Organization Form - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 11

structurally constrained context. Structural positions influence the resources available to actors and color the motivations that shape their actions. Resources equip actors to exert agency, while motivations propel them to do so. We derive a typology of network... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2020
News

Meal Plan

example, so people didn’t have to take public transit. We also invented some new product and business models. One brand in the Boston area is Life Alive Organic Café. It’s a plant-based, fast-casual concept that’s very health-oriented.... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; restaurants; COVID-19; pandemic; recovery; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

01 Aug 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1

of other former job candidates. The second section focuses mainly on factual components of the job market, providing details that will be useful to candidates before they begin the search. It concludes with subjective advice on how to make the job hunt more enjoyable.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Apr 2008
First Look

First Look: April 22, 2008

Business School Case 207-091 Jerzy Peters, Managing Director of Patron Capital Partners, must decide the best investment option on the development of the Odra Polish theater chain and the associated real estate. Capital Field was a company View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2016
News

Code name: Miesiąc

KOR), a group of Polish intellectuals banded together in support of workers across the country, the first time the two groups had formed such an alliance. In the fall of 1976 one of Waldemar’s classmates heard about KOR through the static... View Details

Keywords: April White; photographed by Piotr Malecki

01 Mar 2008
News

Classroom Legend

Of all the great HBS professors, Chris Christensen was unequaled as a champion for case-method teaching. He elevated the School’s signature method of instruction to an art form and then devoted much of his career to helping other teachers... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Roland Christensen; George Albert Smith; Fritz J. Roethlisberger; Richard Meriam; Edmund P. Learned; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Management

01 Jun 2018
News

June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

Henry H. Kuehn (MBA 1969) MIT Press An illustrated guide to more than 200 gravesites of famous architects from Aalto Alvar to Frank Lloyd Wright. All working architects leave behind a string of monuments to themselves in the form of... View Details

02 Nov 2020
Blog Post

WE RISE

formed True Wealth Ventures in 2015, and it is the philosophy that drives the firm today. Its requirement that there be at least one woman in a decision-making role on the executive team of any startup it invests in is “not just a... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Other Financial Services; Venture Capital / Private Equity

01 Dec 2013
News

Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL

league is a nonprofit trade association) underpins the NFL's unique architecture. Even NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell concedes the model is "a form of socialism [that's] worked quite well for us. So we try to combine socialism and... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Management; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

05 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019

different forms of organization. Specifically, step processes reward technical integration, unified governance, risk aversion, and the use of direct authority, while platform systems reward modularity, distributed governance, risk taking,... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

12 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 12

Performance of Indian Manufacturing By: Ghani, Ejaz, Arti Grover Goswami, and William R. Kerr Abstract—We investigate the impact of the Golden Quadrilateral (GQ) highway project on the Indian organized manufacturing sector using... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 17

Janisse Publication:Best Paper Proceedings of the Academy of Management (2012). Abstract We examine the internal supply chains at two service organizations to discover the source of disruptions that erode employees' efficiency. Through... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Mar 2019
News

The Fight Beyond

shoulder. “What the hell’s the Navy doing here?” asked one American airman as five more men emerged. Despite Green’s uniform, the men weren’t there under the auspices of the Navy, but instead at the direction of the Office of Strategic Services, a nimble new... View Details

Keywords: April White; illustration by Wesley Allsbrook

01 Apr 1996
News

Technology for Learning's Sake

lots of manipulating to play a little bit. To support our pedagogical mission, what we wanted was the ability to organize short clips and link them on command on our 'intranet.' Since that wasn't being done anywhere, we had to find the... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig

05 Mar 2020
News

Green Light

made to contain the risk that such outside organic matter could introduce. Visitors are asked to dip the soles of their shoes into a shallow plastic water bath, so as to limit contamination by pathogens and insects. Entry into one of the... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Scott Nobles

21 Jul 2010
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation

supposed to supervise and regulate the banking function. However, it is not shadowy in the sense of lacking substance or being faint. On the contrary, a large fraction of the banking function—transforming the holdings that savers large and small want to have in liquid,... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

20 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 20

restrictions. Woolf had been farming crops for more than 30 years, but this was the first time they suffered a water shortage so severe that crops had to be abandoned in the field. Even if there was short-term relief in the form of an... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Web

1.5 Attendance | MBA

weekends, Winter Break, Spring Break, and Club Treks or similar student organized travel. All Club-related travel is unexcused even if it is related to recruiting and a student has available excused recruiting absences. Types of Absences... View Details

10 Mar 2021
News

Next Normal

Edited by Julia Hanna; illustrations by Fabio Consoli One year after the pandemic mandated an abrupt shift to working from home for millions of people, organizations are taking a long, hard look at how and where employees work—and why. In... View Details

September 2019 (Revised September 2019)
Case

Facebook Fake News in the Post-Truth World

By: John R. Wells, Carole A. Winkler and Benjamin Weinstock

In August 2019, Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, was surrounded by controversy. The first major storm of protest followed the surprise election of Donald Trump as President of the United States on November 8, 2016; many put the blame at the door of fake... View Details