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- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Cutting Edge
"We're reemerging as a high-margin, health-and-wellness company," says Silk, speaking from Smith Brothers headquarters in Chicago. "We'll continue to make our traditional cough drops, but we've also introduced a variety of... View Details
- 2013
- Working Paper
Delegation in Multi-Establishment Firms: Evidence from I.T. Purchasing
By: Kristina McElheran
Recent contributions to a growing theory literature have focused on the tradeoff between adaptation and coordination in determining delegation within firms. Empirical evidence, however, is limited. Using establishment-level data on decision rights over information... View Details
Keywords: Business Units; Business Headquarters; Decision Choices and Conditions; Operations; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Power and Influence; Adaptation; Cooperation
McElheran, Kristina. "Delegation in Multi-Establishment Firms: Evidence from I.T. Purchasing." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-101, April 2011. (Revised April 2012, July 2012, January 2013.)
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation
software, consumer electronics, and pharmaceuticals. Such companies hold many important patents and boast R&D labs that rival facilities at the best universities in the world. They are headquartered in countries with myriad... View Details
- 11 Jan 2021
- Blog Post
Finding My Place at HBS
to the mission, after witnessing many of my athlete friends fail to get the education, experiences and well-rounded identity to succeed in life after sport. Trey Athletes is headquartered in Dallas, TX, and since launching in 2018, we... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
The Next Big Thing
It's a case of competition and strategy on a global scale, and the stakes could hardly be higher. The prize? Leadership in the realm of life sciences, a field that experts say will shape and dominate 21st-century enterprise. What city or region will become the... View Details
- Portrait Project
Mardie Oakes
Silicon Valley's wealth and advanced technologies; this juxtaposition is brought into sharp focus by the presence of Cisco Headquarters across the street. Looking back on my words "healthy or sick," I think about these... View Details
- Profile
Ryu Kawano
shifted authority and decision-making from headquarters to local offices. After interviewing people in the pilot office, it became clear that not only was it working, it was a necessary step for such a rapidly growing organization — they... View Details
- 20 Dec 2018
- News
Baker Library Webinar Features Resources for Alumni
dishes to add some surprises to the evening. A white elephant gift exchange game rounded out the evening. Declaring their holiday celebration on December 12 as the “coolest of the cool,” the HBS Club of Austin gathered at the North Austin View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 20 Apr 2016
- News
Steps to Success
the oats for Cheerios,” she remembers. “I had the great fortune to go to headquarters periodically, and decided to move to the marketing division.” She spent most of her time in the company’s Big G Division, working with products such as... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Patricia ("Tosh") Rapoport Barron
Equanimity has been the hallmark of Tosh Barron's life, one filled with precipitous moments and tests of character that might have overwhelmed a lesser person. From her quiet, comfortable office at Xerox Corporation headquarters in... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 10 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Vika Wasyliw
Engineer on the Radio Frequency team. Starry is a start-up internet service provider headquartered in downtown Boston that uses fixed wireless broadband technology. When I worked there, Starry was in a phase of massive growth following... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
The Influence of Geography on Work and Innovation
mobility. To explore possible solutions, in another recent study Choudhury evaluated how policy changes around worker location in the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) improved productivity. The USPTO employs about 8,000 patent examiners at its View Details
Keywords: April White
- January 2008
- Article
Entrepreneurship and Urban Success: Toward a Policy Consensus
By: Zoltan J. Acs, Edward L. Glaeser, Robert E. Litan, Lee Fleming, Stephan J. Goetz, William R. Kerr, Steven Klepper, Stuart S. Rosenthal, Olav Sorenson and William C. Strange
Like all politics, all entrepreneurship is local. Individuals launch firms and, if successful, expand their enterprises to other locations. But new firms must start somewhere, even if their businesses are conducted largely or exclusively on the Internet. Likewise,... View Details
Keywords: Business Headquarters; Business Startups; Development Economics; Economy; Entrepreneurship; Policy; Taxation; Growth and Development Strategy; Product Development; Business Processes; Expansion; Internet
Acs, Zoltan J., Edward L. Glaeser, Robert E. Litan, Lee Fleming, Stephan J. Goetz, William R. Kerr, Steven Klepper, Stuart S. Rosenthal, Olav Sorenson, and William C. Strange. "Entrepreneurship and Urban Success: Toward a Policy Consensus." Kauffman Foundation Research Report (January 2008).
- 03 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 3
had done in tolerance stacking. Or should they "go broad" and continue to lobby headquarters for more complex assignments that might ultimately lead to program ownership for an entire vehicle? Each scenario had different... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Good News, Not Blues, For the Inner City
candidate for the Inner City 100, each company nominee must employ ten or more employees at year end; be private with at least a five-year operating history; and have at least $1 million in sales. It also must be headquartered in the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Open Office Revolution Has Gone Too Far
about them” What my co-author Stephen Turban and I were ultimately able to produce is the first work I know of that looks empirically at how interactions between individuals in headquarters change when employees move from cubicles to... View Details
Keywords: Re: Ethan S. Bernstein
- September 2009 (Revised September 2010)
- Case
Genzyme Center (A)
By: Michael W. Toffel and Aldo Sesia
Genzyme Corporation is in the midst of planning its new corporate headquarters, which incorporates many innovative green building features. After learning that the building as planned would likely earn a LEED Silver rating, an intermediate score in the LEED green... View Details
Keywords: Green Building; LEED Rating System; Economic And Environmental Performance; Program Evaluation And Assessment; Tradeoffs Between Process- And Performance Standards; Buildings and Facilities; Business Headquarters; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Standards; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Performance Improvement; Environmental Sustainability; Pollutants; Green Technology Industry
Toffel, Michael W., and Aldo Sesia. "Genzyme Center (A)." Harvard Business School Case 610-008, September 2009. (Revised September 2010.)
- Person Page
Read excerpts from DENIAL
The Edifice Complex: Denial at Sears
Book Excerpt: Denial at Sears (BusinessWeek.com, February 26, 2010)
From Denial: Why Business... View Details
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
older investors prefer dividend-paying stocks. Together, these tendencies generate geographically varying demand for dividends. Firms headquartered in areas in which seniors constitute a large fraction of the population are more likely to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Nov 2011
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Organizational Design
data network, the easier it is for workers to lean on superiors and rely on them to make decisions. It's also easier for executives to micromanage and keep all the decisions in the corporate office. Trust is also a key factor in determining whether decisions are... View Details
Keywords: Re: Ranjay Gulati & Raffaella Sadun