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- February 2008
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Where Do Transactions Come From? Modularity, Transactions, and the Boundaries of Firms
This article constructs a theory of the location of transactions and the boundaries of firms in a productive system. It proposes that systems of production can be viewed as networks, in which tasks-cum-agents are the nodes and transfers—of material, energy and...
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Boundaries;
Production;
Market Transactions;
Supply Chain;
Management;
Cost;
Theory;
Performance Productivity;
Information Management;
Complexity
Baldwin, Carliss Y. "Where Do Transactions Come From? Modularity, Transactions, and the Boundaries of Firms." Industrial and Corporate Change 17, no. 1 (February 2008): 155–195. (Selected as one of the top twenty articles in the first twenty years of publication, 1992-2011.)
Nitin Nohria
Nitin Nohria served as the tenth dean of Harvard Business School from 2010-2020. He previously served as co-chair of the Leadership Initiative, Senior Associate Dean of Faculty Development, and Head of the Organizational Behavior unit.
As Dean, building on... View Details
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My One Case: MBA Class of 2023 Looks Back - MBA
Sciences Partners & Families Peek SVMP Social Enterprise Student Life Student Loans Student Profile Sustainability Video Blog Industries Industries Architecture Construction Consulting Consumer Packaged Goods Education Energy Engineering...
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- 2024
- Chapter
Inflation and Misallocation in New Keynesian Models
By: Alberto Cavallo, Francesco Lippi and Ken Miyahara
The New Keynesian framework implies that sluggish price adjustment results in a distorted allocation of resources. We use a simple model to quantify these unobservable distortions, using data that depict the price-setting behavior of firms, specifically the frequency...
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Cavallo, Alberto, Francesco Lippi, and Ken Miyahara. "Inflation and Misallocation in New Keynesian Models." In ECB Forum on Central Banking 26-28 June 2023, Sintra, Portugal: Macroeconomic Stabilisation in a Volatile Inflation Environment. European Central Bank, forthcoming.
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Look 'Outside the Building' for the Future of Leadership
The author discusses what she terms “outside the building” issues, such as climate change, pandemics, and racial/gender justice. These complex issues are “beyond the boundaries of single organizations.” As she writes, “I call this new leadership for the future...
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Keywords:
Change Leadership;
Advanced Leadership;
Innovation;
Complex Systems;
Impact;
Leadership;
Change;
Leading Change;
Innovation Leadership
Kanter, Rosabeth M. "Look 'Outside the Building' for the Future of Leadership." Leader to Leader 100 (Spring 2021): 31–34.
- January 2021
- Supplement
Bespoken Spirits: Disrupting Distilling
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Daniel Fisher
On October 7, 2020, Bespoken Spirits publicly announced it had received $2.6 million of seed funding for its “sustainable maturation process,” a process that could produce award-winning whiskeys in just days rather than years using a novel technology and data science. ...
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Keywords:
Business Ventures;
Business Strategy;
Competitive Advantage;
Disruption;
Entrepreneurship;
Environmental Sustainability;
Cash Flow;
Disruptive Innovation;
Innovation Strategy;
Brands and Branding;
Business Model;
Consumer Products Industry;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Service Industry;
United States;
California
- March–April 2017
- Article
Advancing Conservation by Understanding and Influencing Human Behavior
By: Sheila M. Reddy, Jensen Montambault, Yuta J. Masuda, Ayelet Gneezy, Elizabeth Keenan, William Butler, Jonathan R. Fisher and Stanley T. Asah
Behavioral sciences can advance conservation by systematically identifying behavioral barriers to conservation and how to best overcome them. Behavioral sciences have informed policy in many other realms (e.g., health, savings), but they are a largely untapped resource...
