Informal Organization - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Sep 2021
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Skydeck Voices: For My Next Act

utilities industries is privatized, water in particular. And I chair the organization that regulates water monopolies. They’re big companies. Many of them privately owned now by pension funds, infrastructure funds. And our job is to hold... View Details

10 Mar 2021
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Next Normal

Edited by Julia Hanna; illustrations by Fabio Consoli One year after the pandemic mandated an abrupt shift to working from home for millions of people, organizations are taking a long, hard look at how and where employees work—and why. In... View Details

29 Apr 2022
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Clean Slate

Coalition, an organization coordinating business, government, and nonprofit efforts to improve India’s water quality and health outcomes. Naina Lal Kidwai: This was not a sexy business. You don't want to put your name to toilets. You're... View Details

Keywords: Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities

08 May 2019
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Lessons from the Ashes

Australian dollar takeover, which in US dollars probably somewhere north of $1.5 billion. So a lot of money, one of the biggest takeovers in this Australian corporate history. I was organizing all of that and leading up to the takeover I... View Details

02 Oct 2017
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Radical Generosity for the Real World

just have automatic deductions from their paychecks, and it either goes directly to an organization they care about it, or it goes directly into a separate account that they then use and that account is specifically for giving related. It... View Details

06 Jan 2017
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Mental Illness and the Workplace

about it. It really is a personal decision. Hanna: You just mentioned The Stability Network, which is the organization you founded in 2013, and I wondered, if you could tell us a little bit more about how that came about and what sort of... View Details

01 Sep 2017
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History’s Lessons

turbulent times. Ernest Shackleton Hire for Attitude, Train for Skill Today’s entrepreneurs would find the tasks involved in organizing and leading an Antarctic expedition in the early 20th century somewhat familiar. Koehn notes that the... View Details

Keywords: Abraham Lincoln; Ernest Shackelford; Rachel Carson

01 Mar 2019
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The Fight Beyond

shoulder. “What the hell’s the Navy doing here?” asked one American airman as five more men emerged. Despite Green’s uniform, the men weren’t there under the auspices of the Navy, but instead at the direction of the Office of Strategic Services, a nimble new... View Details

Keywords: April White; illustration by Wesley Allsbrook

01 Mar 2009
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Your Taxi Is Waiting

organizations tighten their belts by simply cutting travel across the board? “I think the core issue for everyone is the same, which is how do you buy time?” remarks HBS professor Bill Sahlman, coauthor with Jackie Donnelly Russell (MBA... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Air Transportation; Transportation

02 Oct 2015
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The ‘F’ Word

information junkie, but I did generally know every answer to every nit-picking question that the higher-ups threw at me (e.g., the cost of capital at Playboy was 10 percent). I even developed a working knowledge of things as abstruse as... View Details

Keywords: Walt Disney Studios

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