Structural Changes - Publications - Faculty & Research

13 Nov 2014
Blog Post

Finance Conference Recap

inevitable cycles of the industry as well as his optimism in the ability of financial institutions to adapt to the deluge of regulatory changes seen since the financial crisis. His discussion was followed by a selection of panels, which... View Details

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Alex Roth

thinking I'd learn models and techniques — like a cash-flow analysis. I didn't realize I'd get a structure for thinking about the moral dilemmas in business and leadership. I just finished the Leadership and Corporate Accountability... View Details

January 1998 (Revised February 1998)
Case

Sideco Americana S.A. (A)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Harold F. Hogan Jr

This case focuses on a decision the Sideco management team faces when customers of its newly acquired and privatized water and sewer company neglect to pay its bills. Describes the effort to transform an old-style Argentine construction and engineering company into a... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Government Relations; Transformation; Business or Company Management; Values and Beliefs; Argentina

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01 Feb 2002
News

Egawa Heads New Research Office in Japan

the country in the 1970s and 1980s - ideas such as lifetime employment, cross-shareholding, and keiretsu (Japanese corporate groupings) - are currently undergoing fundamental changes and offer fascinating research possibilities. With the... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

06 Dec 2021
News

Truth Be Told

“cash for information” may not be the right way to talk about it, because it comes across as if someone is making a lot of money without any costs. It’s more like an insurance payment. Whistleblowers incur a lot of costs and get some money as compensation. That View Details

Keywords: April White; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

01 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 1

the coexistence of substantial redistribution and limited tagging. Together, these findings demonstrate the potential of a positive theory of optimal taxation. Publisher's link: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2304825 Working Papers Facts and Figuring: An Experimental... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

07 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 7, 2007

that both effects are operative. Instrumental variables analysis indicates that plausibly exogenous changes in payout policy result in shifting institutional ownership patterns. Similarly, exogenous changes... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Apr 1996
News

Wake-Up Call: Farewell to the American Dream?

You cite this decline as a root cause of widespread uneasiness among Americans about their future. What's gone wrong? One major structural change is that traditional mass production for a huge domestic... View Details

23 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 23

the changes he had been hired to make, including revamping the organization structure and instilling a new corporate culture that emphasized accountability. However, such View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

and Work Symposium. The Structured World and the Self Elizabeth Haines Elizabeth Haines, Professor of Psychology at William Paterson University, presents "Why so Sticky?" at the 2017 Gender and Work Symposium. Elizabeth Haines, Professor... View Details

25 Sep 2017
Research & Ideas

Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help

business of politics as they would study any company or sector, looking at structural components such as competitors, customers, channels to reach customers, suppliers, and the threat of new entrants into the market using the “five-forces... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

August 2016
Article

'Meso'-Foundations of Dynamic Capabilities: Team-Level Synthesis and Distributed Leadership as the Source of Dynamic Creativity

By: Ikujiro Nonaka, Ayano Hirose and Yusaku Takeda

This article examines the theoretical foundations of an organization's dynamic capabilities—sensing, seizing, and transforming—from the perspective of organizational knowledge creation. Making a distinction between the creative and adaptive aspects of dynamic... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Knowledge Creation Theory; Dynamic Capabilities; Middle-up-down Management; Wise Leadership; Phronesis; Multinational Enterprise; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Multinational Firms and Management; Management Practices and Processes; Creativity; Organizational Structure; Knowledge

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Akshay Ghulati

things that HBS emphasizes." Support and structure Midway through his first semester, Akshay's personal life took a turn that might have made his studies more challenging: he got married. "The section experience is what makes it... View Details

22 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 22, 2008

Provides a brief background on the history and structure of the steel industry in the United States. Focuses in some depth on the technological changes that have been difficult for the leading steel... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

24 Jul 2014
Op-Ed

Reform Tax Law to Keep US Firms at Home

facilitate the expatriation of US corporations. Such transactions reflect the effects of policies and of the changing structure of multinational firms. From a policy perspective, the transactions highlight... View Details

Keywords: by Mihir Desai; Pharmaceutical

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Patients - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Employers Suppliers Policymakers Patients Patients Consumers, as health plan subscribers and patients, should be the ultimate beneficiaries of a value-based health care delivery system. They can and should act as catalysts for change —but... View Details

11 Apr 2016
Blog Post

What You Need to Know about Recruiting at HBS

what you’re good at, what you like, what environments you enjoy working in, including what kind of people you enjoy interacting with. Consider the structure you’ve had in previous roles: did you have a formal mentor? Opportunities for... View Details

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

A Perfect Fit: Aligning Organization & Strategy

managing change. Instead, they develop many disconnected initiatives to bring about change — initiatives that by their piecemeal nature are doomed to failure. "In light of that," Beer explains, "we formulated this profiling... View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

24 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

How To Be an Angel Investor

will do well to manage your time carefully. Some angels think that evaluation starts with the first meeting and continues right up to the moment of writing the check. In order to structure this book effectively, we address evaluation as a... View Details

Keywords: by David Amis & Howard Stevenson

01 May 2013
News

Lynn Thoman, MBA 1979

says, involves her role on the Board of Fellows at Harvard Medical School (HMS). Her suggestion to HMS about how to structure the relationship between the hospitals and HMS differently resulted in $36 million in payments to HMS. “In... View Details

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