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Matriarch: A Python Library for Materials Architecture

By: Tristan Giesa, Ravi Jagadeesan, David I. Spivak and Markus J. Buehler
Biological materials, such as proteins, often have a hierarchical structure ranging from basic building blocks at the nanoscale (e.g., amino acids) to assembled structures at the macroscale (e.g., fibers). Current software for materials engineering allows the user to... View Details
Keywords: Building Block; Category Theory; Hierarchical Protein Materials; Molecular Design; Open-Source Software; Structure Creation
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  • March 2020 (Revised June 2020)
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Social Salary Setting at Spiber

By: Ashley Whillans and John Beshears
Can a “set your own salary” system boost employee happiness and motivation? Spiber made synthetic silk built from proteins mimicking the proteins found in spider silk, the world’s toughest known material by weight. Kazuhide Sekiyama and Junichi Sugahara established... View Details
Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Motivation and Incentives; Happiness; Negotiation Tactics; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Biotechnology Industry; Japan; United States
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    Network Centralization and Collective Adaptability to a Shifting Environment

    Previous research has shown that network centralization—the degree to which communication flows disproportionately through one or more members—interferes with collective problem-solving by obstructing the integration of ideas, information, and solutions. But this... View Details

    • November–December 2023
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    Network Centralization and Collective Adaptability to a Shifting Environment

    By: Ethan S. Bernstein, Jesse C. Shore and Alice J. Jang
    We study the connection between communication network structure and an organization’s collective adaptability to a shifting environment. Research has shown that network centralization—the degree to which communication flows disproportionately through one or more... View Details
    Keywords: Network Centralization; Collective Intelligence; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Communication; Decision Making; Networks; Adaptation
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    Podcast - Business & Environment

    and climate solutions. Accelerating Battery Innovation with AI: A Conversation with Argonne’s Logan Ward 01 JAN 2025 | Climate Rising Logan Ward, Deputy Scientist at Argonne National Laboratory, joins host Mike Toffel to discuss how AI is transforming the discovery... View Details
    • 05 Sep 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: September 5

    connect with each other and share good practices peer-to-peer, rather than relying on traditional hierarchical lines of communication or IT repositories. From 2004 to 2007, Mougin and his team had found that 5,000 Danone managers around... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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    Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

    re-evolve the future. SurgiBox Mike Teodorescu (DBA 2018) Alumni Track Crowd Favorite Safe surgery, any time, any place. Business Track, 2021 Concord Materials Robert Lane (MBA 2021) Anthony Valente (MBA 2022) Business Track Co-Winner... View Details
    • 26 Nov 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers

    roles, products, processes (assembly, equipment maintenance and repair, materials logistics, training, system redesign, administration, etc.), and hierarchical levels (from shop floor to plant manager and... View Details
    Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto
    • 24 Mar 2015
    • First Look

    First Look: March 24

    as concerns and policy interventions. Download working paper: http://www.benedelman.org/publications/pricecoherence-markets-2015-03-12.pdf Corporate Sustainability: First Evidence on Materiality By: Khan, Mozaffar, George Serafeim, and... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 10 Nov 2014
    • HBS Case

    How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World

    Great chefs, like great artists, go far beyond their materials (in this case, food) to provoke an experience that fulfills their creative vision. Unlike artists, however, they are running a business that requires putting diners in the... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage
    • 01 Oct 2000
    • News

    After the Revolution: Putting the Internet in Perspective

    Microsoft and Cisco, Nolan said the mature business model of a hierarchical organizational structure with a "make-and-sell" strategy can't be adapted to the virtual, information-enabled world of dot-coms. There, the real-time speed,... View Details
    Keywords: Margie Kelley
    • 19 Mar 2006
    • Research & Ideas

    Do I Dare Say Something?

    as the degree to which an organization is hierarchical or egalitarian, or has explicit mechanisms for inviting upward input (e.g., suggestion boxes, regularly-scheduled meetings, surveys). Our research adds the finding that specific... View Details
    Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
    • 09 Sep 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: September 9

    dissonance triggered by unmet expectations drives our effects. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2486576   Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 314-071 A Note on Seeking, Receiving, and Giving Advice... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 20 Sep 2021
    • Blog Post

    Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business and Environment

    life, and low cost Prussian Blue Sodium Ion battery solutions for critical power and industrial applications, including data center UPS systems and electrically-powered materials handling equipment. Aditya's role prior to HBS was a... View Details
    • 26 Jun 2018
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    New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018

    evidence to challenge a common misperception about internalization theory. The theory has often been criticized for maintaining that it assumes a hierarchically organized MNE based on knowledge flowing from the home country. This is not... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 01 Mar 2025
    • News

    Heartland

    Let me tell you what’s fantastic about offal.” Jordan Kraft Lambert (MBA 2016), Colorado State University’s first director of agricultural innovation, is a full-body talker, and the topic of organ meat has her fired up. The parts of the cow typically seen as... View Details
    Keywords: Julia Hanna; photos by Vance Jacobs. OPEN CONCEPT: Lambert at Quail Ridge Dairy in Fort Morgan, Colorado.
    • 21 Oct 2014
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    First Look: October 21

    Publisher's link: http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780198704072.do October 2014 Handbook of Conflict Management Research Reframing Hierarchical Interactions as Negotiations to Promote Change in Health Care Systems By: Satterstrom,... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 17 Dec 2013
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    First Look: December 17

    imperfect legal system, and social norms of fairness. We illustrate our arguments with examples from practice. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=14-046.pdf   Cases & Course Materials Harvard... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 24 Jun 2014
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    First Look: June 24

    improvement in patient throughput time. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1987724   Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 814-009 Mobile Broadband and the Telecommunications Industry in 2011 Mobile... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 18 Feb 2014
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    First Look: February 18

    exploit the grand cru classification of the chateaux of the Médoc, created in 1855, as a fixed hierarchical symbol of class status. The classification cannot be reversely affected by the quality chateaux produce or the prices they charge,... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne