Boundaries - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Jan 2021
News

A Message from Dean Srikant Datar

teaching, in the Harvard Business Analytics Program. I also think we'll find the boundaries across these different learning modes far more porous, as I just described, because while we value greatly the residential learning experience on... View Details

02 Jun 2011
Research & Ideas

Signing at the Top: The Key to Preventing Tax Fraud?

empirical evidence that suggests that we do care, as individual beings, about being good and moral," Gino says. "But there is equally compelling evidence that we often cross ethical boundaries when we have the opportunity to do so. Our... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Accounting

26 Oct 2020
Blog Post

12 Weeks of VC Summer: Remote Edition

culture, and a sign that the Zoom life might not turn out to be that bad. Opportunities without Boundaries The Maverick team ensured that the interns had exposure to many different parts of the venture life. This included everything from... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity

25 Nov 2013
Research & Ideas

Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity

secretive behavior, thus reducing real transparency, whereas boundaries may actually increase it. “This race to full observability on everything can have consequences.” Bernstein hastens to add that not every company should erect walls or... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing

24 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

The Trick of Balancing Business and Government

critical role in developing institutions for better—and occasionally for worse. The boundaries between business and government need to be clearly defined, said several panelists. Mauritius is one example of an African country that... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

16 Sep 2024
Blog Post

Creating a Candidate-Centered Recruiting Process

unintentional, nevertheless create boundaries to employment. We asked four HBS alumni with diverse abilities to share their perspective on recruiting, both as candidates and as hiring managers, recruiters, and interviewers. The advice... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

30 Sep 2014
First Look

First Look: September 30

involved marketing tactic (Experiment 4). Further experiments explore boundary conditions and suggest that the benefit of cost transparency weakens as firms increase price relative to costs and when markups are made salient (Experiments... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Apr 2013
Research Event

Conference Challenges Gender Conventions

Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership, spoke on the blurring of work/life boundaries faced by both genders, and explained that counteractive measures like flextime and job sharing are underutilized because workers fear being seen as... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

24 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 24, 2009

alliances. We propose that prior experience with the same partners, i.e., "partner-specific experience," provides greater benefits than "general partnering experience" that encompasses all prior alliances with any partner. We further explore some of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

04 Feb 2008
Research & Ideas

Putting Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector

cover in one of the chapters in the book. A network approach requires leaders to focus not only on management challenges and opportunities at an organizational level, but also more broadly on how to mobilize resources both within and outside organizational and sectoral... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Building Bridges: New Dimensions in Negotiation

establish a demilitarized buffer zone under the Egyptian flag rather than continue a vain zero-sum search over where to draw the boundary line in the sand. Although shared interests matter, Sebenius says, skilled two-dimensional... View Details

Keywords: by Anita M. Harris

17 Jan 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: January 17

that lengthy commutes have negative effects on employees’ well-being and job-related outcomes. Despite the importance of commuting in the employees’ everyday life, very little is known about offsetting such negative effects of lengthy commutes. Integrating theories of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Aug 2009
First Look

First Look: August 25

that can arise. Huckman provides guidelines for setting clear objectives, getting the boundaries between units right, establishing rules for sharing, and customizing performance criteria. And, he says, leaders must continually remind... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

29 Nov 2004
Research & Ideas

Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors

Six degrees of separation seems to work well for B-list actors—but does it have anything to say about innovation and business? HBS associate professor Lee Fleming believes it does, and his work looks specifically at how ideas and innovation flow across company View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Publishing

22 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist

small businesses like her own, succeeded in pushing the boundaries of antitrust legislation. Edna Gleason, known as the “Mother of Fair Trade.” Courtesy of the journal Pharmacy in History. The photo first appeared in American Druggist,... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail; Health; Legal Services

25 Apr 2005
Research & Ideas

New Learning at American Home Products

and pharmaceutical industries since the 1970s. Without new learning from chemical science and engineering, the chemical companies have defined their strategic boundaries in a number of specialty chemicals whose basic technologies were... View Details

Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.; Chemical; Health; Manufacturing; Pharmaceutical

01 Jun 2002
News

Profile: The Invisible Hand - Robert Massie and God's Green Earth

over, certified that ethical boundaries were being respected.” Massie was learning a lot, too — not only a greater comprehension of the business process and ethos, but also the managerial skills that have served him well as executive... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; management; ethics

17 Dec 2013
First Look

First Look: December 17

Information Costs Approach Zero By: Altman, Elizabeth J., Frank Nagle, and Michael L. Tushman Abstract—Innovation has traditionally taken place within an organization's boundaries and/or with selected partners. This Chandlerian approach... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

24 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?

but not impede innovations targeted to specific subgroups. Q: What are you working on next? A: I recently joined the Business, Government & International Economy unit at HBS and am in the early stages of developing a research project that explores View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Biotechnology; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage; Health

01 Mar 2019
News

Building a Movement

at a time. JB: I cannot agree more. I think it’s critical for us to think beyond the boundaries of Harvard. The question for us, for our students, for everyone who has the privilege of being here is how can we use our access to knowledge... View Details

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