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Jennifer Kelly

situation — with multiple stakeholders and market consequences and other complications — you see them with all the intricacies they have in real life." "The biggest thing that has changed the way I think about the world,"... View Details

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HBS Online and Executive Education Leadership: Q+A with Patrick Mullane and Luis Viceira

the organizational structures will likely morph and become more integrated, but not in some single, huge change and not in all areas. We will also look to be opportunistic. For example, when the tech lead... View Details

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Global Trade, Capital and National Institutions - Course Catalog

environments can challenge previously institutional structures creating new opportunities and risks. More generally, gains from globalization and technology can have different allocations and distributive effects. The cases in the module... View Details

15 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 15, 2008

changes in the maturity structure of government debt. We document that when the government funds itself with relatively more short-term debt, firms fill the resulting gap by issuing more long-term debt, and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

30 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers

to generate profits, he threw them out. To be clear, large German firms definitely do not move as quickly today as many American firms. The German economy is going through fundamental structural changes... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

24 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 24

divisions. Our two studies allow us to demonstrate that spontaneous within-game dialogue and manipulated pre-game talk lead to the same results. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-039.pdf PublicationsCost Structure... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Marcela Sapone

that everyone is there—which is that we are leaders who want to change the world—is super. There is nowhere in the world as special as HBS to do that. How did you connect with your partner Jessica Beck? I met Jess in my... View Details

02 Aug 2021
Blog Post

ALUMNI WORK TO REVERSE BIAS THROUGH PHILANTHROPY

racial injustice in the United States to send shock waves across the globe. But in their wake—and in the midst of a pandemic that has hit communities of color hard—urgent calls for a long-overdue racial reckoning are inspiring innovative approaches to exposing and... View Details

25 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 25

field research methods, this paper connects these achievements to bureaucratic norms, unwritten rules within the state that guide the behavior of public officials and structure their relations with civic agencies outside the state.... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

25 Jul 2006
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First Look: July 25, 2006

bring a gentler capitalism to post-apartheid South Africa. Like her other colleagues on the Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) Commission, Charnley believed that each black business executive had a responsibility to effect positive change... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2006
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Forestalling Terror

about extreme circumstances force students to think outside their usual domains. The aim is for students to draw lessons that they can then carry back to private-sector organizations. As for how the intelligence community is doing, we’re still seeing the View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Waleed Iskandar; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

15 Nov 2017
Research & Ideas

How Does a Social Startup Decide to Commercialize? It May Depend on the Founder's Gender

help to break down cultural and structural barriers to leadership and organizational development, especially for non-white, non-male, and non-cisgender social change leaders.” Beyond the implications for... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

06 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 6

five months-cut defects by half, reduced inventory by 20%, and raised output by 10%. A control group saw no such gains. The authors' global data set suggests that implementing good management at schools and hospitals yields change more... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

May 2013 (Revised October 2014)
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Novartis: Leading a Global Enterprise

By: William W. George, Krishna G. Palepu and Carin-Isabel Knoop

Novartis, the world's leading healthcare company, was formed in 1996 out of a merger of two very different, mid-tier Switzerland-based pharma companies. The case traces the company's evolution over the past 17 years, as it transformed into a truly global enterprise... View Details

Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Talent and Talent Management; Organizational Structure; Organizational Culture; Success; Globalized Markets and Industries; Management Teams; Change Management; Business History; Mergers and Acquisitions; Global Strategy; Health Care and Treatment; Pharmaceutical Industry; Health Industry; Switzerland

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28 Sep 2009
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Improving Accountability at the World Bank

accountability at the project and policy levels since the early 1990s, particularly through the establishment and enforcement of social and environmental safeguards and complaint and response mechanisms. But there remain major shortfalls. In addition, there has been... View Details

Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim

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Research Links: Records of Railroad Companies & Personal Papers - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School

study of change in business structure and managerial organization. He wrote his dissertation on Henry Varnum Poor, a railroad journalist and economist (also his great-grandfather), which was published in... View Details

12 Jul 2006
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Competition the Cure for Healthcare

destroy value by adding administrative costs and leads to structures involving health plans and providers and other actors, which are misaligned with patient value. In a world of zero-sum competition, for example, providers will... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Health

13 Oct 2015
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October 13, 2015

James Heppelmann looked at how this shift is changing the structure of industries and forcing firms to rethink their strategies. In this companion article, the authors look at the effects inside firms,... View Details

06 Jun 2013
Op-Ed

How to Do Away with the Dangers of Outsourcing

fire- and building-safety improvements in Bangladesh is an important first step—and a vital recognition of responsibility, especially given the reluctance of so many garment-factory owners in Bangladesh to make necessary changes on their... View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati; Manufacturing; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion

01 Apr 2002
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Charting the Luminary Leadership in Professional Service Firms

individuals clearly poses an extraordinary challenge. We refer to it as “leadership without control.” Explain the concept of alignment. Lorsch: Alignment refers to the ongoing process of designing organizational practices and structures... View Details

Keywords: professional service firms; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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