Design Structure - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Jun 2009
Research & Ideas

GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next

government. This is a great deal for Magna, but terrible for Chevrolet. GM's best small cars are engineered (and some are manufactured) by Opel in Europe. But it's not just about design and engineering. The supply chains and factory... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Auto

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Is AI Coming for Your Job?

Ayelet Israeli is the Marvin Bower Associate Professor in the Marketing Unit and cofounder of the Customer Intelligence Lab at the Digital, Data, and Design (D) Institute at HBS. Iavor Bojinov: Those who resist AI risk falling behind Like... View Details

23 Jun 2010
Working Paper Summaries

The Role of Institutional Development in the Prevalence and Value of Family Firms

Keywords: by Raphael Amit, Yuan Ding, Belén Villalonga & Hua Zhang

27 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing

structure, formal management processes, information technology, the informal social network, and people. Organizational structure is a natural beginning but most people expect too much from it. There is no "perfect" structure.... View Details

Keywords: by Benson Shapiro

16 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 16

http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/kuziemko%20norton%20saez%20stantcheva_45dd17c7-a8fa-4b91-9ba2-51d5e7349750.pdf December 2014 Organization Science Team Scaffolds: How Mesolevel Structures Support Role-based Coordination in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 May 2009
Research & Ideas

The IT Leader’s Hero Quest

a host of dynamic multimedia material competing for his or her attention, we wanted to create a high-quality, engaging classroom experience. Both plot and character development in the book are inspired by a popular storytelling structure... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Strategy for Health Care Delivery - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

delivery, and patient value: Access a network of health care institutions and facilities to enhance quality and coordination of care Leverage partnerships and implement outcome measurement strategies to improve care for complicated patient populations View Details

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Cotting House | About

faculty and staff. The three-story, 16,747-square-foot Georgian Revival-style, brick-and-wood structure was designed to accommodate the expansion of the School’s International Teachers Program (ITP) and... View Details

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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory

investors as well as trustees of leading nonprofits had expressed uncertainty about whether MRIs were compatible with a board’s fiduciary duties. Darren wondered if his board held the same view. This case will explore the process and View Details

16 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

clear instructions about what they can do, and designing transparency into why their partnership will make a positive difference for everyone involved, business leaders can improve interactions among their customers and employees, and... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

06 Sep 2022
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Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business & Environment

alternatives to factory-farmed meat. They are recreating muscle fiber structure using plant ingredients and building a food and material science innovation platform that will create step-change improvement in meat alternative product... View Details

11 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 11

decision, to consider whether they are facing a "thinking too much" or "thinking too little" problem and adjust accordingly. Download the paper: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/wcs.90/abstract How to Design... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Apr 2020
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Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism

Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories close as a management consultant.... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Energy

08 Feb 2024
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African American Student Union Spotlight on Joint Degrees

most unique components of the educational experience at HBS is the case method. This collaborative approach to learning has exposed me to new ways of thinking and has provided creative methods of structuring solutions to problems. It has... View Details

April 2020 (Revised January 2022)
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Uber: Competing Globally

By: Alexander J. MacKay, Amram Migdal and John Masko

This case describes Uber’s global market entry strategy and responses by regulators and local competitors. It details Uber’s entry into New York City (New York), Bogotá (Colombia), Delhi (India), Shanghai (China), Accra (Ghana), and London (United Kingdom). In each... View Details

Keywords: Business Ventures; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Geography; Geographic Location; Geographic Scope; Globalization; Global Strategy; Multinational Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Governance; Governance Controls; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Innovation and Invention; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation Strategy; Law; Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Markets; Demand and Consumers; Consumer Behavior; Network Effects; Emerging Markets; Market Design; Market Entry and Exit; Market Participation; Supply and Industry; Industry Structures; Planning; Strategic Planning; Relationships; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Labor and Management Relations; Networks; Strategy; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Competition; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Expansion; Information Technology; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Digital Platforms; Transportation; Transportation Networks; Transportation Industry; Technology Industry; Africa; Ghana; Asia; China; Shanghai Shi; Shanghai; India; New Delhi; Europe; United Kingdom; England; London; Latin America; North and Central America; United States; New York (city, NY); New York (state, US); South America; Colombia

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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Core-Periphery Structures Dominate?” (2010). Alan D. MacCormack : Received an IBM Corporate Research Gift in 2010. Alan D. MacCormack : Received a Siemens Corporate Research Grant ($80k) in 2010 for exploring the impact of software View Details

27 May 2015
Research & Ideas

Build 'Scaffolds' to Improve Performance of Temporary Teams

and a colleague set out to investigate how fluid teams can work better. In their paper Team Scaffolds: How Mesolevel Structures Enable Role-Based Coordination in Temporary Groups, Edmondson and lead author Melissa A. Valentine show how a... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Health

07 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

What Drives Supply Chain Behavior?

lengthy time horizons. Therefore, on top of this categorization of activities, it is necessary to overlay a coordination system: an explicit definition of processes, responsibilities, and structures to bring together multiple functions... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston

20 Oct 2010
Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

level of productivity that companies can achieve in a location given the full breadth of conditions that affect their activities there. It is the structured approach towards organizing these conditions and the systemic relationships... View Details

Keywords: by Christian Ketels

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Why HBS? - Doctoral

Structure Our Doctoral Programs are designed to facilitate research above all other activities. While students are required to fulfill a teaching requirement, they are not required to become research... View Details

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