Organizational Economics - Publications - Faculty & Research

2021
Working Paper

The Emergence of Mafia-like Business Systems in China

A large literature on state-business relations in China has examined the political role of capitalists and collusion between the state and the private sector. This paper contributes to that literature, and our understanding of the internal differentiation among China’s... View Details

Keywords: China's Political Economy; State-business Relations; Business Groups; Financial Systems; Economy; Government and Politics; Business and Government Relations; Finance; System; China

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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research

Research on Multiple Identities: Toward an Intrapersonal Network Approach By: Lakshmi Ramarajan Psychologists, sociologists, and philosophers have long recognized that people have multiple identities—based on attributes such as View Details

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Strategy Curriculum - Faculty & Research

Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 IFC: Japan; Exploring Japan's Innovation Ecosystem (also listed under Marketing) Ramon Casadesus-Masanell , Tomomichi Amano January 2026 J 3.0 IFC: Saudi Arabia; Economic Diversification Tarun Khanna , Andy Zelleke... View Details

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2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

economic inequality, driving environmental destruction, and sustaining systems of racial injustice. Join Professor Debora Spar and a panel of fellow alumni for a discussion about where business and society interact and occasionally... View Details

Research Summary

Hybrid organizing

By: Julie Battilana

While historically the commercial and social sectors have evolved on fairly separate tracks, over the last 30 years we have witnessed a blurring of the boundaries between these two sectors. In an effort to account for this transition, Professor Battilana’s second... View Details

27 Jun 2016
Research & Ideas

These Management Practices, Like Certain Technologies, Boost Company Performance

Along with colleagues Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University, and John Van Reenen, London School of Economics, Sadun challenges this view in a new National Bureau of Economic Research working paper, Management as a Technology? They argue... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

that generate positive spillovers inside firms, while seeking to understand how technology is changing the ability to fragment work beyond traditional organizational boundaries. In addition to his position at HBS, Professor Stanton is a... View Details

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Technology & Operations Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research

Robert Huckman Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Doctoral Programs Faculty from the TOM unit work with students across several doctoral programs. Detailed curriculum information for each doctoral program associated with this unit can be found on the doctoral programs website: PhD... View Details

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Business History - Faculty & Research

cultural, political, and economic landscape, exploring the interplay between governance, pro-business policies, and long-term development goals. It examines Rwanda’s marketability factors, including its ease of doing business, foreign... View Details

2011
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The Institutional Logic of Great Global Firms

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Theories of the firm have been dominated by a legacy of ideas from early industrialization that pose zero-sum opposition between capital and labor (or capital and nearly everything else), differentiating the economy from society and often posing irreconcilable... View Details

Keywords: Economy; Capital; Globalized Firms and Management; Labor; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Practice; Conflict of Interests; Social Issues; Theory

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Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

competitive Darwinian contest. Instead, a few investors make decisions that are impacted by incentive, agency, and coordination problems, often before a new idea even has a chance to compete in a market. We contend that costs and constraints on the ability to... View Details

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Our Team - Impact Investments

Hill. He then earned a Ph.D. from Harvard's Economics Department. Manager Jonah H. Zahnd Manager of the Project on Impact Investments and the Social Impact Collaboratory Jonah Zahnd is the Manager for the Project on Impact Investments and... View Details

08 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

How to Fix a Broken Marketplace

An economic handyman of sorts, Alvin E. Roth fixes broken markets. As a Nobel Prize-winning pioneer in the field of market design, the Harvard Business School professor cofounded a kidney donation matching system for New England,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

26 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019

March 2019 Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Thin Slices of Workgroups By: Satterstrom, Patricia, Jeffrey T. Polzer, Lisa Kwan, Oliver P. Hauser, Wannawiruch Wiruchnipawan, and Marina Burke Abstract—In this paper, we... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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HBS - The year in Review

administration, business economics, organizational behavior, and health policy management. During the Class Day ceremony the day prior, graduates, their guests, families, and friends honored five faculty with teaching awards and heard... View Details

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Skydeck - Alumni

offers problem-solving mindsets for uncertain times Lessons from Major League Baseball's Game-Changing Innovations Chris Marinak (MBA 2008) , Chief Operations and Strategy Officer at Major League Baseball, on building and nurturing an View Details

March 2020
Case

Voi Technology

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport and Olivia Hull

Voi Technology, a fast-growing start-up out of Sweden, is competing in the highly contested European e-scooter sharing market. With a presence in nearly 40 cities in Europe by February 2020, the firm is working hard to improve its unit economics to reach profitability.... View Details

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11 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 11, 2008

technological outcome predicted by purely economic or organizational models. We also show that interactions of producers, users and institutions shape the development of collective frames around the meaning... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Joseph L. Bower

JOSEPH L. BOWER, Donald K. David Professor Emeritus, has been a leader in general management at Harvard Business School for 51 years. He also served on the faculty of the Harvard Kennedy School during its first decade. He has served in many administrative roles... View Details

Keywords: banking; chemical; electronics; financial services; home appliances; hotels ＆ motels; information technology industry; insurance industry; private equity (LBO funds); retailing

January 2020
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The Origins of Bell Labs

By: Tom Nicholas and John Masko

In 1947, scientists at Bell Labs invented the transistor—a tiny signal amplifier that would go on to become the fundamental building block of the digital age. But, confounding most traditional economic assumptions, it was not a vigorous startup that made this momentous... View Details