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- 01 Mar 2014
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Case Study: Gazelle's New Predators
(MBA 1994) "For a pioneering intermediary like Gazelle, there are in principle two ways (not mutually exclusive) to sustain its advantage over the late but numerous entrants. One is to create network effects by moving to a marketplace intermediation model. The other is...
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- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Tickling the Ivories
producer (sex, lies, and videotape), and is a prolific author. Founder and chairman of the San Francisco–based Institute for Large Scale Innovation, he advises corporations and governments on innovation, organizational transformation, and...
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- 24 Apr 2014
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Betting big on star power can be a winning strategy in business—not just show business
business,” says Elberse. Blockbuster strategies work because audiences value high production values and strong brands—notably A-list stars—and they like to make choices based on personal recommendations and buzz. Further, blockbuster View Details
- 02 Mar 2023
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Carbon's Second Act
Photo credits: Brenae Bowers Brix and Russ Campbell Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: This story starts the way all classic stories of tech entrepreneurship do: In Todd Brix's garage. Brix (MBA 1997) started his career in the...
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- 01 Jun 2024
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The Bookshelf: Try As One Might
A professor of management at the Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia and a leading expert on design thinking, Jeanne Liedtka (MBA 1981) helps people make better decisions through experimentation. The concept sounds simple enough in the...
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- 20 Aug 2015
- Blog Post
AVICII: REFLECTIONS ON MANAGING THE BRAND OF A GLOBAL SUPERSTAR
company was very much like working for a start up that is on the precipice of transitioning into a larger company. How do you maintain the culture of freedom and creativity while setting yourself up to scale globally by taking on more...
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A Catalyst for Commitment | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
work I want to be doing in the world.” Last year, Global Citizen Year placed 100 fellows in Brazil, Ecuador, and Senegal. And thanks to a recent partnership with Teach For India, the organization will expand its geographic reach and scale...
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Financial Management of Smaller Firms - Course Catalog
produce a service or product for which a current profitable business model exists (as distinct from many VC-backed developmental businesses), and frequently the businesses are of a scale that they can be acquired and owned by individuals...
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- 25 Feb 2020
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How Artificial Intelligence is Changing Business
Administration. “The traditional model has been turned upside down. Having the data to innovate at scale is now the main thing.” Lakhani and Marco Iansiti, the David Sarnoff Professor of Business Administration, are frequent...
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Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2004
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Kilimanjaro
porters carried about 35 pounds of supplies on their heads and backs. They scaled the mountain effortlessly, often wearing just flip-flops. “The awe and respect we felt for them was really quite overwhelming,” said Linda, who suffered...
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- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)
It's Climate Week in New York City. The schedule features a UN Climate Summit, a People's Climate March, the Clinton Global Initiative, substantial criticism of the whole endeavor, and plenty of agitated interaction. There is a lot of noise here. How can businesses cut...
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Lara Hodgson
rapid scale mode. In 2014, we grew 3X and in 2015, we’re on par to do that again. How many small businesses are you working with? One hundred and fifty small businesses. Up to now we didn’t let our head of marketing do any talking. It was...
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- 03 Jun 2021
- Blog Post
HBS Pilots First Impact Investing Fund
with the intent of scaling BIPOC-led and owned small businesses. The team believes that HBS students are uniquely positioned to support these kinds of investments, which typically have smaller ticket sizes, because they can bring down the...
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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog
(ROICC) (also listed under Entrepreneurial Management and General Management) George Serafeim Spring2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Strategy Execution Dennis Campbell Spring2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Systems for Scaling Ventures (SSV) (also listed under Entrepreneurial...
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- 24 Mar 2016
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A Fitness Industry Innovator Powers On
rebranding the club, and those that followed, as 24 Hour Fitness—would alter the industry forever, with 24 Hour Fitness growing to 420 clubs, 20,000 employees, and over $1 billion in annual revenues. “In the fitness industry, there are very major economies of View Details
- 25 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 25
informed individuals is likely to lead to improvements in dealing with the problem of economic benchmarking. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2517496 Scale and Innovation During Two U.S. Breakthrough Eras By: Nicholas, Tom...
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Carmen Nobel
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Impact Stories | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Impact on a Global Scale Thomas Tierney MBA 1980 “We are living at an extraordinary point in the arc of history,&... INITIATIVES focus on societal challenges that are too complex for any one discipline or industry to solve alone.
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- 29 Sep 2020
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New Life for Old Tech: Startup Provides Network Security Solutions for Obsolete Devices
device-specific representation of each device on the network, and our generalizable machine learning approach and software-based installation allows us to scale to all legacy and modern devices.” For Breen, the biggest challenges of...
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- 13 Jun 2017
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Benefits of the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program
like Launching Tech Ventures, Strategy & Technology, Scaling Tech Ventures, and Entrepreneurial Sales and Marketing. He also spent much of his two years at HBS working on his own startup and taking advantage of the school’s...
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- 22 Feb 2022
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A Focus on Latinx Entrepreneurs
country. “What we do is invest in businesses that are growing faster than the GDP, which is climbing now because of the recovery, but traditionally, it’s been 2 to 3 percent over the last 10 to 20 years,” Perez says. “We want to bring our skill set and experience to...
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Jennifer Gillespie