Skip to Main Content
HBS Home
  • About
  • Academic Programs
  • Alumni
  • Faculty & Research
  • Baker Library
  • Giving
  • Harvard Business Review
  • Initiatives
  • News
  • Recruit
  • Map / Directions
Faculty & Research
  • Faculty
  • Research
  • Featured Topics
  • Academic Units
  • …→
  • Harvard Business School→
  • Faculty & Research→
  • Research
    • Research
    • Publications
    • Global Research Centers
    • Case Development
    • Initiatives & Projects
    • Research Services
    • Seminars & Conferences
    →
  • Publications→

Publications

Publications

Filter Results: (292) Arrow Down
Filter Results: (292) Arrow Down Arrow Up

Show Results For

  • All HBS Web  (2,097)
    • Faculty Publications  (292)

    Show Results For

    • All HBS Web  (2,097)
      • Faculty Publications  (292)

      Social InstitutionsRemove Social Institutions →

      ← Page 12 of 292 Results →

      Are you looking for?

      →Search All HBS Web
      • 7 Aug 2008
      • Conference Presentation

      Bringing the Individual and Community Levels Back in Institutional Theory, PDW Session on "Institutions Across Social Spheres: Bridging Levels of Analysis in Research and Conceptualization

      By: Julie Battilana
      Keywords: Theory
      Citation
      Related
      Battilana, Julie. Bringing the Individual and Community Levels Back in Institutional Theory, PDW Session on "Institutions Across Social Spheres: Bridging Levels of Analysis in Research and Conceptualization." Paper presented at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Anaheim, CA, August 07, 2008.
      • July 2008 (Revised October 2012)
      • Case

      Affinity Plus (A)

      By: Dennis Campbell and Peter Tufano
      The executive team at Affinity Plus Federal Credit Union has pushed the concept of members first deeply throughout the organization, empowering employees to put member-owners' interests ahead of either the organization's interests or their own interests. As a result of... View Details
      Keywords: Customer Relationship Management; Financial Institutions; Financing and Loans; Profit; Cooperative Ownership; Conflict of Interests; Strategy
      Citation
      Educators
      Purchase
      Related
      Campbell, Dennis, and Peter Tufano. "Affinity Plus (A)." Harvard Business School Case 209-026, July 2008. (Revised October 2012.)
      • June 2008
      • Background Note

      A Note on Limited Partner Advisory Boards

      By: Josh Lerner, G. Felda Hardymon and Ann Leamon
      This note explores the limited partner advisory boards. Based on interviews with seven experienced limited partners who serve on a number of different advisory boards, it presents the roles of the advisory board, the ways it can influence the general partner, and the... View Details
      Keywords: Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Partners and Partnerships; Power and Influence
      Citation
      Educators
      Purchase
      Related
      Lerner, Josh, G. Felda Hardymon, and Ann Leamon. "A Note on Limited Partner Advisory Boards." Harvard Business School Background Note 808-169, June 2008.
      • May 2008 (Revised March 2009)
      • Case

      SKS Microfinance

      By: Shawn A. Cole and Theresa Chen
      Vikram Akula, CEO of SKS Microfinance, seeks a venture capital investment to fund his firm. SKS, one of the largest and fastest growing microfinance institutions in India, is a profitable, for-profit institution with a social mission. In what is one of the first... View Details
      Keywords: For-Profit Firms; Venture Capital; Microfinance; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Valuation; Financial Services Industry; India
      Citation
      Educators
      Purchase
      Related
      Cole, Shawn A., and Theresa Chen. "SKS Microfinance." Harvard Business School Case 208-137, May 2008. (Revised March 2009.)
      • April 2008
      • Case

