Design Structure - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Mar 2010
First Look

First Look: March 2

Working PapersEquity-Debtholder Conflicts and Capital Structure Authors:Bo Becker and Per Strömberg Abstract We use an important legal event as a natural experiment to examine equity-debt conflicts in the vicinity of financial distress.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Sep 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017

article they describe how to properly design and execute A/B and other controlled tests, ensure their integrity, interpret results, and avoid pitfalls. They argue that if a company sets up the right infrastructure and software, it will be... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

20 Aug 2001
Research & Ideas

Making an Ally of Uncle Sam

Goals for influencing government should flow directly from the analytic frameworks that companies use to develop business strategies. As Michael Porter noted in Competitive Strategy, "No structural analysis is complete without a... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Watkins, Mickey Edwards & Usha Thakrar

23 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Strategy for Small Fish

technologies, services, and products available through the ecosystem. In doing this, niche strategies trade off risk with productivity. Strong economies can often be found by niche players by leveraging a single platform—for example, NVIDIA can optimize its View Details

Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien

February 2023
Supplement

Astyanax Kanakakis at norbloc: A Founder's Experience with the DIFC Fintech Hive

By: Linda A. Hill and Lydia Begag

norbloc was founded in 2016 in Stockholm, Sweden, by Astyanax Kanakakis and his co-founders, Vitalii Demianets and Sam Saatchi. Kanakakis and Demianets got to work to address a key gap in the industry: Know Your Customer (KYC) data sharing. As the first distributed KYC... View Details

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27 Sep 2004
Research & Ideas

How Leaders Build Winning Streaks

High School, formed teacher teams to take on leadership responsibilities for the school, something that was relatively new in public education. The 40 or so BBC leaders to whom I spoke under Dyke's predecessor multiplied into the 400 View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

09 Aug 2013
Research & Ideas

Read All About It: Digital CEO Buys Traditional Media!

the world are trying to reinvent themselves for digital success. Indeed, few strategic problems are as hard as those confronting newspapers—declining print revenues, even greater declines in advertising revenue (mostly due to the loss of classifieds), and a fixed cost... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Journalism & News; Publishing

07 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

Off and Running: Professors Comment on Olympics

place for permanent residents or poorly designed for families in a mass market. Finally, consider the costs of projects that more often than not go way over budget and then result in crushing long-term debt burdens. Montreal's Olympic... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Sports

20 Apr 2009
Research & Ideas

Misgovernance at the World Bank

undertaking. The data are all publicly available, and have been for decades; it was just a question of looking at the data in such a way as to test whether the structure of the Executive Board led to systematically biased allocations of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

12 Jun 2014
News

The First Five Years: Minal Mehta (MBA 2011)

the best music and dance of Bollywood and infuse it with an interval training–based cardio workout to create a fitness program that is both physically and mentally invigorating for our class participants. We have designed a unique... View Details

Keywords: fitness; Arts, Entertainment

31 Jul 2012
First Look

First Look: July 31

Interorganizational Conflict Authors:Elizabeth Long Lingo, Colin Fisher, and Kathleen L. McGinn Publication:In Handbook of Conflict Management Research, edited by Neal M. Ashkansy, Oluremi B. Ayoko, and Karen Jehn. Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming Abstract We... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

29 Aug 2024
Blog Post

Exploring Sustainable Energy: A Visit to Vestas Wind Turbine Manufacturing in Odense, Denmark

to power the world sustainably. Second, we were impressed by Vestas’ commitment to quality and efficiency. After our first year course in operations management, we were excited to see process design principles in action. Weekly Kaizen and... View Details

01 Dec 2012
News

Alumni Book Briefs

authors examine how 20th-century shifts in global governance norms and structures eventually left the high seas open for predatory attacks. Reviewing contemporary debates about how best to combat piracy, they conclude that the solution... View Details

Keywords: Broadcasting (except Internet); Information

01 Jul 2008
First Look

First Look: July 1, 2008

first dimension relates to the degree to which the collaborative network is "open" verses "closed." The second dimension relates to the degree to which the governance structure for collaboration is... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Case Method 100 Years | Baker Library

new classroom building, Aldrich, is dedicated. Classrooms are specifically designed for teaching by the case method. 1954 Summer Case Writing Programs Begins With Ford Foundation funding, HBS begins to conduct the Summer Case Writing... View Details

27 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement

Collis and Akiko Kanno “Tokio Marine, Japan's leading insurance company, has spent nearly two decades building a global footprint in different insurance businesses. As the company becomes majority non-domestic it has to make a choice of what organisation View Details

19 Nov 2014
HBS Case

Marketing Marijuana

against federal law? But in the absence of enforcement action by the United States government, perhaps the better question is, what will the inevitable national market in marijuana shake out? Will it consist of grungy underground head shops? View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage

05 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Radical Change, Entrepreneurial Opportunity

that insights into these questions can also help entrepreneurial firms understand where opportunity lies and how they can exploit it. Q: Is it fair to say that companies are cognizant of their own technology strengths and push the dominant technology View Details

Keywords: by Michael J. Roberts; Technology

Profile

Phillip Michael Strazzulla

prospective tech startup. His startup venture, LifeGuides.me, is essentially an online career advice service designed to help college graduates and young professionals make better, more informed career decisions so they can avoid a... View Details

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Ruzwana Bashir

areas we’re tackling are pretty practical, such as what our operator onboarding process should look like or how we structure our meetings, whilst others involve the larger elements of our organizational View Details

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