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      • January–February 2023
      • Article

      The Overlooked Key to a Successful Scale-Up

      By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Davide Sola and Martin Kupp
      Many start-ups experience enormous popularity and runaway growth, but only a few go on to become stable giants. What separates them from the pack? They all go through a developmental stage called extrapolation, say three business school professors.
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      Keywords: Entrepreneurship And Strategy; Scalability; Business Startups; Growth and Development Strategy; Entrepreneurship
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      Rayport, Jeffrey F., Davide Sola, and Martin Kupp. "The Overlooked Key to a Successful Scale-Up." Harvard Business Review (January–February 2023): 56–65.
      • 2022
      • Book

      Empires of Ideas: Creating the Modern University from Germany to America to China

      By: William C. Kirby
      The modern university was born in Germany. In the twentieth century, the United States leapfrogged Germany to become the global leader in higher education. Will China challenge its position in the twenty-first?
      Today American institutions dominate nearly every...  View Details
      Keywords: University; Higher Education; History; United States; Germany; China
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      Kirby, William C. Empires of Ideas: Creating the Modern University from Germany to America to China. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2022.
      • 30 Nov 2021
      • Interview

      TikTok: Super App or Supernova?

      By: Jeffrey F. Rayport and Brian Kenny
      TikTok’s parent company, ByteDance, was launched in 2012 around the simple idea of helping users entertain themselves on their smartphones while on the Beijing Subway. By May 2020, TikTok operated in 155 countries and had roughly 1 billion monthly active users, placing...  View Details
      Keywords: Apps; Artificial Intelligence; Business Startups; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Business Model; Digital Platforms; Growth and Development Strategy; AI and Machine Learning; Social Media
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      "TikTok: Super App or Supernova?" Cold Call (podcast), Harvard Business Review Group, November 30, 2021. (Interviewed by Brian Kenny.)
      • September 2021
      • Case

      Worldreader: Helping Readers Build a Better World

      By: Marco Bertini, Elie Ofek and Julia Kelley
      Founded in 2010, Worldreader was an international nonprofit organization that promoted reading to children around the world. For many years, Worldreader distributed e-readers to under-resourced communities and funded its operations primarily through philanthropic...  View Details
      Keywords: Subscription Model; Price; Financial Strategy; Education; Early Childhood Education; Learning; Geography; Geographic Scope; Global Range; Goals and Objectives; Marketing; Marketing Strategy; Markets; Organizations; Mission and Purpose; Social Enterprise; Non-Governmental Organizations; Nonprofit Organizations; Society; Social Issues; Strategy; Commercialization; Expansion; Segmentation; Education Industry; Africa; Asia; Latin America; Europe; North and Central America; South America
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      Bertini, Marco, Elie Ofek, and Julia Kelley. "Worldreader: Helping Readers Build a Better World." Harvard Business School Case 522-003, September 2021.
      • May 2021
      • Supplement

      Hello Alfred: Come Home Happy — Operating the Business Model Exercise, Instructor Version

      By: Joseph B. Fuller and Christopher Payton
      On a mission to "automate the on-demand economy," Harvard Business School classmates Marcela Sapone and Jessica Beck launched Hello Alfred in 2013 to provide subscribers with an "Alfred" to complete various chores for a monthly fee. In early 2016, the company has built...  View Details
      Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Internet and the Web; Business Startups; Service Operations; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Service Industry; New York (city, NY); Boston
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      Fuller, Joseph B., and Christopher Payton. "Hello Alfred: Come Home Happy — Operating the Business Model Exercise, Instructor Version." Harvard Business School Spreadsheet Supplement 321-707, May 2021.
      • September–October 2020
      • Article

      A New Model for Ethical Leadership

      By: Max Bazerman
      Rather than try to follow a set of simple rules (“Don’t lie.” “Don’t cheat.”), leaders and managers seeking to be more ethical should focus on creating the most value for society. This utilitarian view, Bazerman argues, blends philosophical thought with business school...  View Details
      Keywords: Social Value; Leadership; Moral Sensibility; Ethics; Decision Making; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Society
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      Bazerman, Max. "A New Model for Ethical Leadership." Harvard Business Review 98, no. 5 (September–October 2020): 90–97.
      • July 2020 (Revised January 2021)
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      Vineet Nayar and Sampark Foundation: Frugal Innovation at Scale (A)

