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- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
resources, or finance. By exploring the emergence and evolution of these positions, the authors examine the ways in which power at the apex of complex organizations is structured through roles and relationships, in response to diverse... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Private capital, public good
Tracy Palandjian (AB 1993, MBA 1997) is spearheading the development of social impact bonds (SIBs), a financial innovation designed to tackle some of the world’s most intractable social challenges. Alongside Sir Ronald Cohen (MBA 1969)... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Honoring HBS’s Organization Men
developed the idea of organizations as social systems. “That’s been the underlying framework of everything I’ve done,” said Lorsch, the author most recently of Back to the Drawing Board: Designing Corporate Boards for a Complex World. One... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
average time required to collect water from 44 minutes to 32 minutes. Electrification of rural areas and the computerization of rural banks improved the flow of goods and services and decreased check-clearing times at banks. A government-training program View Details
- 09 May 2022
- News
Green House
In the Observatory Hill neighborhood of Cambridge, Massachusetts, Betsy Harper (MBA 1984) has built an oxymoron: a brand-new, historic home. The recently completed structure combines traditional architecture and the latest in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
annual sales total $436 million—a number Birnbaum projects will climb to $1 billion by 2016. So how did the company get its fizz back? First, Birnbaum invested in product innovation, something the previous ownership hadn't touched in a decade; upgrades to both the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
firms to large capital-intensive enterprises, such as banking, telecommunications, mining, and transportation. By the late 1980s, many had developed a good deal of autonomy. Twenty-five years of economic reform have changed the structure... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Addressing the housing needs of India’s poor
Rakhi Mehra (MBA 2009) is enabling a growing number of India’s 82 million urban poor households to have structurally safe and well-ventilated homes through the enterprise she cofounded, micro Home Solutions (mHS) City Lab. Winner of the... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
A Constructive Summer at HBS
contractor William A. Berry & Son for a "superb job," Moffatt has been pleased with progress on the building. "The whole project has been characterized by good fortune," he says. While the outside structure is going up, planning has also... View Details
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- 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
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
long-term growth. The plan that emerged redefined HCZ’s mission and mix of programs, created practices to carefully evaluate and track results, and defined a new organizational structure needed to support program expansion. Under the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Business and Environment Initiative at HBS
Rebecca Henderson, the Business and Environment Initiative is designed “to deepen our collective understanding of the environmental challenges confronting business leaders and to help them design effective... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
The CEO and the Functions of Leadership
standards can be treated as part of setting direction. Coordination: Organizational structure defines how individuals in the organization are grouped into units, and how these units coordinate with each other. Processes such as the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Welcome to the Future
creativity in mind. These spaces are designed to enable and facilitate HBS’s new required FIELD course, which focuses on intensive small-group exercises and team dynamics, activity not well-suited for Aldrich-style amphitheater... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
Reinventing Work and Life by Linda Rossetti (MBA 1991) (Palgrave MacMillan) Rossetti introduces women to a new way of thinking about the events that shape their adult lives—like marriage, job loss, or empty nests—and offers a step-by-step toolkit View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Faculty Books
From Resource Allocation to Strategy by Joseph L. Bower and Clark G. Gilbert (Oxford University Press) Drawing on thirty years of research on resource allocation, Professor Bower and Assistant Professor Gilbert discuss the structural... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
decision; we have to look at our values and find the right course based on that.” The board of directors and executive team have been chipping away at a list of commitments designed to strengthen governance and build in mechanisms for... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Expanded Elective Curriculum Offers Students A Wealth of Choices
MBA students to connect with HBS alumni are all part of the latest EC enhancements designed to address the changing needs and interests of MBA students. Course Development After completing the MBA Program's required courses, students... View Details
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Authentic Leadership
2007 book True North: Discover Your Authentic Leadership. George is now faculty chair of the Executive Education version of the course, which is being offered three times a year. One of several innovative "platform" courses designed to... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Hawes Hall Groundbreaking
School graduates on every continent, there is such potential for this institution to make a real difference in the world. Our family is proud to be able to play a small role in helping to make that difference." Three stories high with approximately 50,000 square feet... View Details