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30 Jun 2017
News

Rebuilding the Girl Scouts Brand

Photos by Chris Taggart Mishka Pitter-Armand (MBA 2003) was never a Girl Scout; but she is a go-getter, an innovator, a risk taker, and a leader. “When you bring those four words together,” Pitter-Armand says, “they form the acronym... View Details

Keywords: April White

10 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

A Fast Start on Your New Job

relationships to sustain them. Transitions also are times when small differences in a new leader's actions can have disproportionate impacts on results. Everyone is straining to take the leader's measure and people are forming opinions... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Propose an Independent Project | MBA

Organizations benefit from the work performed, as well as from the opportunity to engage with students who might be a fit for your organization. Use the Form Below to Propose a Project Independent Projects... View Details

June 2011
Article

Implicit Voice Theories: Taken-for-granted Rules of Self-censorship at Work

By: J. R. Detert and Amy C. Edmondson

This article examines, in a series of four studies, the nature and impact of implicit voice theories-largely taken-for-granted beliefs about when and why speaking up at work is risky or inappropriate. In Study 1, qualitative data from 190 interviews conducted in a... View Details

Keywords: Spoken Communication; Interpersonal Communication; Employees; Managerial Roles; Organizational Culture; Risk and Uncertainty; Behavior

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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... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy; Utilities

28 May 2019
News

A More Perfect Union

like a venture philanthropy investor group, where members invest time and money to support organizations and candidates that align with its principles. Those include protecting and renewing democracy, promoting fact- and evidence-based... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Dan Bejar

21 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

The Geography of Corporate Giving

part of their research, they have interviewed more than fifty people in two cities and collected data on some 1,000 communities since the late 1980s. They observe that organizations in different cities seem to have different foci when it... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

19 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

Public Education Goes to School

challenges facing the education sector. The result was the now three-year-old Public Education Leadership Project (PELP), which works with nine urban public school districts representing over one million students. "Rather than creating an institutional... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark; Education

03 May 2017
Blog Post

How to Partner With a Club: Attend a Club Conference

Student Club Conferences are events focusing on a particular topic, typically an industry, location or affinity group, that are run by student clubs. Organizations that participate in Club Conferences benefit by increasing awareness of... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports

Theodore N. Vail

Securing over $100 million in financing, Vail first set up a more unified operating structure for AT&T, the Bell companies and the so-called “Bell-Connected” independent firms, and then went on to form an affiliation with competitor... View Details

Keywords: Communications

29 Aug 2006
First Look

First Look: August 29, 2006

Anton and Dennis A. Yao Periodical:Journal of Law, Economics and Organization (forthcoming) Abstract We examine the impact of patent infringement damages in an equilibrium oligopoly model of process innovation where the choice to infringe... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Whence IT Value?

visible, important ways. This hypothesis is reinforced by a growing number of academic studies indicating that a dollar spent on IT returns at least as much as a dollar spent on other forms of capital in many industries. These findings... View Details

Keywords: by Andrew McAfee

17 May 2018
Blog Post

HBS/HKS Alum Regan Turner on Empowering Veterans

entrepreneurial in my role, and that I am given the latitude to form partnerships that will benefit our organization and the cities we work in. “I work with some of the largest and most innovative companies... View Details

01 Mar 2013
News

Sizing Up Social Impact

Image by C.J. Burton As the aftereffects of the 2008 global economic crisis continue to be felt, nonprofit organizations are competing for fewer and fewer dollars. Donors, also feeling the squeeze of a sluggish economy, just don't have as... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Crop Production; Agriculture; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities

02 Jan 2013
What Do You Think?

Should We Rethink the Promise of Teams?

successful and unsuccessful experiences with teams. Improper uses of teams were cited. Phil Clark said that "Often teams are formed to 'look good' but truly are not teams Ownership of the outcome is directly related to the success of a... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

James B. Duke

Five principal cigarette manufacturing companies merged to form American Tobacco in 1890 with Duke as head and with a capitalization of $25 million. In 1895, Duke began an aggressive campaign to absorb companies making other kinds of... View Details

Keywords: Food & Tobacco

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From Concept to Product: Meroë Morse and Polaroid’s Culture of Art and Innovation, 1945–1969 | Baker Library

remarkably comprehensive archive includes research and development records, test photographs, advertising materials, film, corporate publications, legal and patent documents, cameras, and other Polaroid products. This exhibition is View Details

05 Feb 2001
What Do You Think?

Do MBA Programs Face “The Innovator’s Dilemma”?

not." As Joshua Doherty puts it, online programs "offer convenience, but not unique knowledge or opportunities to network." Isn't 'adapting to change' almost a synonym for learning? —Jed Bullard Second, distance learning offers a great opportunity to... View Details