scale only... View Details