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Kevin S. Rollag

nuances — legal, ethical, and global — of all this unbounded technology," says Kevin. "I needed a comprehensive introduction to business fundamentals while getting a high-level vision of how organizations are put together."... View Details

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Closings - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

closure at the end of a class session. At an overarching level, students should be able to provide at least provisional answers to two fundamental questions after a class discussion: what did I learn today, and why does it matter? To the... View Details

01 Dec 2018
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Competencies and Credentials

I realized this is going to be absolutely transformational. At the same time, technology is enabling more flexible forms of work, but in many cases without the benefits associated with traditional jobs. These two trends could View Details

16 Oct 2018
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To Lead and Serve

stayed in five years. And some of us, like myself, stayed in 38. But I didn't pass my grandfather, who did 39 years in. My concept of service to the country really came from my grandfather and my father talking about their careers, but really their View Details

01 Dec 1998
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New Releases

"The issue is not whether to centralize or decentralize, but rather which decision rights should be centralized and which decentralized." But the age-old issue of centralization vs. decentralization oversimplifies the fundamental... View Details

07 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

The Organizational Model for Open Source

The more fundamental question that firms and policy makers need to be thinking about is just what type of good is software?—Siobhán O'Mahony Similar issues surface in the biotechnology world, where university and market conceptions of the... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

22 Apr 2002
Lessons from the Classroom

Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught

start-up or within an existing organization. So the first part focuses on concepts, while the second spotlights practice and application. We've identified four fundamentals of entrepreneurial management. The first View Details

Keywords: by Staff

20 Jun 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 20

“waver” over time in the relative weight they put on them. The model predicts that good news about fundamentals can trigger large price bubbles. We analyze the patterns of cash-flow news that generate the largest bubbles, the reasons why... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Oct 2009
First Look

First Look: October 14

other British banks to become global leaders in contemporary multinational banking, at least until the global financial crisis, which began in 2007, raised fundamental questions about the future trajectory of the entire global financial... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

05 Jan 2009
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles and Working Papers 2008

organizations. Despite their fundamental role in the purpose of organizations, scholars have little understanding of actual interaction patterns in modern, complex, multiunit firms. By Adam M. Kleinbaum, Toby E. Stuart, and Michael L.... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

22 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

The Silo Lives! Analyzing Coordination and Communication in Multiunit Companies

fundamental question. Q: Your research examines a massive dataset that includes more than 100 million e-mails and 60 million electronic calendar entries over a three-month period. How was all this organized? A: This particular study is of... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

28 Aug 2006
Research & Ideas

Online Match-Making with Virtual Dates

actually arranging to meet rather than spending hours a week just searching. The people who go on a lot of dates are the people who find someone. In some sense it's a numbers game." New users especially should keep in mind that online dating is not in the end so... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Publishing

01 Jun 2006
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The Baby Business

level, a child is a luxury item: Those who can afford it will get it, and those who can’t will not. That’s fine when we’re talking about diamonds, but the concern here is that when it comes to children, we need to think differently. If the desire to reproduce is a... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Government; Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 2002
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Mary Callahan Erdoes

many clients haven't lived through anything like this — and neither have most money managers. It's painful to each of us. But it drives you back to a fundamental analysis: What is the purpose of my portfolio? What am I trying to encompass... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Oct 2002
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Faculty Research Symposium

were all over the map. There were plenty of examples of time pressure spawning creative thinking — Apollo 13, for instance — but there were also many occasions where not having enough time squelched creative thoughts. Given that creative thinking is a View Details

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Impact on a Global Scale | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

to Bridgespan. “In the years ahead, we have an historic opportunity to fundamentally attack social problems,” he adds. “Not just to contain or ameliorate problems, but to actually achieve step function improvements in the welfare of... View Details

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HBS - From The Dean

vision, we must embrace digitalization to a much greater extent. The digital transformation effort we launched is exploring how we can use data and technology to fundamentally rethink aspects of our organization and activities. It’s a... View Details

14 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

New Agenda for Corporate Accountability Reporting

How do you measure corporate accountability? And can you do it credibly? Since the financial crisis of 2008-2009, for-profit corporations are facing greater demand to disclose more than revenues and expenses on annual financial reports. In response, some are pointing... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting; Energy; Utilities

15 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Business IT Innovation is so Difficult

the firm's walls: customers. It is riskier economically and organizationally to adopt. "The thing that struck me right away was that e-buying and e-selling for the firms in my sample were fundamentally different activities," McElheran... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

16 Jul 2008
Op-Ed

What Should Employers Do about Health Care?

have a strategic role to play in improving value in the health care system. Rather than disenfranchising employers, policymakers would be well advised to harness this role. Employers, for their part, need to recognize their fundamental... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter, Elizabeth O. Teisberg & Scott Wallace; Health

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