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23 Jun 2015
First Look

First Look: June 23, 2015

organizational units and corporations are likely to match the boundaries of underlying technological modules. (This correspondence is called "mirroring.") In this article, I explain the concept of modularity and describe how... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

31 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?

recent book of non-fiction that I believe will be historically important. Both my choices top 700 pages, hence my hesitancy. The first book is Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate. It inevitably appears on the list of greatest war novels of all time. Grossman has been View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Information; Publishing

01 Apr 2002
News

Back in Business

affiliate, the Civic Capital Corporation, founded and became the overseer of an operation called ReSTART Central. ReSTART assigns business-savvy volunteers to work with donors and to act as troubleshooting... View Details

Keywords: 9/11; NYC; New York City; Government

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1.11 Leaves of Absence | MBA

emergency room visit that raises serious concerns about the student’s health or well-being; or (ii) other circumstances that raise serious concerns about the student’s health or well-being and reasonably call into question their ability... View Details

30 Nov 2017
News

Happy Meals (Are Here Again)

means there was a complaint—about the food, about the service, some negative thing that had escalated to the point that a manager had been called on to straighten things out. Or at least, that’s what it used to mean. In fall 2016,... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Saverio Truglia

01 Mar 2004
Lessons from the Classroom

Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science

1990s, NASA had implemented a program called "Faster, Better, Cheaper," (FBC) which involved making fundamental changes to the way the organization developed unmanned spacecraft. It was a massive organizational transformation... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Feb 1998
News

Women at the Top

"network" (i.e., those she calls upon for career and job-related advice) and then plotted the network visually according to criteria such as which network members were superiors, subordinates, or peers and which were from inside or... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young

22 May 2007
First Look

First Look: May 22, 2007

advantage, leading companies are now using an advanced form of outsourcing, called global collaboration, to drive new revenue, quicken time-to-market, and increase innovation. Global collaboration impacts their top as well as bottom... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

09 Apr 2025
News

The Working Parent Revolution

that your survey found that 70% of working parents call work-life balance a "non-negotiable" when they're job hunting. So are you seeing businesses respond to the pressure that their employees are feeling? SK: We are. I think that... View Details

26 Feb 2013
First Look

First Look: Feb. 26

call in sick to retain eligibility. Second, employees with perfect pre-program attendance or high productivity suffered a 6% to 8% productivity decrease after program introduction, suggesting they were demotivated by awards for good... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2007
News

Steve Schwarzman

business, politics, media, and the arts. With a personal fortune estimated by Forbes to surpass $3.5 billion, Schwarzman has come a long way since leaving Lehman Brothers in 1985 to cofound Blackstone with start-up capital of $400,000.... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

14 Nov 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017

Davis Abstract—As firms scramble for competitive advantage, boards—once the cautious voices urging management to mitigate risk—are now calling for breakthrough innovation. Indeed, avoiding risk is now seen as the riskiest proposition of... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Dec 2012
News

Rival Visions

Thus continued the protracted struggle with his chief, who dreaded losing his unmatched talents. To understand how strongly Hamilton felt about this is to grasp the essence of his character. He had a passionate drive to achieve what in his time was View Details

13 Feb 2020
News

Not Throwing Away My Shot

theme is sort of a callback to mechanization, which is digitization. So now suddenly we have the tools to completely change our world again from mechanical processes to digital processes. So those are the five what I would call dominant... View Details

16 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History

regarding the causal links between entrepreneurship, innovation, and economic growth still call for explanation. It remains unclear, for instance, whether William Baumol's neat distinction between productive and unproductive... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman

09 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

The Manager in Red Sneakers

this research finds that nonconformity can send its own signal of high status by visibly expressing the fact that people can afford to follow their own path—a perception that the researchers called the "red sneakers effect." "Instead of... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion

21 May 2007
Research & Ideas

Fixing the Marketing-CEO Disconnect

susceptibility to competition. How to repair the rift? Two HBS faculty developed a CD-based program called Measuring Marketing Performance targeted at senior executives—namely CEOs, COOs, and CMOs. The tutorial helps execs understand how... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

22 Feb 2022
News

March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

today we call “Search Funds.” Captained and inspired by visionary Leader Irv Grousbeck, they designed a track that allowed them to acquire a company, become its CEO, and, if well executed, also be its largest shareholder. Supported by... View Details

October 2023 (Revised January 2024)
Case

Ball: EVA Driving the World's Leading Can Manufacturer (A)

By: Jonas Heese and Susan Pinckney

The case describes Ball’s multi decade history of using Economic Value Added to drive decision making and workforce compensation. In 2016, the company acquired Rexam PLC and became the world’s leading metal beverage container company. Consumer demand for varied... View Details

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18 Feb 2021
Blog Post

SIPs in 2021

teams. Building what she calls a “relational dowry” that can be drawn upon during those difficult moments, requires intention, commitment, and time. It’s essential to enter into business relationships carefully, she says, and to ask... View Details

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