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- July 2010 (Revised August 2012)
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Assistant Professor Jo Worthington (C)
A professor has an awkward exchange with a student who has prepared numeric analysis, but whose numbers do not agree with her own. View Details
Leonard, Dorothy A. "Assistant Professor Jo Worthington (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 911-406, July 2010. (Revised August 2012.)
- February 2008
- Article
Where Do Transactions Come From? Modularity, Transactions, and the Boundaries of Firms
This article constructs a theory of the location of transactions and the boundaries of firms in a productive system. It proposes that systems of production can be viewed as networks, in which tasks-cum-agents are the nodes and transfers—of material, energy and... View Details
Keywords: Boundaries; Production; Market Transactions; Supply Chain; Management; Cost; Theory; Performance Productivity; Information Management; Complexity
Baldwin, Carliss Y. "Where Do Transactions Come From? Modularity, Transactions, and the Boundaries of Firms." Industrial and Corporate Change 17, no. 1 (February 2008): 155–195. (Selected as one of the top twenty articles in the first twenty years of publication, 1992-2011.)
- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Shareholders Key to Corporate Reform
to influence boards, they need to be more strategic in getting this information to directors. In cases where shareholders vote against management proposals, efforts should be made to convey those specific... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Student Conferences, at a Glance
Cash, Jr. Professional Achievement Award: Raymond J. McGuire (MBA 1983/JD 1984), managing director, Mergers & Acquisitions Group, Morgan Stanley This year’s conference — named for one of the School’s first African-American alumni —... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Advancing the Vision for HBS
other initiatives ensure that the School remains the standard for excellence in management education worldwide. Thanks to the extraordinary generosity of thousands of donors and the work of a dedicated corps of alumni volunteers, we are... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Speak English, Please!
assess their reading and listening comprehension of business English, and to continue to take the test until they pass. A second phase involved bringing in lecturers to discuss how to study English and manage learning the language. The... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Faculty Books
to breakdowns in strategic outcomes, and where top management can intervene to shape desired results. They show that a company’s realized strategy emerges less from formal statements of corporate strategy and more often from the pattern... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
New Releases
that the more things change, the more strong leadership is needed and the more complicated the interconnected web of relationships becomes. While effective leadership and management are both necessary in organizations, Kotter points out,... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
HBS Professors Pearson, Thurston Remembered
wars” and aggressive global expansion. Pearson left PepsiCo to join the HBS faculty in 1985. He taught the first-year course Competition and Strategy and the elective Management Policy and Practice. “Andy brought an extraordinary amount... View Details
- 02 Sep 2016
- News
Mentoring Is ‘the Best Part of the Job’
Mary Callahan Erdoes (MBA 1993) is CEO of JPM Asset Management at JPMorgan Chase & Co. and is a 2016 recipient of an HBS Alumni Achievement Award. In this interview, Erdoes talks about the value of mentoring. “At JP Morgan, I’ve been... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
world of the future Teaching tomorrow's leaders Who's Number One? In selecting the "most influential business leader" of the last 75 years, HBS alumni, graduates of America's best-known school of management, chose a college dropout with no formal business or View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Charles O. Rossotti, MBA 1964
the age of 57, Charles Rossotti made a self-described "huge detour" from a 28-year career at American Management Systems, Inc., the Virginia-based computer systems consulting firm he cofounded. He went from helping corporate clients... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Novartis AG Establishes Global Research Fund
Novartis managers from around the world to pinpoint the company's key challenges. He wrote a case about the merger, coauthored by Executive Education's director of research Carin-Isabel Knoop, that served as a focal point for the program.... View Details
Keywords: Anne Kavanagh
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Class of 1942 Chair Honors Paul Lawrence, Promotes Leadership
and the management of R&D laboratories. At HBS, he teaches courses in managing organizations, innovation, and international competitiveness. He is a consultant and an instructor in corporate executive... View Details
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Myra Hart Named to Professorship
Myra M. Hart, an expert in entrepreneurship, has been named MBA Class of 1961 Professor of Management Practice. She holds the MBA Class of 1961 Professorship concurrently with William J. Poorvu, who has been its incumbent since 1989. A... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Time to Vote in University Elections
India. Managing Director, McKinsey & Co., Chicago, Ill. Margaret A. Hamburg, AB '77, magna cum laude, MD '83. Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, D.C. Roland A. Hernandez,... View Details
- 31 Jan 2018
- News
A Visible Example of What’s Possible
in the School’s admissions office. Her corporate career began at the Los Angeles Times, where she started as a planning analyst and later became general manager of new business development. She also worked at Walt Disney Publishing before... View Details
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
SEAS Complex Reaches for a New Frontier
the Charles River. The development of the new complex was made possible in part by a $400 million SEAS endowment established in 2015 by John A. Paulson (MBA 1980), founder and president of the investment management firm Paulson & Co.... View Details
- 15 Feb 2022
- News
Charlotte Club Hosts Webinar to Mark 100 Years of the Case Method
centennial celebrations across HBS that started in 2021. “The goal of the HBS Case Method 100 celebration is to create awareness of this exciting milestone and to encourage alumni, students, staff, and faculty to reflect on the lasting impact of the case discussion,”... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
He’s Back
America, if not the world,” he was talking about harness racing. Who knew? Of his management style, Robinson said, “Everyone approaches challenges differently, which doesn’t mean one way is right or another is wrong. The only question to... View Details