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  • 01 Dec 1997
  • News

"Economists are puzzle solvers..."

structural changes in financial systems all over the world - it's easy to see why the ability to take financial securities and products, many of which never existed before, and analyze them both with respect... View Details
  • 22 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 22, 2007

Structure Matrices and Design Rule Theory Authors:Matthew J. LaMantia, Yuanfang Cai, Alan David MacCormack, and John Rusnak Abstract Designers often seek modular architectures to better accommodate expected View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 30, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51569 Building the Agile Enterprise: IT Architecture, Modularity and the Cost of IT Change By: MacCormack, Alan, Robert Lagerstrom, David Dreyfus, and Carliss Y. Baldwin Abstract—Recent... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 02 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 2

  Working PapersEquity-Debtholder Conflicts and Capital Structure Authors:Bo Becker and Per Strömberg Abstract We use an important legal event as a natural experiment to examine equity-debt conflicts in the vicinity of financial distress.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Apr 2013
  • First Look

First Look: April 2

since the human genome sequence was completed-has changed the way we think about, study, and approach the development of novel therapies. However, these advances in knowledge have so far not been reflected in substantial medical progress... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Dec 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Public Education Goes to School

the culture into coherence with a strategy focused on driving performance is a tough but necessary challenge, and must be supported by changes in the structures and systems of the organization. View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark; Education
  • 08 Apr 2008
  • First Look

First Look: April 8, 2008

journey from 2003 to 2006. The case describes the changes in the senior team, structure and processes of the organization. It follows two illustrations of a powerful employee engagement process for honest... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: December 4

Homophily and Structure in a Formal Organization Authors:Adam M. Kleinbaum, Toby E. Stuart, and Michael Tushman Publication:Organization Science Abstract Homophily in social relations results from both individual preferences and selective... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 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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  • 10 Nov 2011
  • HBS Case

HBS Cases: Making Lincoln Center Cool Again

New York City Ballet, New York Philharmonic, the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, the School of American Ballet, and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. The leadership structure is complex. In 2010, Lincoln Center's... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 22 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 22

everywhere. That's a remarkable situation, a sea change from Google's late entry in 1998, and a subject of substantial concern for the users, advertisers, and publishers who depend on Google for information, leads, and advertising... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 18

situations. Filled with stories of people facing a range of challenges, from going on job interviews to asking someone out; scientific research on how our bodies change our minds; and revolutionary strategies like "power... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Aug 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Here Comes Internet2—Time to Shed Dot Vertigo

business has had a skewed perception of information technology, Nolan observed. Business usually looks at IT as a way of automating transactions. Computers were imagined not to change the information View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 11 May 2020
  • Op-Ed

Immigration Policies Threaten American Competitiveness

Structural changes, such as adopting wage ranking for awarding H-1B visas in place of today’s lottery system, did not achieve much support among our alumni. The gap between alumni believing the existing immigration system is harming their... View Details
Keywords: by William R. Kerr
  • January 2018 (Revised August 2020)
  • Background Note

Continuous Software Development: Agile's Successor

By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Samuel Clemens and Olivia Hull
In recent years, the twin software development methodologies of continuous delivery and continuous deployment have risen to prominence in the start-up world and beyond. These methods have enabled technology companies large and small to accelerate their product... View Details
Keywords: Continuous Improvement; Continuous Development; Continuous Delivery; Continuous Integration; Product Development Processes; Computer Programming; Agile; Waterfall; Software Applications; Software Engineering; Applications and Software; Information Technology; Technological Innovation; Product Development; Customer Focus and Relationships; Entrepreneurship; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Quality; Product Marketing; Product; Infrastructure; Information Infrastructure; Computer Industry; Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; Web Services Industry; Massachusetts; Boston
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  • 29 Mar 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Creativity, Entrepreneurship, and Organizations of the Future

entrepreneurial and more creative, if they are to succeed. What is changing in the current business environment? Increased competition means that businesses have to be on their (figurative) toes in order to stay ahead; the only way to do... View Details
Keywords: by Teresa M. Amabile & Mukti Khaire
  • 11 Sep 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018

Conference Proceedings More Amazon Effects: Online Competition and Pricing Behaviors By: Cavallo, Alberto Abstract—I study how online competition, with its shrinking margins, algorithmic pricing technologies, and the transparency of the web, can View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 08 May 2013
  • Research & Ideas

A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity

Women's Initiative—which has endured as an integral part of the organization. According to McGinn and Ramarajan, it is the process of change and the structure of this initiative that has been crucial to the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting
  • 01 Dec 2020
  • News

In Review

rest of Harvard? We have fundamentally changed Harvard Business School’s engagement with the rest of the University. It began with the i-Lab, which helped catalyze the entrepreneurial energy that exists across the entire University. The... View Details
  • Profile

Dana Hoffmann

surrounded by people who want to work at a big company, move up the latter, and change departments. I didn’t see that as my path. HBS provided the perfect opportunity to change careers.“ Indeed, when... View Details