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- 05 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Ten Deadly Mistakes of Wanna-Dots
that seems right. They then establish senior-level guidance to ensure that the approach is strategic, that related initiatives are integrated, and that the rest of the company is cooperative. They work hard to balance autonomy for an... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 12 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 12
series of studies demonstrates that people confer higher status and competence to nonconforming rather than conforming individuals. These positive inferences derived from signals of nonconformity are mediated by perceived autonomy and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 1
Harvard Business School Case 608-100 "Gila" was a high-performance image processor project housed in Intel's New Business Initiatives (NBI) group. NBI was an incubator for corporate entrepreneurs, and it had an established methodology for ensuring a degree of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Next Normal
evidence for the many benefits of remote work—wider geographical reach into different markets, more autonomy over one’s office set up, and the list goes on—studies also make very clear that remote workers’ feelings of professional... View Details
- 09 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Manager in Red Sneakers
also tested the observers' "need for uniqueness," finding that people with a higher affinity for uniqueness assigned greater status, competence, and autonomy to the nonconformer than the conformer. The researchers studied the reactions of... View Details
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Research Looks to Latin America
foreign financial institutions. "We also looked at some financial measures of performance ... By far the strongest influence turned out to be the influence of family involvement and the particular form that family involvement took. "Our preliminary results:... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 26 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
If a Car Can Drive Itself, Can It Make Life-or-Death Decisions?
as saying: “At the point [at] which you believe that adding autonomy reduces injury and death, I think you have a moral obligation to deploy it even though you’re going to get sued and blamed by a lot of people. Because the people whose... View Details
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Foreign Multinationals in the U.S.: A Rocky Road
hierarchies of foreign firms. American managers in general exhibited a strong emphasis on autonomy and independence that made them resistant to control from elsewhere, especially by foreigners. Q: Which issues do you see as most important... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston & Martha Lagace
- 17 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Who is Boss in the Sharing Economy?
providing a continuum of degrees of control but at least offering a pit stop on the way between full autonomy and full control. "There are many degrees of control, and regulations should assign them different levels of cost," says Hagiu.... View Details
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Evolving for Success [Part Two]
company. While they needed some independence and autonomy to get started, the problem is that an Arrow customer is just as likely to use the Web one day and a sales rep the next, yet wants to know that he or she is in the same system with... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- Web
Harvard Business School Announces Latest RISE Fellows - MBA
philanthropy initiative investing in bold entrepreneurs solving healthcare challenges in low- and middle-income countries. He also launched Medina Partners, a for-profit venture empowering physicians to reclaim autonomy by launching their... View Details
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
use loan-level data to study how the organizational structure of banks impacts small business lending. We find that decentralized banks—where branch managers have greater autonomy over lending decisions—give larger loans to small firms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Ali Allawi
support their proxies than we have now, but no direct military involvement. Is there anything that can be done to bring about reconciliation among the various groups? One approach is to federalize the country, giving the Shias, Sunnis, and Kurds significant View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Applied Economics Save Homeless Puppies?
will require additional capital. “Outside investment is a possibility,” Exley says. “However, maintaining autonomy is a priority. We know where we can add value, and we are committed to our mission. By moving forward as a for-profit,... View Details
- 25 Apr 2023
- News
Class of 2022 Startups Sweep Alumni New Venture Competition
Clubs News Clubs News In a first-ever result, all of the winners in the 2023 Alumni New Venture Competition (ANVC) hail from the same HBS class: the MBA Class of 2022. The ANVC finale, held virtually on March 22 and 23, brought eight global regional winners together... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
production workers) are associated with more autonomy and a wider span of control. By contrast, communication technologies (like data networks) decrease autonomy for both workers and plant managers. Treating... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
these were German firms, interpreters would quickly claim that these represented a particular German tendency to bureaucracy. Prior to 1945, many German firms actually resisted the expense and burden of implementing these innovations in the interest of more flexibility... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
curriculum, and staff and the skills to manage these resources.” For Burns and the other alumni in these pages, as well as other involved HBS graduates, public education remains a complex and highly charged issue. Stig Leschly cites labor markets, public finance, and... View Details
- 14 Nov 2019
- Book
Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History
capitalism itself distinctive? Jones: There are many elements of Ottoman and Turkish business history which find parallels across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. During the 19th century the Ottoman Empire escaped formal colonization, but like similar countries... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Winning Season
“I’ve given Bill autonomy in what he does, which enables me to focus on other areas of the business,” says DeWitt Jr. “I think we have a very good relationship.” His son agrees, noting that there’s been much to learn from how his father... View Details