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  • 25 Aug 2022
  • News

Understanding the Digital, Data, and Design Institute at Harvard

transformation. The structure of the Institute encompasses research programs and embedded labs driving foundational and applied research on topics critical to business; engagement platforms that catalyze connections among faculty members,... View Details
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Entrepreneurial Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research

Business Model . Designing organizational structures and processes that allocate responsibilities, promote cross-functional integration, recruit/develop/promote employees, acquire critical resources and financing, and budget/monitor... View Details
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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

online trading platform of Interactive Investor, a London-based financial advisory site. She also spent a summer on Wall Street working for Merrill Lynch in its Financial Institutions M&A group. She began her investment career as an Associate Director in Bank of... View Details
  • 11 Mar 2024
  • Blog Post

A Day in the Life: Ben Hsieh

takeover of Unilever by 3G Capital / Kraft Heinz. Over our 80-minute case, we discuss the strategies of Unilever (long-term value creation with sustainability at the center) and 3G / Kraft Heinz (steep budget cuts and higher operating... View Details
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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

Social Enterprise Social Enterprise April 2013 Article Who Is Governing Whom? Executives, Governance, and the Structure of Generosity in Large U.S. Firms By: Christopher Marquis and Matthew Lee We examine how organizational View Details
  • 10 Apr 2014
  • Research & Ideas

John Kotter’s Plan to Accelerate Your Business

To succeed in today's fast-moving economy, traditional corporate structures are holding back companies, even great companies, from being creative enough and speedy enough to compete effectively. What's needed, argues Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
  • 12 Dec 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Using the Law to Strategic Advantage

corporate governance structure tailored to the firm. Q: What should CEOs be thinking about in terms of better leveraging their legal resources? Are new organizational structures needed to support this?... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Legal Services
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Our Curriculum - Business History

increasingly industrial, urban, and technologically advanced. The course covers changes in the strategy and structure of institutions, especially corporations, and shifts in the nature of competition between businesses. The development of... View Details
  • 08 Nov 2016
  • First Look

November 8, 2016

shifts in strategy with far-reaching consequences for the structure of industries, the way people behave, and the resources they use. Transformational reforms typically involve a decision to change a suite of institutional arrangements... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • April 2020 (Revised February 2023)
  • Case

GitLab and the Future of All-Remote Work (A)

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury and Emma Salomon
GitLab is arguably one of the world’s largest “all-remote” companies. Started in 2011 and with more than 1,000 employees at present, it has no physical offices and all employees, including the entire C-Suite, work remotely from all parts of the world. The case... View Details
Keywords: Remote Work; Internet and the Web; Technology Adoption; Value Creation; Business Model; Organizational Structure
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Markets of Progress: Coffee, Commerce, and Community in the Soconusco, Chiapas, 1867-1920

Markets of Progress presents a new holistic story of rural development in Mexico at the turn of the century. In the Soconusco, as in regions throughout the world, the accelerating circulation of commodities and capital, ideas and immigrants reshaped society... View Details

Keywords: Commodities; Coffee; Mexico; Foreign Investment; Institutions; Immigration; Developing Agriculture; Development; Export Crop; Emerging Market; Property Rights; Labor History; History; Capital Markets; Business History; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Latin America; Mexico; Central America
  • 14 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 14

development of the industry, as well as the emergence of new corporate structures for social enterprises and the creation of innovative financial instruments such as the Social Impact Bond. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Apr 2012
  • Research & Ideas

The High Risks of Short-Term Management

investor base. For example, adoption of integrated reporting could be a step in this direction. Integrated reporting provides a holistic picture of the business describing the economic, environmental, and social performance of the corporation as well as the governance... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services
  • 30 Nov 2007
  • What Do You Think?

What Is Management’s Role in Innovation?

little to contribute to processes of creation and innovation. While asking "What isn't management's role in innovation?," Michelle Malay Carter states the case this way: "Nearly all current performance management models are... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 01 Feb 2011
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First Look: Feb. 1

school's leaders were closely involved in progressive reforms and presided over the development of the empirical social sciences to address questions of labor regulation and control within manufacturing industries. Next, we look at the View Details
  • 29 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 29

provides a more nuanced understanding of the nature and consequences of risk managers' influence activities. An explicit focus on toolmaking extends accounting research that has hitherto focused attention on the structural arrangements... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk

than a white. Somebody who's Latinx is three times more likely to die. So this has unmasked these huge structural elements of racism that existed in this country for a long time. And we need to step up to those View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Pharmaceutical
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

research here , Spencer’s other research here , and Andrei’s other research here . More Info The Cross-Section of Bank Value By: Mark Egan , Stefan Lewellen & Adi Sunderam AUG 2021 What are the determinants of value creation in U.S.... View Details
  • 21 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 21

competitive system. April 2015 Strategic Management Journal The Throne vs. the Kingdom: Founder Control and Value Creation in Startups By: Wasserman, Noam Abstract—Does the degree to which founders keep control of their startups affect... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni

with those targets, allocated resources to achieve those targets, and built board-level sustainability committees and structures to ensure the governance of their climate strategy. At the same time, investors are increasingly engaging... View Details