Organizational Systems And Technology - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Feb 2002
News

It's academic. (Not!)

information technology and management, or organizational behavior. That broad range of choices, coupled with the satisfaction of conducting research in the field, generates an... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

03 Jan 2011
Research & Ideas

to Customer Service Is your enterprise resilient or rigid? In this Q&A, HBS professor Ranjay Gulati, an expert on leadership, strategy, and organizational issues in firms, describes how companies can... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

01 Oct 2014
What Do You Think?

Is Too Much Focus a Problem?

and defuse causes of the recent Great Recession without understanding the system itself), and a tendency to discount the future (ignoring long-term effects on global warming in... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

16 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow

they pursued the mission through various organizational structures." She said that the National Audubon Society in the United States is a network of organizations, some of them corporate-owned and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

When Benchmarks Don’t Work

motivates employees to execute strategy effectively. The value of these programs is measured by the value they create in the enterprise, not by how little is spent on them. An adequate technology infrastructure View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan; Service

12 Nov 2021
News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

their capital structures and switch capital providers as technology evolution and project systems evolve and... View Details

05 Feb 2019
News

The First Five Years: Karan Shah (MBA 2016)

I cherish and enjoy! My job involves bringing in new customers, retaining and growing business with current customers, leading new projects, developing new products, spearheading new View Details

15 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

The New Global Business Manager

in the multinational company's organizational capability. And that is where the role of the global manager is shaped. We argued that companies should not define this as an offline specialist role, but... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

08 Sep 2008
HBS Case

The Value of Environmental Activists

There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities

07 May 2024
Blog Post

Opportunity to Offset Travel Emissions with Carbon Credits that Meet HBS Criteria

provide health and equity benefits. The remaining 0.5% is a modest investment in Frontier projects which is made up of promising, innovative, yet higher risk permanent carbon removal technologies ready to... View Details

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Electricity - Business & Environment

from fossil fuel power stations. With significant cost declines in recent years, solar and wind have become cost competitive with fossil fuels in many places. In addition, hydropower, wave, geothermal, and... View Details

04 Apr 2022
What Do You Think?

As Disney Board Chair, What Would You Advise CEO Bob Chapek Regarding 'Don’t Say Gay'?

engagement and organization performance in his book Win From Within: Build Organizational Culture for Competitive Advantage. References: Zac Anderson, “DeSantis says he will sign ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill, slams... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Investor - Entrepreneurship

(TEM) SUMMER Intern with a VC firm and serve as a Rock Summer Fellow. FALL Take EC Courses applicable to VC/Investing: Venture Capital and Private Equity Private Equity Finance Financial Management of Small... View Details

13 Apr 2021
Book

How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations

companies, and the gender pay gap persists. While young women are aware of these systemic problems, the more nuanced forms of sexism that persist today often take them by surprise, say Ammerman View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

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Judges - Alumni

Start-up culture and operations · Business model development · Team building and coaching · New business development Industry Consumer Products and Services (B2C), View Details

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Marketing Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

2021. Isamar Troncoso : Finalist in the 2021 American Statistical Association Best Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Competition (Marketing Section). Shunyuan Zhang : Nominated with Magie Cheng for the 2021 Workshop on Information Systems... View Details

10 Jan 2022
Research & Ideas

How to Get Companies to Make Investments That Benefit Everyone

since little of the upside tends to flow back onto corporate balance sheets. To that end, Nagle says, “Can we design systems and regulations to allow a company to get some of those benefits?” One model for... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

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Molly Welch

tremendous impact on human problems -- but that its impact would depend on how systems are developed and the problems to which they are applied. I came to the joint MBA/MPP program interested in more... View Details

20 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

Solving the Riddle of How Companies Grow Over Time

benchmarks? Defining what growth means Pisano and colleagues fill that gap in a new paper, Long-Term Firm Growth: An Empirical Analysis of US Manufacturers 1959—2015, published in the journal Industrial and... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Manufacturing

12 Jan 2023
News

‘Debiasing’ Debt with Data

cloud computing services that runs on the same infrastructure that Google uses internally for its own end-user products. Ballard says the technology rollout and capitalization process will take place over... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

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