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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Mission Possible
opportunity to create and spread innovative solutions to some of society’s most pressing problems. In doing so, they joined a groundswell of interest in social entrepreneurship. Just as entrepreneurs spot missed opportunities in business... View Details
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Your Corporate Strategy
Since the 1990s, the Balanced Scorecard system has cut a path in business as a more rigorous way to measure performance by quantifying what had been considered intangible assets, such as human capital, information, and culture. The system... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Faculty Research Online
Rethinking the Fairness of Organ Transplants Because of an organ shortage, thousands of people miss out on needed organ transplants each year. Business researchers at Harvard and MIT are rethinking how kidney transplants are allocated to... View Details
- July – August 2009
- Article
Organizational Ambidexterity: Balancing Exploitation and Exploration for Sustained Performance
By: Sebastian Raisch, Julian Birkinshaw, Gilbert Probst and Michael Tushman
Organizational ambidexterity has emerged as a new research paradigm in organization theory, yet several issues that are fundamental to this debate remain controversial. We explore four central tensions here: Should organizations achieve ambidexterity through... View Details
Keywords: Change; Innovation and Invention; Business Processes; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Research; Integration
Raisch, Sebastian, Julian Birkinshaw, Gilbert Probst, and Michael Tushman. "Organizational Ambidexterity: Balancing Exploitation and Exploration for Sustained Performance." Organization Science 20, no. 4 (July–August 2009): 685–695.
- 02 Aug 2004
- What Do You Think?
For Greater Transparency, Is Section 404 an Effective Response?
intense exposure to news of business leaders' alleged (and in some cases proven) acts to deliberately mislead investors, employees, and others, we are naturally interested in greater transparency. And it applies equally importantly to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Going Up
structure will house living quarters and classrooms for HBS Executive Education programs. Pictured are (left to right) Tata Sons VP Venkat Venkataramanan, HBS chief of operations Andy O’Brien, Tata, and Tata Sons deputy chairman Cyrus... View Details
- 19 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Here Comes Internet2—Time to Shed Dot Vertigo
business has had a skewed perception of information technology, Nolan observed. Business usually looks at IT as a way of automating transactions. Computers were imagined not to change the information View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- December 2010 (Revised March 2012)
- Teaching Note
Alibaba Group
By: Julie M. Wulf
Teaching Note for 710436. View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Breakthrough International Negotiation
Susan Rosegrant urge business leaders to learn from the lessons of negotiators who have helped to shape recent world history. Watkins, who teaches the popular HBS elective Corporate Diplomacy, worked with Rosegrant, a political case... View Details
- 09 May 2022
- News
Green House
In the Observatory Hill neighborhood of Cambridge, Massachusetts, Betsy Harper (MBA 1984) has built an oxymoron: a brand-new, historic home. The recently completed structure combines traditional architecture and the latest in... View Details
- Web
Kraft Accelerator
they all have the same goal: get better treatments to patients. Often, the focus is solely on research. Organizations could achieve so much more by building and implementing comprehensive business plans that keep pace with cutting-edge... View Details
- 13 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
How Government can Discourage Private Sector Reliance on Short-Term Debt
For the last decade or so financial institutions have relied increasingly and excessively on short-term financing, risky business that could quickly go south when a souring economy made it impossible for firms to roll over their... View Details
- 28 Jun 2011
- News
Bold Ascent
flags with the SlingFin logo), Baka reflects on how his HBS experience plays into the nontraditional world of outdoor gear design. “It’s a framework of thought and analytics that is deeply ingrained as part of classroom discussion,” he says. “It’s a broad View Details
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Paul A. Gompers | Working Knowledge
1997) International Private Equity (May 1998) Structuring Effective Private Equity Partnerships (May 1999 and November 2000) Corporate Venture Capital (May 2000) Links to Finance Related Sites: Finance Journals Venture Capital Resources... View Details
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
leaving questions about future procurement. Finally, Amul's farmers form a large vote bank in the state of Gujarat, and its cooperative structure risks being compromised by vested political interests. Should Amul continue with the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Challenge of the Multi-site Nonprofit
Why is it more difficult for nonprofit organizations than, say, retail chains, to run efficient multi-site operations? A recent Harvard Business Review story concluded that nonprofits waste $100 billion a year through inefficient... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
and private venture funds. Corporate efforts lack the partnership-based organizational structure that many have identified as critical to the success of private equity funds. On the other hand, corporations are able to exploit... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
- December 1993 (Revised November 1995)
- Case
Wetherill Associates, Inc.
By: Lynn S. Paine
Top managers of Wetherill Associates, Inc., a small, privately held distributor of electrical parts to the automotive aftermarket, are considering whether to modify the company's compensation system for its salesforce. The management wants a compensation system that... View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Business or Company Management; Organizational Structure; Compensation and Benefits; Salesforce Management
Paine, Lynn S. "Wetherill Associates, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 394-113, December 1993. (Revised November 1995.)
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Kresge Way | About
ideas with peers, scholars, and business practitioners from across the globe. Before Kresge, food service was located at Cowie Hall, a temporary structure built by the US Navy and sold to the School after... View Details
- May 1994
- Background Note
Managing Market Complexity: A Three-Ring Circus
Proposes models of organization that address the various product-market environments posed by the product life cycle. Frames these changes along the two dimensions of uncertainty and diversity. Offers three sets of organizational characteristics to reflect the three... View Details
Keywords: Business Processes; Growth and Development Strategy; Complexity; Organizational Structure; Organizational Culture; Product Marketing; Markets; Product
Rangan, V. Kasturi. "Managing Market Complexity: A Three-Ring Circus." Harvard Business School Background Note 594-119, May 1994.