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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.” Some 650 people had already joined, and thus began the company’s wild ride toward becoming a social networking site with over a billion users, thousands of employees, and a market capitalization well north of $100 billion.

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Do Apps Have Social Responsibility?

Harvard Business Review

But the Strava case is prescient as we continue to develop digital technologies that influence the emotions and impulses that make us so darned human. Andy O''Connell 38 Slides’ Worth What I Wish I Knew Before Pitching LinkedIn to VCs Reid Hoffman The year is 2004. So Sorry Want People to Trust You? No surprise there.

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How to Manage Multiple Partnerships

Harvard Business Review

The key is to manage your multiple partners and not let your relationships run wild. Their exclusive agreement had been launched in the go-go year of 2000, but by 2004 it had landed in court. Advanced practitioners of partnership strategies have developed approaches that work for them and may work for you.

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How We Reduced Our Injury Rate by 90% at Campbell Soup Company

Harvard Business Review

When David White became Global VP of Supply Chain at Campbell Soup Company in 2004, the company had a shocking lost-time injury rate of 1.24%. While safety was under his umbrella, before the position was created it had been under the purview of individual plant managers and localities and, to a degree, HR. Martin Diebel/Getty Images.