Organizational Life Cycle - Publications - Faculty & Research

23 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 23, 2007

directly: high oil prices, a growing demand in emerging economies like China and India, and the possibility of agribusiness companies competing successfully in the production of biofuels. Bunge had traditionally followed an organizational... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2020
News

Unleashed

that something about their culture needs to change. This awareness often comes later in an organization’s life cycle than it should, and part of our mission here is to shorten that timeline. For pedagogical... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

15 Nov 2016
News

Enabling the Dream of Building A Healthy Future for India

opportunities in relation to other countries. She also notes that Leadership and Organizational Behavior “opened my eyes to my own internal leadership strengths and weaknesses.” “I want to build a healthy future for India,” states... View Details

14 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

at Harvard Business School. He has published extensively on the challenges of accountability and performance management facing nonprofit organizations, including the award-winning book NGOs and Organizational Change: Discourse, Reporting,... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

15 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 15

be sustainable, new types of hybrid organizations need to create a common organizational identity that strikes a balance between the logics they combine. Our evidence further suggests that the crucial early levers for developing such an... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2022
News

December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

across multiple generations. A More Just Future By Dolly Chugh (MBA 1994; PHDOB 2006) Atria Books The racial fault lines of our country have been revealed in stark detail as our national news cycle is flooded with stories about the past.... View Details

19 Dec 2016
Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2016

summaries of the working papers published by Harvard Business School faculty—along with links to the full text of those papers. Here are the five most downloaded working papers of 2016: The Great Training Robbery There is a widely held assumption in corporate View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

When Do Alliances Make Sense?

expertise, and spreading out risk. On the other hand, forming alliances also requires coordinating tasks and merging cultures, which can often be difficult and costly to achieve. Business theorists have long pursued this question in an effort to determine the best and... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy; Utilities

August 2019 (Revised February 2020)
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New Hope Liuhe: Building an Integrated Agri-Food Business

By: Forest L. Reinhardt, Shu Lin, Natalie Kindred and Nancy Hua Dai

In October 2018, LIU Chang (Angela), chairman of Beijing-based New Hope Liuhe (NHL), was considering the strategy of the firm. With $9 billion in sales and a presence in nearly 20 countries, NHL was China’s largest animal feed producer and a major pork and poultry... View Details

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15 Dec 2024
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Alumni and Faculty Books

Through these narratives, it invites the reader to reflect, not just on what you eat, but on how food fits ihow they engage with food in their everyday life without guilt, without judgment—just curiosity and understanding. She unveils... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

05 Apr 2016
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April 5, 2016

mini-corporations that would last for most of the school year and would compete to sell goods or services. The learn-by-doing program gave teenagers the chance to prepare for corporate life by experiencing different positions within the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne

18 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

Caught in the Cogs: When Manufacturing and IT Meet

simple steps that don't require long cycles of implementation." In his remarks, Paul Deninger of Broadview examined some of the forces of change at work in manufacturing today, including an influx of communications technologies,... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

26 Sep 2024
Blog Post

Syngenta Tomato Vision

growing, high yields) and retailers. It usually takes 8-10 years to develop a completely new tomato variety. Using modern gene mapping technologies to identify traits and accelerate the screening, crossing of existing varieties, and selection of new cultivars, shortens... View Details

27 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement

variable analysis and use the differences in the likelihood of retirement driven by Social Security retirement incentives in the United States to find a sizable increase in purpose in life as an outcome of retirement.” Emotional... View Details

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Ruzwana Bashir

areas we’re tackling are pretty practical, such as what our operator onboarding process should look like or how we structure our meetings, whilst others involve the larger elements of our organizational design and strategy. It’s... View Details

01 Mar 2019
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Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2019

have those important conversations, create those moments of meaning, and deliver great words to the people we care about at the office, at home, and in all areas of life. The 7 Laws of Enough: Cultivating a Life of Sustainable Abundance... View Details

01 Jun 2015
News

Leadership on a Global Stage

today. “Since high school, I’d been creating vision maps—sort of a forward-looking, diagrammatical approach to what I wanted my life to be about. I knew I wanted to contribute to the world through leadership in the international arena.... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

11 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 11, 2007

wise or lucky. His blend of new statistical methods and old common-sense reasoning helped him profit as the forecasting industry first developed. Irving Fisher, Economic Forecasting, and the Myth of the Business Cycle Author:Walter A.... View Details