design - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2007
News

…and They Will Come

At HBS this spring, the world-renowned architect A. Eugene Kohn is teaching Design, Construction & Development Risk in Commercial Construction, an MBA elective. Kohn is the founder and chairman of Kohn Pedersen Fox Associates (KPF), a firm he has shaped into a world... View Details

Keywords: Special Design Services; Special Design Services; Special Design Services; Special Design Services

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Jonathan Godfrey Archives | Social Enterprise

designed to accelerate the impact of social entrepreneurs moving their organ... INITIATIVES focus on societal challenges that are too complex for any one discipline or industry to solve alone. View Details

01 Oct 2001
News

Finding Their Way

The best-laid plans — even those designed and implemented by the remarkably talented alumni of HBS — are seldom immune to life's twists and turns. This is perhaps the overriding lesson that each member of the Class of 1976 has learned... View Details

Keywords: Management

01 Mar 2011
News

Child’s Play

Tak: Apps for childhood development. The Over in the Meadow Animated Storybook is an interactive, animated, and educational product, the first to be rolled out by a start-up called iMomConnect. It’s designed to help busy parents teach... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

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Rebecca Emerick

Design (Joint Center for Housing Studies), Harvard Graduate School of Education (Programs in Professional Education), and Harvard Business School (Career & Professional Development). Work Experience: Nearly 20 years of experience at... View Details

Keywords: Consulting

01 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

What to Do When Your Organization Has Dueling Missions

A couple of years ago, hip-hop artist Macklemore topped the Billboard 100 chart with Thrift Shop, a paean to buying inexpensive used clothing from Goodwill Industries. Indeed, like the rapper, millions of people know Goodwill primarily as a successful retailer; in... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

February 21, 2024
Article

The NFT Staircase: How Digital Ownership Benefits Brands and Consumers

By: Scott Duke Kominers and Steve Kaczynski

One of our goals with our new book, The Everything Token: How NFTs and Web3 Will Transform the Way We Buy, Sell, and Create, is to unlock the power of nonfungible tokens, or NFTs, for business. National and international brands are already using NFTs in some of... View Details

Keywords: Non-fungible Tokens; NFTs; Brand; Brand Building; Digitization; Metaverse; Tokenization; Crypto Economy; Blockchain; Market Design; Brands and Branding; Value Creation

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1986
Chapter

Seihin Kaihatsu ni okeru Senryaku to Soshiki (Strategy and Organization for Product Development)

By: Hirotaka Takeuchi and Ikujiro Nonaka

Keywords: Product Development; Corporate Strategy; Organizational Design

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March 1993
Background Note

Stages Theory, The: A Framework for IT Adoption and Organizational Learning

By: Richard L. Nolan, David Croson and Katherine Seger

Describes Professor Richard Nolan's Stages Theory of Information Technology adoption by organizations. View Details

Keywords: Information; Body of Literature; Information Management; Information Publishing; Adoption; Organizational Structure; Organizational Design; Decision Making; Information Technology Industry

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15 Oct 2013
First Look

First Look: October 15

coordination. Yet some work settings operate with fluid personnel, making stable team structures with ongoing relationships infeasible. We study the adaption of team structures for fluid work settings in a hospital emergency department (ED). Qualitative analysis... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2005
News

Baker’s back

architect Robert A.M. Stern, several preservationists, and Skanska USA, the construction manager. The School’s internal structure of an executive committee and fifteen subcommittees also provided clear direction. “This was a terrific project,” says Bob Stern, who also... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

October 2014 (Revised September 2015)
Case

Sanford C. Bernstein Goes to Asia

By: Linda A. Hill, Dana M. Teppert and Allison J. Wigen

Sanford C. Bernstein, a premier sell-side research firm, is expanding globally. Three years after launching Bernstein's Asian business, senior management has appointed Ghislain de Charentenay, a six-year sales veteran of the firm, as director of Asian research in Hong... View Details

Keywords: Collaboration; Talent Management; Leadership; Talent and Talent Management; Organizational Design; Emerging Markets; Globalization; Hong Kong

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2012
Book

Auctions, Market Mechanisms, and Their Applications: Second International ICST Conference, AMMA 2011

By: Peter Coles, Sanmay Das, Sebastien Lahaie and Boleslaw Szymanski

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the Second International ICST on Auctions, Market Mechanisms, and Their Applications (AMMA 2011) held in New York, August 22–23, 2011. The 22 revised full papers presented were carefully... View Details

Keywords: Internet; Market Design; Internet and the Web; Auctions; Information Management; Computer Industry

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December 1996 (Revised June 2003)
Case

Cynthia Hogan and the Birth of Novartis

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter

An American woman heads an integration office for merger transition activities between two giant Swiss pharmaceutical companies. She needed to develop an implementation plan to shape the new global powerhouse. View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Global Strategy; Organizational Design; Strategic Planning; Pharmaceutical Industry; Switzerland; United States

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Educators

1988
Chapter

Executive Leadership and Organizational Outcomes: An Evolutionary Perspective

By: M. Tushman

Keywords: Management Teams; Leadership; Outcome or Result; Organizational Design; Organizational Change and Adaptation

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01 Jun 2017
News

Boosting Boardroom Diversity

accelerate that trend. In addition to helping senior women executives develop the knowledge and skills sought by boards, the weeklong program (next offered in November) demystifies board selection and offers the opportunity to explore topics of boardroom diversity and... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

Profile

Ann Chao

"more of an educational bent," the company has designs to have "greater impact on musicians in all styles of music." Sonation just launched an app for Star Wars fans, Millennium Trumpet, where users can play that... View Details

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Negotiation - Course Catalog

(often-overlooked) value-creating potential in different situations; Design and execute agreements that unlock maximum value on a sustainable basis; End up with an appropriate share of the value that is negotiated; Understand the vital... View Details

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Tough Tech Ventures - Course Catalog

optimized for venture opportunities with relatively low technological and/or market uncertainty. While tough technology has the potential to transform incumbent industries and tackle our most pressing societal issues, the tough tech ventures which View Details

November 1999 (Revised February 2000)
Case

Granny's Goodies, Inc.

By: Das Narayandas and Katherine B. Korman

The young entrepreneurs of Granny's Goodies, Inc., a corporate gift package specialist, face the challenge of finding ways to create consistent revenue streams and reduce sales costs. Outside of a few long-term contracts, the two founders have had to work very hard for... View Details