Integrated Design - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2016
What Do You Think?

When Business Performance Falters, is Culture Change the Fix?

comments concerning the issue of appropriate starting points for dealing with an organization’s lagging performance. There was little support for an approach that first addresses an organization’s culture, “how we do things around here.” But Rick Mayhall commented that... View Details

Keywords: by James L. Heskett

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Teaching Support for HBS Faculty | Baker Library

Teaching Support for HBS Faculty We work with faculty to enhance the student learning experience in the classroom and help students with course assignments and independent projects. Baker Library works with faculty who are designing or... View Details

01 Mar 2009
News

Honoring HBS’s Organization Men

Integration. The conversation took place in Spang-ler’s Williams Room in conjunction with a conference on organization design that used their 1967 classic as a jumping-off point for assessing research in the field today. The gathering... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

17 Jul 2006
Lessons from the Classroom

Developing a Strategy for Digital Convergence

not only changed how Yoffie designed the course, called Strategy and Technology, but it's also changing how managers in tech-intensive companies are dealing with this issue on the front lines. Yoffie begins the course by exploring the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer; Education

July 2005
Teaching Note

Utah Symphony and Utah Opera: A Merger Proposal (TN)

By: Thomas J. DeLong

Teaching Note to (9-404-116). View Details

Keywords: Governing and Advisory Boards; Arts; Mergers and Acquisitions; Design; Organizational Culture; Voting; Integration; Human Capital; Music Industry

Citation

Purchase

01 Jun 2012
News

Good as Our Word

set itself apart from the pack with uncompromising integrity and accuracy, especially in the rating of structured finance products such as asset-backed securities. Although Becker never spoke with Kroll directly while writing the case,... View Details

Keywords: Maggie Starvish; Bond rating; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

03 Apr 2012
First Look

First Look: April 3

clinical leadership responsibilities. The purpose of this article is twofold: first, to make the case for the need to refocus residency education around the development of outstanding "frontline" clinical leaders and, second, to provide an evidence-based... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

11 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Cheap, Fast, and In Control: How Tech Aids Innovation

What are some of the new "star" technologies and how can the average business integrate them in order to conduct low-cost, rapid testing? We need to appreciate that new knowledge comes as much from failure as it does from... View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild

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IT Strategy: HBS IT Website Provides Easier Access to News and Support | Information Technology

engaging. In tandem, the IT Service Delivery team led an effort to build a new support portal to improve access to help information, support details, and service statuses. The teams ensured integration of the two sites was as seamless as... View Details

01 Dec 1998
News

New Senior Executive Programme Strengthens African Managerial Leadership

One key to becoming more integrated into the global marketplace will be southern Africa's ability to respond to the radical economic and social changes taking place in its own backyard. "This not only poses complex challenges for... View Details

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Resources on Indian Business History - Creating Emerging Markets

entrepreneurship: A note on research trends. Dwijendra Tripathi Nov 1985 Economic and Political Weekly 20, no. 48 163-168 An Integrated view of entrepreneurship Dwijendra Tripathi May 1971 Economic and Political Weekly 6, no. 22 59-66.... View Details

01 Jun 2008
News

Faculty Books

develop an effective strategy (with tools such as SWOT analysis and strategic-change agendas); plan execution of the strategy (through portfolios of strategic initiatives linked to strategy maps and Balanced Scorecards); put strategy into action (by View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Management

Blog

The Female Executive's Perspective: A conversation with HBS AMP Women on Applying

consider taking advantage of AMP. While the traditional AMP program has taken place entirely on campus over seven continuous weeks, we now deliver the program in two formats, designed for busy senior executives. The COVID-19 pandemic has... View Details

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Strategies for Value Creation - Abridged (SVC-S) - Course Catalog

#1416), students can only take one of these two courses. SVC-S is an abridged version of the course Strategies for Value Creation. This integrated course combining elements of strategy and finance has four modules: (1) Understanding value... View Details

15 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

The Lessons of New-Market Disruption

Teradyne: Testing Opportunity In 1994, Teradyne, a leading provider of machines that test the quality of microprocessors and other integrated circuits as they come off the assembly line, saw an opportunity to create a more compact and... View Details

Keywords: by Clark Gilbert; Technology

01 Jun 2013
News

Collective Wisdom

open-source software have been companies like IBM, Google, Facebook, Twitter, and even Apple. Talk about the role of contests. This kind of crowdsourcing has a strong historical precedent. In the 15th century, Filippo Brunelleschi won a competition to determine who... View Details

Keywords: crowdsourcing; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

10 Nov 2009
First Look

First Look: Nov. 10

Inc., the world's largest design software company, decided to engage in Integrated Project Delivery (IPD) for the design and construction of its new Architecture, Engineering,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Oct 2013
First Look

First Look: October 1

and value-creation problems arise when such products are developed and sold by separate firms. Although the firms tend to price higher for given quality levels, their provision of quality is so low that, in equilibrium, prices are set well below what an View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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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

24 Mar 2015
First Look

First Look: March 24

is currently provided by GAAP financial reporting. The purpose of this paper is to examine the optimal design of information intermediaries that can increase the impact of sustainability information on corporate conduct. Specifically, we... View Details