business structure - Publications - Faculty & Research

29 Jul 2014
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multiparty risk and disaster management, namely that the organizational challenge is to enable multiple actors and subunits with competing and often conflicting values and expertise to establish a virtual, well‐aligned organization. Organizational View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Jul 2022
Book

Reimagining the Economy: What Would It Take to Put People First?

governance structures and norms in place, businesses could help put people, including their workers, and the planet back at their core. Through a series of essays, the book exposes the fault lines between... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

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Related Resources - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

extensive collecting efforts for research and teaching that began with the founding of Harvard Business School (HBS) in 1908. The holdings included in the Web Guide to Photograph Collections focus on discrete collections containing... View Details

05 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

Fixing the ‘I Hate Work’ Blues

company's mission on behalf of customers. They should be given full responsibility for performance, quality, achievement of goals, and compliance with company standards. To realize this change, organizational structures need to change.... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

31 Aug 2021
Blog Post

Exploring the Art of Business: Social Enterprise Summer Fellow Felipe Ceron (MBA 2022)

education, and its mission is providing the highest caliber of artistic education for gifted musicians, dancers, and actors from around the world. Currently more than 800 artists from 38 countries and regions are enrolled. I have three main projects: updating and View Details

03 Feb 2015
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field and other business fields complements the contributions from industrial organization economics (IO). These business fields also offer theoretical and empirical challenges to the IO paradigm, which... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Dec 2018
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Source Code

symbolic things to bigger, provocative, intellectual ideas—I just had none of that previously”), she worked as a banker in Philadelphia, funding mom-and-pop cable TV startups in rural Pennsylvania. It cemented her decision to apply to View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Daniel Hertzberg

14 Oct 2009
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a major role in Japan's success in manufacturing-driven industries (e.g., Toyota in automobiles and Nintendo with videogames). First, hierarchical industry organizations can "lock out" certain types of innovation indefinitely by perpetuating established View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 Dec 2021
News

December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books

Everyone’s Business By Julie Battilana Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration, and Tiziana Casciaro Simon & Schuster Power is one of the most misunderstood—and therefore vilified—concepts in... View Details

02 Nov 2016
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Are Employees Becoming Job 'Renters' Instead of 'Owners'?

attitude, even if they’re tenured.” Bill Fotsch disagreed with the assumption underlying that observation, when he said, “My sense is most employees don’t come to a job as renters or owners. The management structure tends to create this... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

25 Aug 2022
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Case Study: Sound Check

who plays classical piano and jazz guitar, and Pemberton, a drummer, thought they could offer musicians an online platform that would help them connect with fans in a meaningful if virtual way. The founders soon discovered a much larger View Details

Keywords: Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

03 Jun 2014
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structures that exist in teaching hospitals, this annual cohort turnover results in increased resource utilization (i.e., longer length of hospital stay) for both minor and major teaching hospitals and decreased quality (i.e., higher... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Dec 2011
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years. In this period, Norway was at the forefront with regard to implementing legislation regulating cartels, yet the legislation was not an antitrust legislation in the modern sense. It was aimed not only at protecting consumer interests, but more importantly at... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Nov 2007
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First Look: November 20, 2007

MaterialsColgate Max Fresh: Global Brand Roll-Out Harvard Business School Case 508-009 In February 2005, Nigel Burton, in his third year as president of global oral care at Colgate-Palmolive Company (CP), had every reason to feel... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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What is a Career Coach? - MBA

Business & Environment Career Change Career and Professional Development Case Method Clubs Curriculum Digital Entrepreneurship FIELD Financial Aid Health Care Instagram Takeover JD/MBA Leadership Letters to Classmates MBA/MPP & MBA/MPA-ID... View Details

01 Mar 2004
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New Horizons for Iraq

supply chain and its parallels to the business world. It was a long deployment; the fact that we didn’t experience a single loss of life is an awesome testament to the training and stamina of the crew. The ship is now in dry dock, and I’m... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; James E. Aisner; Julia Hanna; National Security and International Affairs; Government

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Advocating for Best Practices on Tech Boards - Blog: RGE Report

that the problem affected not only her product but also the entire company, and they dispatched her to buy a graphics company. Then, Intel’s investment team snapped her up. Her persistence was part of her style of “advocating for the right View Details

24 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

With Millions of Workers Juggling Caregiving, Employers Need to Rethink Support

inflexible or unpredictable work schedules, and employers’ failure to grasp how employees are struggling and to provide them with support, according to a new Harvard Business School report. That disregard harms both workers and companies.... View Details

Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

11 Dec 2012
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PublicationsHow Much Is Sweat Equity Worth? Authors:Marquis, Christopher, and Joshua D. Margolis Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 12 (December 2012) Abstract The article presents a case study of a View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

March 2011
Article

Cheaper Patents

By: Tom Nicholas

The 1883 Patents Act in Britain provides perspective for modern patent policy reforms because it radically changed incentives for inventors by reducing filing fees by 84 percent. Patents increased 2.5 fold after the reform, which was evenly distributed across the... View Details