Publications

25 Aug 2005
Conference Presentation

The Health and Safety of Quality Programs: An Empirical Evaluation

By: Michael W. Toffel

Keywords: Quality; Programs

August 2005 (Revised March 2006)
Case

Moneyball (A): What Are You Paying For?

By: Frances X. Frei, Dennis Campbell and Eliot Sherman

Explores the contextual elements of Major League Baseball and presents data to allow for an analytic examination of alleged market inefficiencies within the sport. View Details

Keywords: Market Design; Performance; Sports; Compensation and Benefits; Sports Industry; United States

August 2005
Supplement

Moneyball (B): Do You Get What You Pay For?

By: Frances X. Frei, Dennis Campbell and Eliot Sherman

Keywords: Sports; Sports Industry

2005
Chapter

Experimentation Strategies and Technological Change

By: Stefan Thomke

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2005
Chapter

The Recovery Window: Organizational Learning Following Ambiguous Threats

By: A. Edmondson, Erika Ferlins, Laura Feldman and Richard Bohmer

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Design; Risk and Uncertainty; Opportunities

2005
Working Paper

Why IT Matters in Midsized Firms

By: Marco Iansiti, George Favaloro, James Utzschneider and Greg Richards

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July 2005
Class Lecture

Organizational Learning in the Face of Ambiguous Threats

By: Richard M.J. Bohmer, Amy C. Edmondson and Michael Roberto

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation

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June 2005 (Revised August 2013)
Case

Amazon.com's European Distribution Strategy

By: Janice Hammond and Claire Chiron

Describes how Amazon's distribution system evolved from the company's inception. In 2003, Amazon Europe must decide how to reconfigure its distribution network in light of expected growth, products proliferation, and geographical expansion in Europe. Examines how... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Decision Choices and Conditions; Growth and Development; Business or Company Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Supply and Industry; Distribution; Supply Chain; Risk and Uncertainty; Expansion; Web Services Industry

June 2005 (Revised May 2018)
Teaching Note

Columbia's Final Mission: A Multimedia Case

By: Michael Roberto, Richard M.J. Bohmer, Amy C. Edmondson and Erika Ferlins

Teaching Note to 305-032. View Details

Keywords: Aerospace Industry

June 2005 (Revised June 2006)
Case

Ducati Corse: The Making of a Grand Prix Motorcycle

By: Francesca Gino and Gary P. Pisano

Examines the product development strategy and processes of the Ducati motorcycle racing team during the 2003-2004 Grand Prix seasons. Invites discussion of appropriate design and development strategies to facilitate learning across product generations. Specifically,... View Details

Keywords: Design; Business Strategy; Product Marketing; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Motorcycle Industry; Italy

June 2005
Article

Failing to Learn and Learning to Fail (Intelligently): How Great Organizations Put Failure to Work to Innovate and Improve

By: M. D. Cannon and A. C. Edmondson

Keywords: Failure; Learning; Organizations; Labor; Innovation and Invention; Performance Improvement

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2005
Chapter

Why Hackers Do What They Do: Understanding Motivation and Effort in Free/Open Source Software Projects

By: Karim R. Lakhani and Robert Wolf

Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Applications and Software; Open Source Distribution; Attitudes

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May 2005 (Revised April 2010)
Case

GlaxoSmithKline: Reorganizing Drug Discovery (A)

By: Robert S. Huckman and Eli Strick

Describes the reorganization of drug discovery at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) following the formation of GSK from the merger of Glaxo Wellcome and SmithKline Beecham. This reorganization placed nearly 2,000 research scientists into six centers of excellence in drug discovery... View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Decision Choices and Conditions; Operations; Organizational Structure; Performance Improvement; Research and Development; Pharmaceutical Industry