      Engstrom Auto Mirror Plant: Motivating in Good Times and Bad

      By: Michael Beer and Elizabeth Collins
      In May 2007, the Engstrom Auto Mirrors plant, a relatively small supplier based in Indiana, faces a crisis. The business was in the second year of a downturn. Sales had started to decline in 2005; a year later, plant manager Ron Bent had been forced to lay off more... View Details
      Keywords: Organizational Behavior; Human Resource Management; Incentives; Motivation; Manufacturing; Leadership; Change Management; Employees; Motivation and Incentives; Goals and Objectives; Manufacturing Industry; Indiana
      Citation
      Educators
      Purchase
      Related
      Beer, Michael, and Elizabeth Collins. "Engstrom Auto Mirror Plant: Motivating in Good Times and Bad." Harvard Business School Brief Case 082-175, April 2008.
      • March 2008 (Revised April 2009)
      • Case

      Eliot Spitzer: Pushing Wall Street to Reform

      By: Rawi Abdelal, Rafael Di Tella and Jonathan Schlefer
      New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer faced a decision about how to stop wrongdoing committed by major Wall Street firms during the Internet boom. The equities analysts of Merrill Lynch and other Wall Street firms were charged with objectively advising retail... View Details
      Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Decisions; Financial Institutions; Stocks; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Laws and Statutes; Lawsuits and Litigation; Conflict of Interests; Internet; Financial Services Industry; United States
      Citation
      Educators
      Purchase
      Related
      Abdelal, Rawi, Rafael Di Tella, and Jonathan Schlefer. "Eliot Spitzer: Pushing Wall Street to Reform." Harvard Business School Case 708-019, March 2008. (Revised April 2009.)
      • January 2008
      • Teaching Note

      Pilgrim Bank (A): Statistics Review with Data Desk

      By: Frances X. Frei
      Teaching Note for 602104. View Details
      Keywords: Decision Making; Policy; Banks and Banking; Management Teams; Motivation and Incentives; Customers; Mathematical Methods; Service Operations; Banking Industry
      Citation
      Purchase
      Related
      Frei, Frances X. "Pilgrim Bank (A): Statistics Review with Data Desk." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 608-095, January 2008.
      • 2007
      • Working Paper

      Acting Globally but Thinking Locally? The Influence of Local Communities on Organizations

      By: Christopher Marquis and Julie Battilana
      We develop an institutional theory of how local communities continue to matter for organizations, and why community factors are particularly important in a global age. Since globalization has taken center stage in both practitioner and academic circles, research has... View Details
      Keywords: Geographic Location; Local Range; Globalization; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business and Community Relations; Power and Influence
      Citation
      Read Now
      Related
      Marquis, Christopher, and Julie Battilana. "Acting Globally but Thinking Locally? The Influence of Local Communities on Organizations." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-034, November 2007.
      • August 2007 (Revised September 2008)
      • Case

      Marketing the "$100 Laptop" (A)

      By: John A. Quelch and Carin-Isabel Knoop
      In 2002, Professor Nicholas Negroponte, a successful venture capitalist, author, and co-founder and chairman emeritus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab, announced his intention to build a PC so cheap as to make it possible to provide... View Details
      Keywords: Venture Capital; Internet and the Web; Information Technology; Product Development; Technological Innovation; Nonprofit Organizations; Marketing Strategy; Information Infrastructure; Developing Countries and Economies; Manufacturing Industry; Information Technology Industry; Computer Industry; Cambridge
      Citation
      Educators
      Purchase
      Related
      Quelch, John A., and Carin-Isabel Knoop. Marketing the "$100 Laptop" (A). Harvard Business School Case 508-024, August 2007. (Revised September 2008.)
      • 2007
      • Working Paper

      Diasporas and Domestic Entrepreneurs: Evidence from the Indian Software Industry

      By: Ramana Nanda and Tarun Khanna
      This study explores the importance of cross-border social networks for entrepreneurs in developing countries by examining ties between the Indian expatriate community and local entrepreneurs in India's software industry. We find that local entrepreneurs who have... View Details
      Keywords: Diasporas; Developing Countries and Economies; Entrepreneurship; Financing and Loans; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Social and Collaborative Networks; Technology Industry; India
      Citation
      Read Now
      Related
      Nanda, Ramana, and Tarun Khanna. "Diasporas and Domestic Entrepreneurs: Evidence from the Indian Software Industry." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-003, July 2007. (Revised February 2009.)
      • May 2007
      • Article

