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A Marketing Revolution - The Art of American Advertising

that crossed the boundaries of art and commerce. Their rapidly proliferating advertising products reached audiences far and wide, permeating public spaces in bold designs and colors with instantly recognizable brand names and inhabiting... View Details

01 Aug 2002
News

Class Day & Commencement

those boundaries forward into exciting new areas,” he said. “In the years ahead, corporate leaders will be recognized not only for the quality of their company's products and services but also for their willingness to tackle some of the... View Details

23 Apr 2016
News

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

20 Jul 2015
Blog Post

My Journey to Working with At Night Management / PRMD Music

working in the iTunes group. For many years, it was the most important digital release platform in the music industry. Yet we were disconnected from the creative part of the industry, far away from the people pushing the boundaries... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports

07 Jun 2016
First Look

June 7, 2016

focused on the current technical architecture may fall victim to architectural innovations arising outside their boundaries. Thus in technologically dynamic industries, partial mirroring, where knowledge boundaries are drawn more broadly... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

Making Biotech Work as a Business

link the islands of expertise together, they need to look at two broad kinds of mechanisms, according to Pisano: organizational—"so firms can expand their boundaries to include multiple capabilities. Virtual integration is a form of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Biotechnology; Health; Technology

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RoGME: Role of Government in Market Economies - Course Catalog

debates over the taxation of individuals and firms, the provision of economic assistance, and the determination of the boundaries of policy. As this summary shows, the cases we discuss take us step-by-step through a rigorous conceptual... View Details

01 Jun 1998
News

Long-Term Interest: Bill Crozier, a Banker Pegged to the Customer

the boundaries in financial services, the two giants have challenged more conventional banking mergers in which organizations merely seek to grow larger while remaining banking concerns." Crozier also sees the current merger trend as... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

29 Sep 2011
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Leveraging Intellectual Property

Appropriation--How to Draw the Boundaries of Intellectual Property Many companies have adopted models of "open innovation," in which they seek ideas from external sources such as university labs, independent entrepreneurs, customers, and... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

01 Feb 2001
News

Porter Appointed to University Professorship

twentieth in a line of venerable positions endowed at Harvard since 1936. University Professors are encouraged to cross over disciplinary boundaries in their research and often divide their time between their "home" departments or schools... View Details

Keywords: Doug Gavel; University Professorship; C. Roland Christensen; Sumner H. Slichter

01 Jan 2008
News

Anand G. Mahindra, MBA 1981

with Renault to manufacture the French carmaker’s low-cost sedan, the Logan, is now exploring ways to expand the boundaries of the alliance to include new products and markets. “Going global is terribly complex and challenging,” Mahindra... View Details

2006
Article

The End of Nationality? Global Firms and 'Borderless Worlds'

By: G. Jones

This article provides a historical perspective to current debates whether large global firms are becoming "stateless" and whether this is a historically new phenomenon. It shows that a great deal of international business in the nineteenth century was not easily fitted... View Details

Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Multinational Firms and Management; Trade; Ownership; International Finance; Economic Systems; International Accounting; Globalized Economies and Regions; Geographic Location; Nationality; Boundaries; Global Strategy

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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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20 Jun 2012
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching Leadership: What We Know

educators must also recognize that they are members of a larger community of academics responsible for shaping society's future leaders. Therefore, academics involved in teaching leadership must consider a broader context that often extends beyond the traditional View Details

Keywords: by Scott A. Snook, Rakesh Khurana & Nitin Nohria; Education

25 Jun 2019
Research & Ideas

The Powerful Strategic Tool Companies Should Not Try to Control

mind that communities are governed very differently than companies. User communities operate outside the boundaries of the firm even in cases where the community organizes around a firm’s core products––and firms can therefore not control... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

01 Dec 1999
News

Negotiating in 3-D: An Overarching Way to Get to Yes?

concerned about sovereignty. The solution was to establish a buffer zone under the Egyptian flag rather than continue a vain zero-sum search over where to draw a boundary line in the sand. The third dimension challenges the basic... View Details

Keywords: Anita M. Harris

04 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

Why dot.coms Will Rise Again

scheme.—F. Warren McFarlan He offered the case of the Hong Kong-based global trading company Li & Fung as one example of a company that has virtually dissolved its boundaries and embraced technology as a tool for charging forth into... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2012
News

Alumni Book Briefs

1978) (Berrett-Koehler Publishers) The Hidden Europe: What Eastern Europeans Can Teach Us by Francis Tapon (MBA 1997) (WanderLearn) Destructive Interference by Martin Skogsbeck, i.e., Martin Waldstrom (MBA 1973) (Xlibris Corp.) Strategic IQ: Creating Smarter... View Details

Keywords: Broadcasting (except Internet); Information

18 Sep 2007
First Look

First Look: September 18, 2007

reserves at all. This finding is robust to considering interest rate shocks, sudden stops, contingent reserves and reserve dependent output costs. Download the paper (purchase from NBER required: $5): http://www.nber.org/papers/w13216 Modularity, Transactions, and the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 May 2002
What Do You Think?

What’s Driving the “New Marketing?”

boundaries and fuses various functions of a firm together (as well as a firm with its customers, suppliers, and partners) may suggest that marketing as we knew it has become so identified with the development and implementation of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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