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  • March 2014
  • Case

Babcock International Plc

By: John R. Wells and Galen Danskin
In 2013, Babcock International Plc (Babcock) was the largest engineering services provider in the UK with sales of over £3 billion. Under the leadership of CEO Peter Rogers, Babcock had grown revenues and profits nearly tenfold over the previous decade as it benefited... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Change; Strategy And Leadership; Diversification; United Kingdom; Military; Nuclear Power; Nuclear; Engineering And Construction; Conglomerates; Strategic Planning; Competitive Strategy; Global Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Construction Industry; Construction Industry; United Kingdom
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  • January 2008 (Revised March 2011)
  • Case

Henry J. Kaiser and the Art of the Possible

By: Anthony J. Mayo, Mark Benson and David Chen
From his humble beginnings as a local salesman in New York, Henry J. Kaiser rose to become one of the leading industrialists of 20th century America. Though he had no technical engineering training, Kaiser mastered the management and execution of plans for several... View Details
Keywords: History; Mission and Purpose; Transition; Management Practices and Processes; Construction; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Leadership Style; Business History; Business Growth and Maturation; Civil Society or Community; Business Strategy; Planning; Construction Industry; Construction Industry; United States
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  • 02 Jan 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018

government turns out to be different from that in the United States. It shows that big business emerged as a constructive player in environmental policy in the 1960s, when it persuaded the government to establish a joint research... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Dec 2016
  • First Look

December 13, 2016

to exert over the different segments of their production processes. We describe a property-rights model of firm boundary choices along the value chain that generalizes Antràs and Chor (2013). To assess the evidence, we View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 29 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 29, 2008

patent records to explore these trends with greater detail. The contributions of Chinese and Indian scientists and engineers to U.S. technology formation increase dramatically... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Dec 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround

authority over the entire canal project, including the right to fire commission members. Secretary of War William Howard Taft had doubts about the legality of granting the chief engineer control over the commission, which was technically... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Transportation
  • 22 Feb 2018
  • Book

The New History of American Capitalism

property come into being and inflect material and ideological life. The study of finance as a concept constructed by law and naturalized by... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
  • 16 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 16

worth of a new industry. Analyses of data from multiple sources revealed that framing by early entrepreneurs and the socio-cognitive processes that resulted from the transactions of field-constituents with the new industry View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 23 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 23

Context: How States, Markets, and Civil Society Shape Adherence to Global Labor Standards By: Toffel, Michael W., Jodi L. Short, and Melissa Ouellet Abstract—Transnational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Jul 2010
  • First Look

First Look: July 7

Building the Water Cube Robert Eccles, Amy C. Edmondson, and Dilyana KaradzhovaHarvard Business School Case 410-054 Arup, an engineering firm, collaborated with PTW Architects View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 22, 2015

Bankruptcy in the City of Detroit The June 2013 bankruptcy of Detroit, Michigan, was, at the time, the largest municipal bankruptcy in American history. Detroit had struggled for years with a weakening tax base, high unemployment, a heavy... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 31 Jan 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017

and raises questions facing key decision makers at the time. The cases ask readers to weigh choices and consequences and wrestle with momentous decisions, provoking them to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 20 Dec 2011
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First Look: December 20

for firms to capture value in a modular system. This paper brings together the theory of modularity from the engineering and management literatures with the modern economic theory of property rights View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009

an empirical analysis of the geographic, economic, and social factors that contributed to the spread of civil war in Nepal over the period 1996-2006. This within-country analysis complements existing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Mar 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, March 7

Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences as it 1) grapples with rapid undergraduate enrollment growth and its smaller scale relative to other top View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Jan 2009
  • First Look

First Look: January 13, 2009

as complicated local etiquette, obscured decision-making processes, and heavy reliance on interpersonal relationships instead of legal instruments all add to the complexities of Sino-foreign business... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 May 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers

by such great managers as August Thyssen, Alfred Krupp, and Werner Siemens. Professor Jeffrey Fear's book Organizing Control: August Thyssen and the Construction of German... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 7

explores how the nature of risk itself has changed over time. It highlights key aspects that have shaped the evolving industry, including shifts in risk engineering and risk management, the development of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 12

ESG dimensions should be mandated by regulation, and if yes, what form such regulation should take. The underlying debate, of course, relates to the broader issue of the role of the business organization within View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1

explore a decidedly more organizational and exogenous perspective to explain institutional change. We start with a construct called dominating institutions, a class of formal organizations that are... View Details

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