Publications

11 Apr 2016
Blog Post

Working With Organizations That Recruit at HBS: An Interview with Casey O'Connor

recruiters. During that time, I developed a strong understanding of what our students are looking for, and I am excited to share my knowledge with recruiters. What about your new role are you most looking forward to? I work with View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government; Nonprofit / Government

January 1991
Teaching Note

Honeywell, Inc.: International Organization for Commercial Avionics (A) and (B), Teaching Note

By: Frank V. Cespedes

Keywords: International Relations; Computer Industry

Article

Faith and Assimilation: Italian Immigrants in the U.S.

By: Stefano Gagliarducci and Marco Tabellini

How do ethnic religious organizations influence immigrant assimilation? To answer this question, we assemble novel data from the Catholic directories to measure the presence of Italian Catholic churches in the US between 1890 and 1920, when four million Italians moved... View Details

Keywords: Assimilation; Religious Organizations; Immigration; Religion; History; United States

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2018
Book

Re-engaging with Sustainability in the Anthropocene Era

By: Andrew J. Hoffman and P. Devereaux Jennings

Re-engaging with Sustainability in the Anthropocene Era applies organization theory to a grand challenge: our entry into the Anthropocene era, a period marked not only by human impact on climate change, but on chemical waste, habitat destruction, and despeciation. It... View Details

Keywords: Organization Theory; Environmental Management; Policy; Social Issues; Social Entrepreneurship; Pollutants

2008
Chapter

The Evidence Does Not Speak for Itself: Expert Witnesses and the Organization of DNA-Typing Companies

By: Arthur A. Daemmrich

During the past 15 years, new biotechnology companies have promoted DNA typing as a sophisticated criminal and paternity identification technique. Private testing laboratories produce results that link individuals with crime scenes and fathers to their children.... View Details

Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Courts and Trials; Organizational Structure; Practice; Genetics; Science-Based Business; Trust; Commercialization; Vertical Integration

Article

Impact of Competition and Taxes on Responsibility Center Organization and Transfer Prices

By: V.G. Narayanan and Michael Smith

Keywords: Competition; Taxation; Price

15 Apr 2011
Conference Presentation

Lords of the Harvest: Reputation Concerns and Regulatory Approval of Genetically Modified Organisms

By: Shon R. Hiatt

Keywords: Reputation; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms

10 May 2011
Conference Presentation

Lords of the Harvest: Reputation Concerns and Regulatory Approval of Genetically Modified Organisms

By: Shon R. Hiatt

Keywords: Reputation; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms

09 May 2011
Conference Presentation

Lords of the Harvest: Reputation Concerns and Regulatory Approval of Genetically Modified Organisms

By: Shon R. Hiatt

Keywords: Reputation; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms

Article

Lords of the Harvest: Symbolic Signaling and Regulatory Approval of Genetically Modified Organisms

By: Shon R. Hiatt and Sangchan Park

Keywords: Science; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms

19 Nov 2003
Lecture

Governance Beyond the Boardroom: Assessing Risk and Assuring Compliance Throughout Your Organization." Presenter. "HBS Audioconference

By: Lynn S. Paine

Keywords: Governance; Risk and Uncertainty; Governance Compliance; Organizations

2015
Chapter

Chief Sustainability Officers: Who Are They and What Do They Do?

By: Kathy Miller and George Serafeim

Keywords: Sustainability; Environment; Strategy; Strategy Execution; Corporate Governance; ESG; Organization Design; Change Management; Leadership

SSRN

May 1995
Teaching Note

Note on the Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations and Corporate Criminal Fines Exercise TN

By: Lynn S. Paine and Michael Santoro

Teaching Note for (9-393-060) and (9-394-101). View Details

Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Government and Politics; Corporate Governance

Article

Exploring the Duality Between Product and Organizational Architectures: A Test of the 'Mirroring' Hypothesis

By: Alan MacCormack, Carliss Y. Baldwin and John Rusnak

A variety of academic studies argue that a relationship exists between the structure of an organization and the design of the products that the organization produces. Specifically, products tend to "mirror" the architectures of the organizations in which they are... View Details

Keywords: Organization Design; Architecture; Modularity; Open Source Software; Communication; Design; Governance; Management Practices and Processes; Open Source Distribution; Product Design; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Structure; Performance; Problems and Challenges; Behavior; Software

October 1993
Supplement

United Way of America: Governance in the Nonprofit Sector (B), Kenneth W. Dam Becomes Interim President

By: Jay W. Lorsch

Analyzes the measures taken by the United Way of America (UWA) and its board of governors in response to the 1992 Washington Post reports that lead to the UWA scandal. View Details

Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Newspapers; Nonprofit Organizations; United States

January 2010
Teaching Note

Youth Villages: The challenges of scaling a nonprofit with government as the primary funding source (TN)

By: Allen S. Grossman

Teaching Note for [309007]. View Details

Keywords: Problems and Challenges; Nonprofit Organizations; Emotions; Behavior; Cost; Growth and Development Strategy; Age; Business and Government Relations