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- 1999
- Working Paper
Design Options and Design Evolution - Chapter 9
By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and Kim Clark
- 2019
- Working Paper
Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 9 Organizing to Rationalize
The purpose of this chapter is to explain what the technologies of flow production with stochastic bottlenecks require and reward in organizations. I argue that organizations successfully implementing these technologies are likely to have unified governance and... View Details
Baldwin, Carliss Y. "Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 9 Organizing to Rationalize." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-033, September 2019.
- April 2015 (Revised April 2022)
- Case
Bankruptcy in the City of Detroit
By: Stuart Gilson, Kristin Mugford and Annelena Lobb
The June 2013 bankruptcy of the city of Detroit, Michigan was, at the time, the largest municipal bankruptcy in American history. Detroit had struggled for years with a weakening tax base, high unemployment, a heavy debt load and increasing retiree costs. These... View Details
Keywords: Chapter 9; Chapter 11; Bankruptcy; Municipal Finance; Restructuring; Financial Liquidity; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; City; Government Administration; Public Sector; Financial Crisis; Financial Management; Failure; Labor Unions; Urban Development; Budgets and Budgeting; Decision Making; Demographics; Economics; Finance; Public Administration Industry; Michigan; Detroit
Gilson, Stuart, Kristin Mugford, and Annelena Lobb. "Bankruptcy in the City of Detroit." Harvard Business School Case 215-070, April 2015. (Revised April 2022.)
- 2004
- Book
Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital
By: Amar Bhidé
Academics and practitioners readily admit the importance of entrepreneurs for the wealth of nations. However, the relationship between the economic and social environment, entrepreneurship and value creation is not yet well understood. Moreover, at the micro-level, the... View Details
Bhidé, Amar. Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital. Vol. 9, Topics in Corporate Finance. Amsterdam: Amsterdam Center for Corporate Finance, 2004.
- 28 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 28
group size to vary. We find that children aged 9 and higher are better able to resist selfish impulses in public environments. Younger children, however, display no such effect. Further, we find self-control substantially impacted by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=206075 PublicationsAre Hedge Fund Fees a Bargain? And Other Conundrums of Balancing Active and Passive Management Authors:Randolph B. Cohen and Kerry J. Stirton Periodical:The NMS Exchange 7, no. 1... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
Surveys differed in the dimensions of teamwork that they assessed. The most commonly assessed dimensions were communication, coordination, and respect. Of the 35 surveys, 9 met all of the criteria for psychometric validity and 13 have... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company
"prepackaged" bankruptcy plan. In addition, if ownership of the firm's equity changes significantly, say because creditors exchange their claims for new stock, the firm can lose the often sizable tax benefit of its net operating loss carryforwards. View Details
Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
“The risk is that the market system will collapse or be rejected in favor of a system that will ultimately be much worse for society.” Chapter 9 of the new edition reviews the 10 disruptors, and examines how... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
not to violate the liberty of others. The chapter concludes that the standards for MNEs may be more demanding than what the minimalist nature of duties of forbearance initially would suggest. August 2013 Harvard Business Review 91, no.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Apr 2002
- Research & Ideas
In the Virtual Dressing Room Returns Are A Real Problem
color accuracy and consistency. 8 E-Color offers server-based software called True Internet Color to increase the accuracy of colors depicted online. Recent reports suggest that Bloomingdales.com, Jcrew.com, and others plan to adopt True Internet Color on their... View Details
- 21 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
From Tigers to Kaleidoscopes: Thinking About Future Leadership
people whom most see as only ordinary." Rejecting The Market's Rules "In business circles, a story is often told of two hikers who wake up one night to find a tiger lurking near their tent," goes the opening line of Chapter View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Women Can Get More Venture Capital
Women-owned businesses are just as financially strong and creditworthy as the average U.S. firm, according to the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Women's Business Research. Yet women struggle more than men to acquire equity capital. Why? According to a 1999 survey,... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
and where the host does not punish symbiont misbehavior. Coordinating Marketing and Sales in B2B Organizations Authors:Frank V. Cespedes Publication:In Business to Business Marketing Handbook. Edward Elgar Publishing Company, forthcoming Abstract This View Details
- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
environments differently than those pursuing traditional closed strategies. This chapter considers these strategies together highlighting similarities and differences between platform, open/user innovation, and ecosystem strategies. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2007
for evaluating the different sources of uncertainty and their implications for various stakeholders of the firm when attempting a reorganization with creditors or considering opening a court-supervised reorganization under Chapter 11 of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
This chapter proposes a new lens to understand corruption, using internal records collected from firms that pay bribes. We examine widespread corruption in three industries in an Asian developing country: procurement, pharmaceutical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
satisfy your most pressing needs. For example, need to learn about crisis management and security? Read chapters 10-12. Or formulate your own responses to a CIO's management obstacles by reading the authors' recurring... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
be sure, this is an extraordinary moment in the annals of American municipal finance, with serious near-term implications for municipal bond markets and other underfunded pension systems. Detroit's Chapter 9... View Details
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
growth of a company. Not surprisingly, firms spend billions of dollars on marketing. Given these large investments, marketing managers have the responsibility to optimally allocate these resources and demonstrate that these investments generate appropriate returns for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace