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Josh Solera

could we put together a coherent, district-wide structure to turn around eleven schools? It wasn’t easy being only twenty-three, twenty-four, and talking to people who had been living with these challenges for years. But in eleven months,... View Details
  • 19 Dec 2006
  • First Look

First Look: December 19, 2006

new way of looking at the traditional organizational structure of cost and profit centers. Every unit, by contributing to effective strategy execution, has the opportunity to support and create profit. This capability has important... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Feb 2001
  • News

Drilling Down

in foreign countries. "Some of the governments are quite small, and they like dealing directly with the person who makes decisions in the company," he explains. "There's more flexibility involved than there would be with a larger... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia; Matthew R. Simmons; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Natural Gas Distribution; Utilities
  • 17 Jul 2012
  • First Look

First Look: July 17

institutional theory, managers, and policymakers. What Good Are Shareholders? Authors:Justin Fox and Jay W. Lorsch Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, nos. 7-8 (July-August 2012) Abstract The article looks at the role outside shareholders play in corporate View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Print View - Course Catalog

and social factors in governance, hostile takeovers, and director liability. We will consider the role of stakeholders other than shareholders in corporate governance and examine new governance View Details
  • June 2003 (Revised April 2004)
  • Case

Mercy Corps: Global Social Entrepreneurship (A)

By: Christopher A. Bartlett and Daniel F. Curran
Neal Keny-Guyer, CEO of Mercy Corps International, built his organization by following the advice of Theodore Roosevelt: "Be smart enough to hire good people and have sense enough to get out of their way." For eight years, Keny-Guyer helped Mercy Corps grow in size and... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Globalization; Government and Politics; Selection and Staffing; Leadership; Organizational Structure; Opportunities; Afghanistan; Iraq
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  • December 2019 (Revised June 2024)
  • Supplement

The Dutch East India Company in 1612 (B)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci
The case relates the decision made in the A case and what happened in the aftermath. View Details
Keywords: Corporate Governance; Globalized Firms and Management; Organizational Structure; Laws and Statutes; Financial Markets; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business and Government Relations; Business History; Shipping Industry; Netherlands
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  • 01 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 1

organization induced teachers to volunteer their knowledge and preferences, which otherwise would have been difficult to elicit. Although governance was a struggle, none of the cases in our sample suffered a "tragedy of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Dec 2004
  • What Do You Think?

Why Do Managers Fail to Act on Their Predictions?

short run versus large costs of unknowable certainty in the future. As examples of predictable surprises, they suggest such things as the rise of terrorism, compromises of auditor independence (and its implications for the general decline of trust in business),... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • October 1981 (Revised August 2010)
  • Case

Quabbin Cablevision Company

By: Henry B. Reiling
Several entrepreneurs are considering the purchase of an existing cable TV business with the financial assistance of several investors. They must decide whether to establish the company as a partnership or a corporation, and how to capitalize the company for an optimal... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Organization; Television Entertainment; Entrepreneurship; Capital Structure; Taxation; Telecommunications Industry; Massachusetts
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  • 26 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019

record health worker attendance and patient adherence to protocol, and they automatically prompt follow-up treatment. We combine data from surveys, independent field visits, and government registers to identify impacts on TB-control... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • Web

“It’s like a pie-eating contest” | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

actually very helpful,” says Josh, “especially when you work across departments.” The most important contribution of a HBS education, Josh believes, “is helping people think about how to break apart and structure problems. It’s an endless... View Details
  • 28 Jun 2016
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June 28, 2016

resource endowment explanation. The paper argues that the ecotourism industry was a co-creation of the public, private, and tertiary sectors. While the role of the government and conservation NGOs is acknowledged in the existing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jan 2017
  • Blog Post

Crossing the River: The HBS/HKS Joint Degree Program

Nonprofits, and The Role of Government in Market Economies. For my MPP capstone exercise, I tapped into interest generated by the HKS Government Performance Lab and focused on the burgeoning Pay For Success... View Details
  • 10 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 10

particular, supportive incumbent industrial structures for input and output markets are strongly linked to higher establishment entry rates. We also find substantial evidence for the Chinitz effect where small local incumbent suppliers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Nov 2016
  • First Look

First Look - November 1, 2016

map the innovation network and its strength. Past innovation network structures are calculated using citation patterns across technology classes during 1975 to 1994. The interaction of this preexisting network View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Feb 1999
  • News

Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office

into a variety of conflict resolution and collaboration models. Business and political leadership is transitioning from a family or clan-based structure to one of greater heterogeneity and professionalization. It is also transitioning... View Details
Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services
  • 20 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 20

rely on indirect governance through regulated competition among political as well as economic actors in structures that in many ways parallel the competition found in organized sports. Inevitably these two... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Nov 2012
  • First Look

First Look: November 20

anti-regulation movement that started in the 1970s, voluntary self-regulation programs have emerged in many regulatory agencies, seeking to increase cooperation between government and industry to achieve greater and more cost-effective... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Feb 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 19

firms strategically respond to government signals regarding appropriate corporate activity. We integrate institutional theory and research on corporate political strategy to develop a political dependence model that explains (a) how... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne