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- September 1986
- Article
Technological Discontinuities and Organizational Environments
By: Michael Tushman and Philip Anderson
Tushman, Michael, and Philip Anderson. "Technological Discontinuities and Organizational Environments." Administrative Science Quarterly 31, no. 3 (September 1986): 439–465.
- 1986
- Article
Research and Control in Complex Organizations: An Overview
By: R. Simons and Kenneth A. Merchant
Simons, R., and Kenneth A. Merchant. "Research and Control in Complex Organizations: An Overview." Journal of Accounting Literature 5 (1986): 183–203.
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Opinion: Making It Better
come at night. The spokes are community cancer centers where chemotherapy, radiation, and rehabilitation take place. As America struggles with its fee-for-service model, Amil, a Brazilian accountable-care organization that provides... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Alumni Books
Dornenburg (Little, Brown & Co.) This guide to creating delicious dishes contains tips, anecdotes, and signature dishes from the most imaginative chefs in the country. Thousands of ingredient entries, organized alphabetically and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
The Next Lessons
organizations such as the Museum of Modern Art, Stanford Medical School, and the Brookings Institution to contribute educational content on the visual arts, medicine, and health care, respectively. “We’re also launching some... View Details
Keywords: William Weber
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Where Are They Now?
Christian University, he was not only TCU’s first African American basketball player but also the first in the entire Southwest Conference. In 1975, about the same time a kid named Bill Gates opened a shoestring operation called Microsoft, Cash was closing in on his... View Details
- 18 Mar 2014
- News
The Oz of Data Opens the Curtain
predict their future purchasing activities in ways never before possible. The information is then sold to corporate marketers. Combining that capability with input from social media, such as a partnership with Facebook that Acxiom... View Details
- 08 Oct 2010
- What Do You Think?
Will Transparency in CEO Compensation Have Unintended Consequences?
effect the information will support and raise current levels." Guy Higgins commented, "Recall that CEO compensation began to balloon only when the CEOs could see each other's comp packages and began thinking, 'I'm better than... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 14 Jun 2011
- News
New Directions
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
I have recently returned from the Board's winter meeting at HBS, and, as usual, I found being back on campus extremely energizing. Our subcommittees on information technology, alumni career management and development, and global alumni... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
who want to become valued and successful members of their organizations without selling out on their identities and their beliefs. These "tempered radicals" may have differences based on moral values, social perspectives, or racial,... View Details
- January 2018 (Revised August 2020)
- Background Note
Continuous Software Development: Agile's Successor
By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Samuel Clemens and Olivia Hull
In recent years, the twin software development methodologies of continuous delivery and continuous deployment have risen to prominence in the start-up world and beyond. These methods have enabled technology companies large and small to accelerate their product... View Details
Keywords: Continuous Improvement; Continuous Development; Continuous Delivery; Continuous Integration; Product Development Processes; Computer Programming; Agile; Waterfall; Software Applications; Software Engineering; Applications and Software; Information Technology; Technological Innovation; Product Development; Customer Focus and Relationships; Entrepreneurship; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Quality; Product Marketing; Product; Infrastructure; Information Infrastructure; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; Massachusetts; Boston
Bussgang, Jeffrey J., Samuel Clemens, and Olivia Hull. "Continuous Software Development: Agile's Successor." Harvard Business School Background Note 818-055, January 2018. (Revised August 2020.)
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
OPM Celebrates 21st Anniversary at Gala Florida Reunion
Discussing examples of how service-oriented organizations deliver breakthrough service, Sasser urged his audience to take a "quantum leap" in their customer satisfaction efforts and to develop strategies to prevent customers from... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
John Read
with an awareness that the group that supported them had nothing to do with pigment or gender or economic status. Please explain Outward Bound’s role in schools. Our Expeditionary Learning program, which is ten years old, takes the same principles that View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Social Enterprise Initiative Marks 20th Anniversary
Faculty cochair V. Kasturi (Kash) Rangan, a newly tenured professor when he became the SEI's first head, recalls, "We decided on a broad scope of inquiry. For us, understanding managerial challenges within the non-profit sector was a piece of a bigger puzzle. We wanted... View Details
Keywords: SEI
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Renaissance Man
matter; that experience launched a lifelong passion for collecting 15th- and 16th-century French and Italian Renaissance books. Brooker, a veteran of the finance industry who later earned a doctorate in art history, also credits many generous dealers for providing an... View Details
- December 1996 (Revised June 1998)
- Case
Midnight Networks, Inc.
By: H. Kent Bowen and Marilyn Matis
Midnight Networks, Inc., is a small computer network validation company. This case describes how the five founders built their business from operations earnings and how they established "best practices" operational processes to run their firm successfully. Operational... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Business or Company Management; Operations; Organizational Culture; Applications and Software; Business Startups; Business Growth and Maturation; Information Technology Industry; Massachusetts
Bowen, H. Kent, and Marilyn Matis. "Midnight Networks, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 697-019, December 1996. (Revised June 1998.)
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
will come as no surprise that some of the broader issues addressed last year have carried over; these may well be with us as we head into the 21st century! Committee assignments have been made around three broad issues: Information... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Drawing on the Crowd for Innovative Problem-Solving
problem-solving challenges. “I became a professor to understand why communities, like those that create open-source software, were innovating. It did not correlate with my intuition about the best ways to incentivize innovation and View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Ink: Bringing Purpose to Life
organization’s DNA and treat it as a radical new operating system. Deep Purpose is the result of a three-year journey for Gulati, in which he visited organizations around the world to see, firsthand, how leaders have managed to create... View Details