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- July 2019 (Revised May 2021)
- Case
Acelerex
By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
In early 2019, Randell Johnson, Founder and Chief Executive of Acelerex, was reflecting on the company’s first year of rapid growth and the challenges of scaling the business that lay ahead. Acelerex was riding the waves of change taking place in electrical power grids...
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Energy;
Energy Sources;
Growth Management;
Expansion;
Global Strategy;
Cash Flow;
Energy Industry;
Web Services Industry;
Consulting Industry
Wells, John R., and Benjamin Weinstock. "Acelerex." Harvard Business School Case 720-360, July 2019. (Revised May 2021.)
- 05 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Business and the Global Poor
default. Finally, companies are challenged to find ways to bring BOP initiatives to scale and sustainability within the time frames dictated by traditional corporate targets. In many BOP ventures, the true profit driver lies in volume...
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by Sean Silverthorne
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Podcast - Business & Environment
on Northvolt, a Sweden-based start-up company producing batteries for Europe’s EV auto manufacturers. They'll discuss Northvolt’s efforts to build government partnerships, hire the right people, and attract financing in order to View Details
- 17 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 17
in partnered R&D projects. March 2015 Journal of Operations Management Collaboration in Multi-Partner R&D Projects: The Impact of Partnering Scale and Scope By: Mishra, Anant, Aravind Chandrasekaran, and Alan MacCormack...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Asia Pacific - Global
continuing to scale BIG company-wide while combining technology with the human infrastructure needed to optimize the program’s success, and fostering more breakthrough, "extra-corerestrial" (beyond the core business) ideas within BIG....
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- 26 May 2023
- Blog Post
Bringing Space Tech Back to Earth
degree in mechanical engineering from MIT, Sweeney worked for a pair of technology start-ups in the three years before coming to Harvard. Neither experience ended the way she wanted: one company laid her off after going bankrupt when the...
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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research
data start-ups on the other—offering data-intensive, analytics-based services that could connect to any industrial device. So GE launched a multibillion-dollar initiative focused on what it calls the industrial internet: adding digital...
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Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research
agencies, and Fortune 500 executives. The bet: by providing "no-strings-attached" help to ecosystem partners, the partners might someday reciprocate by steering founders seeking funding to a16z. The case closes by asking whether a16z should seek to double its View Details
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
important strategic choice for the future. Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/617062-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 517-065 Luminopia: Improving Treatment for Visual Disorders Luminopia—a start-up founded in...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29
Repository Use in Scaling Service Operations By: Valentine, Melissa A., Tom Fangyun Tan, Bradley R. Staats, and Amy C. Edmondson Abstract—To scale service operations requires sharing knowledge across the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Nov 2021
- In Practice
What's the Role of Business in Confronting Climate Change?
The 26th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, also known as COP26, ended with a hard-fought pact that called on businesses and governments to meet their climate change goals faster. The event followed an August report by the Intergovernmental...
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by Lynn Schenk and Dina Gerdeman
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Nonprofit Strategy & Governance | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
it would be at some point much later in my career. Then it just occurred to me: Well, why not now? That insight led Featured Research Should Your Start-up Be For-profit or Nonprofit? A Guide for Social Entrepreneurs By: Cait Brumme &...
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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
changes have been accelerated by technology, the pandemic, rising interest rates, and inflation. But the managerial and resource-allocation implications of these developments for start-ups and established companies are often...
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Leadership - Faculty & Research
which would go on to be realized and funded as projects by senior management. Croitoru spent three years refining the program, expanding its reach from 3,500 to all 12,500 ICL employees in four new languages. To push the program forward, he anticipated two challenges...
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Curriculum - Business & Environment
profitably address these challenges, the skills that managers, entrepreneurs, and investors rely on to balance impact and profit, and how to scale solutions that address societal and environmental issues. For the full listing, click here....
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- 06 Sep 2022
- Blog Post
Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business & Environment
is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage climate tech start-ups that reduce CO2 emissions by at least 2.5 Gt by 2050. The $110M fund focuses on early-stage companies commercializing novel technologies and innovating business...
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Past Issues - Alumni
Gretchen Howard on the deep impact of a new generation of investors—and what happens when finance becomes a common language Happy Returns HBS celebrates reunions on a grand scale Complete Table of Contents June 2022 Alumni Achievement...
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- 19 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
2023 Summer Internships in Business & Environment
(MS/MBA 2024, Section K), Summer Internship: Summer Associate, Clean Energy Ventures Clean Energy Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage climate tech start-ups that reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 2.5...
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Faculty & Advisors - MBA
imperative to scale beyond a single instance, and to reach more people and urban places. Tom Clay MBA ’97, Harvard University; BA, Mathematics, Princeton University. Tom Clay has 20 years of experience successfully commercializing new...
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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship
company Excara and switched to selling enterprise software for managing product content. In 2002, he started two nonprofits in response to the sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church. He is currently acting VP of Product Strategy for Authoria as he researches and...
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