Firm Boundaries - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2010
News

The Transformers

launch Bridgespan. Over the years, the firm has assisted HBS professors in writing several social enterprise cases, and two have been written about Bridgespan itself. For his part, Tierney is chair of the HBS Social Enterprise... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Mar 2013
News

Opening the Door

chapters, as well as a casebook now in its eighth edition. Carliss Baldwin is the William L. White Professor of Business Administration in the School's Finance Unit. She studies the process of design and its impact on firm strategy and... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Management

12 Feb 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

the current review integrates multiple streams of research relevant to brokerage and brokering—including those on structural holes, organizational innovation, boundary spanning, social and political skill, workplace gossip, third-party... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Dec 1997
News

Growing Together

Gleason, agents for corporate leadership in the social sector like Jackson, nonprofit executives like Britt, nonprofit board members, or even soup kitchen volunteers, more and more HBS alumni are finding that, as HBS professor James E. Austin puts it, "the View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry

12 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting

will be better information for better decisions. In some cases, better information comes from simply combining data that already exist in the firm but are spread across different parts of the company. Some metrics, such as customer... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Oct 1996
News

Leading In a New Era

eventful. The lessons of their experience speak volumes for all of American industry, as firms large and small grapple with a host of new challenges that those beginning their careers in 1971 never anticipated. Another MBA '71 graduate,... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

08 Sep 2016
News

How We Make It Work

family-friendly. Here’s the sequence: Large firm consulting. An interesting professional experience which gave me exposure to a wide range of industries; however, the demands of the clients, and the firm... View Details

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