Publications

Article

Corporate Finance, the Theory of the Firm, and Organizations

By: David S. Scharfstein and Patrick Bolton

Keywords: Finance; Business Ventures; Theory; Organizations

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10 Feb 2021
Blog Post

What You Can Do to Create an Anti-Racist Organization

winter of 2021, that national conversation continues, but what have we done, and what can we continue to do, as individuals and organizations to make meaningful progress? Danika Manso-Brown (HGSE ’18), Founder of Manso Brown Group and... View Details

01 Aug 2007
Conference Presentation

On Organizations and Oligarchies: Michels in the 21st Century

By: Shon R. Hiatt and Pamela Tolbert

Keywords: Organizations

October 2007
Teaching Note

Procter & Gamble: Organization 2005 (A) & (B) (TN)

By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski

Teaching Note to 707519 and 707402. View Details

Keywords: Organizations; Consumer Products Industry

Article

Speed and Search: Designing Organizations for Turbulence and Complexity

By: Nicolaj Siggelkow and Jan W. Rivkin

Keywords: Design; Organizations

January 2025
Teaching Note

Not Everyone’s Cup of Coffee: Organizing the Café Industry

By: Jillian J. Jordan, Anoushka Kiyawat and Kathleen McGinn

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 925-004. View Details

September 2024
Case

Not Everyone’s Cup of Coffee: Organizing the Café Industry

By: Jillian Jordan and Kathleen McGinn

Educators

August 1988 (Revised March 1990)
Case

Manufacturers Hanover Corp.: The New Information Technology Organization (C)

By: Lynda M. Applegate

Keywords: Banks and Banking; Information Technology; Banking Industry

February 1991
Teaching Note

General Electric Plastics: Organizing the Marketing Function, Teaching Note

By: V. Kasturi Rangan

Teaching Note for (9-591-029). View Details

October 1977 (Revised January 1992)
Case

Organizations in Crisis: The Central States Mental Health Center

19 Jun 2020
News

Leaders, Stop Denying the Gender Inequity in Your Organization

Keywords: gender bias

January 2007 (Revised December 2008)
Case

Mercy Corps: Positioning the Organization to Reach New Heights

By: Allen S. Grossman and Caroline Joan King

Mercy Corps, the world's 5th largest international relief and development agency, is at a turning point. The nonprofit's opportunities to grow and serve a larger number of beneficiaries are unprecedented. By looking at the unique relationship between headquarters and... View Details

Keywords: Business Offices; Business Headquarters; Globalized Firms and Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Structure; Nonprofit Organizations

Educators

Article

Information Processing as an Integrating Concept in Organization Design

By: Michael Tushman and D. Nadler

Keywords: Organizations; Design; Integration

1993
Chapter

Framework for Design of the Emerging Global Organization Structure

By: Robert G. Eccles Jr. and Richard Nolan

Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Framework

03 May 2016
Blog Post

Working With Organizations That Recruit at HBS: An Interview with Renee Pappastratis

Tell us about your role at HBS. As a Recruiting Relations Manager in Career and Professional Development, I engage daily with organizations looking to develop and refine their recruiting strategy at HBS. The industries I work with include... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing; Consumer Products / Retail

01 Dec 1996
News

Organizations and Markets: A Challenging View of the World

and leading others. This is a fundamental concept discussed in Coordination, Control, and the Management of Organizations (CCMO), one of the MBA Program's most popular electives. The course takes an interdisciplinary approach to... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

2007
Book

Commentaries and Cases on the Law of Business Organization

By: William T. Allen, Reinier Kraakman and Guhan Subramanian

Keywords: Cases; Law; Organizational Structure

October 2004 (Revised September 2005)
Case

Sonoco Products Company (A): Building a World-Class HR Organization

By: David A. Thomas, Boris Groysberg and Cate Reavis

Describes the steps the vice-president of human resources takes in revamping an HR function that was noncooperative and, at times, competitive and introducing the company to the notion of HR as a strategic business partner. Explores changes made to the company's... View Details

Keywords: Human Resources; Compensation and Benefits; Management Succession; Measurement and Metrics; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance; Partners and Partnerships; Business Strategy

Educators