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August 1997
Case

Orbital Sciences Corporation: ORBCOMM

In late 1993, Orbital Communications Corp. (OCC), a subsidiary of Orbital Sciences Corp., is developing a global two-way wireless data communications system, called "ORBCOMM," based on a 26-satellite constellation in low earth orbit. Service is scheduled to begin in... View Details

Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Business Model; Business Startups; Price; Global Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Demand and Consumers; Partners and Partnerships; Salesforce Management; Telecommunications Industry

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14 Sep 2021
News

The Surprising Power of Daily Rituals

10 Apr 2020
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How to Be an Inclusive Leader Through a Crisis

08 Jan 2013
Working Paper Summaries

Leading Amidst Competing Technical and Institutional Demands: Revisiting Selznick’s Conception of Leadership

Keywords: by Marya L. Besharov & Rakesh Khurana

09 Oct 2020
HBS Seminar

Jeffrey L. Furman, BU, Questrom Sch of Business

October 2009
Article

Influence and Inefficiency in the Internal Capital Market

By: Julie Wulf

I model inefficient resource allocations in M-form organizations due to influence activities by division managers that skew capital budgets in their favor. Corporate headquarters receives two types of signals about investment opportunities: private signals that can be... View Details

Keywords: Capital Markets; Resource Allocation; Business Processes; Capital Budgeting; Business Headquarters; Investment; Opportunities; Cost; Value; Motivation and Incentives; Equity

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22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

Restoring a Global Economy, 1950–1980

diffusing U.S. management and marketing techniques to other economies, although they were typically adapted in their new hosts. In Europe, firms also began to respond to European integration by building European-wide organizations and... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones

April 2005 (Revised July 2005)
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Ilene Lang and the Catalyst Search (A)

By: Myra M. Hart and Laura L. Nash

Catalyst, the nonprofit organization dedicated to championing women in professional ranks, is searching for a new president--only the third in its 42-year history. Ilene Lang, a corporate executive and entrepreneur with over 25 years of experience in high-tech... View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Nonprofit Organizations; Work-Life Balance; Job Search; Gender; Service Industry

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The Caring Company

increased turnover, employers leave money on the table when it comes to care. Related Research Healthy Outcomes: How employers' support for employees with caregiving responsibilities can benefit the organization By: Joseph B. Fuller 10... View Details

January–February 2023
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External Interfaces and Internal Processes: Market Positioning and Divergent Professionalization Paths in Young Ventures

By: Alicia DeSantola, Ranjay Gulati and Pavel Zhelyazkov

We explore how the initial market positioning of entrepreneurial ventures shapes how they professionalize over time, focusing specifically on the development of functional roles. In contrast to existing literature, which has presumed a uniform march toward... View Details

Keywords: Market Positioning; Professionalization; Scaling; Entrepreneurship; Strategy; Business Startups; Growth and Development; Organizational Structure

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Independent Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

individuals or teams of students work on a project of strategic importance to the organization and report their recommendations at the end of the term. Students undertaking a Social Enterprise Independent Project may be eligible for the... View Details

15 Nov 2022
Op-Ed

Why TikTok Is Beating YouTube for Eyeball Time (It’s Not Just the Dance Videos)

no-barrier-to-entry open mic night. Message delivery. Brands and other organizations hire influencers to use the platform to distribute a message, particularly on fashion, cosmetics, and food. To them, it is just another form of paid... View Details

Keywords: by John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld

12 Nov 2008
First Look

First Look: November 12, 2008

dominated the recent study of gender in negotiations. Or do we start with belief systems and cultural patterns within organizations and explore ways in which these are gendered and result in gendered negotiations? This is the approach... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

14 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

You're Right! You Are Working Longer and Attending More Meetings

How do people adjust their work patterns?” Longer days and more check-ins The team compared the frequency and timing of emails sent within and outside organizations eight weeks before the start of pandemic-related lockdowns and eight... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

21 Mar 2018
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Why Artificial Intelligence Isn't a Sure Thing to Increase Productivity

(USPTO), which has used innovative practices around employees working remotely. “I found the US patent office fascinating,” Choudhury says. “It is not only a large organization with more than 10,000 people, but also an View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology; Information

17 Dec 2012
Working Paper Summaries

An Outside-Inside Evolution in Gender and Professional Work

Keywords: by Lakshmi Ramarajan, Kathleen McGinn & Deborah Kolb

20 Apr 2009
Working Paper Summaries

Corporate Misgovernance at the World Bank

Keywords: by Ashwin Kaja & Eric Werker

22 Feb 2024
News

Combat-Tested Cancer Coaching

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Kathy Giusti (MBA 1985) was diagnosed with multiple myeloma in 1996, she was overwhelmed. It was the pre-Internet era, with limited available information, but... View Details

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Trust

By: Deepak Malhotra

My research on trust falls into two broad categories. First, I study barriers to trust development, and focus on mechanisms that might help to overcome these barriers. One recent project analyzes over 150,000 pages of documents concerning 102-interfirm disputes to... View Details

April 2021
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Glass-Shattering Leaders: Ilene H. Lang

By: Boris Groysberg and Colleen Ammerman

Ilene Lang started her career in technology at a time when the tech sector was new and women had only recently entered the workplace in large numbers. Over the next thirty years, she built a career spanning large and small tech companies, leading global teams and... View Details

Keywords: Glass Ceiling; Leadership; Gender; Power and Influence

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