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- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w15325 PublicationsHow Actors Change Institutions: Towards a Theory of Institutional Entrepreneurship Authors:Julie Battilana, Bernard Leca, and Eva Boxenbaum Publication:The Academy of Management... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 17, 2007
decision for firms that aspire to develop platform-mediated networks is whether to preserve proprietary control or share their platform with rivals. A proprietary platform has a single provider that solely controls its technology, for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, February 28
2017 Advancing Organizational Theory in a Complex World Getting Started with Ambidexterity By: Binns, Andrew, and Michael Tushman Abstract—This paper demonstrates the value of thinking about ambidexterity as having three distinct... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
masculinity on offshore oil platforms, the impact of racial diversity on retail bank performance, and the design and delivery of women’s leadership development programs. For the past several years, Professor Ely has maintained an active... View Details
- 06 Dec 2018
- News
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Hawkins’s theories about brain function. (“We don’t do discovery by wet lab,” Hawkins clarifies. “We’re theorists.”) One of the first theories to become a business foundation was Hawkins’s finding that the... View Details
- 19 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Analyzing Institutions to Solve Big Problems
institutional theorists from around the world gathered at Harvard Business School to address head-on how institutional theory research and tools can help practitioners address work-related and societal issues—and how academics in the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Anna Secino
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Books
Business School Press) Risk taking is an integral building block in developing organizational learning. IBM founder Thomas J. Watson, Sr., understood the value of creating an environment in which errors -- and even failures -- are... View Details
Keywords: Amy E. Dean
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Books
today's top executives must build organizations in which the new can constructively displace the old and where talented employees are encouraged to help formulate company strategy. "Successful e-leaders focus on two things: a new approach to market View Details
- 27 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Sidetracked: Why Can’t We Stick to the Plan?
decisions that we expect we will make based on our finely developed plans are often different from how we actually behave. We get sidetracked. We set a new career path, we choose a diet to follow, we make plans to save for retirement, we... View Details
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Harvard Business School Archives | Baker Library
Harvard Business School Archives The HBS Archives contain records that document the history of Harvard Business School, faculty, research, teaching, and the student experience. The collections date from the establishment of the school in 1908 through the present day... View Details
- 18 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017
innovation, and peer production—relate to theories of the firm, with particular attention on “sociality” in firms and markets. We first briefly review extant theories of the firm and then discuss three... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Aug 2014
- News
The First Five Years: Melissa Fensterstock (MBA 2012)
where we don't speak about business matters—going on a jog together, date night, or work-free vacation. A break is healthy for everyone to recharge, regroup, and reflect." How do you use what you learned at HBS at IMMUNE Pharmaceuticals (Fensterstock is a senior... View Details
- 05 Jan 2017
- Blog Post
Crossing the River: The HBS/HKS Joint Degree Program
contracting social services through conversations with industry leaders. Beyond the academic exposure it afforded me, the joint degree program offered an incredible laboratory to develop my personal theory... View Details
- 21 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 21
findings on its current state of maturity, as evidenced by academic surveys and our own field research. Reviewing academic surveys, we observe that contingency theories of ERM have become a current trend but have produced few significant... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 3
front-line workers who voice concerns and share ideas about how to solve problems. Our study is among the first to develop and empirically test theory about how specific management practices can encourage... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 5, 2016
the production of nearly all crops, they first developed with much more limited application, and early diffusion was accordingly limited in scope until tractor technology generalized. The results are consistent with View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 15 Nov 2018
- Blog Post
Valuing an MBA: Beyond Dollars and “Sense"
method bridges theory and practice, stretches and hones future business leaders through the most complex and challenging situations, and provides a sandbox to take risks, fail constructively, and learn. This prepares students to succeed... View Details
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Ari Medoff
social-science theory to real-world economic problems." Youth mentorship is the major theme of Ari's policy interests. "I am a Big Brother in two programs," Ari says. "One is DukePals, a mentoring program for the... View Details
- 13 May 2013
- Blog Post
Alumni: Where are they now? Featuring Aaron…
laptop, at work and at home! How has having an MBA impacted your career? Every day I am faced with an issue to which there is usually no real precedent and thus no clear answer. The training I received at HBS is directly applicable to my job today. In my current role I... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Charles Stoddard (MBA 1969)
community. Our second-largest shareholder was so enamored by this that he wanted me to advertise it. I absolutely refused. I always followed the theory that if someone else toots your horn, the noise travels twice as far. Grand Bank was... View Details
Keywords: Finance