Operating Systems - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

Creating Value Across Borders

Business sat down with HBS associate professor Walter Kuemmerle to discuss the entrepreneurial process in an international setting. Kuemmerle, a Novartis Fellow, holds a joint appointment in Entrepreneurial and Service Management and Technology and View Details

Keywords: by Staff

01 Sep 2004
News

Promise & Perils

Long remembers eating lots of pumpkin — the only food readily available. The early engines of growth were holdovers from the Maoist era: township and village enterprises (TVEs) rooted in China’s vast rural regions, and state-owned enterprises (SOEs). The TVEs were... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

28 Oct 2021
News

Capital Considerations for Black Entrepreneurs; Pivoting for Gender Equity

access capital. “We wrote this case because it not only tells a particular story of two student leaders effecting change,” says Bussgang, a Senior Lecturer at HBS and managing partner at the VC firm, Flybridge. “But it also speaks to larger View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

26 Jul 2022
Blog Post

Driving Change in Education-to-Employment

has catalyzed within large employers, e.g., how these companies hire, develop, and retain more diverse entry-level talent. Understanding these shifts is a key strategic question for the organization as it focuses more and more on changing the employment View Details

01 Jun 2015
News

The End of Cows?

example, there are roughly 1 million jobs connected to the beef industry—from companies that grow crops for animal feed to slaughterhouses. And the USDA reports that meat producers created more than $66 billion in added value to the US economy in 2008. All of that... View Details

Keywords: Jason Feifer; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade; Scientific Research and Development Services

08 Sep 2011
What Do You Think?

What’s Apple’s Biggest Challenge: Replacing Steve or Wall Street?

result, it relies heavily on partnering with others in the development of application software. Its product development is organized around sometimes competing teams operating under a regime with the philosophy that "The View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer

22 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World

for"outcome-based" funding — a process based on nonprofits achievingcertain goals. "It comes down to people questioning the system inwhich we've invested hundreds of billions of dollars and asking, 'Is itworking in an... View Details

Keywords: by Anne Kavanagh

01 Oct 1997
News

Antitrust in Historical Perspective

turn, means putting the "mom-and-pop" operations cherished in American lore out of business. Indeed, the creation of the Standard Oil Trust in 1882, which put small companies out of business and bureaucratized economic relations, was a... View Details

Keywords: Thomas K. McCraw and Richard S. Tedlow

22 Nov 2016
First Look

November 22, 2016

many issue areas, Indian gaming has probably generated the greatest amount of activity in recent years. In particular, the negotiations that led to the immense success of the Pequot gaming operation in Connecticut have become almost... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2008
News

Lesson from the Fall

The awarding of “up-front” bonuses — before cash and profits from commercial endeavors — invites employees to maximize their short-term interests while compromising the company’s long-term interests. Systems of reward that ignore... View Details

Keywords: Malcolm S. Salter; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

28 Oct 2013
News

The Federator

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01 Jun 2018
News

Ask the Expert: Star Search

enabling employees to move throughout the organization. Knowing employees want to make a difference is fantastic, but how do you measure and convey that difference to them? —Kate O’Donnell (MBA 2016) GULLIVER: We do that through transparency and data. Any employee can... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

01 Dec 2017
News

A Safer—and Speedier—Way to Name Your Startup

what’s out there to avoid any unpleasant surprises.” Besides similarity of name, search results incorporate information on industry sectors and trademark classes. “What trademark is about is the likelihood of confusion, so the system... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Oct 1998
News

A Community Investment

inspired to address inconsistencies in society by working from within the system rather than pursuing more radical approaches. Joseph Schell: As we turn fifty, many of us finally have time to reflect on our life's ambitions. It's a great... View Details

12 Aug 2002
Op-Ed

Using Big Business to Fight Poverty

conflict—that could be revived with an influx of financial resources, and that would ensure fair distribution of the fruits of the resulting growth. Today the poorest regions of the world benefit from no such infrastructure. And what View Details

Keywords: by George C. Lodge

22 Feb 2018
News

My First Job

careers. As alumni returned to campus last fall for reunion, we asked them to tell us about their first jobs and what those experiences taught them. READ MORE Dan Biederman, class of '77. I took a job in the Systems Consulting Firm,... View Details

20 Jul 2022
News

Wired to be Inspired

in? What's our long term vision for why we are here? Just like ancient mariners used compasses to kind of direct themselves, purpose was an orienting scheme. The second was: Purpose became like an operating system. It’s the way... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

18 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals Without Mandates

first clarify, my work does not assess the success or failure of the socialization model described in Manufacturing Morals. I consider myself a process researcher, namely a scholar examining the ways in which human systems View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education

28 Mar 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, March 28

one of the world's largest airlines, United had a very large fleet and hub-and-spoke network that provided passengers with a wide range of destination choices, but as with any complex system unless everything ran perfectly all the time,... View Details