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- January 2024
- Technical Note
The ICARUS Principles: What It Takes to Tackle the World
By: Debora L. Spar and Julia M. Comeau
Over the course of the 20th century, most of the world’s major multinational corporations framed their mission around Milton Friedman’s famous mantra: that the sole purpose of the firm is to maximize its shareholders’ profits. Recently, however, growing numbers of... View Details
Keywords: Purpose; Mission; Social Business; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Social Enterprise; For-Profit Firms
Spar, Debora L., and Julia M. Comeau. "The ICARUS Principles: What It Takes to Tackle the World." Harvard Business School Technical Note 324-055, January 2024.
New To Big: How Companies Can Create Like Entrepreneurs, Invest Like VCs, and Install a Permanent Operating System for Growth
Serial entrepreneurs David Kidder and Christina Wallace reveal their revolutionary playbook for igniting growth inside established companies.
Most established companies face a... View Details
- 04 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018
of risk operating in both geographies. Macroeconomic and policy turbulence emerged as the biggest source of risk for Latin Americans, while excessive bureaucracy was the biggest source of risk for South Asians. Political instability,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- Article
Business, Governments and Political Risk in South Asia and Latin America since 1970
By: G. Jones and Rachael Comunale
This article contributes to the literature on political risk in business and economic history by examining both new perspectives (risk encountered by companies domestically, rather than risk for foreign investors) and new settings (emerging markets economies in Latin... View Details
Keywords: Political Risk; Emerging Market; Bribery; Business ＆ Government Relations; Turbulence; Violence; Risk and Uncertainty; Emerging Markets; Crime and Corruption; Business and Government Relations; Business History; India; Latin America
Jones, G., and Rachael Comunale. "Business, Governments and Political Risk in South Asia and Latin America since 1970." Australian Economic History Review 58, no. 3 (November 2018): 233–264.
- August 2016
- Article
Independent Directors' Dissent on Boards: Evidence from Listed Companies in China
By: Juan Ma and Tarun Khanna
In this paper, we examine the circumstances under which so-called "independent" directors voice their independent views on public boards in a sample of Chinese firms. First, we ask why independent directors dissent, i.e. how they justify such dissent to public... View Details
Ma, Juan, and Tarun Khanna. "Independent Directors' Dissent on Boards: Evidence from Listed Companies in China." Strategic Management Journal 37, no. 8 (August 2016): 1547–1557.
- Web
Placement - Doctoral
Ramarajan (Co-Chair), N/A, and Teresa M. Amabile Elliot Stoller Organizational Behavior, 2023 Placement: University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill, School of Government Dissertation: Centralized Management in Democratic Governance – Essays on Organizing a System of... View Details
- 23 Jun 2023
- HBS Case
This Company Lets Employees Take Charge—Even with Life and Death Decisions
of centralization without the costs of bureaucracy and hierarchy. For organizations inside or outside of health care, the case study invites some critical questions: What function should the back office and middle management serve? The... View Details
- 2011
- Book
Detour: My Unexpected, Amazing, Life Changing Journey With OnStar
By: Chet Huber
Detour is the story behind the launch of OnStar’s now well known blue button, as told through the eyes of its founder and CEO of over fourteen years, Chet Huber. It’s a personal narrative that describes the events that led up to General Motors’ unexpected choice... View Details
Keywords: General Motors; OnStar; Technological Innovation; Business Startups; Transportation; Safety; Personal Development and Career; Creativity; Success; Business History; Auto Industry
Huber, Chet. Detour: My Unexpected, Amazing, Life Changing Journey With OnStar. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2011.
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Game On
It’s raining in Sarasota. And not a light sprinkle but a proper, Florida drenching, so the outdoor courts at the Pickleball Club’s Lakewood Ranch location are deserted. Inside is a different story. Most of the 12 courts are in play. With four people to a court, all... View Details
- Web
Business History - Faculty & Research
uncertainty impacts consumer behavior and companies operating in Brazil. For that, it summarizes the key obstacles faced by these businesses, such as the country’s logistical bottlenecks, complex bureaucracy and arcane tax system. At the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Systemic Racism Can Threaten National Security
political commentators and elected officials continue to debate not only the implications of institutional racism, but its very existence. Tabellini’s study shows how racial injustice reverberates far beyond its seemingly local source, with significant consequences.... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- Web
Events - Business History
bureaucracy to explain how state capacity changed over time and interacted with interest group movements. This conference sought to reinvigorate McCraw’s insight that interdisciplinary dialogue is necessary to understand the complexities... View Details
- 07 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
4+2 = Sustained Business Success
company values. Structure Managers spend hours agonizing over how to structure their organizations (by product, geography, customer, and so on). Winners show that what really counts is whether structure reduces bureaucracy and simplifies... View Details
- 10 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Top Scholars Say About Leadership
group life." Moreover, she sang the virtues of difference and conflict in organizational life. In the 1920s she was encouraging leaders to replace bureaucracy with empowered group networks with a common purpose. [ ] Now, with the... View Details
- 06 Aug 2021
- Book
Steve Jobs and the Rise of the Celebrity CEO
In the 1950s, most Americans probably couldn’t name the CEOs of the largest companies in the United States, including General Motors, United States Steel, and Standard Oil. But these days, some of the most successful businesses have shifted from being faceless View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Nov 2016
- HBS Seminar
Gillian Hadfield, University of California, Gould School of Law
- Blog
Leading Successful Digital Transformation
minimal due to lack of cohesion and strategic direction. Establishment of independent units: Senior managers often believe that it is hard to create disruptive innovations within the bureaucracy of a large organization. To avoid this... View Details
- 27 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Reputation is Vital to Survival in Turbulent Markets
Khanna: There are many reasons why you can have the rug pulled out from under your feet in developing countries. You have capricious behavior on the parts of opportunistic people, if there are no checks and balances to prevent them from behaving in that way. You might... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Dinh Thi Hoa: Up from the Ashes of War
common ground between communist Vietnam and capitalist foreign investors. "Here in Vietnam you have a situation in which the market is small, and the bureaucracy is dense after many years of war and a planned economy," says Hoa. "Vietnam... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr. (MBA 1992)
- 26 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Office of Strategy Management
bureaucracy or overhead for an organization. We have seen many OSMs that are smaller, consisting of between three and five people. OSM staffing requires a mix of talent. The OSM can become an area where future leaders gain a strategic... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace