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- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Strengthening Ties with Executive Education Graduates
attendance at alumni conferences, and broader engagement in the alumni community. To expedite its work, the committee created three subcommittees with specific tasks. The Focus Group Subcommittee, chaired by Janet Clarke (AMP 111, 1992), View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
The End of the Noncompete Clause
since 2009. Those efforts, however, have been slowed by strong opposition from EMC, one of the state’s largest tech companies. That led Johnson to consider an innovative approach to changing noncompetes. With advice from a team View Details
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Janelle Nanos
- Article
The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Financial Regulation for the Twenty-First Century
By: Leonard J. Kennedy, Patricia A. McCoy and Ethan S. Bernstein
After existing regulatory systems failed to prevent the recent financial crisis, Congress passed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, a sweeping reform designed to alleviate the crisis and prevent its recurrence. Out of this Act, the Consumer...
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau;
Dodd-Frank;
CFPB;
Financial Crisis;
Reform;
New Agency;
Market-based Approach;
Evidence-based Analysis;
Innovative Technologies And Transparency Policies;
BEST Practices;
Government and Politics;
Government Administration;
Finance;
Financial History;
Law;
Markets;
Organizations;
Organizational Design;
Business and Government Relations;
Balance and Stability;
Strategy;
Financial Services Industry;
Banking Industry;
United States
Kennedy, Leonard J., Patricia A. McCoy, and Ethan S. Bernstein. "The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Financial Regulation for the Twenty-First Century." Cornell Law Review 97, no. 5 (July 2012): 1141–1176.
- November 2017
- Case
Passion and Strategy: Novozymes' Embrace of the UN Sustainable Development Goals
By: Andy Zelleke and Emilie Billaud
This case explores the sustainability efforts at Novozymes, the world's largest and oldest producer of industrial enzymes. In 2015, the Danish company became the world’s first company known to have crafted a new corporate strategy based on the United Nations...
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Corporate Governance;
Transformation;
Environmental Sustainability;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Mission and Purpose;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Business Strategy;
Organizational Culture;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Biotechnology Industry;
Europe;
Denmark
Zelleke, Andy, and Emilie Billaud. "Passion and Strategy: Novozymes' Embrace of the UN Sustainable Development Goals." Harvard Business School Case 318-088, November 2017.
- 2016
- Working Paper
The Microstructure of Work: How Unexpected Breaks Let You Rest, but Not Lose Focus
By: Pradeep Pendem, Paul Green, Bradley R. Staats and Francesca Gino
How best to structure the work day is an important operational question for organizations. A key structural consideration is the effective use of breaks from work. Breaks serve the critical purpose of allowing employees to recharge, but in the short term, translate to...
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Keywords:
Breaks;
Productivity;
Attention;
Workload;
Harvesting;
Working Conditions;
Behavior;
Performance Productivity;
Organizations
Pendem, Pradeep, Paul Green, Bradley R. Staats, and Francesca Gino. "The Microstructure of Work: How Unexpected Breaks Let You Rest, but Not Lose Focus." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 17-058, December 2016.
Competing in the Age of AI: Strategy and Leadership When Algorithms and Networks Run the World
In industry after industry, data, analytics, and AI-driven processes are transforming the nature of work. While we often still treat AI as the domain of a specific skill, business function, or sector, we have entered a new era in which AI is challenging the very... View Details
- June 2000
- Case
Rebirth of the Swiss Watch Industry, 1980-1992 (B): Hayek and Thomke at SMH
By: Michael L. Tushman and Daniel Radov
Describes the course pursued by Hayek, Thomke, and others in the formation of SMH. Discusses the new strategy and its implementation, charting the dramatic recovery of the large Swiss watchmakers. Ends with an exploration of Hayek's efforts to build on SMH's successes.
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Strategy;
Organizational Structure;
Cost Management;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Change Management;
Alignment;
Success;
Asia;
Hong Kong
Tushman, Michael L., and Daniel Radov. "Rebirth of the Swiss Watch Industry, 1980-1992 (B): Hayek and Thomke at SMH." Harvard Business School Case 400-088, June 2000.
- 2012
- Working Paper
Do Market Leaders Lead in Business Process Innovation? The Case(s) of E-Business Adoption
By: Kristina S. McElheran
This paper explores the relationship between market position and business process innovation. Prior research has focused on the alignment between new technologies and the internal capabilities of firms to pursue them. I extend the investigation to include external...
