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- 07 Mar 2013
- News
Private firms playing major role against cyberattacks
- Research Summary
Evolution of firm structure in vertical specialized technology supply chains
By: Willy C. Shih
The global market in many everyday products has been transformed by the internationalization of production. In many industries, semiconductors and electronic products in particular, a sequential mode of production has evolved in which goods are produced... View Details
- May 2008 (Revised May 2010)
- Background Note
Organizational Alignment, Performance, and Change in Professional Service Firms
By: John J. Gabarro
This note describes the relationship between organizational alignment and performance in professional service firms and how to use McKinsey 7S Alignment to diagnose a firm's or practice's alignment, identify misalignments and determine how to bring about the changes... View Details
Gabarro, John J. "Organizational Alignment, Performance, and Change in Professional Service Firms." Harvard Business School Background Note 908-416, May 2008. (Revised May 2010.)
- 1993
- Chapter
Management of Risk Capital in Financial Firms
By: Robert C. Merton and André Perold
Merton, Robert C., and André Perold. "Management of Risk Capital in Financial Firms." In Financial Services: Perspectives and Challenges, edited by Samuel L. Hayes III, 215–245. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1993.
- October 2013
- Article
How Firms Respond to Mandatory Information Disclosure
By: Anil R. Doshi, Glen W.S. Dowell and Michael W. Toffel
Mandatory information disclosure regulations seek to create institutional pressure to spur performance improvement. By examining how organizational characteristics moderate establishments' responses to a prominent environmental information disclosure program, we... View Details
Keywords: Information Disclosure; Institutional Theory; Environmental Strategy; Mandatory Disclosure; Environmental Performance; Information; Corporate Disclosure; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Performance Improvement; Environmental Sustainability; Manufacturing Industry; United States
Doshi, Anil R., Glen W.S. Dowell, and Michael W. Toffel. "How Firms Respond to Mandatory Information Disclosure." Strategic Management Journal 34, no. 10 (October 2013): 1209–1231. (Featured in The Regulatory Review.)
- 12 Apr 2012
- Conference Presentation
How Firms Respond to Mandatory Information Disclosure
- July 2010 (Revised February 2011)
- Supplement
Eden McCallum: A Network-Based Consulting Firm (B)
By: Heidi K. Gardner and Erin McFee
To weather the 2009 financial crisis, Eden McCallum's cofounders must renegotiate partners' compensation, attract independent consultants to meet different client demands, and reassure their Advisory Board that their network-based consulting model remains sound. The... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Decision Choices and Conditions; Financial Crisis; Entrepreneurship; Governing and Advisory Boards; Compensation and Benefits; Partners and Partnerships; Consulting Industry
Gardner, Heidi K., and Erin McFee. "Eden McCallum: A Network-Based Consulting Firm (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 411-027, July 2010. (Revised February 2011.)
- December 2005 (Revised February 2006)
- Background Note
How do firms change their strategies successfully?
By: Jan W. Rivkin
The last of four module notes for students taking an advanced course on competitive strategy. Examines patterns that distinguish successful strategic change efforts from unsuccessful ones. View Details
Keywords: Competitive Strategy
Rivkin, Jan W. "How do firms change their strategies successfully?" Harvard Business School Background Note 706-434, December 2005. (Revised February 2006.)
- November 2006
- Article
Forward-Looking Focus: Can Firms Have Adaptive Foresight?
By: Valarie A. Zeithaml, Ruth Bolton, John Deighton, Timothy Kenningham, Katherine N. Lemon and J. Andrew Peterson
Zeithaml, Valarie A., Ruth Bolton, John Deighton, Timothy Kenningham, Katherine N. Lemon, and J. Andrew Peterson. "Forward-Looking Focus: Can Firms Have Adaptive Foresight?" Journal of Service Research 9, no. 2 (November 2006): 168–184.
- 18 Mar 2019
- Podcast
30. Revisiting Resource Allocation in the Firm
Before returning to our Jobs to Be Done theme, we thought we'd share a little about how some of Clay's theories came to be. On the show today, hear Clay talk with one of his mentors, Joe Bower, the Donald K. David Professor Emeritus, about the origins of Resource... View Details
- 06 Aug 2014
- News
Firms bemoan stalled changes on visa limits
- 27 Mar 2008
- News
Boston buyout firms sue banks over financing
- 29 Nov 2023
- News
Lessons in Innovation from a Legacy Firm
- 2015
- Working Paper
Crowdsourced Digital Goods and Firm Productivity: Evidence from Open Source Software
By: Frank Nagle
As firms increasingly rely on crowdsourced digital goods, understanding their impact on productivity becomes critical. This study measures the firm-level productivity impact of one such good, non-pecuniary (free) open source software (OSS). The results show a... View Details
Nagle, Frank. "Crowdsourced Digital Goods and Firm Productivity: Evidence from Open Source Software." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 15-062, January 2015. (Revised June 2015.)
- May 2014
- Article
Right Up the Middle: How Israeli Firms Go Global
By: Jonathan Friedrich, Amit Noam and Elie Ofek
The article considers international business enterprises based in Israel and how they successfully expanded from their origins as small businesses. A common technique of those companies in which they focused on market entry in other countries whose markets were too... View Details
Friedrich, Jonathan, Amit Noam, and Elie Ofek. "Right Up the Middle: How Israeli Firms Go Global." Harvard Business Review 92, no. 5 (May 2014): 113–117.
- Research Summary
Corporate Debt, Firm Size and Financial Fragility in Emerging Markets
By: Laura Alfaro
The post-Global Financial Crisis period shows a surge in corporate leverage in emerging markets and a number of countries with deteriorated corporate financial fragility indicators (Altman’s Z-score). Firm size plays a critical role in the relationship between... View Details
- 25 Aug 2017
- News
Shame, Prestige Drive Returns at Some of Japan's Biggest Firms
- 2012
- Chapter
The Institutional Logic of Great Global Firms
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss. "The Institutional Logic of Great Global Firms." Chap. 3 in Towards a New Theory of the Firm: Humanizing the Firm and the Management Profession, edited by Joan Enric Ricart Costa and Josep Maria Rosanas Marti, 79–108. Bilbao: Fundación BBVA, 2012.
- 2020
- Working Paper
No Line Left Behind: Assortative Matching Inside the Firm
By: Achyuta Adhvaryu, Vittorio Bassi, Anant Nyshadham and Jorge Tamayo
How do firms pair workers with managers, and which constraints affect the allocation of labor within the firm? We characterize the sorting pattern of managers to workers in a large readymade garment manufacturer in India and then explore potential drivers of the... View Details
Keywords: Assortative Matching; Productivity; Global Buyers; Readymade Garments; Management; Employees; Performance Productivity
Adhvaryu, Achyuta, Vittorio Bassi, Anant Nyshadham, and Jorge Tamayo. "No Line Left Behind: Assortative Matching Inside the Firm." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-103, March 2020.