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    The Ascent of Money

    Niall Ferguson follows the money to tell the human story behind the evolution of finance, from its... View Details

      Herbert A. Simon on What Ails Business Schools: More than A Problem in Organizational Design

      We critically examine Herbert Simon's 1967 essay, "The Business School: A Problem in Organizational Design." We consider this essay within the context of Simon's key ideas about organizations, particularly those closely associated with the 'Carnegie perspective' on... View Details

      • 18–19 Nov 2022
      • HBS Alumni Events

      D^3 Catalyst: Building AI Companies

      The Building AI Companies D^3 Catalyst Program is focused on the opportunities and challenges created by the digital transformation of our economy, and the emergence of digital networks and artificial intelligence (AI) as a foundation of the modern organization - both... View Details
      • 03 Jun 2011
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Inducement Prizes and Innovation

      Keywords: by Liam Brunt, Josh Lerner & Tom Nicholas
      • 2015
      • Chapter

      Diversity in Groups

      By: Catarina Fernandes and Jeff Polzer
      Diversity has the potential to either disrupt group functioning or, conversely, be the source of collective creativity and insight. These two divergent perspectives pose a paradox that has held the attention of scholars for many years. In response, researchers have... View Details
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      • 01 Nov 2013
      • News

      Excelling together

      • 01 Jan 2007
      • News

      FSF-NUTEK Award for Research on Entrepreneurship & Small Business

        Caroline M. Elkins

        Caroline Elkins is the Thomas Henry Carroll/Ford Foundation Professor of Business Administration in the Business, Government and International Economy unit at HBS. She is also Professor of History and of African and African American Studies at Harvard University, an... View Details

        • Teaching Interest

        Micro Topics in Organizational Behavior

        By: Alison Wood Brooks

        Micro Topics in Organizational Behavior is a PhD seminar course exploring current and seminal research on individual, dyadic, small group, and intra-organizational behavior. Examples of topics at the individual level include emotions, cognition, and behavioral... View Details

        • Research Summary

        State-Business Relations

        By: Meg Rithmire
        In Precarious Ties: Business and the State in Authoritarian Asia (Oxford University Press, 2023) and related papers, I examine the political foundations and economic effects of different patterns of state-business relations in authoritarian regimes with a... View Details
        • Research Summary

        Incommensurable Values and Rational Decision Making

        By: Nien-he Hsieh
        Rational decision making is widely thought to require comparing alternatives with respect to a single measure of value. Accordingly, asking managers to consider values in addition to economic efficiency has been criticized on the grounds that doing so violates the... View Details
        • August 31, 2017
        • Article

        CEOs Should Get Personally Involved in Talent Development

        By: Frank V. Cespedes, Jay Galeota and Michael Wong
        Estimates indicate that, globally, human capital has a value about 2.3 times that of physical capital. This difference is likely to widen in increasingly service-driven economies. Yet, most companies maintain their equipment better than their people. The issue is not... View Details
        Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Employees; Training
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        • February 2015
        • Case

        Abby Falik at Global Citizen Year

        By: Robert Steven Kaplan and Lauren Barley
        Abby Falik, founder and CEO of Global Citizen Year (GCY), quickly read through the most recent news updates regarding the Ebola crisis in West Africa as she prepared for her board call on July 31, 2014. Based in Oakland, California, GCY was a five-year-old... View Details
        Keywords: Not-for-profit; Public Service; Developing Countries; Secondary Education; Nonprofit Organizations; Higher Education; Developing Countries and Economies; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving
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        • May 2012
        • Article

        Herbert A. Simon on What Ails Business Schools: More than A Problem in Organizational Design

        By: Rakesh Khurana and J.C. Spender
        We critically examine Herbert Simon's 1967 essay, "The Business School: A Problem in Organizational Design." We consider this essay within the context of Simon's key ideas about organizations, particularly those closely associated with the 'Carnegie perspective' on... View Details
        Keywords: Organizational Design; Perspective; Innovation and Invention; Business Education; Research; Management Practices and Processes; Teaching
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        • April 2002
        • Background Note

        Local Institutions and Global Strategy

        By: Tarun Khanna
        Explores how location affects a firm's strategy and identifies the different ways location affects industry structure, choice of a firm's position, and the sustainability of that position. The intellectual foundations lie in an appreciation of institutional economics.... View Details
        Keywords: Global Range; Global Strategy; Product Positioning; Market Transactions; Industry Structures; Negotiation Deal; Organizational Design; Outcome or Result; Strategic Planning
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        • 17 Oct 2018
        • News

        Tarun Khanna ’88 on Trust and Developing-World Businesses

        • 06 Oct 2023
        • Book

        Yes, You Can Radically Change Your Organization in One Week

        solve difficult problems. Denouncing Mark Zuckerberg’s informal Facebook motto, “move fast and break things,” partners Frei and Morriss combine their decades of consulting experience—Frei as the UPS Foundation Professor of Service... View Details
        Keywords: by Kristen Senz
        • April 2002
        • Teaching Note

        Managing Technology Ventures - Module Teaching Note (TN)

        By: Alan D. MacCormack
        Describes the conceptual foundations for a module on venture design, which forms part of an MBA course called Managing Technology Ventures. The objective of the course is to teach students how to think critically about the design of a technology venture, using cases... View Details
        Keywords: Business Education; Business or Company Management; Organizational Design; Risk and Uncertainty; Opportunities; Technology
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          Richard G. Hamermesh

          Richard Hamermesh was the MBA Class of 1961 Professor of Management Practice at the Harvard Business School. While at HBS Richard served as co-chair of the HBS Healthcare... View Details

          Keywords: health care

            Peter Tufano

            Peter Tufano is a Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School and Senior Advisor to the Harvard Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability. From 2011 to 2021, he served as the Peter Moores Dean at View Details

            Keywords: asset management; banking; brokerage; credit card; education industry; energy; federal government; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; microfinance; mining; nonprofit industry; oil ＆ gas; petroleum; real estate; retail financial services; state government; utilities; video games