      Corporate Financing Decisions When Investors Take the Path of Least Resistance

      By: Malcolm Baker, Joshua Coval and Jeremy Stein
      We explore the consequences for corporate financial policy that arise when investors exhibit inertial behavior. One implication of investor inertia is that, all else equal, a firm pursuing a strategy of equity-financed growth will prefer a stock-for-stock merger to... View Details
      Keywords: Behavior; Investment; Policy; Corporate Finance
      Citation
      Find at Harvard
      Read Now
      Related
      Baker, Malcolm, Joshua Coval, and Jeremy Stein. "Corporate Financing Decisions When Investors Take the Path of Least Resistance." Journal of Financial Economics 84, no. 2 (May 2007): 266–298.
      • April 2007
      • Case

      ABN AMRO Bank N.V.: Global Change Agents

      By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Lance P. Pierce and Ryan Leo Raffaelli
      ABN AMRO Global Banking Group developed its risk management function in response to expansion, and increasingly focused on environmental and social risks. The head of the function needed to influence policies and business decisions in a highly decentralized context in... View Details
      Keywords: Risk Management; Banks and Banking; Expansion; Change; Governing and Advisory Boards; Social Enterprise; Leadership Development; History; Banking Industry; Service Industry; Brazil; India; United States
      Citation
      Educators
      Related
      Kanter, Rosabeth M., Lance P. Pierce, and Ryan Leo Raffaelli. "ABN AMRO Bank N.V.: Global Change Agents." Harvard Business School Case 307-050, April 2007.
      • February 2007 (Revised April 2010)
      • Case

      Wyeth Pharmaceuticals: Spurring Scientific Creativity with Metrics

      By: Robert S. Huckman, Gary P. Pisano and Mark Rennella
      Describes the reorganization of the drug discovery organization at Wyeth Pharmaceuticals and focuses on the decisions to: (1) centralize decision-making within drug discovery and (2) institute numerical metrics--jointly affecting all R&D scientists--for the progression... View Details
      Keywords: Decision Making; Measurement and Metrics; Business Processes; Organizational Structure; Research and Development; Science-Based Business; Creativity; Pharmaceutical Industry
      Citation
      Educators
      Purchase
      Related
      Huckman, Robert S., Gary P. Pisano, and Mark Rennella. "Wyeth Pharmaceuticals: Spurring Scientific Creativity with Metrics." Harvard Business School Case 607-008, February 2007. (Revised April 2010.)
      • 1 Jul 2006
      • Conference Presentation

      The Role of Individuals in Institutional Change: When Individuals Act as Institutional Entrepreneurs

      By: Julie Battilana
      Keywords: Change; Entrepreneurship; Identity
      Citation
      Related
      Battilana, Julie. "The Role of Individuals in Institutional Change: When Individuals Act as Institutional Entrepreneurs." Paper presented at the European Group for Organizational Studies Colloquium, Bergen, Norway, July 01, 2006.
      • March 2006 (Revised February 2017)
      • Case

      Rwanda: National Economic Transformation

      By: Michael E. Porter, Kaia Miller, Michael McCreless, Kjell Carlsson, Jem Hudson and Haviland Sheldahl-Thomason
      Set in the year 2004, when Rwanda commemorated the 10th anniversary of a genocide that had claimed the lives of over 10% of its population. Focuses on the formulation of an economic strategy to rebuild the economy and its institutions after the devastation. Rwanda, one... View Details
      Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Developing Countries and Economies; Policy; Government Administration; Crisis Management; Strategy; Rwanda
      Citation
      Educators
      Purchase
      Related
      Porter, Michael E., Kaia Miller, Michael McCreless, Kjell Carlsson, Jem Hudson, and Haviland Sheldahl-Thomason. "Rwanda: National Economic Transformation." Harvard Business School Case 706-491, March 2006. (Revised February 2017.)
      • February 2006 (Revised August 2006)
      • Case

