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04 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 4

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-086.pdf Expectations, Network Effects and Platform Pricing Authors:Andrei Hagiu and Hanna Hałaburda Abstract In markets with network effects, users must form expectations about the total number of users... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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Archival Collections Bibliography Site Credits Visiting the Exhibit ALUMNI INTRODUCTION BACK TO THE EXHIBIT H. Naylor Fitzhugh MBA 1933 H. Naylor Fitzhugh joined the Howard University faculty in 1934 and stayed for 31 years, developing the university's marketing... View Details

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& Equity Initiative We catalyze and translate cutting-edge research to transform practice, enable leaders to drive change, and eradicate gender, race, and other forms of inequality in business and society. Social Enterprise Initiative We... View Details

12 Jun 2012
First Look

First Look: June 12

Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 6 (June 2012) Abstract Globalization and new technologies have sharply reduced the efficacy of command-and-control management and its accompanying forms of corporate communication. In the course... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Jun 2008
Research & Ideas

Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings

many ways from the type of finance researched and taught at business schools. I explored how financial services were practiced in a place like South Central, focusing in particular on the opportunities to leverage social organizations to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

01 Oct 1997
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High Fives

securities firm, Carl Ferenbach entered theworld of investment banking, spending five years as the head of Merrill Lynch's mergers and acquisitions group. In 1984, he and four other HBS alumni organized what would become Berkshire... View Details

20 Mar 2000
Research & Ideas

Incubators: The New Venture Capitalists?

issues on the subject at the Cyberposium panel "Incubators: The New Venture Capitalists?" Although the forms of their organizations vary in large and small ways, one thing all the participants... View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

01 Mar 2018
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Every Trick in the Book

American Booksellers Association, a trade organization for independents, began to host “survival strategy” sessions throughout the country. By the late 1980s, however, it would be Waldenbooks and B. Dalton struggling to survive, while... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Feb 2002
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It's academic. (Not!)

compensation dynamics, board evolution, entrepreneurial finance, and founder-CEO succession. He's also turning the spotlight on venture capital firms. "VC firms have an interesting organizational structure compared with other View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

17 Dec 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’

executive might as well pack his attaché case and go fishing. If an organization does not know or care where it is going, it does not need to advertise that fact with a ceremonial figurehead. Everybody will notice it soon enough." In... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education; Retail

16 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 16

influence when the vast majority can't? The authors tracked 68 change initiatives in the UK's National Health Service, an organization whose size, complexity, and tradition can make reform difficult. They discovered several predictors of... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

11 Jul 2013
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Making Lives Better

precisely the tools with which to make that jump—first, in 2005, into the role of CEO of the newly formed Autism Speaks, a science and advocacy organization founded by her former NBC boss Bob Wright, and... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken; autism; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations

03 Jun 2015
What Do You Think?

Is the Time Right for Self-Management?

added, "Holacracy strikes me as a positive way to manage professionals, especially in flat organizations where job advancement is limited." Brooks Tanner commented, "Regardless of its level of success at Zappos, this View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

01 Aug 2012
What Do You Think?

Should CEOs Worry About ‘Too Big to Succeed?’

barrier is not new. It has been a concern for years because it often necessitates a change in leadership and form of organization, something many founders and their organizations are unwilling to undertake.... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing; Financial Services

June 1994
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The Development and Strategic Use of Organizational Capabilities: Business Policy Seminar Outline and Reading List

By: Clayton M. Christensen

Keywords: Organizational Culture; Policy; Conferences

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January 2004 (Revised August 2004)
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Major Steckleson at the National Training Center (A)

By: Scott A. Snook, Robert Kaderavek and Jeremy Schneider

Major Steckleson is facing his toughest challenge yet. As an experienced observer-controller at the U.S. Army's National Training Center, Steckleson is responsible for helping leaders of the 3rd Armored Cavalry Squadron learn from a deadly mistake in simulated combat... View Details

Keywords: Organizations; Learning; Training; Spoken Communication; Groups and Teams; United States

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10 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor

complicity between workers and management. Perhaps most surprising of all, Anteby argues, is that the practice may help some organizations be more effective. Homer making keeps teams together and skills sharp during idle times in the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing

30 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Entering the Age of Alliances

researched for this book reveal considerable diversity in the types of businesses and social sector organizations involved and in their forms of collaboration. Each of the alliances that we visit in the... View Details

Keywords: by James Austin

01 Feb 2000
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Short Takes

New Alliances: Forming For-Profit and Nonprofit Partnerships Where once "corporate giving" meant writing an annual check to a favorite charity, more recently for-profit firms and nonprofit recipients have begun to join forces to better... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

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