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- 02 Jan 2024
- What Do You Think?
Do Boomerang CEOs Get a Bad Rap?
Schultz at Starbucks, Ron Shaich at Panera Bread, and Charles Schwab. Those who oppose the idea characterize the decision as a board’s way of taking the easy path, not doing its primary job of managing CEO...
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by James Heskett
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
HBS Working Knowledge recently celebrated its tenth birthday, and we mark the occasion by looking back and looking forward. We've asked HBS Dean Nitin Nohria and a number of faculty to both remark on what they view as the most significant...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Under a Research Microscope
Project Antares with colleagues at the Harvard School of Public Health. The effort aims to create a system for devising commercial incentives that provide affordable public health initiatives, such as delivering medicines at very low...
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- 04 Feb 2015
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Stanford-Google-Silicon Valley School of Management?
skepticism about the uniqueness of a "Silicon Valley" approach to management. Kapil Kumar Sopory, for example, said: "The management approach of Google is noteworthy and it serves the View Details
- 21 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
Hiring at HBS: How Summer Interns Make an Impact at Bridges Fund Management
Fund Management, HBS students are motivated to propel the success of those businesses. Meet Bridges Fund Management Founded in 2002, Bridges, the UK-based impact investing fund, is committed to building a...
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Venture Capital / Private Equity
- 17 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook
Yet for a number of reasons their research rarely permeates into wider literatures. Q: Why does business history research remain in a silo? A: I think there are at least three reasons. First, business...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 May 2021
- Book
The Hard Truth About Being a CEO
change management by changing the management “There is enormous value to changing out management because it unleashes frozen organizations and...
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by Michael Blanding
- 07 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
Digital Transformation: A New Roadmap for Success
of them in the digital era. Without it, employees, especially Millennials and Gen Z talent, don’t find their work as meaningful. They don‘t develop the sense of belonging they need to collaborate and deliver innovative solutions to customers. View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Becoming a VC Insider
is the carry divided within the partnership?” If the carry is divided equally among senior and junior partners, that speaks to a firm where everyone has a voice on decisions....
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- 14 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
Creating Inclusive Recruiting Events in a Time of Innovation
remote interactions in order to counter the unconscious bias which can put candidates at a disadvantage. The following recommendations for creating inclusive events are based on research from Harvard Business School faculty. They are...
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All Industries
- Program
Audit Committees in a New Era of Governance
you will learn how to move your company beyond a compliance mentality toward strategic financial reporting and effective risk management. Details Enable the audit committee to play a more strategic role...
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- 07 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence
of society depends on trust. So the zone of sustainable action for a business should be the overlap between ethics and economics. The role of the organization is to ensure that all activity occurs View Details
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by Harvard Management Update
- 24 May 2021
- Blog Post
Graduating During a Pandemic
College are responsible for organizing the university-wide events traditionally held in Tercentenary Theater within Harvard Yard. Class Day is an HBS-specific program that looks to close out each student’s...
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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Building a Better MBA
management careers and management problems were carved up by function,” he continues. “A typical manager would spend his entire career within one...
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- March 2018
- Teaching Note
The Ready-Made Garment Industry: A Bangladeshi Perspective (A), (B), (C), and (D)
By: Nien-hê Hsieh
Responsibility for working conditions in contract factories within the supply chain presents an ongoing challenge for managers and area of debate. Much of the debate approaches the challenge from the perspective of large global apparel brands. This case helps students...
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- July 2008 (Revised January 2009)
- Case
Londolozi: Towards a Sustainable Business Model and Ecological Integrity in Southern Africa
By: Rawi E. Abdelal and Thomas Koelble
The Londolozi game viewing reserve in South Africa became a defining icon of ecotourism during the 1990s and early 2000s-that is, a tourist business promoting ecological land management and, at the same time, local economic development. The reserve was in a region in...
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Developing Countries and Economies;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Business and Community Relations;
Business and Government Relations;
Environmental Sustainability;
Tourism Industry;
South Africa
Abdelal, Rawi E., and Thomas Koelble. "Londolozi: Towards a Sustainable Business Model and Ecological Integrity in Southern Africa." Harvard Business School Case 709-001, July 2008. (Revised January 2009.)
- 14 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Business Case for Becoming a Jack-of-All-Trades
stuff, then having some generalists to bring new ideas into the organization and say, ‘Here’s a thing that’s going on in aeronautics that might be interesting to what you are doing in biotech,’ might be...
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by Michael Blanding
- 2016
- Article
The Mirroring Hypothesis: Theory, Evidence, and Exceptions
By: Lyra J. Colfer and Carliss Y. Baldwin
The mirroring hypothesis predicts that organizational ties within a project, firm, or group of firms (e.g., communication, collocation, employment) will correspond to the technical dependencies in the work being performed. This article presents a unified picture of...
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Modularity;
Mirroring Hypothesis;
Organization Design;
Conway's Law;
Knowledge Boundaries;
Relational Contracts;
Open Source Software;
Organizational Design;
Organizational Structure;
Boundaries;
Knowledge Management;
Applications and Software
Colfer, Lyra J., and Carliss Y. Baldwin. "The Mirroring Hypothesis: Theory, Evidence, and Exceptions." Industrial and Corporate Change 25, no. 5 (2016): 709–738. (Lead Article.)
- May 2012
- Article
Herbert A. Simon on What Ails Business Schools: More than A Problem in Organizational Design
By: Rakesh Khurana and J.C. Spender
We critically examine Herbert Simon's 1967 essay, "The Business School: A Problem in Organizational Design." We consider this essay within the context of Simon's key ideas about organizations, particularly those closely associated with the 'Carnegie perspective' on...
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Organizational Design;
Perspective;
Innovation and Invention;
Business Education;
Research;
Management Practices and Processes;
Teaching
Khurana, Rakesh, and J.C. Spender. "Herbert A. Simon on What Ails Business Schools: More than A Problem in Organizational Design." Journal of Management Studies 49, no. 3 (May 2012): 619–639.
- 2016
- Book
Finding Purpose: Environmental Stewardship as a Personal Calling
By: Andrew J. Hoffman
Both thoughtful and thought-provoking, Finding Purpose aims to challenge our understanding of how humanity interacts with planet Earth, and our role within this. This book is an invitation: would you like to participate in one of the most important projects of...
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Hoffman, Andrew J. Finding Purpose: Environmental Stewardship as a Personal Calling. Routledge, 2016.