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04 Dec 2012
First Look

First Look: December 4

Homophily and Structure in a Formal Organization Authors:Adam M. Kleinbaum, Toby E. Stuart, and Michael Tushman Publication:Organization Science Abstract Homophily in social relations results from both individual preferences and selective... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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Domingo Garcia-Huidobro

Why did you choose this path at this point in time? I wanted to scale my solar startup back home, but I really didn’t understand how. I lacked a structured approach to entrepreneurship, tools, and connections. At HBS I have learned tons... View Details

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Peek into Business | MBA

broad scope of business. It does not cover the structure or application process for the MBA. For insights into the value of an MBA, we recommend exploring Peek into the MBA. Please be aware that participation is non-evaluative and will... View Details

01 Dec 2000
News

Global Leadership Initiative's Director Focuses on Technology

ability? These and other projects are in the early research phase, Price notes. He emphasizes that the initiative's collaborative structure draws on the talents of HBS faculty and includes assistance from other experts in the field. "We... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

January 2006 (Revised October 2007)
Background Note

Managing Networked Businesses: Course Overview for Students

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann

Provides an overview for students of the MBA elective course Managing Networked Businesses (MNB). MNB focuses on management challenges in businesses that exhibit network effects. The first section of the note explains that such businesses comprise a large and growing... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Capital Structure; Business or Company Management; Network Effects; Organizational Design; Business and Government Relations; Social and Collaborative Networks; Competitive Strategy

October 2013 (Revised May 2014)
Supplement

The TELUS Share Conversion Proposal, Spreadsheet Supplement

By: Lucy White and Benjamin C. Esty

A proxy battle between a Canadian firm and a US hedge fund over a proposal to unify the firm's dual class share structure. View Details

Keywords: Stock Shares; Capital Structure; Investment Funds; Telecommunications Industry; Canada; United States

November 2011 (Revised March 2014)
Case

Jaipur Literature Festival — Beyond the Festival Template

By: Tarun Khanna, Dennis A. Yao, Hillary Greene and Amrita Chowdhury

Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF), dubbed "the greatest literary show on earth" was an annual event held in late January at the Diggi Palace in Jaipur. JLF provided a platform for international authors and Indian language authors from the subcontinent to engage in a... View Details

Keywords: Literature; Festival; Economic Development; Social Development; Literacy; Development Economics; Social Entrepreneurship; Organizational Structure; Social Issues; India

May 1989 (Revised September 1989)
Case

Jacobs Suchard: Reorganizing for 1992

By: Robert G. Eccles Jr.

Jacobs Suchard, the Swiss-based coffee and chocolate producer, is preparing for the common market and EEC 1992. At the time of the case, the company is still organized toward independent, local country markets, and believes it must move toward a more global... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Expansion; Organizational Structure; Markets; Global Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; Switzerland

October 1991 (Revised August 1993)
Case

Acid Rain: Burlington Northern, Inc. (A)

By: Forest L. Reinhardt

Burlington Northern (BN) hauls low-sulfur coal from the northern Great Plains to electric utilities in the Midwest. Acid rain legislation may affect the geographic scope of BN's markets. Railroad managers need to assess the economic effects of acid rain controls and... View Details

Keywords: Rail Transportation; Environmental Sustainability; Development Economics; Government Legislation; Natural Environment; Policy; Metals and Minerals; Industry Growth; Industry Structures; Rail Industry; United States

30 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers

to generate profits, he threw them out. To be clear, large German firms definitely do not move as quickly today as many American firms. The German economy is going through fundamental structural changes because of Europeanization and... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

11 May 2015
Research & Ideas

A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure

Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Transportation

24 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

With Millions of Workers Juggling Caregiving, Employers Need to Rethink Support

showed is that caregiving concerns are endemic. They affect roughly 80 percent of the workforce some of the time, most of the time, or all of the time. But the way working relationships have been structured by employers for a century... View Details

Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

01 Dec 2003
News

Business Answers the Call

of personality, coupled with the leadership of his successor, a former investment banker, extraordinary structural changes were made in the Seattle system. Nielsen retired from the school board in 2001 but remains active with a community... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Jun 2009
Lessons from the Classroom

The Challenges of Investing in Science-Based Innovation

structures will emerge from today's science-based businesses." A new offering of Managing Breakthroughs—From Science to Enterprise is currently being planned. The program, which Sato chairs with HBS professor Willy C. Shih, is... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Auto; Pharmaceutical

17 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Becoming the Next Real Estate Mogul

the current Boston Stock Exchange building, a structure that was considered something of a white elephant after Fleet Bank moved out. After buying the building for $10 million, Intercontinental invested $6.5 million in the property before... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Construction; Real Estate

20 Nov 2017
Blog Post

A Summer Internship with the International Rescue Committee

resettlement in the US, which made our first task simply mapping out what problem we wanted to solve. Did we care most about employment rates, language outcomes of health and wellness? Fortunately, we had the structure of the... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

17 Aug 2021
Blog Post

Applying the MBA Skillset to Global Health Challenges: Summer Fellow Vasilis Theodorou (MBA 2022)

structures to tackle global public health issues, fundraising strategies for global health organizations, and best practices for supporting national health programs. How has your MBA skillset prepared you to be successful in this role?... View Details

25 Aug 2022
News

Ink: The Three-Step Startup

For the last two decades in his classroom at Brown University, Danny Warshay (MBA 1994) has been using a structured approach to teach entrepreneurship—what he calls “see, solve, scale.” But roles reversed when his students pointed out... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

19 Feb 2020
News

Capitol Ideas to Combat Climate Change

Elizabeth Lewis (MBA 2006) When moderator Toffel asked the other panelists for their policy wish lists, many echoed the congressman, even as they debated the nomenclature (would it be called a “tax” or a “fee”?), structure (would it fund... View Details

Keywords: April White; photos by Jack Conroy

01 Oct 1999
News

A Message from Dean Clark

structures in lesser developed countries, multinational joint ventures, and product development. Encouraged by these efforts, we are looking forward in the near future to the opening of a center in Latin America that will broaden our... View Details

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