      By: Linda A. Hill and Emily Tedards
      In 2005, Vineet Nayar, the former CEO and Vice Chairman of HCL Technologies, and his wife, Anupama Nayar, committed $100 million of their personal wealth to found Sampark Foundation — a grant-making philanthropy with a mission to transform learning outcomes for 20...  View Details
      Keywords: Organizational Behavior; Cultural Change; Digital; Innovation; Experimentation; Metrics; Education Reform; Non-profit; Frugal Innovation; Scale; Ecosystem; Government; Education; Social Enterprise; Leadership; Leading Change; Change Management; Organizational Culture; Innovation Leadership; Nonprofit Organizations; Growth and Development Strategy; Information Technology; Digital Transformation; India
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      Hill, Linda A., and Emily Tedards. "Vineet Nayar and Sampark Foundation: Frugal Innovation at Scale (A)." Harvard Business School Case 421-015, July 2020. (Revised January 2021.)
      • July 2020 (Revised January 2021)
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      Vineet Nayar and Sampark Foundation: Frugal Innovation at Scale (A) (Abridged)

      By: Linda A. Hill and Emily Tedards
      In 2005, Vineet Nayar, the former CEO and Vice Chairman of HCL Technologies, and his wife, Anupama Nayar, committed $100 million of their personal wealth to found Sampark Foundation—a grant-making philanthropy with a mission to transform learning outcomes for 20...  View Details
      Keywords: Organizational Behavior; Organizational Alignment; Culture Change; Digital; Innovation; Experimentation; Metrics; Education Reform; Non-profit; Frugal Innovation; Scale; Ecosystem; Government; Education; Social Enterprise; Leadership; Leading Change; Change Management; Organizational Culture; Alignment; Innovation Leadership; Nonprofit Organizations; Growth and Development Strategy; Information Technology; Digital Transformation; India
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      Hill, Linda A., and Emily Tedards. "Vineet Nayar and Sampark Foundation: Frugal Innovation at Scale (A) (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 421-021, July 2020. (Revised January 2021.)
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      Relational Reconciliation: Socializing Others Across Demographic Differences

      By: Lakshmi Ramarajan and Erin M. Reid
      In demographically diverse organizations, employees charged with socializing others— socialization agents—must navigate a deep tension between the organization’s needs to integrate individuals into a collective and individuals’ needs for recognition of their unique...  View Details
      Keywords: Diversity; Organizational Culture; Identity; Employees
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      Ramarajan, Lakshmi, and Erin M. Reid. "Relational Reconciliation: Socializing Others Across Demographic Differences." Academy of Management Journal 63, no. 2 (April 2020): 356–385.
      • March 11, 2020
      • Editorial

      A Bolder Vision for Business Schools

      By: P. Tufano
      Business schools teach to a model that dates back to the 1950s. Given the growing demands on business to take a lead in confronting societal challenges, business schools need to update how they train business leaders and how they compete, argues Oxford’s Saïd School...  View Details
      Keywords: Business Schools; Business And Society; Business Education; Leadership Development; Business and Stakeholder Relations
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      Tufano, P. "A Bolder Vision for Business Schools." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (March 11, 2020).
      • March 2020
      • Module Note

      Business Model Transformation in the Platform Age

      By: Feng Zhu
      Although some digital platforms are highly successful, most firms today are still traditional product- or service-based firms. To take advantage of the opportunities created by platform business models, traditional firms can work with existing platforms to become their...  View Details
      Keywords: Platforms; Platform Businesses; Platform Disruption; Internet and the Web; Business Model; Transformation; Digital Platforms
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      Zhu, Feng. "Business Model Transformation in the Platform Age." Harvard Business School Module Note 620-109, March 2020.
      • 2020
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      Experimentation Works: The Surprising Power of Business Experiments

      By: Stefan Thomke
      Don’t fly blind. See how the power of experiments works for you. When it comes to improving customer experiences, trying out new business models, or developing new products, even the most experienced managers often get it wrong. They discover that intuition,...  View Details
      Keywords: Experimentation; Experiments; Market Research; Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Customers; Research
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      Thomke, Stefan. Experimentation Works: The Surprising Power of Business Experiments. Boston, MA: Harvard Business Review Press, 2020.
      • September 2019
      • Article

      Optimizing Reserves in School Choice: A Dynamic Programming Approach

      By: Franklyn Wang, Ravi Jagadeesan and Scott Duke Kominers
      We introduce a new model of school choice with reserves in which a social planner is constrained by a limited supply of reserve seats and tries to find an optimal matching according to a social welfare function. We construct the optimal distribution of reserves via a...  View Details
      Keywords: Matching; Reserves; Dynamic Programming; Marketplace Matching; Mathematical Methods
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      Wang, Franklyn, Ravi Jagadeesan, and Scott Duke Kominers. "Optimizing Reserves in School Choice: A Dynamic Programming Approach." Operations Research Letters 47, no. 5 (September 2019): 438–446.
      • March 2019 (Revised August 2019)
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      CareerWise Colorado

