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01 Jun 2015
News

Faculty Q&A: Reemerging Technologies

Your research examines industries that once seemed doomed but have experienced a comeback. How does this happen? I did my dissertation work on the Swiss watch industry, and I looked at what it takes for a technology to reemerge. For over two centuries, Swiss mechanical... View Details

Keywords: April White; Apparel Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Electrical Equipment, Appliance, and Component Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Printing and Related Support Activities; Manufacturing

July 2009 (Revised December 2009)
Case

Echoing Green

By: Julie Battilana, Thomas J. DeLong and James Weber

This case presents the leadership challenges that Cheryl Dorsey, the president of Echoing Green, faces in early 2009. Echoing Green is a fellowship program that seeks to improve society by identifying and supporting social entrepreneurs who launch organizations to... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Financial Crisis; Social Entrepreneurship; Leadership Style; Organizational Structure; Personal Development and Career; Social Enterprise

August 2008 (Revised June 2013)
Background Note

Note on the Nonprofit Coherence Framework

By: Allen S. Grossman and Stacey Childress

This note presents the Nonprofit Coherence Framework. It helps nonprofit leaders identify the key elements that support an organizational strategy focused on attaining high performance, bring those elements into a coherent relationship with the strategy and each other,... View Details

Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Performance Improvement; Nonprofit Organizations; Corporate Strategy

May 2001
Supplement

Asian Strategies: Ian Buchanan

By: Tarun Khanna

Ian Buchanan, senior VP of Booz-Allen & Hamilton, comments on Sime Darby and the Asian financial crisis. He also discusses the value propositions of different types of business groups in Malaysia. View Details

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Growth and Development Strategy; Industry Structures; Strategy; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Consulting Industry; Service Industry; Asia; Malaysia

January 2001 (Revised August 2003)
Case

Diageo plc

A major U.K.-based multinational is reevaluating its leverage policy as it restructures its business. The treasury team models the tradeoffs between the benefits and costs of debt financing, using Monte Carlo simulation to estimate the savings from the interest tax... View Details

Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Multinational Firms and Management; Capital Structure; Restructuring; United Kingdom

December 1999 (Revised November 2001)
Background Note

Note on Private Equity Securities, A

By: G. Felda Hardymon and Josh Lerner

Provides an overview of the primary securities used in private equity, their structures, and the economic motivation behind their designs. View Details

Keywords: Design; Private Equity; Debt Securities; Industry Structures; Motivation and Incentives

01 Oct 1996
News

Leading In a New Era

structure up-to-date. Last year, Boise Cascade announced its most profitable year ever, with earnings of $352 million on sales of $5 billion. At about the same time that Harad's company was struggling against declining profits, across the... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

12 Oct 2016
Research & Ideas

Break the Rules of How Business is Done

an employer? What truly matters in the end is whether that transformational effort adds value. In 2012, the gaming company Valve published their novel Employee Handbook which outlined their organization structure (or lack thereof). Valve... View Details

Keywords: by Julia B. Austin

14 Feb 2023
Blog Post

Recruiting During Uncertainty: How to Meet Students Where They Are

structure of their teams, they also want to know how companies are approaching those decisions and considering their people. They will be actively looking to connect with companies who consistently express their values and maintain their... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

14 Aug 2015
Blog Post

What is a Career Coach?

the students and alumni they work with pursue their own unique career vision Also, when it comes right down to it, I think students and alumni find it really valuable to be able to spend 45 minutes speaking to someone about their job search on a regular basis – it can... View Details

01 Dec 2020
News

Steady as She Goes

the more junior levels and put great structures around them for sponsorship,” she observes. Sponsorship is more than mentorship for Weckert. “A sponsor is someone who helps you unlock opportunities, who is proactively helping you to... View Details

Keywords: April White; COVID-19; change management; leadership; women; grocery stores; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

01 Dec 2008
News

Designing Change

know.” The goal of presenting Muzak as a hip, unified entity is complicated by the firm’s structure as an organization composed of company-owned and independent affiliates, many of which use different, uncoordinated marketing materials.... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Jun 1996
News

GMAT Added to Admissions Criteria

relating to the test itself, the kinds of students who are now applying to the MBA Program, and the type of applicant we're looking for. There have been significant improvements in the structure of the GMAT. One recent addition is a... View Details

01 Jun 2001
News

Group Therapy: The Role of Business Groups in Emerging Economies

willing and able buyer, a valuable “exit” option when public capital markets are underdeveloped. On the other hand, some groups’ close connections to a nation’s power structure may serve as a barrier to entry, stifling entrepreneurship... View Details

Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs; Market Research, Photo, Translation, Veterinary and Other Services; Professional Services

01 Jun 2014
News

Roads to Recovery

Cars Verizon chairman and CEO Lowell McAdam said his company is connecting cars to infrastructure. At sports stadiums, for example, Verizon plans to put special chips into parking structures to alert drivers to an open spot. Daniela Rus... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Transportation; Heavy and Civil Engineering Construction; Construction; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government

02 May 2023
Blog Post

From Harvard Business School to Spotify: Four Lessons in My Journey to Land My Dream Job

interested in, and helping me evaluate competing career opportunities. Navigating careers in tech can be incredibly difficult, particularly when joining early-stage ventures, due to the lack of structured pathways like those you would... View Details

01 Oct 1999
News

A Constructive Summer at HBS

parking lot. As many as one hundred workers have been laboring on the site each day, pouring the concrete foundation and positioning the structural steel beams and columns. While the summer's extreme heat occasionally halted work early -... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

01 Dec 2008
News

The CEO and the Functions of Leadership

standards can be treated as part of setting direction. Coordination: Organizational structure defines how individuals in the organization are grouped into units, and how these units coordinate with each other. Processes such as the... View Details

01 Dec 2016
News

Summing Up the New Students

Illustrations by Chris Philpot Andrew Faulkner Homer, Alaska, “Halibut Capital of the World” CV: Structural engineer, Simpson Gumpertz & Heger (construction), Chicago “When I was accepted to the MBA Program, I called to make sure it was... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

24 Apr 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018

that normative or preconceived beliefs about the functioning of the social world may guide social behavior in children. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54387 Coupling Labor Codes of Conduct and Supplier Labor Practices: The Role of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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