integration - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 10

organizations that adopt it within a highly scrutinized regulatory environment but absent in a direct regulatory threat. The Quest for the 'Holy Grail' of Integrated Financial and CSR Reporting Authors:Robert Eccles and Michael Krzus... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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2016 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

leadership roles at Microsoft, Kieran created a linguistic services platform for developers, introducing natural language processing capabilities to Windows developers for the first time. She also led a cross-company engineering effort for the native View Details

01 Sep 2007
News

To The Rescue

a successful model for public-private partnerships. “They’ve helped us not just at the funding level but with integrating police and fire into the emergency system,” Raju explains. “We are now in the process of appealing to the national... View Details

Keywords: Garrett M. Graff; emergency response networks; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Telecommunications; Information

14 May 2008
Research & Ideas

Getting Down to the Business of Creativity

pointillist painter, and it's easy to imagine Bill Gates or Oprah Winfrey humming the same tune. But if creativity is integral to business, and to entrepreneurship in particular, how exactly does it occur? Where does this unicorn-like... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Entertainment & Recreation

20 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School

economy. There was a cycle of greed throughout the system, and boards, for their part, allowed it to go unchecked.— Jay Lorsch Koehn: Board performance and the culture of organizations as factors affecting a firm's integrity have been... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

06 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success

XNE business model called for a much greater integration of the new units with traditional business units. The autonomy offered to the XNE managers and their compensation schemes were much closer to that afforded in a traditional... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner

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2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

indeed as mutually opposed? Dr. Connell’s current research project considers the legal and cultural ramifications of recent gender and sexual policy change in the US military, from the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell to the gender View Details

15 Jun 2021
News

HBS Addresses Racial Equity

themselves in a wide set of domains. We’ve been working with them, many of whom are members of the African-American Alumni Association, and with HBS’s Racial Equity Advisory Board, using their knowledge, their connections, and their mentorship. We want alumni to be an... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Mar 2019
News

The One That Got Away

Well, media sites just weren’t buying it, unfortunately—they weren’t set up to integrate the technology quickly and take full advantage of its benefits. We parted ways as friends and agreed to keep in touch. Peter and his team were busy... View Details

17 Dec 2024
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Solving the Underemployment Crisis

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, it’s Dan. Today, we are sharing a brief excerpt from Managing the Future of Work, the critically-acclaimed podcast from my colleagues at Harvard Business School. Each episode, HBS professors Bill Kerr... View Details

21 Nov 2016
Research & Ideas

It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales

more specialists are needed to stay up to date with functional best practices. The problem that this influx of specialists creates, Cespedes says, is that fewer senior executives are responsible for integrating activities across the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

16 May 2016
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Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer

a long time to build up a culture of integrity for any inspection service,” Quelch says. Plus in China, some suspect that foreign brands are at times unfairly targeted, accused of food safety violations that may be fabricated or... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

19 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 19

firms strategically respond to government signals regarding appropriate corporate activity. We integrate institutional theory and research on corporate political strategy to develop a political dependence model that explains (a) how... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 20

fundamental challenges of science-based businesses: 1) managing and rewarding long-term risk, 2) integrating across technical disciplines, and 3) learning. Whereas these challenges were once managed inside the boundaries of corporate... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

27 Apr 2009
Research & Ideas

Building Businesses in Turbulent Times

customers who told him that their key area of pain was the difficulty of integrating the "islands of automation" throughout their global companies. Gerstner, himself a former IBM customer, immediately recognized the opportunity.... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

05 Jul 2006
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First Look: July 5, 2006

pending patent case involving VMware and Microsoft and integration challenges associated with EMC's decision to spend $3 billion to acquire two other software firms based in California. The case raises issues surrounding deal protection... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

31 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It

expertise. But senior managers also must rethink their role in shaping strategic direction. Their main contribution has shifted from deciding the strategic content to framing the organizational context. That means creating a sense of purpose that not only provides an... View Details

Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal

29 May 2001
Research & Ideas

Race Does Matter in Mentoring

responsibility for an integrated business unit—a division president, for instance—or leadership of a corporate function—such as a vice president of purchasing.) The most striking aspect of my findings was the consistency of the data. (See... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Thomas

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David A. Frankel

introduced me to more great people,” Frankel said. He ended up backing 27 startups before he and Paley founded Founder Collective, a venture capital firm based in Harvard Square and New York (Chris Dixon was an integral part of the... View Details

09 Feb 2017
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Turning Disorder into Opportunity

abilities, it makes sense to find a way to integrate them into the workforce, Fieldhouse explains. “Information from our research indicated the employment churn rate for people on the spectrum is extremely high—around 50 percent within... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

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