Informal Organization - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 May 2003
Research & Ideas

Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance

First, information of the sort that would allow shareholders to police corporate behavior on issues, such as the use of child labor, is not easily accessible. Although some companies, such as Royal Dutch Shell, have started to publish... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7

Historically, assembling a dataset might involve delving through annual reports or archives that had not previously been organized into a format ready for research: in some cases, surveying stores, factories, consumers, or workers, or in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

October 2024
Case

Reed Group and Succession in a Family Business: An Impossible Job to Fill?

By: Lauren H. Cohen and Tonia Labruyere

James Reed had taken over Reed Group, the recruitment and career services company his father had founded and built, in 1994. He was now reflecting on succession planning and other challenges that lay ahead: with no obvious choice among his family members, he needed to... View Details

Keywords: Charity; Succession Planning; Family Business; Values and Beliefs; Management Succession; Mission and Purpose; Family Ownership; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Family and Family Relationships; Recruitment; AI and Machine Learning; Employment Industry; United Kingdom; London

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20 Oct 2009
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First Look: October 20

and currency crises—is a crucial aspect to making informed managerial decisions. The cases in this book have been designed to give students an appreciation of the critical role of institutions and policies in affecting patterns of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

The Knowledge Coach

organization viable. As they put it, "Deep smarts are the engine of your organization. You cannot progress without them, and you will manage more effectively if you understand what they are, how they are built and cultivated, and the... View Details

Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap

23 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

This Crisis Loan Program Preserved Jobs—and Made Money

businesses afloat—and even make sure they eventually thrive—is a critical question as the world economy freezes amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Small businesses employ some 70 percent of the workforce for the 35 countries that make up the View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

01 Feb 2008
What Do You Think?

How Sustainable Is Sustainability in a For-Profit Organization?

given the issue new visibility alongside Al Gore's Nobel Peace Prize. At the same time, it raised some eyebrows among investment analysts who asked what sustainability has to do with Google's core business of making the world's View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

16 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

The Times Captures History of American Business

century. In the midst of economic, political, and demographic transition, the Information Revolution—begun some thirty years ago—accelerated and took a firm hold. All over the world, individuals and View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Journalism & News

28 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research, February 28

the start-up movement about how best to organize and execute new ventures as “business experiments.” These lessons from the “start-up garage” enable established corporations to make progress on new ventures in a disciplined, fact-based... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

September 2011 (Revised February 2013)
Case

Trucost: Valuing Corporate Environmental Impacts

By: Michael W. Toffel and Stephanie van Sice

Trucost provided corporate environmental performance data and analysis to institutional investors and corporate managers, but after operating for a decade had yet to achieve profitability. Trucost was struggling to effectively differentiate its high quality products... View Details

Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Distribution Channels; Investment; Measurement and Metrics; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Information; Value; Environmental Sustainability; Financial Services Industry

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19 May 2009
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First Look: May 19, 2009

http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=409054 China Rising: An Economic Snapshot Harvard Business School Note 308-064 "China Rising: An Economic Snapshot" provides readers with an overview of China's economic transformation, relying on... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

27 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 27, 2007

the legal inconsistencies that arise in a multi-jurisdiction bankruptcy. In addition, they must determine if Butters has sufficient information about, and control over, operations at Navigator to be confident engaging in a lengthy set of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

April 2024 (Revised November 2024)
Case

Moderna: Pioneering a People Platform to Accelerate Science Innovation

By: Tatiana Sandino, Emil Dy and Samuel Grad

Moderna was founded in 2010 to explore how messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) could be used to create breakthrough medicines by encoding instructions for the body to create antibodies. When Stéphane Bancel (HBS 2000) took over in 2011, he bet on the potential of this... View Details

Keywords: Disruptive Innovation; Talent and Talent Management; Selection and Staffing; AI and Machine Learning; Digital Strategy; Innovation and Management; Leadership Development; Management Practices and Processes; Management Systems; Organizational Culture; Performance Evaluation; Alignment; Employee Relationship Management; Science-Based Business; Expansion; Pharmaceutical Industry; Biotechnology Industry; United States

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16 Jul 2008
Op-Ed

What Should Employers Do about Health Care?

Quality, defined in terms of outcomes, is the secret to success in health care. Second, high-value care is delivered by integrated practice units including all the needed specialties that care for the patient's medical condition over the full cycle of care, not the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter, Elizabeth O. Teisberg & Scott Wallace; Health

17 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 17

be able to coordinate their actions when messages' arrivals at their destinations are sufficiently correlated events. Correlation serves to fill in information gaps that arise when players are uncertain of the source of message failure,... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 May 2007
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First Look: May 1, 2007

obtain bandwidth larger (smaller) than s/(s+f). The paper constitutes a first step towards a general analytical foundation for scarce resource allocation in peer-to-peer file sharing networks. PDF not available. Peer-to-Peer File Sharing and the Market for Digital... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Jul 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017

between competitors in health care markets—whether payers or providers. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52843 May 2017 Strategic Organization Firms, Crowds, and Innovation By: Felin, Teppo, Karim R.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne