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Rakhi Mehra
Throughout her school years, Rakhi Mehra had been deeply focused on competitive swimming. But a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford sparked an entirely new passion for her: making social impact. "Oxford gave me the support and vision to... View Details
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Margarita de la Piedra Carrillo
career path? I want to jump into consulting. Many of my classmates have already consulted. I learn from the way they analyze issues and how they structure their analyses. HBS has given me a lot more exposure to consulting, plus access to... View Details
- July 2010
- Teaching Note
Hema Hattangady and Conzerv (TN) (A) & (B)
By: Michael L. Tushman and David Kiron
Teaching Note for 409022 and 411012. 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
MacCormack, Alan D., and Kerry Herman. "Virgin.com." Harvard Business School Case 601-041, March 2001. (Revised August 2001.)
- January 1992
- Case
Johnson & Johnson: Hospital Services
The main issue has to do with the lack of fit or incompatibility between the early environmental requirements for strategy and the cultural constraints on the organization. Describes the internal resistance to the proposed changes and top management's efforts to... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Structure; Organizational Culture; Management Systems; Environmental Sustainability; Conflict and Resolution
Pearson, Andrall E. "Johnson & Johnson: Hospital Services." Harvard Business School Case 392-050, January 1992.
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Jennifer Kelly
In the Philippines, Jennifer Kelly grew up under the inspiring example of her parents, both social workers who served in rural communities. "I wanted to follow in their footsteps," Jennifer says. "But in college, I began to... View Details
- 22 Jun 2011
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Motivation
Dynamic Structural Analysis of Bonus-Based Compensation Plans Companies generally pay their sales staff with some combination of salary, commissions, and bonuses for meeting quotas—with sales force costs averaging about 10 percent of... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
IBM Finds Profit in Diversity
goals without providing the structures to educate senior executives in the specific challenges faced by various constituencies. In addition, these strategies often don't provide models that teach or encourage new behaviors. IBM has taken... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
Alumni Work to Reverse Bias Through Philanthropy
hard—urgent calls for a long-overdue racial reckoning are inspiring innovative approaches to exposing and ending structural inequities in business and society. Two new ventures led by HBS alumni are leveraging the power of philanthropy in... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 1998
- Book
The Multinational Traders
By: Geoffrey Jones
This book examines the history and theory of multinational trading companies. The essays in this volume demonstrate the importance of trading companies in trade and investment flows in the world economy from the nineteenth century to the present day. The empirical... View Details
Keywords: Company History; Trade; Globalization; Books; Organizational Structure; Perspective; Diversification; Theory; Asia; Europe; United States
Jones, Geoffrey, ed. The Multinational Traders. Routledge International Studies in Business History. London: Routledge, 1998.
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2013 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Interplay of Structure and Behavior: How System Dynamics Can Explain and Change Outcomes by Gender or Social Category Panel: Backlash and the Double Bind Robert Livingston , Northwestern University Is... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Five Bright Ideas
Article 26 of the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which is a driving force behind the founding of ALISON.com, the online education company Mike Feerick launched in 2007. Based in Ireland, ALISON (Advance Learning Interactive Systems Online) is a for-profit... View Details
- 15 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 15
Returns By: Greenwood, Robin, and Dimitri Vayanos Abstract—We examine empirically how the maturity structure of government debt affects bond yields and excess returns. Our analysis is based on a theoretical model of preferred habitat in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Faculty Books
Robert G. Eccles and Michael P. Krzus (Wiley) An emerging business trend is for companies to go beyond separate reports for financial and nonfinancial (e.g., corporate social responsibility or sustainability) results and to integrate them... View Details
- 14 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations
and co-author of the book, Glass Half-Broken: Shattering the Barriers That Still Hold Women Back at Work. “They have lots of opportunity to change the structures themselves.” The authors of Glass Half-Broken weave academic research with... View Details
- 14 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Can Start Ups Grow?
"These social resources are acquired by mimicking the structures and activities of established firms, and by affiliating with high-status customers respectively," she wrote in the abstract to her... View Details
- 09 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 9
Social Legitimacy and Global Capitalism Authors:Rawi Abdelal and John G. Ruggie Publication:Chap. 7 in New Perspectives on Regulation, edited by David Moss and John Cisternino, 151-162. Cambridge, Mass.: The Tobin Project, 2009 Abstract... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Nov 2015
- Blog Post
Harvard Arab Weekend (HAW) 2015
covering most pressing topics across 12 political, business and social issues Career Fair: The largest MENA career fair in North America with 20+ companies represented Start-up Pitch: A Start-up pitch featuring 10 pre-selected MENA... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
establish that the alliance network mitigates holdup problems in interfirm transactions. When Do Scientists Become Entrepreneurs? The Social Structural Antecedents of Commercial Activity in the Academic Life... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Opening Doors: Inside the World of Museum Management
that is dwarfed by the museum's immense airy inte-rior, or experiencing the overwhelming scale of the Met's grand entryway. Not surprisingly, maintaining these enormous older structures can be a challenge, particularly when taking into... View Details