Informal Organization - Publications - Faculty & Research

March 2009 (Revised June 2011)
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The Guardian: Transition to the Online World

By: David J. Collis, Peter W. Olson and Mary Furey

The Guardian had been an early innovator in online newspapers and had not only become the leading U.K. newspaper web site, but was making strides with audiences outside of the U.K. However, The Guardian had been losing money since 2000, and, in spite of the relative... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Revenue; Newspapers; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Risk and Uncertainty; Business Strategy; Online Technology; Journalism and News Industry; Publishing Industry; United Kingdom

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20 Jun 2019
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Reframing Modern Art

sense of that journey? That's quite a transition. Denise Murrell: It is definitely a transition, but it wasn't a sudden transition. I actually think it was pretty organic and it unfolded over time. I finished HBS in 1980 and worked for... View Details

16 Sep 2016
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Offshore Learning

“Our classroom is a 204-acre island in Boston Harbor with two salt marshes, a fresh-water marsh, an inner tidal zone, meadows, and forests,” says Arthur Pearson (MBA 1991), president and CEO of Boston’s Thompson Island Outward Bound Education Center. Since 2005,... View Details

25 Apr 2014
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Addressing the challenge of teacher retention in public schools

Melissa Wu (MBA 2008) explains her work with TNTP to research teacher retention patterns and best practices for America's public schools. (Published April 2014) View Details

28 May 2019
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Case Study: Building the Base

consider how to improve and expand the platform. —William Collis (MBA 2011) Got a case? To take part in a future “Case Study,” send an outline of your company’s challenge to bulletin@hbs.edu Case Study Update: Sneakz Organic Charles Philp... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Information; Information

28 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

Earth Day Reflections

company's commitment to sustainability mean that firms that ignore this do so at their own risk. BMW Group has been a leader in recognizing this. Several years ago, it issued a Sustainable Value Report detailing energy consumed, water consumed, waste removed, and... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

24 Apr 2014
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Motivation through hard knocks

“turbulent” upbringing in South Central Los Angeles has enhanced his ability and interest in motivating others. “I’ve seen both sides of the equation,” he says, explaining that he has experienced homelessness and moved around a lot in his youth. Taylor’s background... View Details

01 Sep 2024
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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Thirteen years ago, Marcelo Claure, founder of wireless services company Brightstar, discussed with a reluctant Steve Jobs the idea of launching a trade-in and recycling program for iPhones. It was a business move that expanded the market and created a new profit... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Meyers

12 Aug 2002
Research & Ideas

‘Let the Buyer Beware’ Doesn’t Protect Investors

information in the boilerplate of interest to an investor." In the end, an investment bank is a sales organization not much different from an auction house that sells used furniture. —D. Quinn Mills In... View Details

Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills

01 Apr 2001
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Trek Talk

1996. Students also organized career and networking events this year in Seattle, Austin, Washington, D.C., Denver, New York, and Hollywood. The Harbus reported that there was talk of future treks to “Africa, Asia, and even exotic Maine.” View Details

01 Mar 2010
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Lords of Strategy

most of strategy’s history, those are precisely the factors that the paradigm hasn’t found a way to work into its calculations. If the discipline is to continue to be of service, it will have to find that way. In seeking models of an View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Information; Information; Information; Information; Information; Information

December 2000 (Revised November 2001)
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Rise and Fall of Iridium, The

By: Alan D. MacCormack and Kerry Herman

Examines the history of Iridium Communications, a provider of mobile satellite services. Discusses the genesis of Iridium's technical design, then follows the venture through various stages of development. Describes Iridium's attempts to build a subscriber base after... View Details

Keywords: Information Technology; Business Model; Business Growth and Maturation; Organizational Structure; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Telecommunications Industry

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01 Jun 2007
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New HBS, KSG Joint Degree

HBS and the Kennedy School of Government have announced the creation of an integrated joint-degree program, the first of its kind. Its mission is to develop outstanding leaders who are skilled in both managing complex organizations and... View Details

Keywords: Administrative and Support Services; Corporate Services; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Government; Management

01 Dec 2003
News

Fall Reunions

corporate governance, to finding a job during difficult economic times. A seminar on “What Really Matters in Life,” organized by the School, was offered to the Classes of 1968 and 1973. Individual classes also arranged their own... View Details

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

05 Aug 2015
News

Nourishing the Next Generation

says. Today, California-based Chefables prepares more than 30,000 fresh, from-scratch, and mostly organic meals: think vegetable chow mein, edamame hummus, chicken shawarma, and whole-grain pastas shaped like bunnies or bears—a day for... View Details

19 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

How to be Extremely Productive

and maintained rewarding relationships with his wife and their two children. “It takes a lot more than organizing your schedule to be productive.” In a widely read Harvard Business Review article (May 2011), Pozen outlined six... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg

01 Dec 2004
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Ideas: Books

international business. Professor Ghemawat and his coeditors have collected articles by leading scholars that focus on five topics in international business: creating value through international expansion, sources of value in global strategy, View Details

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

21 May 2018
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Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area

the HBS and the Harvard Law School alumni communities. “We were pleased to have our four-woman panel comprised of two HLS and two HBS grads,” says Fortner, who organized the event with Joahne Carter (MBA 2002), Elizabeth Williams (MBA... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Apr 2001
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New Ventures New Gains

“HBS has always been good at running experiments — reinforcing the ones that make progress and killing the ones that don’t,” says HBS professor of management practice Joseph B. Lassiter, who, together with Sahlman, worked with student View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna and Susan Young; Martin Dubilier (MBA 1952); Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Sep 2011
News

Rolling Stock in Baker Exhibit

the United States and examines how the state influenced railroads’ development on both continents. (Indeed, some researchers suggest that American railroads were sometimes inefficient, lumbering organizations whose scale was achieved... View Details

Keywords: Museums, Historical Sites, and Similar Institutions; Arts, Entertainment; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Rail Transportation; Transportation

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