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- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
interdependent system components. (The hypothesis claims a correspondence between organizational structure and technical architecture, but allows causality to flow in either direction.) Scholars in a range of disciplines have argued that...
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Martha Lagace
- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
authority. This three-level structure closely parallels that of all organized team sports. The play on the field is like the markets of capitalism, and the actions of the players are regulated by referees who enforce a set of rules...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
Lorsch: People talk about curbing the power of CEOs, but I frame the issue in terms of enhancing the power of boards. Over the last decade, I think there's been a lot of progress made in boardrooms. Problems remain, of course, but...
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by Garry Emmons
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
firms to large capital-intensive enterprises, such as banking, telecommunications, mining, and transportation. By the late 1980s, many had developed a good deal of autonomy. Twenty-five years of economic reform have changed the structure...
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- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
number of structural changes that forced an ongoing re-examination and modification of traditional norms and policies emphasizing exclusivity in agency-client relationships. A typology of conflicts that has arisen in the U.S. shows the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
and complex amino acids.) 683 alumni work in the agriculture industry 1957 HBS professors Ray Goldberg (MBA 1950) and John H. Davis (MBA 1941) coin the term agribusiness 236 alumni work in the food and beverage industry 2,406 alumni list...
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- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
world's largest online platform for outsourced contracts, where India is the largest country in terms of contract volume. We use an ethnic name procedure to identify ethnic Indian users of oDesk in other countries around the world. We...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
sorts of things. JH: Estes agreed to move across the street to a parcel of land the county acquired, where the county would build a new structure the same size as their former building. In exchange, the county received the former Estes...
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- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
structure and liquidity policies—for tax or agency reasons—appears to be a key driver of their decision to simultaneously raise and pay out capital. Download working paper: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=48383 Online...
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Carmen Nobel
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
in a two-sided market. We compile a unique and comprehensive dataset using sales data from the U.S. daily deal market and specify a structural model based on Nash bargaining solutions. We find that Groupon, the larger deal platform, has...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
Economic difficulties need not mean that we lower our standards for leadership. If anything, we should raise our sights. New work by HBS professor Michael Beer and colleagues shows that there is still a place for what they term...
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by Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
time in class discussing how to structure deals and leverage resources you don't actually have - both key issues when we started Stylus," he says. "My goal," Bhide explains, "is to help students make smarter choices about the businesses...
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- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
long-term growth. The plan that emerged redefined HCZ’s mission and mix of programs, created practices to carefully evaluate and track results, and defined a new organizational structure needed to support program expansion. Under the...
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- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
financial risk. Our findings highlight the challenges of using ACOs as a mechanism to achieve financial cost savings. Bundled payments, which focus on narrower episodes of care, may involve fewer operational complexities and be better View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
have business-continuity problems of people just not coming to work. And then in terms of the Great Resignation, it’s true. I mean, 4 [million] to 5 million people are quitting their jobs every month in the United States. That’s roughly a...
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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Rescue & Recovery
promotions or raises,” McKenna observes. “It’s a different compact that they have with the organization, in terms of feeling like they need our values to be on display. As leaders in purpose-driven organizations, we have to remember that...
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