Boundaries - Publications - Faculty & Research

23 Apr 2016
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Tipping His Cap to Open Source

deconstructs the traditional software value chain at big tech employers like Oracle and IBM. “What are the boundaries of an organization going forward in a world where information and content are open or can be made open? Institutions as... View Details

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Emily Hoffman

want to volunteer?" Eventually, I understood his advice: Being ordinary is simply being unaware. For every consideration, every decision that we make, we have the ability to contemplate an expanse of information that has not been laid out, is not known. And, when... View Details

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Lyn Baranowski

At age 15, I spent the summer as an exchange student in France, and the world of a small-town girl from New Hampshire opened up. The experience catalyzed in me a fundamental belief in the importance of building relationships across existing borders as a way of breaking... View Details

01 Dec 2020
News

Embrace the Corona-Blur

like never before.” Here, some thoughts on how to deal with the intersectionality of the moment—because when life’s elements blend together, it becomes harder to find perspective on any of them. Find clarity. This loss of boundaries in... View Details

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Diversity on Teams: Our Own Harvest - Race, Gender & Equity

for Employee Resource Groups allocated (including but not exclusive to time, funding, and decision-making ability)? What policies address identity-based harassment? How does your organization respond when an employee’s physical boundaries... View Details

31 Oct 2018
News

Preaching with a Choir

organizations in the world that has the ability to transcend cultural and generational boundaries through its performances. The music of the choir gives joy, peace, and healing to its listeners, and [there’s a] variety of ways that it... View Details

01 Jun 2016
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Research Brief: The High Cost of Election Expectations

perfect laboratory to test initiatives designed to improve both. Eager to showcase the country’s strengthened commitment to democracy, Kenya’s Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) partnered with Assistant Professor... View Details

Keywords: Erin Peterson

2011
Working Paper

Organizations in the Shadow of Communities

By: Siobhan O'Mahony and Karim R. Lakhani

The concept of a community form is drawn upon in many subfields of organizational theory. Although there is not much convergence on a level of analysis, there is convergence on a mode of action that is increasingly relevant to a knowledge-based economy marked by porous... View Details

Keywords: Knowledge Sharing; Organizational Culture; Civil Society or Community; Boundaries; Information Technology; Theory; Value Creation

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Sarah Murphy

slice with extra cheese. Her battle with such a complex disorder initially sparked my interest in neuroscience, and I soon came to realize that science exists well beyond the boundaries of the laboratory. Disease is more than just a pile... View Details

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Sean Meng | MBA

Sean Meng Neuroscience Currier 2026 Cohort 7 We will all be at the heart of the next wave of innovation. I am grateful for this opportunity to learn from and work alongside fellow peers who are equally inspired to push boundaries and... View Details

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Leadership Lessons from the 2010 Chilean Mine Rescue

Professor Edmondson will explore teaming as a dynamic response to the demands of knowledge intensive businesses. Organizations that do it well have a competitive advantage, because teaming is how organizations learn how they anticipate and respond to shifts in the... View Details

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Strategy Execution - Course Catalog

critical performance variables and design management control systems to track progress in achieving key goals. Controlling strategic risk: You will learn how to identify various types of internal and external risks and implement internal controls and View Details

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2016 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

can shut them. They can help build a community that belongs to all of us, or they can delineate difference and assert privilege or create boundaries between people." The symposium will examine the role of unconscious processes in... View Details

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Victoria Song

agreeable, beautiful wallflower. But I was always a dreamer. And I discovered a community of other dreamers, of entrepreneurs who taught me to scratch at the walls and feel the paint peel off slowly under my fingertips. Little by little, I realized that none of those... View Details

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Pothik Chatterjee

HBS, I will be working on health-care innovation to improve patient care, delivery, and access in America. I hope to be a leader who leads with compassion and quiet strength, with the courage to break boundaries and step into the light... View Details

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Nikhita Raman

down my school building. The unrest roaring across Indonesia had dominated the news for weeks, but I never imagined that it would reach my sleepy town. Growing up Indian amidst Indonesia’s globalization, it marked the beginning of my myriad encounters with a world... View Details

09 Apr 2018
Blog Post

Is Business School Right for You?

friendships with others like you who are planning their future trajectories. Because it is designed particularly for people like you who have not studied management or worked in business, it is a shared learning experience that tests and expands the View Details

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Fanele Mashwama

exercised over sovereigns,” Fanele says. He is investigating how the limits of sovereign immunity affect the workings of financial markets for sovereign liabilities. “The circumstances under which you can enforce findings against sovereigns across state View Details

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Camille McGirt

do not conform to society's “standards.” For those in this world who do not fit in the boundaries of “normal” or who may not be accepted for just being themselves, I get it. This partly fuels my passion to help people who are... View Details

01 Dec 2010
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Faculty Books

critical performance variables are we tracking? What strategic boundaries have we set? How are we generating creative tension? How committed should our employees be to helping each other? And what strategic uncertainties keep us awake at... View Details

Keywords: business proposals; financial regulation

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