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The Ownership Project | Institute for Business in Global Society

any economy: Ownership shapes the exchange of goods and services between buyers and sellers, grants access and control over capital and resources, and mediates the governance of economic enterprises. Despite its centrality, the topic of... View Details

01 Oct 2001
News

Dean Clark on the New Academic Year

the last six years that already have proven fruitful. These innovative efforts are allowing us to seize opportunities we only had begun to imagine at the outset but now have become vital to the mission of the School. Support for these... View Details

Keywords: Kim B. Clark; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

21 Feb 2007
Op-Ed

What a U.N. Partnership with Big Business Could Accomplish

poverty line. And yet, more than a trillion dollars has been spent by bilateral and multilateral organizations since World War II to try to alleviate this problem. The funds that were supposed to help improve people's lives have often been lost to View Details

Keywords: by George C. Lodge & Craig Wilson

01 Dec 2017
News

Ask the Expert: Human Intelligence

(super)human performance levels across domains. Yes, artificial intelligence is a technology layer that will have meaningful ramifications, so we must be incredibly thoughtful about the standards we establish to govern it. There is a need... View Details

Keywords: April White

20 Jan 2010
First Look

First Look: Jan. 20

found in only a small number of tasks and functions. In the majority of situations, spans of accountability were wider than spans of control. This "Entrepreneurial Gap" is posited to be a result of management's desire for View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

24 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

Are Assets Only for America’s Wealthy?

insurance, CDs, and transaction accounts for the poorest families are difficult to build and scale to the many millions of families who live below the poverty line. Let's use the dot.com dividend to solve this problem.— Peter Tufano Difficult, but doable, with... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

01 Dec 2009
News

Broad Range of Interests Among Nine New Faculty

years, that’s an enormous technological transition. So the questions of how firms can organize themselves to do it, and what kinds of governance mechanisms will support and encourage them to do that, seem to me a natural extension of what... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

15 Oct 2008
First Look

First Look: October 15, 2008

improved ability of firms to replicate business innovations has changed the nature of business competition. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-016.pdf Do Voters Appreciate Responsive Governments? Evidence from Indian... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

April 2001 (Revised July 2001)
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Verge Software (A)

By: Dorothy A. Leonard and Elizabeth Kind

Scott Rozic, CEO of start-up Verge Software, has just told his board that he is taking the company in a totally new direction, moving from enterprise knowledge management software to Internet direct marketing. This case covers the start-up of the business, and Rozic's... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital; Investment; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Business or Company Management; Business Strategy; Technological Innovation; Applications and Software; Management Teams; Governing and Advisory Boards; Business Startups; Decision Choices and Conditions; Product Development; Information Technology Industry; United States

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01 Dec 2017
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Global Perspectives

second-largest continent: Africa. “Policymakers, investors, and builders can learn from the African experience, where public-private partnerships and deployments of technologies are illuminating new ways to approach the task of funding infrastructure despite a scarcity... View Details

01 Oct 1998
News

A Community Investment

business and social-sector organizations that offers hope for innovative solutions to some of society's most pressing challenges. Your class has chosen to focus its gift on the School's Initiative on Social Enterprise. What is it about... View Details

04 Sep 2019
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In My Humble Opinion: Status Update

services to working on a reduce, reuse, and recycle campaign. The job really showed me how government could be a force for good.” Network effects: 2.1 billion people use Facebook, WhatsApp, Messenger, or Instagram every day. Podcast... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Mar 2004
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors

15–17 in Shanghai. The forum presents a terrific opportunity for alumni to hear from Fortune 500 global business leaders, government officials, HBS faculty, and prominent U.S. and Chinese leaders. Outside the conference, attendees have a... View Details

Keywords: Ted Fischer; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

03 Dec 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Against the Grain

that economic tools of supply and demand can be applied to studying the phenomenon of corruption. On the demand side, it is true that corrupt government officials sometimes garner a degree of sympathy from the public, legitimizing their... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Food & Beverage

28 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 28

cognitive, normative, or regulative mainstays of an organizational field. Institutional innovation, like all innovation, is both novel and useful but differs in that it is also legitimate, credible, and appropriate. Legitimacy is hinged to four characteristics such... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Apr 2020
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The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages

Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

26 Aug 2008
First Look

First Look: August 26, 2008

Working PapersApplicant and Examiner Citations in U.S. Patents: An Overview and Analysis Authors:Juan Alcacer Abstract Researchers studying innovation increasingly use indicators based on patent citations. However, it is well known that... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Impact Stories - Business & Environment

Industries like waste management can be seen as mundane, but are often at the forefront of the innovation required to reimagine how we use and renew the resources around us." Travis Nels MBA 2013 | Navigation Shift "What’s interesting... View Details

21 May 2007
Research & Ideas

Fixing the Marketing-CEO Disconnect

is organizational behavior/leadership. Part of the problem is the current corporate climate, in which questions of governance and financial purity dominate CEOs' and boards' attention. Additionally, boards, and even CEOs, have been lulled... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

09 Feb 2017
News

Turning Disorder into Opportunity

passing over it of the loyalty to country and alma mater and a lasting suggestion that they should devote their manhood developed by study and play on the banks of this river to the nation and its needs. In that spirit, Fieldhouse, the director for Emerging Businesses... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

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