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- April 2017
- Teaching Note
Sesame Workshop: Bringing Big Bird Back to Health (Abridged)
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Ryan Raffaelli, Ai-Ling Jamila Malone and Jonathan Cohen
Sesame Workshop was in the middle of a turnaround in 2016. CEO Jeff Dunn had reorganized and shifted the iconic institution to respond to digital disruption and a consensus culture. This Teaching Note helps instructors teach the abridged and full-length versions of...
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Turnaround;
NGO;
Non-profit;
Organization Alignment;
Managing Change;
Philanthropy;
Media;
Television;
Reorganization;
Talent;
Innovation;
Risk Aversion;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Change Management;
Restructuring;
Identity;
Transformation;
Education Industry;
Media and Broadcasting Industry
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
on Lone Trees in the Forest: Members' Experience of a Multiple Identity Organization Authors:Michel J. Anteby and Amy Wrzesniewski Periodical:Best Paper Proceedings of the Academy of Management (2007) Abstract In this paper we examine the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 14
studied and how it relates to the environment in which it occurs—affect the dissemination of knowledge from subfields to the broader field of study. Micro-process research in organizational studies rests on implicit phenomenological...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 5, 2006
Manly Men: The Organizational Reconstruction of Men's Identity R. Ely and Debra E. Meyerson Best Paper Proceedings of the Academy of Management (forthcoming). This paper presents a case study of offshore oil...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Nov 2014
- Research & Ideas
Brand Lessons From the Nobel Prize
brand heritage as "a dimension of a brand's identity found in its track record, longevity, core values, use of symbols and particularly in an organizational belief that history is important." The Nobel Prize...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor
they might order homers or request some for their friends. Also, on the organizational level, effectiveness might be improved. The company might get more from its employees when it gives them more: In this case, for instance, allowing...
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- 25 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 25
showcase several areas of theoretical development that might benefit from revisiting the taboo. I conclude by reviewing key practical implications of such a shift for our profession and by arguing that organizational scholarship could...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity
topic." The researchers' current projects focus on gender through lenses of generations and identity, and family. Ramarajan, for example, is working with Boston University's Erin Reid to study how organizational practices relate to...
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- 13 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
From Turf Wars to Learning Curves: How Hospitals Adopt New Technology
in many cases, perform identical procedures in two or more hospitals during the course of a given week. We have found that this movement has negative effects on the degree to which surgeons are able to leverage their prior experience to...
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- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
non-U.S. multinationals in the U.K., and this is primarily due to the higher productivity of their IT. Furthermore, establishments that are taken over by U.S. multinationals increase the productivity of their IT, whereas observationally View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Businesses Need a Language Strategy
organization and cascades down to every single individual. The strategy has to be tied to the firm's vision and, in some cases, integrated in annual reviews. This is done in a variety of ways, from making foreign assignments into prestigious postings to raising...
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Re: Tsedal Neeley
- 02 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?
of the rebel with the breadwinner's willingness to contribute to societal institutions. The man-of-action is a utopian figure because he resolves the identity dilemmas that American men routinely face in their everyday lives. To make a...
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by Manda Salls
- 21 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 21
their core differ in their approaches to identity (how they think about sustainability), strategy (how they plan for sustainability), and design (how they act toward sustainability). Advocating a holistic approach to these three View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 15
be sustainable, new types of hybrid organizations need to create a common organizational identity that strikes a balance between the logics they combine. Our evidence further suggests that the crucial early...
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 14
Organizational Growth By: Malter, Daniel Abstract—I propose that an organization's growth potential may suffer if its identity is eclipsed by or confounded with the organizations with which it collaborates...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
by contrast, developed an explicit strategy for collaboration and made organizational changes to aid performance in these efforts. Ultimately, these actions allowed them to identify and exploit new business opportunities. In sum,...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2011
- What Do You Think?
To What Degree Does the Job Make the Person?
which) the job makes the person (might be related) to the degree of alignment in values between the person and the organizational culture." Dinesh Kaushal suggested that "relative position also changes the way people...
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by James Heskett
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55632 forthcoming Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Active Choice, Implicit Defaults, and the Incentive to Choose By: Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
identity framework that incorporates reputation. Findings-The Nobel Prize is a "true" corporate heritage brand (in this case, organizational brand). It is the hub of a linked network of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
PublicationsIn Search of the Self at Work: Young Adults' Experiences of a Dual Identity Organization Authors:Anteby, Michel, and Amy Wrzesniewski Publication:Research in Sociology of Work Abstract Purpose: Multiple forces that shape the...
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Sean Silverthorne