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Keywords:
Adaptive Management;
Awareness;
Behavioral Economics;
Behavioral Science;
Conservation Intervention;
Conservation Planning;
Decision-making;
Incentives;
Nudge;
Management;
Motivation and Incentives;
Behavior;
Marketing;
Decision Making;
Environmental Sustainability;
Economics
Reddy, Sheila M., Jensen Montambault, Yuta J. Masuda, Ayelet Gneezy, Elizabeth Keenan, William Butler, Jonathan R. Fisher, and Stanley T. Asah. "Advancing Conservation by Understanding and Influencing Human Behavior." Conservation Letters 10, no. 2 (March–April 2017): 248–256. (doi:10.1111/conl.12252.)
- 2012
- Chapter
Citizens' Perceptions and the Disconnect Between Economics and Regulatory Policy
By: Jonathan Baron, William T. McEnroe and Christopher Poliquin
Economic theory is clear about the advantages and disadvantages of various ways of regulating negative externalities, such as command and control, cap and trade, taxation, subsidies, and tort law. Yet public policy rarely follows the recommendations that follow from...
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Baron, Jonathan, William T. McEnroe, and Christopher Poliquin. "Citizens' Perceptions and the Disconnect Between Economics and Regulatory Policy." In Regulatory Breakdown: The Crisis of Confidence in U.S. Regulation, edited by Cary Coglianese. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2012.
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Living in a Dorm at HBS - MBA
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Geoffrey G. Jones
Geoffrey Jones is the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, and Faculty Chair of the School's Business History Initiative. He holds degrees of BA, MA and PhD from Cambridge University, UK. He has an honorary Doctorate in Economics and Business Administration... View Details
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Founders & Investors - Entrepreneurship
Maintenance LLC.MBA 2015 Joaquin Altenberg CEO, Clean Energy Nexus PRMBA 2002 Randolph Altschuler Co-Founder & CEO, XometryMBA 1998 Amy G. An Founder, Sage & RowMBA 2014 Jill Applebaum Co-Founder, Spruce & CoMBA 2015 Magnus Arantes...
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- 22 Aug 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
From Green Users to Green Voters
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
energizing, and that this energy is manifested in employees’ behaviors at work. Our theorizing draws on a review of the work engagement literature, in which we identify three core characteristics of work engagement: (a) a positive...
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Sean Silverthorne
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FAQs - Alumni
that end, HBS continues to set and meet goals to reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions, waste, energy consumption, etc., toward a healthier and more inclusive and sustainable community. The School is also deeply committed to the Harvard...
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Africa - Global
two inspiring African women, Fatim Cisse (SEPA 2016) in Abidjan and Catherine Day (SEPA 2022) in Johannesburg, who shared their HBS experiences. The ExecEd team was also honored to meet with Mamadou Sangafowa Coulibaly, the Minister of Mines and View Details
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What is FIELD Global Immersion? - MBA
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Hacking Heroin
“Hacking Heroin” was the first hackathon that Annie Rittgers, founder of Cincinnati-based consultancy firm 17a, had organized or even attended. “There will continue to be a lot of preventable overdose deaths and wasted potential if the opioid crisis continues...
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- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
internal venture capital arm in 2011, which promptly became the world's largest investor in energy related startups. In choosing to proceed, the company's New Business Development unit (NPD) wrestled with a number of challenges. How...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 May 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
No News Is Good News: CSR Strategy and Newspaper Coverage of Negative Firm Events
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Transition to Clean Technology
By: Daron Acemoglu, Ufuk Akcigit, Douglas Hanley and William R. Kerr
We develop a microeconomic model of endogenous growth where clean and dirty technologies compete in production and innovation, in the sense that research can be directed to either clean or dirty technologies. If dirty technologies are more advanced to start with, the...
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Keywords:
Technological Innovation;
Entrepreneurship;
Environmental Sustainability;
Green Technology Industry
Acemoglu, Daron, Ufuk Akcigit, Douglas Hanley, and William R. Kerr. "Transition to Clean Technology." Special Issue on Climate Change and the Economy. Journal of Political Economy 124, no. 2 (February 2016): 52–104.