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- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
questions and concerns. Placing value only on getting things right the first time, organizations are unable to take the risks necessary to improve and evolve. By contrast, firms that put a premium on what... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Starting Up and Starting Over
landlord, the entrepreneur, or the worker contributed most to England's prosperity. Later, as HBS Dean, Gay's primary duty was to prepare his students for their role in the administrative organization that was emerging as the business... View Details
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
private assets, and personal saving, represent exercises in linguistics, not economics. Technological Innovation and Organizations Authors: Josh Lerner and Pierre Azoulay Publication: In Handbook of Organizational Economics, edited by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 9
Many organizations have implemented incident reporting systems to highlight actual and potential operational failures in order to encourage problem solving and prevent subsequent failures. Our study is among the first to develop and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
Churchill and Judah Folkman-and telling the stories of how they came to power and how they made the most important decisions of their lives, Indispensable reveals how, when, and where a single individual in the right place at the right time can save or destroy the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Culture Clash: Exploring Cross Cultural Conflicts in Business
"As different cultural traditions meet in the marketplace and inside organizations, managers face tough choices about the values that they and their organizations will live by," HBS professor Lynn Sharp Paine told participants at an HBS... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- October 2012
- Teaching Plan
Vertex Pharmaceuticals and the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation: Venture Philanthropy Funding for Biotech (TP)
By: Robert F. Higgins
This is the teaching note related to HBS case 808005. In 2001, Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated acquired the San Diego-based biotech company, Aurora Biosciences. The combination of Vertex's and Aurora's technologies would improve the flow of novel drug candidates... View Details
Keywords: Venture Philanthropy; Biotechnology; Funding Philanthropy Venture; Cystic Fibrosis; Foundations; Pharmaceuticals; Mergers and Acquisitions; For-Profit Firms; Venture Capital; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Science-Based Business; Nonprofit Organizations; Pharmaceutical Industry; Biotechnology Industry; United States; San Diego
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Intellectual Debate: The Business of Business
Organizations and Markets unit (see Theory and Practice for a profile of the O&M unit) quickly sparked discussion in two different areas. Noting that the unit's Coordination, Control, and the Management of View Details
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
problems. And even though the problems have gotten worse, few companies have stepped up to address them. We had studied a number of firms that had successfully developed profitable businesses that had mitigating effects. But far too few.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Leveraging Female Talent
The research of HBS professor Boris Groysberg centers on a question that troubles many managers: How do I hire and develop top performers who will contribute to my company's success? The author of Talk, Inc.: How Trusted Leaders Use Conversation to Power Their View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
1996, Hema Hattangady took over as the CEO of Conzerv, an embattled family-owned firm based in Bangalore that manufactured digital energy meters. Over the next 12 years, she grew it to become India’s largest energy-management company.... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
from the 1950s to 1960s (an era that Light identifies as the "first burst" of success for the mutual fund). During those years, Dwight P. Robinson, Jr. (MBA '25) led the Massachusetts Investors Trust, the Boston firm credited with... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stasis and Turmoil: HBS Research for the Real World
are wreaking havoc on the workplace. Reengineering, for example, destabilizes and changes the rules by which organizations operate, he says. "Many of these programs are actually designed to make life easier for top management without... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Lessons Learned from My HBS Career Journey in Environmental Sustainability
I began my HBS admissions application essay with the following sentence: “I aspire to help build organizations that are advancing sustainability and addressing the issue of climate change.” For the past year and a half, I’ve been trying... View Details
Keywords: Energy / Cleantech
- 21 Jun 2016
- News
Rescuing Families from ISIS-Led Genocide
partner of a tech firm in Winnipeg to help Yazidis leave refugee camps in Syria and Turkey to start new lives in Canada. Five hundred members of this ancient ethno-religious minority were killed by ISIS in the 2014 onslaught. Women and... View Details
- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
they overcame huge obstacles to execute their strategies in industries as diverse as renewable energy, organic food, natural beauty, eco-tourism, recycling, architecture, and finance. The pioneering efforts to build certification schemes... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 9
performance of hybrid organizations that pursue a social mission, and sustain their operations through commercial activities, by studying work integration social enterprises (WISEs). We argue that social imprinting and economic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: The Good Struggle: Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World
and revisable. Next Right Steps Leaders rely on evolving commitments for three practical reasons. First, they can. Knowledge-based organizations are more flexible than traditional manufacturing firms with... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph L. Badaracco
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
A variety of academic work argues a relationship exists between the structure of a development organization and the design of the products that this organization produces. Specifically, products are often... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 21
and economic sustainability. The purpose of this chapter is to highlight the roles of multiplier firms and megaprojects in leading change for sustainability around the world, particularly in the context of the built environment.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne