Informal Organization - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 1997
News

A Piece of the Action

entrant in last year's HBS Business Plan Contest) and several other situations as solid research topics, Darwall and Roberts gathered information and lined up contacts for Katz so that he could "hit the ground running," as Darwall puts... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Dec 2008
News

Seth Klarman

everything I do is about giving back. In fact, one of the things we did at Baupost when we recently took on some additional clients was to accept only educational endowments and foundations. We figured we would further benefit the world by helping these View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

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Hold ourselves accountable to meaningful, measurable progress. - Advancing Racial Equity

Action Plan Hold ourselves accountable to meaningful, measurable progress. Like many of the organizations we study, Harvard Business School is at risk of declaring a lot of good intentions and goals and then failing to follow through on... View Details

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HBS - From The Dean

community, listening to their hopes and dreams for our future. I believe in the power of data, and so I poured my notes from those conversations into a natural language processor to organize and analyze the themes. What rose to the... View Details

01 Mar 2003
News

Northern California Initiative Reaches Out to Women, Girls

(MBA ’93), the Women’s Initiative aims to help alumnae in three ways: by providing career development and education opportunities, by enhancing networking, and by organizing volunteer programs that aid the local community. “Our goal is to... View Details

Keywords: Amy Burton; the Women's Initiative; HBS Association of Northern California; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

28 Feb 2011
News

Rebooting the Human Condition

HBS Life Sciences project. More recently, he joined Venter at various stages of Venter's global sailing voyage, collecting marine organisms for their DNA to expand genomic knowledge. Enriquez is the author of As the Future Catches You;... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

26 Nov 2013
First Look

First Look: November 26

Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian, and Gwendolyn Reynolds Abstract—Objectives: To assess whether the addition of a peer testimonial to an informational mailing increases conversion rates from brand name... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Apr 2007
First Look

First Look: April 17, 2007

firm, or between an upstream and downstream firm. We claim that misalignment is costly both to the involved functions/firms and to the rest of the organization or supply chain, and focus the paper on studying the circumstances under which... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

20 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School

parts of the organization. With deficient information and knowledge, you can't put all the pieces together or understand when something might be going wrong. Jay Lorsch: There was a cycle of greed throughout the system, and boards, for... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

01 Jul 2014
First Look

First Look: July 1

that have informed LGBT organizational research from the late nineteenth century to date. The frames include a "medical abnormality," "deviant social role," "collective identity," and "social... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

18 Dec 2012
First Look

First Look: December 18

Quarterly (forthcoming) Abstract Socialization theory has focused on enculturating new employees such that they develop pride in their new organization and internalize its values. Drawing on authenticity research, we propose that the... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Mar 2019
News

The Fight Beyond

shoulder. “What the hell’s the Navy doing here?” asked one American airman as five more men emerged. Despite Green’s uniform, the men weren’t there under the auspices of the Navy, but instead at the direction of the Office of Strategic Services, a nimble new... View Details

Keywords: April White; illustration by Wesley Allsbrook

01 Feb 2002
News

Redefining Success: Women & Work.

never give me enough time to raise a family." For Denise Condon Welsh (MBA '81), an interest in HBS alumnae who have taken significant time out of the workforce led her to contact her former classmate Myra Hart and help organize a series... View Details

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

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Art Nature Business

Skip to Main Content Art Nature Business Search Baker Library Search Search Search Overview Art, Nature, and Business: Perspectives on the Environment October 2019–December 2020 (extended through 2023) Spangler Center, Harvard Business School View Details

03 Apr 2019
Book

Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business

services—lending in particular—in full force. This trend will be transformative. With the ability to aggregate and organize data and analyze it rigorously, lenders can have more predictive algorithms about who is creditworthy, and small... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Banking; Financial Services

23 Feb 2009
Research & Ideas

Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn

readily identifiable. I am more interested in isolating the opportunities that arise organically and will be developed through private initiatives. Here, I think it is critical to systematically identify what I would call "downturn... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

07 Feb 2007
Research & Ideas

Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure

any other scholar to handle alone. But his attempt to do it changed his thinking in a profound way. He adopted a much more empirical and historical approach to economics, which informed both Business Cycles and his subsequent work. The... View Details

Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw

12 Apr 2023
News

Step Change

sit-in on January 25, honestly, I didn't believe it was going to be a thing," she recalls. Enan also wanted to see change but was working to enact it from within the government. While out for dinner, she and a friend were informed they... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; entrepreneurship; women; venture capital; Egypt; developing economies; Finance

March 2022
Teaching Note

Digital Manufacturing at Amgen

By: Shane Greenstein, Kyle R. Myers and Sarah Mehta

This teaching note provides guidance for instructors teaching “Digital Manufacturing at Amgen,” case no. 621-008. View Details

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28 Apr 2008
HBS Case

Negotiating with Wal-Mart

Muccio: Negotiating the P&G Relationship with Wal-Mart," HBS professor Jim Sebenius and Research Associate Ellen Knebel show two very different organizations doing just that. The cases are part of a series that involve hard... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail

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