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- 2008
- Working Paper
Exploring the Duality between Product and Organizational Architectures: A Test of the Mirroring Hypothesis
By: Alan D. MacCormack, John Rusnak and Carliss Y. Baldwin
A variety of academic studies argue that a relationship exists between the structure of an organization and the design of the products that this organization produces. Specifically, products tend to "mirror" the architectures of the organizations in which they are... View Details
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Peter Gumulia
fintech in South East Asia, as Chief of Staff and VP of Strategy and Growth. Looking for new challenges Having had the opportunity to observe the gray areas that the management team had to navigate – and the ambiguous decisions they had... View Details
- 15 Jul 2019
- Book
Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence
trying to solve who gets capital in a world where you don’t know who the good managers are and who the bad managers are. Most of what you observe of finance in the world is a manifestation or a reaction to the central problem of creating... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- Web
2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
the ESG investing. 5 Technologies That Will Change the World. How Will They Affect Your Journey as a Leader? Professor Shikhar Ghosh (MBA 1980) + More Info – Less Info E.O. Wilson observed that the “real problem of humanity is that we... View Details
- Blog
Is AI Coming for Your Job?
tools like ChatGPT to teach concepts to students. The students might observe and engage with the AI tool and learn how to actively interrogate the responses it provides. I think this could make for beautiful, interactive learning sessions... View Details
- 13 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Company Reviews on Glassdoor: Petty Complaints or Signs of Potential Misconduct?
behavior bubbles below the radar An employee may not come forward right away to expose wrongdoing at a corporation for many reasons. In the absence of directly observing egregious behavior by a particular individual, an employee may not... View Details
- 2016
- Book
Strategy Beyond Markets
By: John de Figueiredo, Michael Lenox, Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Rick Vanden Bergh
Strategy beyond markets has been an active area of research inquiry since the early 1990s. Since its inception, the scholarship emanating from this research stream has grown substantially in quantity, quality, and breadth. Likewise, firms across the world have... View Details
Keywords: Strategy
- Research Summary
Profitable Souls: Foreign Investment and the Fate of Human Rights
By: Debora L. Spar
This is a project about foreign investment, about what happens when big multinational firms invest in small, poor, and often nasty places. Typically, most observers assume that this is a largely negative relationship: that multinationals exploit the local population,... View Details
- November 2022
- Teaching Note
Proximie: Using XR Technology to Create Borderless Operating Rooms
By: Ariel D. Stern, Alpana Thapar and Menna Hassan
Founded by Nadine Hachach-Haram in 2016, Proximie was a digital medicine platform that used mixed reality and a host of digital audio and visual tools to enable clinicians, proctors, and medical device company personnel to be virtually present in operating rooms (ORs),... View Details
When Should a Social Platform Give People Fewer Choices and Charge More for Them?
Existing economic wisdom offers unequivocal advice to managers seeking to establish new platform businesses: Invest to acquire users as quickly as possible and make sure that they have ... View Details
- 25 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Why Unqualified Candidates Get Hired Anyway
which that performance was achieved," the paper reports. Most research in this area has focused on defining the fundamental attribution error rather than actually observing its practical effects. The researchers decided to... View Details
- Portrait Project
David Chan
rather than accepted as scientific fact. It's not an option to believe in climate change: It is something that has been conclusively observed by the scientific community. And it is happening right here and right now at a rate faster than... View Details
- 10 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Little Understood Problem Confronting Diverse Workplaces
on the school’s training programs and read extensively about charter schools in general, for additional context. As they read through their notes, Ramarajan and Reid observed a clear, common theme: Tutors were struggling to implement the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 11 Oct 2013
- HBS Seminar
Sen Chai, Post-Doc Labor & Worklife Program at the Harvard Law School, and NBER
- 13 Dec 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Unlikely Upside of Mergers: More Diverse Management Teams
acquisitions, along with M&A consultants. He said their observations provided him with “a direct sense of what happens during an acquisition and restructuring.” Based on his research findings and insights gleaned from the interviews,... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Richard B. Fisher (MBA '62)
investment banking," observes Fisher. "It takes a great team of people working together to do the job well. I've always enjoyed being a part of that process and seeing it unfold." View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Donald J. Chiofaro
he says. What would be right for him, Chiofaro reasoned, would be to work outside a corporate culture (in a milieu, some observers note, where he could indulge his fondness for bruising collisions) and in a business where he could give... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 28 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Making the Decision to Franchise (or not)
factors we've observed and intend to study further, in addition to measuring their effect on performance." "When an organization sets up its structure, there's a lot of talk about alignment and fit relative to the addition of new... View Details
- 18 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Unethical Amnesia: Why We Tend to Forget Our Own Bad Behavior
organizations schedule time for workers to reflect on their workdays. (Previous research has shown that taking time out to reflect on work improves job performance in the long run.) “Our results show that one reason we observe unethical... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 24 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
How to Get People Addicted to a Good Habit
ability to tease apart behavioral mechanisms in a way that earlier work (which often used self-reports or surveyor observations of hand hygiene) could not do. Researchers set out to discover whether they could induce households to develop... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel