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  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

Private capital, public good

Tracy Palandjian (AB 1993, MBA 1997) is spearheading the development of social impact bonds (SIBs), a financial innovation designed to tackle some of the world’s most intractable social challenges. Alongside Sir Ronald Cohen (MBA 1969)... View Details
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Strategy for Entrepreneurs - Course Catalog

idea and develop it into a scaled venture. The course is designed for entrepreneurs, but the examples, cases, and exercises are relevant for future investors, product managers, and joiners, too. Course View Details
  • March 2001 (Revised August 2001)
  • Case

Virgin.com

By: Alan D. MacCormack and Kerry Herman
Describes the evolution of Virgin's dot-com organization and the decision it faced in mid-2000--whether to consolidate several separate dot-com ventures into one larger venture or, instead, to allow each to run independently. Also contains a history of Virgin's... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Motivation and Incentives; Internet and the Web; Consolidation
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  • 14 Oct 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Should You Bring Advertising Expertise In-House?

reasons include structural changes in the advertising industry such as the unbundling of agency services, and improved communication tools that make it easier and more cost efficient for firms to manage some aspect of their own... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Advertising
  • 01 Mar 2009
  • News

Honoring HBS’s Organization Men

developed the idea of organizations as social systems. “That’s been the underlying framework of everything I’ve done,” said Lorsch, the author most recently of Back to the Drawing Board: Designing Corporate Boards for a Complex World. One... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • July – August 2009
  • Article

Organizational Ambidexterity: Balancing Exploitation and Exploration for Sustained Performance

By: Sebastian Raisch, Julian Birkinshaw, Gilbert Probst and Michael Tushman
Organizational ambidexterity has emerged as a new research paradigm in organization theory, yet several issues that are fundamental to this debate remain controversial. We explore four central tensions here: Should organizations achieve ambidexterity through... View Details
Keywords: Change; Innovation and Invention; Business Processes; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Research; Integration
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  • 01 Dec 2008
  • News

The CEO and the Functions of Leadership

standards can be treated as part of setting direction. Coordination: Organizational structure defines how individuals in the organization are grouped into units, and how these units coordinate with each other. Processes such as the... View Details
  • 2008
  • Working Paper

The Flattening Firm and Product Market Competition: The Effect of Trade Liberalization

By: Maria Guadalupe and Julie Wulf
This paper establishes a causal effect of competition from trade liberalization on various characteristics of organizational design. We exploit a unique panel dataset on firm hierarchies (1986-1999) of large U.S. firms and find that increasing competition leads firms... View Details
Keywords: Trade; Managerial Roles; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy
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  • Research Summary

Overview

By: Andy Wu
How can technology entrepreneurs build competitive advantage from the ground up? Professor Andy Wu conducts scholarly research and develops course materials that document how technology entrepreneurs can (1) organize for innovation to create new market opportunities... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Growth Management; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Technology Platform; Technological Innovation; Information Technology Industry; Retail Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Video Game Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; United States; China; Southeast Asia; South Asia
  • 05 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017

actionable advice on more robust policies that drive both structural change and competitiveness upgrading. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53152 Harvard Business School Case 615-022 IDEO:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • August 2006 (Revised February 2021)
  • Case

Anthem, Inc.

By: Regina E. Herzlinger
Describes the U.S. Health Care industry and WellPoint's background, market growth strategies, and potential as an investment option. View Details
Keywords: Investment; Growth and Development Strategy; Health; Industry Structures; Organizational Design; Health Industry; United States
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  • March 1993
  • Background Note

Stages Theory, The: A Framework for IT Adoption and Organizational Learning

By: Richard L. Nolan, David Croson and Katherine Seger
Describes Professor Richard Nolan's Stages Theory of Information Technology adoption by organizations. View Details
Keywords: Information; Body of Literature; Information Management; Information Publishing; Adoption; Organizational Structure; Organizational Design; Decision Making; Information Technology Industry
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  • 03 Jun 2015
  • What Do You Think?

Is the Time Right for Self-Management?

increasing complexity and unpredictability of our world is such that only a highly distributed decision-making structure will be able to adapt and respond effectively, she continued. "Most of us don't think a centralized planning... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail
  • 01 Oct 1999
  • News

A Constructive Summer at HBS

contractor William A. Berry & Son for a "superb job," Moffatt has been pleased with progress on the building. "The whole project has been characterized by good fortune," he says. While the outside structure is going up, planning has also... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
  • December 1999 (Revised November 2001)
  • Background Note

Note on Private Equity Securities, A

By: G. Felda Hardymon and Josh Lerner
Provides an overview of the primary securities used in private equity, their structures, and the economic motivation behind their designs. View Details
Keywords: Design; Private Equity; Debt Securities; Industry Structures; Motivation and Incentives
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  • Profile

Jonathan Arena

ceramics” and for college, he attended one of the most prestigious art schools in the United States, the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). Yet even as he made art, business was never far away. “I would start companies all the time,”... View Details
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The Ownership Project | Institute for Business in Global Society

The Ownership Project More Research Projects The Ownership Project explores how structuring ownership of key elements in the economy can help businesses and communities address pressing societal challenges and support human values in the... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2011
  • News

The Business and Environment Initiative at HBS

Rebecca Henderson, the Business and Environment Initiative is designed “to deepen our collective understanding of the environmental challenges confronting business leaders and to help them design effective... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

Addressing the housing needs of India’s poor

Rakhi Mehra (MBA 2009) is enabling a growing number of India’s 82 million urban poor households to have structurally safe and well-ventilated homes through the enterprise she cofounded, micro Home Solutions (mHS) City Lab. Winner of the... View Details
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Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy - Course Catalog

political risk, and slower growth. Understanding what constitute good institutions and how institutions influence economic and political behavior is therefore crucial. Finally, the course is intended to develop a simple framework linking institutional View Details