Industrial Organization - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2007
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Winter Break Just Got Educational

experiences that complement and extend classroom learning. One group explored China, another volunteered their services in New Orleans, and the third participated in a campus-based program focused on health sciences. For years, students have View Details

Keywords: immersion; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

01 Sep 2004
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Books

mobilize their organizations to prevent them. Seeing What’s Next by Clayton M. Christensen, Scott D. Anthony, and Erik A. Roth (Harvard Business School Press) Professor Christensen and his coauthors (both MBA ’01) present a framework for... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Aug 2002
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HBS Business Plan Contest Keeps Entrepreneurial Spirit Alive

track, defined as any organization whose core activities address social issues. Each winning team received $10,000 in cash as well as $10,000 in in-kind accounting and legal services to get its venture up and running. For the fourth year,... View Details

01 Dec 2004
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GLF Showcases London

forum, titled “New Barriers and New Opportunities: Leading in an Uncertain World,” is shaping up to be a truly remarkable event. Professor Nancy Koehn, the forum’s faculty chair, has done an outstanding job of organizing a lineup of HBS... View Details

Keywords: Ted Fischer; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

28 May 2019
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A More Perfect Union

like a venture philanthropy investor group, where members invest time and money to support organizations and candidates that align with its principles. Those include protecting and renewing democracy, promoting fact- and evidence-based... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Dan Bejar

01 Dec 2011
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Making the Case for Leadership

Groysberg. “At Williamsport, Toby worked to understand the organization and get the employees involved, so when it was time for buy-in and action, they were ready to go. She’s a high-potential leader.” And an open-minded one as well: “I... View Details

01 Sep 2008
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Alumni Books

I Thought We Were Making Movies, Not History by Walter Mirisch (IA ’43) (University of Wisconsin Press) The producer of such film classics as West Side Story, Some Like It Hot, In the Heat of the Night, and The Magnificent Seven, Mirisch tells the story of his climb to... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet); Publishing Industries (except Internet)

10 Apr 2013
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Tapped In

resource his company harvests from pine trees. But he can offer a brief history: resin-harvesting is a millenarian tradition, mentioned in the Bible; it was a foundational industry for colonial America; and resin is even why North... View Details

Keywords: pine resin; Forestry and Logging; Agriculture; Wood Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

01 Oct 2002
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Making a Difference

alumni donors, the program aims to expose students to the rewards and challenges of the public and nonprofit world, while providing the communities and organizations they serve with the benefits of their HBS training. It attracted more... View Details

15 Nov 2024
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Driving Change

changing role in American society since the 1960s. Her analysis revealed how women’s movements adopted organizing strategies from the Civil Rights movement, leading to both progress and pushback. “As a group unifies and gains rights it... View Details

17 Jan 2019
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The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition

doing things as an entrepreneur and activist, you can often feel solo in your journey or that you are operating on the periphery of mainstream culture. So being recognized with such a prestigious accolade alongside many leaders of the mainstream music View Details

16 Nov 2021
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Getting Back Together for Global Networking Night; Healthcare Conference Draws New Interest

Plan, Drake is leading a comprehensive strategy for inclusive excellence throughout the HBS community of faculty, staff, students, alumni, and other constituents. Organized by HBSAAA copresidents Sara Clarke (MBA 1997) and Lewis Long (MBA... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Dec 2009
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Broad Range of Interests Among Nine New Faculty

years, that’s an enormous technological transition. So the questions of how firms can organize themselves to do it, and what kinds of governance mechanisms will support and encourage them to do that, seem to me a natural extension of what... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Sep 2006
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Notebook

surprise: Human resources. We underestimated how important it is to be extremely aggressive about both bringing in super-talented people and getting rid of people who bring the organization down. What I’d like to do over: Act more quickly... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Telecommunications; Information

07 Oct 2014
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Network Effect

backed if he had chosen the software industry as a career.” Tanzi explained that, owing to recent advances in gene sequencing and data mining, he believed he could identify many more genes in a short time with a relatively modest... View Details

Keywords: Linda Kush

01 Oct 2000
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Timothy G. Brier: The Price is Right

predicted that his expertise in the business of flight would one day take him beyond the stratosphere and into cyberspace, and to an important role in the e-commerce revolution. After working in nearly every facet of the airline industry... View Details

Keywords: James E. Aisner

16 Sep 2019
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Smarter Farming

Steven Carden (MBA 2003) is CEO of PAMU Farms of New Zealand (formerly Landcorp Farming). In this video, he talks about the changes the organization is going through to adjust for shifting dietary trends and the impact of large-scale... View Details

Keywords: meat; dairy; cattle; Agriculture

01 Oct 2000
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Faculty Retirements

Robert H. Hayes An expert on industrial management and competition, Robert Hayes, the Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, joined the HBS faculty in 1966. He has taught numerous courses and thousands of students... View Details

01 Jun 1996
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New Releases

Engines of Innovation edited by Richard S. Rosenbloom and William J. Spencer (HBS Press) In past decades, industrial laboratories such as AT&T's Bell Labs and the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center were wellsprings of powerful new... View Details

01 Feb 1999
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NYC Conference Brings Entrepreneurs and Angels Together

investment vehicles used by angel investors to find and fund entrepreneurs: groups of angels who evaluate deals together, organizations that match entrepreneurs with interested angels, and individual angels who seek out deals through... View Details

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