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  • 17 Apr 2014
  • HBS Seminar

Paul Healy, Harvard Business School

  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Culture Clash: The Costs and Benefits of Homogeneity

By: Eric J. Van den Steen
This paper develops an economic theory of the costs and benefits of corporate culture—in the sense of shared beliefs and values—in order to study the effects of "culture clash" in mergers and acquisitions. I first use a simple analytical framework to show that shared... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Cost vs Benefits; Values and Beliefs; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Motivation and Incentives; Theory
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Overview

By: Ethan S. Bernstein
My research focuses on two interrelated organizational trends that have become salient in the 21st century: workplace transparency (who gets to observe whom) and workplace connectivity (who gets to communicate with whom). Open offices and factories have made what was... View Details
Keywords: Privacy; Transparency; Productivity; Field Experiments; Communication; Design; Human Resources; Leadership; Management; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Performance; Groups and Teams; Networks; Behavior; Social and Collaborative Networks; Satisfaction; North America; Europe; Asia; China; Japan; Latin America
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Introduction

By: Stefano Brusoni, Joachim Henkel, Michael G Jacobides, Samina Karim, Alan MacCormack, Phanish Puranam and Melissa Schilling
In 2000, Carliss Baldwin and Kim Clark published Design Rules: The Power of Modularity, a book that introduced new ways of understanding and explaining the architecture of complex systems. This Special Issue of Industrial and Corporate Change celebrates... View Details
Keywords: Complex Systems; Industry Structure; Systems Design; Complexity; Organizational Design; Competitive Strategy; Innovation and Management
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    Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting in China: Symbol or Substance?

    This study focuses on how and why firms strategically respond to government signals regarding appropriate corporate activity. We integrate institutional theory with research on corporate political strategy to develop a political dependence model that explains (a) how... View Details
    • 01 Mar 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    How Foundations Think: The Ford Foundation as a Dominating Institution in the Field of American Business Schools

    Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Kenneth Kimura & Marion Fourcad; Education
    • 04 Jul 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    Is Your Org Chart Stuck in a Rut? Try a Scientific Experiment

    Live, on how to design an organizational experiment. They started by making sure the participants understood the practical importance of theory. “Behind every massive experiment there’s a theory,” Bernstein says. (He notes that the... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • 2001
    • Working Paper

    Airbus vs. Boeing in Superjumbos: Credibility and Preemption

    By: Benjamin C. Esty and Pankaj Ghemawat
    In December 2000, Airbus formally committed to spend $12 billion to develop and launch a 555-seat superjumbo plane known as the A380. Prior to and after Airbus’ commitment, Boeing started and canceled several initiatives aimed at developing a “stretch jumbo” with... View Details
    Keywords: Air Transportation; Product Development; Market Entry and Exit; Valuation; Game Theory
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    Dissertation: Speaking Up on Boards

    My dissertation examines individual and group behavior in corporate boards of directors. I focus on individual traits and group traits that can foster or inhibit the act of speaking up when an individuals views go against the general consensus in the room. Research and... View Details
    • 31 Mar 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It

    operations of any company that wishes to flourish in the new age. And yet, a decade of organizational delayering, destaffing, restructuring, and reengineering has produced employees who are more exhausted than empowered, more cynical than... View Details
    Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal

      Teresa M. Amabile

      Teresa Amabile is the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor, Emerita, at Harvard Business School. Originally educated and employed as a chemist, Teresa received her Ph.D. in psychology from Stanford University. Her current research investigates how people approach and... View Details

      • 03 Sep 2013
      • Working Paper Summaries

      How the Zebra Got Its Stripes: Imprinting of Individuals and Hybrid Social Ventures

      Keywords: by Matthew Lee & Julie Battilana
      • 06 Oct 2003
      • Research & Ideas

      The Growth of the Social Enterprise

      growth. Why? HBS's Jane Wei-Skillern and Duke-based colleague Beth Battle Anderson discuss their analysis of some 300 social enterprises. Tishler: How do you distinguish between branches and affiliates? Wei-Skillern and Anderson: Branches are View Details
      Keywords: by Carla Tishler
      • 28 Jun 2007
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Alignment in Cross-Functional and Cross-Firm Supply Chain Planning

      Keywords: by Santiago Kraiselburd & Noel Watson
      • July 2016
      • Article

      Do Prices Determine Vertical Integration?

      By: Laura Alfaro, Paola Conconi, Harald Fadinger and Andrew F. Newman
      What is the relationship between product prices and vertical integration? While the literature has focused on how integration affects prices, this paper provides evidence that prices can affect integration. Many theories in organizational economics and industrial... View Details
      Keywords: Price; Vertical Integration; Product
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      • 17 Mar 2010
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Conceptual Foundations of the Balanced Scorecard

      Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan
      • 27 Jan 2012
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Discretion Within the Constraints of Opportunity: Gender Homophily and Structure in a Formal Organization

      Keywords: by Adam M. Kleinbaum, Toby E. Stuart & Michael L. Tushman
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      Delegation of Authority in Oligopoly

      This paper studies the consequences of product-market competition on firms' decisions to delegate more or fewer decision-making responsibilities to managers. By simultaneously addressing the choice of both competitive actions and organizational design, the paper... View Details

      • October 2010
      • Article

      Culture Clash: The Costs and Benefits of Homogeneity

      By: Eric Van den Steen
      This paper develops an economic theory of the costs and benefits of corporate culture-in the sense of shared beliefs and values in order to study the effects of "culture clash" in mergers and acquisitions. I first use a simple analytical framework to show that shared... View Details
      Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Organizational Culture; Economics; Information Management; Forecasting and Prediction; Values and Beliefs; Mergers and Acquisitions; Framework; Satisfaction; Motivation and Incentives; Power and Influence; Communication
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      How and When Does Hierarchy Emerge in Firms?

      Despite understanding that formal structure within firms is crucial for maintaining coordination and control as young firms grow, relatively little is systematically known about the initial formation of hierarchy in firms. By exploiting access to a dataset of all... View Details
      Keywords: Organization Design; Start-up Growth; Startup Management; Organizational Design; Entrepreneurship; Brazil