      By: Rawi Abdelal, Joseph B. Fuller and Matthew Preble
      CareerWise Colorado (CWC) is an organization that equips high school students with the skills to build successful careers through apprenticeships. Founded in 2016, the young organization has attracted interest from different groups and civic leaders from across the...  View Details
      Keywords: Apprenticeship; Nonprofit; Not For Profit; Labor Markets; Skills; Nonprofit Organizations; Education; Competency and Skills; Personal Development and Career; Growth and Development Strategy
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      Abdelal, Rawi, Joseph B. Fuller, and Matthew Preble. "CareerWise Colorado." Harvard Business School Case 319-001, March 2019. (Revised August 2019.)
      • March 2019
      • Case

      Investing in the Future: Corning Inc. and the Alternative School for Math and Science

      By: Derek van Bever and Miho Kubagawa
      In early 2017, Kim Frock (MBA 1987), founder and administrative head of school for the Alternative School for Math and Science (ASMS) in Corning, New York, is beginning to think through the issue of leadership succession at the school. Founded in close partnership with...  View Details
      Keywords: Middle School Education; Leadership; Management Succession; Partners and Partnerships; Business and Community Relations
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      van Bever, Derek, and Miho Kubagawa. "Investing in the Future: Corning Inc. and the Alternative School for Math and Science." Harvard Business School Case 319-059, March 2019.
      • January 2019
      • Case

      AIME High: A Social Entrepreneur's Moon Shot

      By: Christopher A. Bartlett
      Describes the entrepreneurial leadership of Jack Manning Bancroft (JMB), a young Indigenous Australian university student who created the Australian Indigenous Mentoring Experience (AIME), a nonprofit organization he formed to respond to the problem of Indigenous high...  View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Mission; Organization Culture; Non-profit; NGO; Social Entrepreneurship; Leadership; Global Strategy; Mission and Purpose; Secondary Education; Organizational Culture; Education Industry; Service Industry; Australia; United States
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      Bartlett, Christopher A. "AIME High: A Social Entrepreneur's Moon Shot." Harvard Business School Case 919-411, January 2019.
      • November–December 2018
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      Slack Time and Innovation

      By: Ajay Agrawal, Christian Catalini, Avi Goldfarb and Hong Luo
      Traditional innovation models assume that new ideas are developed up to the point where the benefit of the marginal project is just equal to the cost. Because labor is a key input to innovation when the opportunity cost of time is lower, such as during school breaks or...  View Details
      Keywords: Crowdfunding; Slack Time; Innovation and Invention; Labor; Projects; Complexity; Value
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      Agrawal, Ajay, Christian Catalini, Avi Goldfarb, and Hong Luo. "Slack Time and Innovation." Organization Science 29, no. 6 (November–December 2018): 1056–1073.
      • March 2018
      • Case

      Summit Public Schools (A)

      By: John J-H Kim and Aldo Sesia
      Summit Public Schools was a very successful charter management organization with schools in California and Washington State. The students came from a variety of socioeconomic backgrounds, many from economically disadvantaged households. While nearly all of its students...  View Details
      Keywords: K-12; Online Learning; Virtual Learning; Blended Learning; Secondary Education; Middle School Education; Early Childhood Education; Learning; Business Model; Performance Improvement; Technology
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      Kim, John J-H, and Aldo Sesia. "Summit Public Schools (A)." Harvard Business School Case 318-067, March 2018.
      • January 2017
      • Supplement

      Hello Alfred: Come Home Happy — Operating the Business Model Exercise

      By: Joseph B. Fuller and Christopher Payton
      On a mission to "automate the on-demand economy," Harvard Business School classmates Marcela Sapone and Jessica Beck launched Hello Alfred in 2013 to provide subscribers with an "Alfred" to complete various chores for a monthly fee. In early 2016, the company has built...  View Details
      Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Internet and the Web; Business Startups; Service Operations; Service Industry; New York (city, NY); Boston
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      Fuller, Joseph B., and Christopher Payton. "Hello Alfred: Come Home Happy — Operating the Business Model Exercise." Harvard Business School Spreadsheet Supplement 317-705, January 2017.
      • 2016
      • Working Paper

      Refugee Resettlement

      By: David Delacretaz, Scott Duke Kominers and Alexander Teytelboym
      Over 100,000 refugees are permanently resettled from refugee camps to hosting countries every year. Nevertheless, refugee resettlement processes in most countries are ad hoc, accounting for neither the priorities of hosting communities nor the preferences of refugees...  View Details
      Keywords: Refugees; Marketplace Matching; Mathematical Methods
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      Delacretaz, David, Scott Duke Kominers, and Alexander Teytelboym. "Refugee Resettlement." Working Paper, November 2016.
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