Organizational Systems And Technology - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How Small Businesses Can Survive the Coronavirus Outbreak

Layoffs with Compassion (Harvard Business Review) Organizational Responses to COVID-19 and Climate Change: A Conversation with Rebecca Henderson (Environmental Insights) COVID-19 Business Impact Center... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Service; Food & Beverage

18 Nov 2020
News

Networking Goes Truly Global; Confronting Institutional Racism with Case Method Webinar

evolution in the contract between employees and employers. The conversation also considered how the post-COVID workplace will be different, as technology and work modes... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

11 May 2017
News

Going with the Flow

launch of WaterRev, an investment company that focuses on novel technologies which enable sustainable practices of water use. In 2012, she joined the board of the Boston Beer Company, producer of Samuel Adams, Angry Orchard, View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

14 Jan 2022
Blog Post

Want Hybrid Work to Succeed? Trust, Don’t Track, Employees

The COVID-19 pandemic made remote work more the norm than the exception, and now many companies are struggling to map out a hybrid plan that both managers and employees can embrace long term. With... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Oct 2000
News

Books

Baldwin and Dean Kim Clark remind readers in their new book, Design Rules: The Power of Modularity. Baldwin and Clark are intrigued by the underlying structure of these human-designed products View Details

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Early Years at HBS - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

casualties and run up massive national debt; Auguste believed the best options for his son?s future lay in America. Auguste planned for Georges to study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),... View Details

01 Sep 2018
News

Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods

expectations with promises of same-day delivery, the logistics industry is looking to completely new models, like crowdsourcing, autonomous technology, and on-demand delivery. Robert Reisner (MBA 1971), who led the Postal Service’s View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

23 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

The Gulf: It’s a Family Affair

Davis Goes To Hbs I was originally trained in economics, getting my undergraduate and Masters degrees in this field. I was working in Boston as an economist in my early twenties and realized that I really... View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Andrea Schulman

01 Jun 2002
News

Alfred L. Cheauré - A Dog's Life

on the sport and breeding and event records. We are focused on a number of technology advances that can help the sport and have recently made DNA... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Sep 2024
News

Far-Reaching Impact

Above: Teachers in India's daycare system draw on Rocket Learning's digital platform to enhance learning. Photo courtesy Rocket Learning When the news reached Namya Mahajan (MBA 2022) as her HBS graduation was approaching that she would receive financial assistance to... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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Harvard Business School

the Business Environment," which focused on external influences affecting business enterprises, particularly political, demographic, cultural, and technological shifts in society at large. View Details

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Privacy - HBS Working Knowledge

developed with the recognition that Internet technologies continue to develop and evolve rapidly, and that such changes may require us to alter our Privacy Policy. Any such... View Details

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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

and ends with me... Social Enterprise Scale-Ups: Creating Ripples of Global Good Randy Haykin 14 Dec 2017 For the past five years, I’ve been developing an approach to scaling of social enterprises that I... Simple Lessons, Shared Values,... View Details

02 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

The Role of Government When All Else Fails

this e-mail interview with Laura Linard.Linard: You write that a reason to study the historical role of government in risk management is to better "understand government and its role in the new economy." How would you... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard

01 Jun 2015
News

Screen Grab

House of Cards and Orange Is the New Black. (Netflix also recently debuted Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, a Tina Fey–created comedy originally slated for NBC.) Even live sports, cable’s best hope for retaining subscribers, can be viewed... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment

02 Nov 2020
News

The First Five Years: Julianne White (MBA 2017)

isn’t completely back to normal and our main focus is to ensure our food supply and inventory levels remain stable. “Longer-term, my goal is to better leverage data and View Details

01 Jun 2010
News

Alumni Books

the forces affecting attitudes and behaviors in each generation and analyzes the implications of organizational and View Details

Keywords: mathematics; statistics; Finance

01 Sep 2012
News

Hierarchy's Last Stand

humiliated. Higher status used to be equated with wisdom. A person at the top, or anyone older and more experienced, could claim to know more than those below. He could have the final word, issue decisions in a puff of smoke, View Details

Keywords: Rosabeth Moss Kanter; Corporate Services

01 Feb 2022
What Do You Think?

Is Concierge Management an Answer to the “Big Quit”?

(iStockphoto/Mladen Zivkovic) Several years ago, my spouse and I turned to concierge medicine. We no longer wanted to deal with a US health care system that often provides basically anonymous, production... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Apr 1997
News

Facing the Music

catalog, which, she says, "many regard as the best in the business." Indeed, with artists such as Stevie Wonder, the Supremes, and the Jacksons in its cache, Motown's catalog has kept the label afloat during a time of major View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

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