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- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w15325 PublicationsHow Actors Change Institutions: Towards a Theory of Institutional Entrepreneurship Authors:Julie Battilana, Bernard Leca, and Eva Boxenbaum Publication:The Academy of Management... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Short Takes
publications and technical journals revealed that firms in each country followed a distinctive, national pattern. U.S. companies used a tightly focused, project-based mode of organization that emphasized experimentation and relied on... View Details
Keywords: Orna Feldman and Caroline Chauncey
- 05 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Radical Change, Entrepreneurial Opportunity
technical variation that, over time, gets resolved, and we tend to see what has been called a "dominant design." I am interested in the interplay between that technical variation and cognitive... View Details
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
How the U.S. Army Develops Leaders
The U.S. Army is one of the best training institutions in the world, says HBS professor Scott A. Snook, a retired Army colonel. How does the Army develop leaders? Snook discusses his new book, Making Sense of Officership: Developing a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 5, 2006
cost, serving as a national model. Failure, on the other hand, would have high institutional costs. Dr. Joaquin Montero, the head of Ancora and its intellectual father, must address the controversial project in the context of a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Community Colleges as Engines of Economic Opportunity
Joseph R. Biden Jr., in his “Plan for Education Beyond High School,” encourages investments in community colleges and technical programs as pathways to opportunity that improve student achievement and grow a stronger, more prosperous, and... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: Capital Architect
Brunell spent five years helping Vietnam transition to a market economy, instituting government transparency measures and a national competitiveness index. (© Whitehotpix/ZUMAPRESS.com) David Brunell (MBA 1962) is a master at making... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Where Are They Now?
fresh approaches to problems. The distinction caused a ruckus at HBS, which saw itself as a school of management. But the article held sway, winning Zaleznik the McKinsey Award for the best HBR article that year. Eventually, HBS would redefine its mission to emphasize... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; retirement; leisure; writing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
“bestseller” of 1979 makes too strong a case that his policy recommendations should have been heeded. The basic shortcoming: We first need to agree on the priority of the problems and what viable solutions exist. Viability includes View Details
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present itself to a wider audience. [ Download PDF ] HBS Retired Case Collection “Steel Manufacturing.” HBS No. PP 48. Boston: Harvard Business School, 1951. Show caption Hide caption Instituted in 1921, the case method continues to be... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Quantum Leap
different architectures, they lack a shared technical language, which makes it near impossible for anyone without a PhD in physics to access their potential. Aliro was launched to help dismantle some of these challenges, serving as a... View Details
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
regulatory, normative, and cognitive factors in shaping firms' decisions to adopt specific organizational practices, above and beyond their technical efficiency. Similarly, institutional theory emphasizes... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
We Need a Miracle. New Nuclear Might Provide it.
On September 4, the US Energy Information Agency (EIA) published its 2014 International Energy Outlook. Earlier this year, the International Energy Agency (IEA) released its latest World Energy Investment Outlook. Both watchdogs tell us the same story. Energy... View Details
- 07 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence
insufficient institutional checks and balances. At Enron at the end of 1999, the options that were vested were worth $2.4 billion. That is too much temptation to put in front of people—temptation to sell out secretly, "cooking the... View Details
Keywords: by Harvard Management Update
- 10 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Governance in India and Around the Globe
of capital markets in fostering such convergence through, for example, cross-border listings and global institutional investor activism. The software industry offers a unique setting to test the role of global product and labor markets... View Details
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Research Resources | Baker Library
Photographs . Boston: Little, Brown, 1983. Adams, Ansel. “Playboy Interview: Ansel Adams.” Playboy (May 1983): 67–87, 222–226. Adams, Ansel. Polaroid Land Photography . Boston: New York Graphic Society, 1963. Adams, Ansel. Polaroid Land Photography Manual: A View Details
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
competitors and a resurgence in local consumer sensitivities obliged multinationals to incorporate local relevance into global brands. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55958 Institutional Resilience and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
gatekeepers, and financial institutions they pay to grow their investments. Public outrage over scandals or excessive executive compensation is ephemeral. It must be channeled to demand a transformation in how our companies are governed.... View Details
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Past Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
recent candidates and new hires, and BPS leadership, I identified the main concerns and three key opportunities for improvement. The recommendations focused on a dual approach of technical (e.g., process standardization) and adaptive... View Details
- 17 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
From the Panelists: Toward a Decarbonized Future: Who Pays? Who Profits?
On May 10, 2023, Harvard Business School assembled a group of experts to discuss the path “Toward a Decarbonized Future: Why Pays? Who Profits?” In a discussion led by HBS Professor Peter Tufano, the experts described a series of vexing realities impacting the... View Details