Design Of Core - Publications - Faculty & Research

2008
Working Paper

The Flattening Firm and Product Market Competition: The Effect of Trade Liberalization

By: Maria Guadalupe and Julie Wulf

This paper establishes a causal effect of competition from trade liberalization on various characteristics of organizational design. We exploit a unique panel dataset on firm hierarchies (1986-1999) of large U.S. firms and find that increasing competition leads firms... View Details

Keywords: Trade; Managerial Roles; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy

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21 Mar 2022
Blog Post

The Impact of Career Coaching | When Mission Meets Passion

evaluating hearing healthcare investments. For example, I recently advised a company developing gene therapies for hearing loss. For the engagement, we delivered strategic recommendations for clinical trial design based on a synthesized... View Details

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Commercialization of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

charismatic style of presentation along with Polaroid's inviting advertising literature and product packaging bolstered sales. The company's colorful, easy-to-read promotional kits for its glare-free desk lamps, crafted by industrial... View Details

1994
Chapter

The Virtual Organization: Bureaucracy, Technology, and the Implosion of Control

By: N. Nohria and J. D. Berkley

Keywords: Organizational Design; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Information Technology; Power and Influence

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01 Jun 2002
News

Two Presidents, One Goal: Building on the Club of Chicago

Since last July, Molly C. Baskin (MBA '77) and Peter M. Mott (111th AMP) have served as copresidents of the HBS Club of Chicago (HBSCC), the third-largest HBS club in the United States. With fast-paced... View Details

Keywords: Amy Burton

16 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?

unmatched in the world. But the engine has grown so complex, and its capabilities so swift and powerful, that it has outstripped the governance mechanisms designed in a simpler time. We have made markets much more dynamic and far more... View Details

Keywords: by Kim B. Clark

15 Jun 2021
Blog Post

Aisha Fatima Dozie is Igniting Confidence as the Founder of Bossy Cosmetics

attended Stanford University as part of the Distinguished Careers Institute Fellowship. “Through my year at the design school, I was able to get back to that transformational perspective on my life with... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship

20 Oct 2020
Blog Post

Changing the Face of Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital at Harlem Capital

to legal, to tax, to portfolio management – which created a great preamble before Harlem Capital.” While working at ICV, Tingle and Pierre-Jacques were also part of the Management Leadership for Tomorrow career program, an organization... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital / Private Equity

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Business at the Base of the Pyramid - Course Catalog

economies it comprises the lowest two quintiles of the population. The course focuses on business at the base of the pyramid as a core commercial activity View Details

27 Mar 2015

The Real Students of HBS Webinar Series: Entrepreneurship Before HBS

Have you ever wondered what it's like to be a student at HBS? Our monthly series, "The Real Students of HBS", is designed to help you find out. In this session hear from students who were founders and... View Details

24 Mar 2015

The Real Students of HBS Webinar Series: The FIELD Program

Have you ever wondered what it's like to be a student at HBS? Our monthly series, "The Real Students of HBS", is designed to help you find out. In this session learn more about the three portions View Details

05 Apr 2018

Peek Program Chat at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

Stop by to learn more about Peek Weekend at HBS, an educational experience designed for college students to increase their knowledge and insight into the MBA degree. View Details

03 Dec 2015

Real Students of HBS: Coming to HBS with a Partner

Have you ever wondered what it's like to be a student at HBS? Our monthly series, "The Real Students of HBS", is designed to help you find out. In this webinar students will discuss what it’s like to come to... View Details

fall 1992
Article

Exploring the Limits of the Technology S-curve, Part 2: Architectural Technologies

By: C. M. Christensen

Keywords: Technology; Design

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28 Feb 2018

Peek Program Chat at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign

Stop by to learn more about Peek Weekend at HBS, an educational experience designed for college students to increase their knowledge and insight into the MBA degree. This Google Hangout session will be hosted by a Peek Ambassador who... View Details

16 Jul 2021
Blog Post

Staying Under the 1.5°C Threshold: The Role of Government, Business, and Society

built environment, and industry, with a core focus on systems with the highest emissions. MacNaughton noted: “Most of us expect to think of 2020 as ‘the year View Details

29 Mar 2017
Research & Ideas

The Story of Why Humans Are So Careless With Their Phones

Silvia Bellezza is an assistant professor of marketing at Columbia Business School. Joshua M. Ackerman is an assistant professor of psychology at University of... View Details

Keywords: by Josh Neufeld; Consumer Products; Retail

January 2021
Article

Chain Stability in Trading Networks

By: John William Hatfield, Scott Duke Kominers, Alexandru Nichifor, Michael Ostrovsky and Alexander Westkamp

We show that in general trading networks with bilateral contracts, a suitably adapted chain stability concept (Ostrovsky, 2008) is equivalent to stability (Hatfield and Kominers, 2012; Hatfield et al., 2013) if all agents' preferences are fully substitutable and... View Details

Keywords: Matching; Trading Networks; Chain Stability; Stability; Competitive Equilibria; Full Substitutability; Laws Of Aggregate Supply And Demand; Contracts; Market Design; Balance and Stability

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September 2019 (Revised May 2021)
Case

pymetrics: Early Days

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock

In 2013, CEO Frida Polli was contemplating the next steps for her start-up business, pymetrics. After receiving her PhD in neuropsychology and MBA from HBS, she was determined to put her scientific and academic knowledge to work to build a business solving real world... View Details