      Investment Banking at Thomas Weisel Partners

      By: Malcolm P. Baker and Lauren Barley
      Thomas Weisel Partners (TWP), a San Francisco-based bank focusing on emerging growth companies, is considering its strategy in the context of regulatory, competitive, and legal changes. Blake Jorgensen, the chief operating officer and co-director of investment banking,... View Details
      Keywords: Strategy; Business or Company Management; Conflict of Interests; Change Management; Investment Banking; Financing and Loans; Laws and Statutes; Financial Strategy; Corporate Finance; Banking Industry; San Francisco
      Citation
      Educators
      Purchase
      Related
      Baker, Malcolm P., and Lauren Barley. "Investment Banking at Thomas Weisel Partners." Harvard Business School Case 206-091, February 2006. (Revised August 2006.)
      • January 2006 (Revised May 2006)
      • Case

      Akin Ongor's Journey

      By: Rosabeth M. Kanter
      A retired bank CEO, one of Turkey's most admired leaders, wants to start a leadership institute to develop emerging leaders in the eastern Mediterranean region. Describes his biography and values, the models he established for excellent financial performance and... View Details
      Keywords: Leadership Development; Values and Beliefs; Partners and Partnerships; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business Startups; Environmental Sustainability; Retirement; Education Industry; Turkey; United States
      Citation
      Educators
      Purchase
      Related
      Kanter, Rosabeth M. "Akin Ongor's Journey." Harvard Business School Case 306-072, January 2006. (Revised May 2006.)
      • Aug 2005 - 2005
      • Conference Presentation

      The Innovative Capacity of Institutional Entrepreneurs: Mechanisms for Generating Alternative Ideas

      By: Julie Battilana and E. Boxenbaum
      Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Entrepreneurship; Cognition and Thinking
      Citation
      Related
      Battilana, Julie, and E. Boxenbaum. "The Innovative Capacity of Institutional Entrepreneurs: Mechanisms for Generating Alternative Ideas." Paper presented at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Honolulu, HI, August 2005.
      • July 2005 (Revised December 2006)
      • Case

      Japan: Deficits, Demography, and Deflation

      By: Richard H.K. Vietor
      By 2005, Japan's debt had risen to 163% of GDP. For more than a decade, the government had run huge deficits, trying unsuccessfully to stimulate economic growth. Interest rates, meanwhile, had been zero for years. But with slow growth and banks in crisis, nothing had... View Details
      Keywords: Economy; Economic Growth; Demographics; Financial Condition; Inflation and Deflation; Banks and Banking; Borrowing and Debt; Macroeconomics; Policy; Government and Politics; Welfare; Health Care and Treatment; Japan
      Citation
      Educators
      Purchase
      Related
      Vietor, Richard H.K. "Japan: Deficits, Demography, and Deflation." Harvard Business School Case 706-004, July 2005. (Revised December 2006.)
      • Jul 2005 - 2005
      • Conference Presentation

      Implementing Public Sector Reforms: The Role of Institutional Entrepreneurs

      By: Julie Battilana
      Keywords: Public Sector; Social Entrepreneurship; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
      Citation
      Related
      Battilana, Julie. "Implementing Public Sector Reforms: The Role of Institutional Entrepreneurs." Paper presented at the European Group for Organizational Studies (EGOS) Conference, Berlin, Germany, July 2005.
      • ←
      • 12
      • 13
      • 14
      • 15
      • →

      Are you looking for?

      →Search All HBS Web
      ǁ
      Campus Map
      Harvard Business School
      Soldiers Field
      Boston, MA 02163
      →Map & Directions
      →More Contact Information
      • Make a Gift
      • Site Map
      • Jobs
      • Harvard University
      • Trademarks
      • Policies
      • Accessibility
      • Digital Accessibility
      Copyright © President & Fellows of Harvard College.