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  • 17 Dec 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Becoming the Next Real Estate Mogul

the current Boston Stock Exchange building, a structure that was considered something of a white elephant after Fleet Bank moved out. After buying the building for $10 million, Intercontinental invested $6.5 million in the property before... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Construction; Real Estate
  • 20 Nov 2017
  • Blog Post

A Summer Internship with the International Rescue Committee

resettlement in the US, which made our first task simply mapping out what problem we wanted to solve. Did we care most about employment rates, language outcomes of health and wellness? Fortunately, we had the structure of the... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
  • 17 Aug 2021
  • Blog Post

Applying the MBA Skillset to Global Health Challenges: Summer Fellow Vasilis Theodorou (MBA 2022)

structures to tackle global public health issues, fundraising strategies for global health organizations, and best practices for supporting national health programs. How has your MBA skillset prepared you to be successful in this role?... View Details
  • Web

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

markets . [1] [2] “There’s so much money to be made in these overlooked segments. If we’re not investing in the things women are bringing forward, we are missing huge improvements in our world,” she said. “We have structural bias in the... View Details
  • Web

The Arts of Communication - Course Catalog

key competencies, including: Finding your voice and generating ideas Communicating complex information effectively (includes using visual aids and programs such as PowerPoint effectively) Understanding and applying effective frameworks for View Details
  • Web

Systems for Scaling Ventures (SSV) - Course Catalog

develop decision-support dashboards and guidelines, as well as agile teams, to enable employees to share best practices and achieve coordination, while preserving employees’ empowerment and ability to continue learning (e.g., through a View Details
  • 25 Aug 2022
  • News

Ink: The Three-Step Startup

For the last two decades in his classroom at Brown University, Danny Warshay (MBA 1994) has been using a structured approach to teach entrepreneurship—what he calls “see, solve, scale.” But roles reversed when his students pointed out... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 19 Feb 2020
  • News

Capitol Ideas to Combat Climate Change

Elizabeth Lewis (MBA 2006) When moderator Toffel asked the other panelists for their policy wish lists, many echoed the congressman, even as they debated the nomenclature (would it be called a “tax” or a “fee”?), structure (would it fund... View Details
Keywords: April White; photos by Jack Conroy
  • 01 Oct 1999
  • News

A Message from Dean Clark

structures in lesser developed countries, multinational joint ventures, and product development. Encouraged by these efforts, we are looking forward in the near future to the opening of a center in Latin America that will broaden our... View Details
  • 16 Dec 2014
  • First Look

First Look: December 16

http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/kuziemko%20norton%20saez%20stantcheva_45dd17c7-a8fa-4b91-9ba2-51d5e7349750.pdf December 2014 Organization Science Team Scaffolds: How Mesolevel Structures Support Role-based Coordination in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 11

structurally constrained context. Structural positions influence the resources available to actors and color the motivations that shape their actions. Resources equip actors to exert agency, while... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Jul 2010
  • First Look

First Look: July 20

http://www.springerlink.com/content/91647u2175267563/ Ownership Structure and Financial Constraints: Evidence from a Structural Estimation Authors: Chen Lin, Yue Ma, and Yuhai Xuan Publication: Journal of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Jun 2020
  • Blog Post

Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 2/5

shape the moment we find ourselves in. When we consider Eric Garner, Sandra Bland, Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, or Trayvon Martin – how far have we really come? The American Myth is that legislation and civil rights reforms provided a break with the histories of View Details
  • 01 Mar 2018
  • News

Making Sense of the Modern Startup

humor Professor Sahlman and sign up for his adventurous new course. Wouldn’t they? Sahlman believed he had a conceptual structure for the course that might protect him from the dreaded Onion Outcome. “My goal from the beginning,” he... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
  • January 2006 (Revised October 2007)
  • Background Note

Managing Networked Businesses: Course Overview for Students

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann
Provides an overview for students of the MBA elective course Managing Networked Businesses (MNB). MNB focuses on management challenges in businesses that exhibit network effects. The first section of the note explains that such businesses comprise a large and growing... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Capital Structure; Business or Company Management; Network Effects; Organizational Design; Business and Government Relations; Social and Collaborative Networks; Competitive Strategy
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  • January 1996 (Revised December 2005)
  • Case

First Community Bank (A)

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter
First Community Bank, a bank-within-a-bank at Bank of Boston, was established in 1990 as a unique venture to serve urban communities. By 1995 it has achieved profitability but must manage relationships with the mainstream at Bank of Boston, serve as a change agent and... View Details
Keywords: Banks and Banking; Business Ventures; Business and Community Relations; Agency Theory; Change Management; Leadership; Balanced Scorecard; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Structure; Problems and Challenges; Banking Industry; Boston
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  • 11 May 2015
  • Research & Ideas

A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure

Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Transportation
  • 24 Oct 2024
  • Research & Ideas

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

showed is that caregiving concerns are endemic. They affect roughly 80 percent of the workforce some of the time, most of the time, or all of the time. But the way working relationships have been structured by employers for a century... View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
  • 01 Dec 2003
  • News

Business Answers the Call

of personality, coupled with the leadership of his successor, a former investment banker, extraordinary structural changes were made in the Seattle system. Nielsen retired from the school board in 2001 but remains active with a community... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Educational Support Services; Educational Services
  • November 1991 (Revised September 1993)
  • Case

Oak Industries Inc.

By: William A. Sahlman and Burton C. Hurlock
Describes Bill Antle's proposed restructuring plans for Oak Industries, a company composed of nine divisions which seem to be experiencing operating difficulties. During the last ten years the company has been involved in a number of acquisitions and divestitures, as... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Business or Company Management; Operations; SWOT Analysis; Organizational Structure; Restructuring; Financial Management; Acquisition; Financial Markets
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