Structuration - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2008
News

What Went Wrong?

myself straining to understand not just what was happening but the strange vocabulary used to describe it. I’d never heard of a subprime mortgage. Likewise securitization in all its exotic flavors: collateralized debt obligations, View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

01 Jun 1998
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Devtosh Khare

a business plan to solicit venture capital and helped with strategic planning for a new Web-based product launch. To further expand his knowledge of India's thriving entrepreneurial landscape, Khare also did some work as a summer associate at DLJ Private Equity Fund,... View Details

Keywords: Orna Feldman photograph by Webb Chappell

January 2007 (Revised December 2008)
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Mercy Corps: Positioning the Organization to Reach New Heights

By: Allen S. Grossman and Caroline Joan King

Mercy Corps, the world's 5th largest international relief and development agency, is at a turning point. The nonprofit's opportunities to grow and serve a larger number of beneficiaries are unprecedented. By looking at the unique relationship between headquarters and... View Details

Keywords: Business Offices; Business Headquarters; Globalized Firms and Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Structure; Nonprofit Organizations

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June 2009 (Revised April 2019)
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Crosley

By: Tom Nicholas and David Chen

In October 1941, a top secret envoy from the U.S. military was sent to Crosley Corporation in Cincinnati, Ohio to request their assistance to construct a weapon that would drastically strengthen the defenses of U.S. troops: the proximity fuze. Such a fuze would allow... View Details

Keywords: Information Technology; History; Production; National Security; Organizational Structure; Corporate Strategy; Research and Development; Product Development; Business and Government Relations; Creativity; Innovation and Invention; Ohio

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24 Jul 2019
Blog Post

Growing the Seeds of an Early-Stage Startup

donations. Amid exams and interviews, it gradually became clear in my heart that this was the one – I was going to New Orleans! I was offered the role of a Business Development Intern, but I quickly learned that like many early-stage startups, a perfectly delineated... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Consumer Products / Retail

28 Mar 2018
Blog Post

Event Planning for Recruiting Success - Part 1

Optimize Your Time With Students during the planning process. Should we consider Company Conversations? Many companies find that they can best showcase what makes them unique in a small group setting. Company Conversations are small group or 1:1 style events View Details

Keywords: All Industries

11 Jan 2016
Blog Post

Meet the Business and Environment Initiative

relationships between economic systems and the natural environment, and about the structures that enable firms to act productively in this arena. It develops innovative cases, teaching notes, and other curriculum materials for broader... View Details

04 Jan 2021
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The First Alumni of the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program

information on their backgrounds and their career aspirations in addition to their resumes. The resume book sparks conversations between students and alumni of similar backgrounds or interest areas and can act as a supplement to more View Details

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Black Business Leaders and Entrepreneurship

data plus Social Explorer tables which include easy reports with age, sex, race, Hispanic origin, household relationship, place of birth, education, employment status, income, tenure, cost and value of housing, year structure built and... View Details

29 Apr 2021
News

Equal Partner

in the ranks of investors. She also knew that some firms were seeking to diversify their partnerships without addressing underlying structural problems. “Partner” did not always mean check-writing abilities or a voice on the investment... View Details

Keywords: Diversity; Inclusion

01 Oct 2000
News

After the Revolution: Putting the Internet in Perspective

Microsoft and Cisco, Nolan said the mature business model of a hierarchical organizational structure with a "make-and-sell" strategy can't be adapted to the virtual, information-enabled world of dot-coms. There, the real-time speed,... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Apr 2001
News

Making A Difference: HBS Club of Puget Sound Reaches Out to Young Alumni

“Recent graduates participating in the HBS Club of Puget Sound are helping to create a structurally sound volunteer organization with continuity from year to year,” she observes. According to Kwiker, much of the club’s success is due to... View Details

Keywords: Elena N. Berg; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

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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

into Business is open to all current domestic and international undergraduate students from all academic majors. This series is designed to introduce students to the broad scope of business. It does not cover the structure or application... 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

01 May 2007
First Look

First Look: May 1, 2007

sharing where all peers are endowed with standard preferences and show that the endogenous structure of the network is conducive to sharing by a significant number of peers, even if sharing is costlier than freeriding. We build on this... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Sep 2015
First Look

September 15, 2015

account for the majority of sales and revenue. To tackle this challenge, we use machine learning techniques to estimate historical lost sales and predict future demand of new products. The nonparametric structure of our demand prediction... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Oct 2009
First Look

First Look: October 27

in Developing Countries Authors: Diego Comin, Norman Loayza, Farooq Pasha, and Luis Serven Abstract We build a two-country asymmetric DSGE model with two features: (1) a product cycle structure determines the range of intermediate goods... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

14 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Keeping Credit Flowing to Consumers in Need

an inability of the regulatory structure to keep pace with the changing market, shared the blame. Q: What are the implications today for low- and moderate-income consumers? A: As we lurch toward a recovery, the economy will continue to... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Construction; Real Estate

07 Mar 2007
Research & Ideas

How Do You Value a “Free” Customer?

about this area. I am currently working on understanding and modeling complex network structures such as those of MySpace. Here the issue that we are grappling with is the tangible and intangible value of customers. In other words,... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Web Services

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