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26 Nov 2013
First Look

First Look: November 26

that the joint stock corporation was not a superior form of business organization in many countries during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. In Japan, by contrast, it appears to have played a more... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Jul 2001
What Do You Think?

Built to Last or Bought to Sell?

that Creative Destruction is a guidebook to future corporate management success. What does it suggest? Among other things, as managers we are admonished to: recognize that the larger organizations get, the more they lose their ability to... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

17 May 2004
Research & Ideas

Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility

analyzing research publications, we have found three basic trends. First, research has increasingly focused on economic performance. Second, research focusing on how organizations affect other dimensions of human welfare, beyond economic... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

03 Jan 2008
What Do You Think?

Does Judgment Trump Experience?

experience? In their book, the authors have undertaken the formidable task of describing judgment and how good judgments are formed and carried out, based on observations of successful and unsuccessful leaders. They assert that... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

01 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 1

structure shapes performance in problem-solving tasks. Problem solving, we argue, involves both search for information and search for solutions. Our results show that the effect of network clustering is opposite for these two important and complementary View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

20 Aug 2001
Research & Ideas

Making an Ally of Uncle Sam

influence them. More specifically, this approach steers attention away from the political processes whereby administrative policies are formed and implemented . . . . These difficulties are compounded by the typical simplifying device of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Watkins, Mickey Edwards & Usha Thakrar

01 Mar 2013
News

Alumni News | Bookshelf

Assembly-Line Innovation The title of the 2012 e-book Building a Growth Factory (Harvard Business Review Press) conjures an image of raw materials being dumped into a black box and emerging on conveyor belts as fully formed iPhones,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

08 Aug 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

Barry Abstract—Many markets, including the markets for IPOs and debt issuances, are syndicated, in that a bidder who wins a contract will often invite competitors to join a syndicate that will fulfill the contract. We model syndicated markets as a repeated extensive... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Jun 2019
Book

Are You a Digital Manager?

teams within and sometimes outside their organization. This raises questions like: How will you innovate? How will you bring out the best ideas in your teams working together near and far? How will you drive change within the organization... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

20 Dec 2024
News

Clubs Open HBS Doors for Local Leaders; Meet the Club Leaders: HBS PRIDE; Favorite Reads of 2024

return from the program. Angella says SPNM participants represent a broad range of organizations championing arts, theatre, education, health care, addiction recovery, food security, climate resilience, and much more. “SEI’s partnership... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

Web

2019 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Administration and faculty chair of the HBS Race, Gender & Equity Initiative. She conducts research on race and gender relations in organizations with a focus on organizational change, group dynamics, learning, conflict, power, and... View Details

24 Sep 2020
News

The Race for a Vaccine

a virus the company had not seen before and start the timer. Bancel was eager for the chance to show off the company’s agility. The organizations settled on the spring of 2020 for this “outbreak”; the first quarter of the year was just... View Details

Keywords: April White; COVID-19; Scientific Research and Development Services

11 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 11, 2007

Working PapersThe Seer of Wellesley Hills: Roger Babson and the Babson Statistical Organization Author:Walter A. Friedman Abstract Roger Babson was a pioneer of the business-forecasting industry in the United States in the early... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 Sep 2014
Research & Ideas

Become a Value Creator

forget that," says Hall, now the Albert H. Gordon Professor of Business Administration. "That had such a huge influence on me." It's an example of what Hall calls "value-creating" behavior—doing a favor for the good of the View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

Web

1.17 Field Based Learning / Independent Projects | MBA

to be shared in a specific form (e.g., written report, case study, presentation) or with specific individuals (company name and specific individuals). No information that can be linked to a specific individual should be divulged to... View Details

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace

A host of organizations — among them Lucent Technologies, the Boeing Company, and Southwest Airlines — have recently begun to ponder such intangibles in an effort to attract and maintain a motivated, performance-boosting workforce. Books... View Details

Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso

01 Dec 1996
News

Starting Up and Starting Over

landlord, the entrepreneur, or the worker contributed most to England's prosperity. Later, as HBS Dean, Gay's primary duty was to prepare his students for their role in the administrative organization that was emerging as the business... View Details

18 Dec 2012
First Look

First Look: December 18

Quarterly (forthcoming) Abstract Socialization theory has focused on enculturating new employees such that they develop pride in their new organization and internalize its values. Drawing on authenticity research, we propose that the... View Details