Structuration - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

Fixing the ‘I Hate Work’ Blues

company's mission on behalf of customers. They should be given full responsibility for performance, quality, achievement of goals, and compliance with company standards. To realize this change, organizational structures need to change.... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

27 Sep 2006
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Report From Egypt: Studying Global Influences

Egyptians. There are still many problems that need to be solved, including whether enough high-quality schools can be built fast enough, and tax structures that reward leaving construction sites a mess of rubble and buildings unfinished,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

25 Aug 2022
News

Case Study: Sound Check

Hoffman-Senn. The founders have questions about a leap like this: How would they adapt to the sales cycles? How or when would larger clients affect their staffing structure and self-service platform? Are these worries even warranted?... View Details

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

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Alexandra C. Feldberg

across groups in organizations? How does access to knowledge affect the inclusion of subgroups in organizational processes? In what ways does knowledge transfer impact the success of programs intended to promote equity in organizations? Organizational Behavior Program... View Details

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The Campus Emerges - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

the river from the Anderson Bridge, would supply a foundation to carry the pipes and also allow easy access to and maintain a connection with the Cambridge campus. Work crews laid pipes in trenches dug out along Cambridge streets, incorporated them into the View Details

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Kraft Precision Medicine Accelerator - Health Care

leading to more advancements. The issue they discovered was that the structure of the cure ecosystem wasn’t built around business efficiencies. Organizations, which are often solely research-focused, could achieve so much more by building... View Details

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Real Estate Private Equity - Course Catalog

final module consists of a focus on private investment firms, their compensation structures and how they impact behavior. For the final project students will be asked to develop an investment concept and present it via a paper and... View Details

11 Oct 2024
News

Highlights from the Fall 2024 Alumni Board Meeting

opportunities and challenges and serve as ambassadors to the alumni community. After an executive committee session and welcome reception on September 24, Jana Pompadur Kierstead, Executive Director, MBA and Doctoral Programs and External Relations, provided an update... View Details

01 Dec 2010
News

Eight Join HBS Faculty

Torfason is an instructor in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit and teaches the first-year course The Entrepreneurial Manager. His research focuses on how behavior is influenced by the social structures of individuals and organizations.... View Details

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The Coming of Managerial Capitalism - Course Catalog

course covers the founding of the new nation, early entrepreneurial venturing, changes in the strategy and structure of business, the winners and losers from capitalist expansion and the impact of technology and finance. The course's... View Details

15 Sep 2016
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US Competitiveness Report Sees ‘A Nation Divided’

Porter and Rivkin. “The weak economic recovery we now see is due to long-term structural issues, which are further compounded by political paralysis.” The report draws attention to the choices facing the nation in order to rebuild a... View Details

01 Jun 2014
News

Executive Action

A rendering of the new Chao Center (Illustration by Goody Clancy) Harvard Business School broke ground for the construction of a new Executive Education facility—the Ruth Mulan Chu Chao Center—on April 24. The Chao Center, a 90,000-square-foot, four-story View Details

Keywords: Construction of Buildings; Construction; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

A Perfect Fit: Aligning Organization & Strategy

"Our process is a structural mechanism that alleviates the problem by getting information into the open and helping managers discuss the undiscussable." But "getting in shape" involves several demanding exercises... View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

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Alumni Forums - Alumni

structure of forum ensures you can address important issues in a way that informal conversations may not allow. It thus affords you with new and fresh perspectives from exceptionally qualified peers. The discipline of forum ensures that... View Details

September 2002 (Revised January 2013)
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Siebel Systems: Organizing for the Customer

By: Robert Simons and Antonio Davila

Siebel Systems is one of the fastest growing companies in America. Tom Siebel, the company's founder, has organized the business to accommodate growth and focus on the customer. Innovative information technology systems and clear accountability prove to be essential to... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Structure; Applications and Software; Business Growth and Maturation; Information Technology; Performance Evaluation; Performance Expectations; Innovation and Management; Technological Innovation; Customer Focus and Relationships; Management Teams; Information Technology Industry; North and Central America

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January 2024
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Fusion Industry Association: Igniting the Future of Clean Energy

By: Joshua Lev Krieger, Jim Matheson, Kyle R. Myers and Henry Tao

Fusion energy is evolving from a scientific idea to a commercial possibility, drawing large investments and regulatory discussions; how should the FIA navigate this evolution?

The Fusion Industry Association (FIA) is at the forefront of transforming fusion... View Details

Keywords: Science-Based Business; Engineering; Venture Capital; Entrepreneurship; Government and Politics; Government Legislation; Industry Clusters; Industry Growth; Industry Structures; Technological Innovation; Energy Industry; United States

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10 Oct 2018
Blog Post

6 Lessons Learned from a Summer of Entrepreneurship

divided up our responsibilities. This not only enabled us to accomplish more, but also helped us focus by creating structure. 2. Give structured feedback. While we were proactive about asking for feedback from one another, especially... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship

April 2025
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Pouring Oil on Troubled Waters: Vickers Oils and Resolving Family Conflict over Generations

By: Lauren Cohen, Octavian Graf Pilati and Sophia Pan

Will Vickers, a seventh-generation (G7) member of the Vickers Family, grappled with a pressing challenge: how to re-integrate family members into the firm to recover lost talent. His father, Peter Vickers, was the lone leader of the Vickers Oils – despite having... View Details

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September 2020 (Revised April 2021)
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Hitachi Rail Limited (A)

By: David J. Collis, Akiko Kanno and Nobuo Sato

Hitachi must decide whether to make a British executive, who has successfully built its European rail business from scratch, head of its global rail division even though the bulk of revenues for the unit still come from Japan. The case describes the history of Hitachi... View Details

Keywords: Global Strategy; Leadership; Values and Beliefs; Human Resources; Globalized Firms and Management; Organizational Structure; Rail Industry; Japan

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