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The Scaling Lesson from Facebook’s Miraculous 10-Year Rise

Harvard Business Review

On February 4th, 2004, Harvard undergraduate Mark Zuckerberg launched “Thefacebook.” In early 2006, Diego Rodriguez and I started teaching a class we called “Creating Infectious Action” at the Stanford d. Each newcomer is assigned a mentor—usually an engineer who isn’t a manager—to help him or her navigate Bootcamp.

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An Insider’s Account of the Yahoo-Alibaba Deal

Harvard Business Review

The solution, we decided, was to acquire a local company that had already gained traction in the market and that could provide us with proven local management as well as help us with web search, which had become a priority after we bought U.S. We were optimistic about Yahoo’s future in China as the deal closed in January 2004.

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Scaling: The Problem of More

Harvard Business Review

Back in 2011, in Citrus Lane’s first six months, its small founding team worked in a house and ate lunch together every day around a big table. Between 2004 and 2006, for example, a Boston-based nonprofit called the Institute for Health Improvement led an effort called the “100,000 Lives Campaign” to raise awareness in U.S.

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The Comprehensive Business Case for Sustainability

Harvard Business Review

These require sophisticated, sustainability-based management. ” Improving risk management. Managing risks therefore requires making investment decisions today for longer-term capacity building and developing adaptive strategies. Investing in sustainability is not only a risk management tool; it can also drive innovation.

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9 Ways Social Media Can Make You A Better Leader

Terry Starbucker

Blogging about leadership organizes and crystallizes your thoughts – When I started writing about leadership on my blog back in 2006, I was surprised at how the act of putting things “on paper&# was so effective at taking the concepts in your head, organizing them, and converting them into quicker action. Great post!

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The Happiness Advantage: Researching Happiness at Hogwarts

Strategy Driven

This discovery has been repeatedly borne out by rigorous research in psychology and neuroscience, management studies, and the bottom lines of organizations around the globe. In 2006, he was Head Teaching Fellow for ‘Positive Psychology,’ the most popular course at Harvard at the time. This isn’t just an empty mantra.

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How to Pull Your Company Out of a Tailspin

Harvard Business Review

When a company is in free fall, it makes sense to replace the management team, for all sorts of reasons. Thiry immediately replaced most of the management team. When Knudstorp took over as CEO in 2004, he quickly settled on a course of action: return the company to its core. Build a Re-Founding Team. By 1993 the company had $1.3