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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
How Business Schools Lost Their Way
accommodation to a host of conflicting interests, an arrangement that damaged society’s economic well-being. The agency theorists had a broad impact on corporate policy and, in particular, on a fundamental redefinition of the purpose of...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
will be 70 or 80 years long pretty soon. Right now, there are people retiring early, because they’re fed up with the pandemic. But I think that’s a particular situation because of the current economic cycle. And so we are going to have workplaces and work arrangements...
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- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
accommodate emergent sources of value. For these firms, competition resembled neither economic rivalry nor collective action but a logic of interaction akin to parallel play. The resultant middle-range theory has implications for research...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
newly opened facility to accommodate its vaccine development work, and CEO Stéphane Bancel (MBA 2000, AMP 170) welcomed input on the design from the government’s infectious disease experts. For two years, Moderna had been working closely...
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- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
than the underlying assets, funds engage in substantial liquidity management. Specifically, they hold substantial amounts of cash, which they use to accommodate inflows and outflows rather than transacting in the underlying portfolio...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Model Patient
plan can be a model. But he thinks it should be looked at on a state-by-state basis — rather than as a one-size-fits-all, federally funded, mandated national plan — to accommodate the particular circumstances of each state. And he warns...
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- 22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007
Structure Matrices and Design Rule Theory Authors:Matthew J. LaMantia, Yuanfang Cai, Alan David MacCormack, and John Rusnak Abstract Designers often seek modular architectures to better accommodate expected changes and to enable parallel...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
but would likely have to restructure to accommodate the new regulatory environment. The case allows students to consider the assumptions that underlie media regulation and to debate the role of media in society. It can also be used to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
course in order to accommodate both the value-creating impetus of the shareholder value concept and the accountability inherent in the stakeholder approach.
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Martha Lagace
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
decisions are driven by a tradeoff between managers' pecuniary benefits of coordinating production and their private benefits of operating in preferred ways. Integration generates more output than non-integration but imposes a cost on managers by forcing them to View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 9, 2008
Harvard professor Isenberg has found that global start-ups face three challenges. First are the logistical problems and psychic barriers created by distance and by differences in culture, language, education systems, religion, and economic development levels. Even...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
name and by icon to accommodate different kinds of visual impairments. Doors that lead to dangers, such as exits, are painted the same white as the walls, so they disappear from view. By supporting independence and removing triggers, the...
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Health, Social Assistance
- 22 Jul 2019
- Book
How to Be a Digital Platform Leader
century? Today, the world’s largest taxi company (Uber) owns no cars; the world’s largest provider of accommodations (Airbnb) owns no real estate; and the world’s largest retailer (Alibaba) owns no inventory. Modern platform thinking has...
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by Martha Lagace
- 15 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 15, 2008
leadership team of Rackspace, faced with accommodation of its service offering and dwindling financial reserves, decides to make customer focus the rallying cry of its new strategy. This short case was designed as the discussion igniter...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2022
- News
Your Family, Your Work, Your Way
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes After graduating from HBS, Daisy Dowling (MBA 2002) built a successful career in executive coaching and leadership development, working at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Blackstone. Over time, she...
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- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
heralded for their double-digit economic growth rates, and yet, significant social and environmental fault-lines have developed in these regions. Lessem makes the case for “integral advantage,” a philosophy including nature and culture, technology and economy, all...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
diversity or physical challenges—to be able to just make enough accommodation to allow them to be productive in our workforce. That can be a very virtuous cycle. Our data supports what you just said: that those workers are highly...
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- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
has forced companies to rapidly advance their digital footprint, using cloud storage, cybersecurity, and device tools to accommodate their new remote workforce. Experiencing the benefits of remote working—including nonexistent commute...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
could be some remedial training, it could be certain type of more specialized and skilled supervision—but once you’re able to define that, then you can build a management process around it and cause that person to be more productive. I think a skeptic might say, “Well,...
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to accommodate or work around that. And so I think there’s both a give and take from the organization and the employees. Making commerce better for everyone can be nuanced by geography, it can be nuanced by what people need. You could...
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