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- July 9, 2013
- Article
Why Fights Erupt in Family Businesses
By: Josh Baron and Rob Lachenauer
Lack of boundaries and formal structure create potential for nasty (and lasting) disagreements.
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Baron, Josh, and Rob Lachenauer. "Why Fights Erupt in Family Businesses." Harvard Business Review (website) (July 9, 2013).
- 29 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Symposium Showcases Breadth of Research
Dishonesty and Its Organizational Implications, she discussed several laboratory and field experiments meant to uncover factors that lead people to make unethical choices. "We seem to face this type of View Details
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
clients may be served by separate organizational units that are under common control and/or ownership. Second, a family of hybrid conflict polices has evolved that feature elements of the split account...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
Ostrovsky, and Schwarz. We prove that convergence occurs with probability 1, and we compute the expected time until convergence. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-056.pdf Attracting Flows by Attracting Big Clients: View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 11 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
Marissa Mayer Should Bridge Distance Gap with Remote Workers
cutting-edge company again, that would be even better. Second, Mayer should begin thinking about the organizational fallout from her decision. Some observers suggest that she may simply want many people who work from home to leave...
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- 08 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity
Emerita Deborah Kolb. "Despite bodies of knowledge about social institutions and social issues at the institutional and organizational levels, we know very little about how individual organizations experience and internalize gradual...
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Corporate Culture and Analyst Catering
By: Joseph Pacelli
This study examines the relation between financial institutions’ corporate culture and the quality of analysts’ research services. Using data collected from the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, I measure the weakness of financial institutions’ corporate culture...
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Keywords:
Analysts;
Corporate Culture;
Global Settlement;
Financial Institutions;
Organizational Culture;
Conflict of Interests;
Performance;
Quality
Pacelli, Joseph. "Corporate Culture and Analyst Catering." Journal of Accounting & Economics 67, no. 1 (February 2019): 120–143.
- November 1988 (Revised July 1997)
- Case
Technology Transfer at a Defense Contractor
By: Linda A. Hill
At a time of great changes in the corporate environment, Larry Yoshino, a design lab manager at Parsons Controls Corp., faces a delay in a costly defense project due to the inability of one of his subordinates to gain the cooperation of engineers at Parsons'...
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Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Change Management;
Conflict Management;
Managerial Roles;
Management Teams;
Employees;
Competitive Strategy;
Projects
Hill, Linda A. "Technology Transfer at a Defense Contractor." Harvard Business School Case 489-084, November 1988. (Revised July 1997.)
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
powerful insights and practical guidelines that allow managers to bridge professional divides and organizational boundaries in order to work together effectively, this is a new exploration of the challenges involved in today's global...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
Morris, and Leonard Lee Publication:Journal of Organizational Behavior (forthcoming) Abstract This research investigates a new type of team that is becoming prevalent in global work settings, namely, self-managing multicultural teams. We...
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Carmen Nobel
- 08 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 8
gravity the law of integrity just is, and if you violate the law of integrity as we define it, you get hurt just as if you try to violate the law of gravity with no safety device. The personal and organizational benefits of honoring one's...
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Martha Lagace
- March 2010
- Supplement
Whose Money Is It Anyway? (C)
By: V.G. Narayanan, Richard G. Hamermesh and Rachel Gordon
The case describes how the Brigham and Women's Physicians Organization and its corporate parent resolved the issue of how the disputed funds would be distributed and used.
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Corporate Governance;
Business Subsidiaries;
Organizational Design;
Conflict and Resolution;
Resource Allocation;
Health Industry
Narayanan, V.G., Richard G. Hamermesh, and Rachel Gordon. "Whose Money Is It Anyway? (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 810-031, March 2010.
- 07 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 7, 2006
Working PapersEveryday Failures in Organizational Learning: Explaining the High Threshold for Speaking Up at Work Authors:James R. Detert and Amy C. Edmondson Abstract This article examines how people working in View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2008
entrepreneurial program procured donations that the academic-housed program often did not attract. Specimen recipients' distinct demands partly explain these procurement behaviors. Thus, organizational efforts to meet demands seem to...
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Martha Lagace
- May 2001 (Revised May 2015)
- Case
Compagnie Lyonnaise de Transport (A)
By: Michael Tushman and Michael J. Roberts
Describes the issues surrounding the funding of a centralized research service that supports two related divisions. The company has a very decentralized and financially driven culture, and the centralized service is used unequally, setting up a conflict.
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Keywords:
Business Divisions;
Organizational Culture;
Relationships;
Conflict Management;
Balance and Stability;
Transportation Industry;
France
Tushman, Michael, and Michael J. Roberts. "Compagnie Lyonnaise de Transport (A)." Harvard Business School Case 401-040, May 2001. (Revised May 2015.)
- 21 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 21, 2006
Kathryn S. Roloff Abstract The emergence of a research literature on team learning has been driven by at least two factors. First, longstanding interest in what makes organizational work teams effective leads naturally to questions of how...
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Sean Silverthorne
- January 2011
- Case
Founder-CEO Succession at Acer
By: Noam T. Wasserman, Michael Shih-ta Chen and Keith Chi-ho Wong
Stan Shih, founder-CEO of Acer, Inc., had proactively chosen and transitioned the "perfect" successor as CEO, but was now faced with major problems. Over the last two years, his heir apparent, Leonard Liu, had made the changes he had been hired to make, including...
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Keywords:
Business Startups;
Entrepreneurship;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Management Style;
Management Succession;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Culture;
Organizational Structure;
Conflict Management
Wasserman, Noam T., Michael Shih-ta Chen, and Keith Chi-ho Wong. "Founder-CEO Succession at Acer." Harvard Business School Case 811-062, January 2011.
- 26 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Clear Eye for Innovation
the key to creating breakthrough innovations. Still others have claimed that a company may be able to shift back and forth between different organizational models, focusing on exploitation for a period and then moving into exploration...
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- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
With corporate America rocked by revelations of conflict of interest, malfeasance, negligence, and greed, a group of HBS professors recently gathered to review the current crisis. Is it a case of dé jà vu or an unprecedented, systemic...
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by Garry Emmons
- 11 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Group Loyalty a Force for Good or Evil?
or where they are crossing ethical boundaries for the good of their own group.” Gino and colleagues write about this paradox in a new paper forthcoming in the journal Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes with a decidedly...
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by Michael Blanding