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  • 29 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 29, 2007

legend in the newspaper community. The case describes the evolution of Schibsted's strategy from print media towards electronic media starting in 1995, including their choices around the internal structuring of new ventures. In September... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Nov 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational

of doing things" and shape its international organization structure and processes. Business historian Alfred Chandler has traced the influence of the cultural values and social structures on British management practice. For reasons... View Details
Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal
  • 05 Dec 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

Heterogeneous Technology Diffusion and Ricardian Trade Patterns

Keywords: by William R. Kerr
  • Research Summary

Overview

Pushing decision authority downward and increasing employee autonomy have become watchwords for the modern organization. Leaders of contemporary organizations view efforts to replace “command and control” systems with less-hierarchical approaches to organizing as... View Details
Keywords: Formalization; Teams; Decentralization; Hierarchy; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Self-managing Organizations; Future Of Work; Flat Organization
  • 03 Feb 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

Accountability and Control as Catalysts for Strategic Exploration and Exploitation: Field Study Results

Keywords: by Robert L. Simons
  • 01 Sep 2016
  • Blog Post

Reflecting on the HKS/HBS Joint Degree Program

I am currently a joint degree student at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) and Harvard Business School (HBS), and attending Harvard has been a fantastic experience so far. I spent my first year here studying the Master in Public Administration and View Details
  • 27 Oct 2009
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First Look: October 27

survey data from India and Indonesia, we first show that financial literacy is a powerful predictor of demand for financial services. To test the relative importance of literacy and price, we implement a field experiment, offering... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Feb 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Does Democracy Need a Marketing Manager?

marketing can be used to create a political process that entices consumers (voters) rather than makes them cynical. "We wanted to elevate understanding of the power and importance of marketing as a force for social good," the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • December 2023
  • Teaching Note

Buurtzorg

By: Ethan Bernstein and Tatiana Sandino
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 122-101. As co-founders of home nursing company Buurtzorg, Jos de Blok and Gonnie Kronenberg prized both self-management and organizational learning. Buurtzorg’s 10,000 nurses across 950 neighborhood nursing teams in the Netherlands were... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Employee Relationship Management; Knowledge Dissemination; Knowledge Management; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Groups and Teams; Learning; Health Industry; Netherlands
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  • 2008
  • Other Unpublished Work

Accounting, Risk Management and the Aftermath of a Control Debacle

By: Anette Mikes
Despite the widespread adoption of risk management systems in the financial services industry, recent control debacles highlight the apparent lack of top managerial attention to risk controls. Yet in order to understand the workings and uses of risk controls (or any... View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Governance Controls; Management Systems; Accounting; Conflict and Resolution; Trends; Financial Services Industry
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  • 04 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 4, 2008

investment in producing video content for the web. The case concludes by presenting various options under consideration by Abrahams-options that dealt both with external challenges (How should he define his brand? Which markets should he target?) and with View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Nov 2020
  • News

Global Ambition

business as executive director of the board and president of the international division. “HBS opened my eyes to different perspectives that I never would have been exposed to,” says Chew, who remains grateful for the fellowship he... View Details
  • December 8, 2022
  • Article

The New China Shock: How Beijing’s Party-State Capitalism Is Changing the Global Economy

By: Margaret M. Pearson, Meg Rithmire and Kellee S. Tsai
In the wake of the global financial crisis of 2008, China began to move away from the market-based approach that had shaped its economic policies for three decades, and toward something that might be termed “party-state capitalism,” which involves a high degree of... View Details
Keywords: International Relations; Globalized Economies and Regions; Economic Systems; Trade; China
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Latin America - Global

contributed to advancing BiGS' mission to leverage the power of the private sector and international markets to find solutions to social problems. Participants highlighted... View Details
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Leading Global Businesses

Management Excellence. Learn More Key Benefits Drawing on the diverse capabilities of a powerful faculty team, this highly personalized global leadership program develops both your global intelligence and your personal effectiveness in... View Details
  • 03 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 3

entrepreneurship researchers.   Working PapersSpeaking Up Constructively: Managerial Practices That Elicit Solutions from Front-line Employees Authors:Julia Adler-Milstein, Sara J. Singer, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract Ideas that could... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Dec 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Teaming in the Twenty-First Century

Even as academic journals and business sections of bookstores fill up with titles devoted to teams, teamwork, and team players, Harvard Business School Professor Amy C. Edmondson wonders if many might be barking up the wrong tree. "I've begun to think that teams are... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
  • Web

Accounting & Management - Faculty & Research

accountability for performance through effective external and internal governance. Unit research, course development, and teaching fall into two broad areas: Financial Reporting and Analysis and Management Accounting. Our research helps... View Details
  • 03 Nov 2021
  • Blog Post

Alumni Viewpoints: Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

Business leaders around the world are currently focused on the discussions and negotiations taking place at the 26th Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasgow from October 31 to November 12. The outcome of these international... View Details
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Courses - Entrepreneurship

Fall 2023 Q2 1.5 Entrepreneurial Sales 101: Founder Selling Mark Roberge Lou Shipley Spring 2024 Q3 1.5 Entrepreneurial Sales 102: Building, Managing, and Scaling the First Sales Team as a Founder, Investor, or Advisor Lou Shipley Spring 2024 Q4 1.5 Entrepreneurial... View Details