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Investment;
Technological Innovation;
Leadership;
Business Processes;
Behavior;
Motivation and Incentives;
Technology Adoption;
Manufacturing Industry;
United States
McElheran, Kristina S. "Do Market Leaders Lead in Business Process Innovation? The Case(s) of E-Business Adoption." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-104, June 2010. (Revised April 2011, October 2012.)
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
A change of seasons often means new beginnings, and I am delighted to report that the Alumni Association Board of Directors got off to an energetic start at its first meeting...
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- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Class of 1975 Endows Chair in Entrepreneurship
With the study of entrepreneurial management flourishing at HBS, the challenge to find and support new faculty and to fund curriculum development is more pressing than ever. Recently these needs were...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Risks and Rewards of the Intrapreneur
the intrapreneurial effort fails, you'll still have a job tomorrow, said HBS assistant professor Clark Gilbert, who served as moderator. And for managers of the start-up, a corporate benefactor can make starting a View Details
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy
the 1990s by aggregating along the economic dimension—that is, by expanding into markets that were emerging, like its Mexican home base. This strategy created the so-called ring of gray gold: developing markets that mostly fell in a band...
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by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Breaking Free from Fear of Change
organizations in the process of change, DeLong is a former chief development officer and managing director at Morgan Stanley. His new book draws on conversations with top...
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- 2016
- Working Paper
The Mirroring Hypothesis: Theory, Evidence and Exceptions
By: Lyra J. Colfer and Carliss Y. Baldwin
The mirroring hypothesis predicts that organizational ties within a project, firm, or group of firms (e.g., communication, collocation, employment) will correspond to the technical patterns of dependency in the work being performed. A thorough understanding of the...
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Keywords:
Modularity;
Innovation;
Product And Process Development;
Organization Design;
Design Structure;
Organizational Ties;
Mirroring Hypothesis;
Industry Architecture;
Product Architecture;
Complex Technical Systems;
Information Technology;
Organizational Design;
Organizational Structure;
Relationships;
Innovation and Invention;
Product Development
Colfer, Lyra J., and Carliss Y. Baldwin. "The Mirroring Hypothesis: Theory, Evidence and Exceptions." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 16-124, April 2016. (Revised May 2016.)
- April 2017
- Case
Global Leadership in a Dynamic and Evolving Region: Molinas @ The Coca-Cola Company (A)
By: Tsedal Neeley and Esel Çekin
Galya Frayman Molinas, President of Coca-Cola's Turkish business and a 20-year company veteran, is unexpectedly asked to take the helm of a newly expanded territory with operations across eight additional countries in Central Asia: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia,...
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Functions;
Structure;
Centralization;
Decentralization;
Diversity;
Country Of Origin Effects;
Global Contextual Intelligence;
Leading Change;
Crisis Management;
Organizational Structure;
Experience and Expertise;
Situation or Environment;
Central Asia;
Turkey
Neeley, Tsedal, and Esel Çekin. "Global Leadership in a Dynamic and Evolving Region: Molinas @ The Coca-Cola Company (A)." Harvard Business School Case 417-068, April 2017.
- 24 Oct 2018
- News
Exploring the Future of Work for Women
managers to convene with experts and scholars to explore what the future holds for working women. The conference was organized by the HBS Club of India in partnership with the HBS-India Research Center....
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Margie Kelley
- 30 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Tracks of My Tears: Reconstructing Digital Music
find that hard to say, even with the benefit of hindsight. Song prices certainly seem low, especially when compared with album prices. But we should not forget that labels were battling the threat of piracy,...
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- August 2011
- Supplement
Raj Datta, Former Chief Knowledge Officer of MindTree, In-Class Comments, April 1, 2011
By: David A. Garvin
MindTree is a mid-sized Indian IT services company known for its knowledge management practices, its collaborative communities, and its strong culture and values. The CEO has set a goal of becoming a $1 billion company by 2014; to reach that goal, employees must create...
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Keywords:
Knowledge Management;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Innovation and Invention;
Organizational Culture;
Learning;
Values and Beliefs;
Information Technology Industry;
Service Industry;
India
Garvin, David A. "Raj Datta, Former Chief Knowledge Officer of MindTree, In-Class Comments, April 1, 2011." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 312-703, August 2011.
- 05 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Benefit of Giving Back to Open Source Software
anyone. As part of the open source ethos, it is expected that people or companies who use open source code will “give back” to the community in the form of code improvements...
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