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- 29 Apr 2022
- News
Clean Slate
that we were enabling people to scale up, to be the platform for this exchange and to help partnerships where corporates could find not-for-profits, not-for-profits could find donors, so that the whole sector could grow. Public Service... View Details
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52309 Harvard Business School Case 817-056 IguanaFix IguanaFix is a rapidly scaling Latin American startup that provides an online platform connecting consumers with home improvement... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
empirical regularities, and we quantify our framework by matching Census Bureau operating data with patent data for U.S. firms. We observe that internal innovation scales moderately faster with firm size than external innovation. Download... View Details
- 25 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]
1999 by chairman and CEO Michael Bronner, had all the scale anyone could ask for: to create a national customer-loyalty program (like airlines' frequent-traveler mileage points) which would pay consumers rebates on their shopping—not in... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?
Hall, who expects to commit up to $250 million over the next five years to create about 500 new charter schools. The Fund typically targets operators that run one or two successful charter schools and want to scale up to eight or more... View Details
- 12 Apr 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: The Trouble with Tariffs
likely get more serious. Huawei, the Chinese telecommunications equipment maker that has effectively been barred from selling into US markets, is now a leading innovator, and through sheer scale and scope of its engineering, is making... View Details
Keywords: by Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing; Auto; Steel; Air Transportation; Technology; Telecommunications
- 23 Feb 2015
- News
Preserving a Musical Tradition; Inspiring Future Generations
self-described amateur musician, who endured seven years of playing scales during childhood piano lessons, it was important that the curriculum be fun and engaging to the students. For guidance, de Menil has turned to the Suzuki method,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
HIV/AIDS and Business
of the workshops is to develop training programs in the prevention of HIV/AIDS that can be scaled to the needs of the organization and deliver key curricular materials and models over the Internet. The challenge is to overcome the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Alumni Books
results on the scale and higher energy levels. She dispels dieting myths, gives the lowdown on energy bars, green tea, and protein shakes, and offers unconventional tips (like how to break an exercise sweat at the office without anyone... View Details
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Why Home Construction Has Slumped for Decades | Working Knowledge
sector is very entrepreneurial. Many new firms are started every year, and the sector accounts for a disproportionate share of small businesses in America. But you also very rarely see those companies scale up in the way that other... View Details
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Leadership Execution and Action Planning (LEAP) - Course Catalog
what kind . Other topics include: Examining tradeoffs between taking immediate action and acting with an untested approach. The challenge of leading in situations where confusion and chaos often exist. Module 4: Scaling Expansion is... View Details
- 14 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 14, 2015
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/PEL073-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 515-102 AIP Healthcare Japan: Investing in Japan's Retirement Home Market The CEO of a health-care based REIT is considering alternative nursing home investment strategies. Students... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Can We Get To Where We Need To Go?
challenges, at times through public-private partnerships, can represent a "great investing opportunity" for companies like GE, he said. "When you're a big company, you have to play in big places," he said. "We can bring the View Details
- 26 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Clear Eye for Innovation
1990s, it was clear to Glenn Bradley, Ciba Vision's president, that J&J's dominance provided economies of scale that would doom his company to ever-shrinking profits. Without radically new products, Ciba Vision would slowly decline... View Details
- 20 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business and Environment
sufficiently scale operations and deliver meaningful impact. Elizabeth's role prior to HBS was an Associate at Providence Strategic Growth. Anand Gupta (MBA 2022, Section E), Summer Internship: Investment Banking Summer Associate at... View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Back at the Ranch
The summer training program at Bear Hug Cattle Company starts truly at square one. “The first day is about teaching the guys how to just be out here and not die,” says lead instructor Zach Aguilar, gazing out from under his broad-brimmed hat to the grassy rangelands of... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Case Study: Welcome Aboard
fraction of what other devices would cost up front, and when we’re at scale we can make a margin of over 90 percent on the refill packs, which has huge implications to our actual revenue model.” View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 21 Mar 2016
- HBS Case
Can Customer Reviews Be 'Managed?'
to some extent. If you have very few reviews then each additional review will help. Now at the margi, after you’ve had 100 reviews on TripAdvisor, what is the benefit of 101 reviews? Research was done to show that it’s very minor. You have to get View Details
- 09 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 9
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/115009-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 415-034 Micromax: Scaling the Largest Indian Mobile Handset Company It is January 2014 and Rahul Sharma, cofounder of Micromax Informatics (Micromax),... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 1
costs. But to realize those benefits, the acquirer needs to achieve economies of scale by absorbing the target's resources into its operations. CEOs, who are often unrealistic about the performance boost from such acquisitions, must be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne