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  • October 2019
  • Case

Street Symphony: Making Human Connections Through Music

By: Rohit Deshpandé
To Vijay Gupta, music was sacred. A highly accomplished and renowned violinist with The Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gupta believed the act of making and performing music was a deeply spiritual practice — one that had the power to heal audiences and musicians... View Details
Keywords: Arts; Cultural Entrepreneurship; Nonprofit Organizations; Social Issues; Business and Community Relations; Music Entertainment; Human Needs; Music Industry; Los Angeles; California; United States
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  • 21 May 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Do Friends Influence Purchases in a Social Network?

Keywords: by Raghuram Iyengar, Sangman Han & Sunil Gupta; Technology
  • 31 May 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Japan Disaster Shakes Up Supply-Chain Strategies

The full cultural and sociological aftershocks of the earthquake in Japan—the worst disaster to hit the country since World War II—are washing like a tsunami across many industries as manufacturers and their customers scramble to replace... View Details
Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Auto; Technology; Computer; Electronics
  • 03 Jul 2012
  • First Look

First Look: July 3

and user-friendly tips on how to make organizational culture more intimate, more interactive, more inclusive, and more intentional-in short, more conversational. Order the book:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Jul 2017
  • Research & Ideas

People Have an Irrational Need to Complete 'Sets' of Things

HBS. The Canadian Red Cross puts pseudo-sets to the test The researchers proved the efficacy of pseudo-set framing through a series of laboratory and real-world field studies. In one study, they teamed up with the Canadian Red Cross, a... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 23 May 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Lessons on Life, Graffiti, and Value: 'It's in That Darkness That You Can Actually Develop and Evolve'

Riley was naturally drawn to graffiti because of its significance in hip-hop culture and for how it helped him find his voice. “Being neurodivergent and having learning differences, creative outlets like drawing were always a way for me... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
  • 10 May 2010
  • Research & Ideas

What Top Scholars Say About Leadership

negotiated relationship that individuals have with other individuals or that individuals have with society. In addition, there is a cultural quality about what constitutes a leader that changes across social situations, whether we are... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education
  • 17 Jan 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Being the Boss

between those two bosses and how to negotiate what will be your priorities, given their priorities. Q: Due to technological advances and globalization, more and more managers find themselves leading, collaborating with, and reporting to... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • August 2012
  • Case

Jess Westerly at Kauflauf GmbH

By: John J. Gabarro and Colleen Kaftan
Jess Westerly is the assistant product owner of CRM applications for computer and office supply wholesalers and retailers at Kauflauf, a fast-growing provider of subscription enterprise software headquartered in Heidelberg, Germany. Only months into her job, outsider... View Details
Keywords: Applications and Software; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Change Management; Leading Change; Behavior; Salesforce Management; Social and Collaborative Networks; Planning; Web Services Industry; Germany
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  • 16 Mar 2020
  • Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

pandemic is likely to change how companies do business. Here’s what they said: Michael Beer: Organizations will develop trust-based cultures with employees   The coronavirus challenge demands an organization-wide, honest conversation that... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 15 Jan 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Managing the Family Business: It Takes a Village

ultimate leader of the business, ownership, and family is the natural choice for most families (and most nonfamily groups) around the world. The preference for one leader seems only slightly culturally driven; it's very common in Italy,... View Details
  • 15 Oct 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat

Crossing Borders in a World Where Differences Still Matter. As he sees it, important realities dotting the landscape for business can be grouped into 4 basic areas: cultural, administrative/political, geographic, and economic. Discussions... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 23 May 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative

your prospects for developing innovative products and services. Rosabeth Moss Kanter How Do You Create a Culture of Innovation? Have you noticed the courage buried in the word encourage? To create a culture... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons, Julia Hanna & Roger Thompson
  • 16 May 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow

in affiliates and associates that were started locally and were independent organizations. She wanted to build a culture around quality and accountability, and get more services out to the population that way, said Wei-Skillern. The... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 23 Jul 2012
  • Research & Ideas

The Power of Conversational Leadership

the company." Borne of those interviews, the book advocates an approach called "organizational conversation," which applies to all processes a company uses to circulate information across the organization, rather than just from the top down. "It's about creating a... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 02 Oct 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Negotiating in Three Dimensions

change. It is true with respect to conflicts arising from the interaction of businesses with governments as well as with environmental and other nongovernmental organizations. It is true as workforces become more diverse and business increasingly View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • August 2014
  • Case

Opening the Valve: From Software to Hardware (A)

By: Ethan Bernstein, Francesca Gino and Bradley Staats
Valve, one of the world's top video game software companies, has also become an iconic example of an organization with virtually no hierarchy. A 400-person organization, Valve's unique organizational form (described in detail in the case and accompanying employee... View Details
Keywords: Valve; Self-Managed Organizations; Organization Design; Strategy; Flat Organization; Video Games; Organization Alignment; Family Business; Steam; Steam Machine; Design; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Human Resources; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Leadership Style; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Groups and Teams; Alignment; Software; Hardware; Video Game Industry; Seattle
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Mastering Strategy Execution

By: Robert Simons

Professor Robert Simons’ research encompasses three areas of management accountability that are the foundation for successful strategy execution: organization design, performance measurement and control, and risk management. In addition, Simons is interested in the... View Details

  • 01 Nov 2022
  • What Do You Think?

Why Aren’t Business Leaders More Vocal About Immigration Policy?

those crossing the border to request asylum without “waiting in line” for fully documented or legal entry. (As economist Tara Watson and writer Kalee Thompson point out in their recent book, it is more accurate to say that under current... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 04 Nov 2015
  • What Do You Think?

Why Does Gender Diversity Improve Financial Performance?

gender diversity in management enhance performance? What do you think? Original Column Gender equality in leadership is a topic appearing with increasing frequency among the research reports, books, and opinion pieces crossing my desk.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett

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