Industrial Organization - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 Apr 2014
News

Giving hope and inspiration to cancer patients around the globe

Every new day is a good day for Kathryn E. Giusti (MBA 1985) since that morning in 1996 when her oncologist told her to get her affairs in order because she had a rare blood cancer, with three years to live. Leveraging her past experience as a pharmaceutical View Details

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Accelerating Innovation | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

As social entrepreneurship has taken on increasing prominence over the past two decades, HBS alumni have been at the forefront of change from starting new organizations and embedding an entrepreneurial spirit within established ones to... View Details

04 May 2023
Blog Post

Sustainability: Career Advice from HBS Career Coach Hillary Mann

a position within the nonprofit space and specifically for an organization that had mission and purpose in their DNA. I was fortunate to find a position in the marketing department for HBS’s Career Professional Development team. I spent... View Details

14 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

Keeping Your Balance With Customers

Industrial Era, product innovation and operations management predominated. Product innovation ensured the continuous flow of new products that would sustain growth or market share or both. Operations management ensured that costs and... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton

September 20, 2004
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How Consumers Value Global Brands

By: Douglas Holt, John A. Quelch and Earl L. Taylor

In 2002, we carried out a two-stage research project in partnership with the market research company Research International/USA to find out how consumers in different countries value global brands. First, we conducted a qualitative study in forty-one countries to... View Details

Keywords: Global Brands; Brand Value; Multi-national Brands; Social Responsibility; Global Range; Multinational Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Brands and Branding; Social Marketing; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact

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01 Mar 2013
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Delivering the Power to Dream Big

technology will not only increase solar adoption in the United States, but help people in the developing world as well. In industrialized countries, "you can imagine the impact on portable electronics—it can give you freedom from the... View Details

Keywords: solar power; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

01 May 2007
First Look

First Look: May 1, 2007

possibility that the effects of FDI differ by sector. Second, we differentiate FDI based on objective qualitative industry characteristics including the average skill intensity and reliance on external capital. Third, we use a new dataset... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

Why a Federal Rule on CEO Pay Disclosure May Get You In Trouble With Customers

Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO), which conducts an annual analysis of available labor data. Presumably, the Dodd-Frank rule, once it's mandated, will make more data available for such... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

11 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

The New International Style of Management

advantage, decision making by those firms and their individual managers seems to rise above national influences and toward a commonality shared by other top firms in the international arena. In their study of the software industry in... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

24 May 2004
Research & Ideas

The Watsons: IBM’s Troubled Legacy

organization is in recognition of the part played by art in industry and its importance to industry in broadening the horizons of culture and influencing the needs and desires... View Details

Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow

16 Dec 2016
News

An Environmental Epiphany

35-year-old institution. We have been working on the transition to a clean, prosperous, and secure low carbon energy future for the last 35 years. I joined the organization three years ago, with a specific mandate from the board to take... View Details

01 Apr 2000
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Real World Issues Aired at Student Led Conferences

Always impressive, the annual conferences organized by HBS student clubs bring together industry leaders, alumni, and students for meetings marked by informative discussions of key business issues. Earlier... View Details

Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner

Student-Profile

Erica Moszkowski

in the Economics department have enhanced my experience and improved my research tremendously.” Research Erica’s research interests lie at the intersection of industrial organization and market design. In... View Details

01 Feb 1999
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NYC Conference Brings Entrepreneurs and Angels Together

investment vehicles used by angel investors to find and fund entrepreneurs: groups of angels who evaluate deals together, organizations that match entrepreneurs with interested angels, and individual angels who seek out deals through... View Details

01 Jun 2000
News

Networked Computers behind IT Payoff

from each other's information." He asserts that when making IT investment decisions, organizations should ask themselves, "How can I put my employees in touch with the people and the information they need?" Unfortunately, he writes, "this... View Details

03 Feb 2023
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Immersive Field Courses Take the Classroom on the Road

As part of the HBS Elective Curriculum, MBA students can enroll in an Immersive Field Course (IFC). These courses are driven by faculty research and industry connections and provide students with an opportunity to get out of the classroom... View Details

15 Aug 2016
Blog Post

Prepare for Your Interview with Research

experience, they will also most certainly be interested in assessing your knowledge of their company as well as the industry and its trends. A review of the company’s web site is a basic starting point, but this research will only help... View Details

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Influencing Practice | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Nonprofit Management (SPNM) program brings together some 150 leaders of nonprofits from across the globe for an intensive six-day program designed to strengthen the capacity of nonprofit CEOs and executive directors to lead their View Details

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2013 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Conventional Wisdom. This symposium highlights cutting-edge research and ideas about gender in organizations and brings together scholars and practitioners for thoughtful, forward-looking discussion. Attendees include faculty from U.S.... View Details

01 Jun 1996
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New Releases

Engines of Innovation edited by Richard S. Rosenbloom and William J. Spencer (HBS Press) In past decades, industrial laboratories such as AT&T's Bell Labs and the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center were wellsprings of powerful new... View Details

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