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  • 08 Jul 2011
  • Working Paper Summaries

Delegation in Multi-Establishment Firms: Adaptation vs. Coordination in I.T. Purchasing Authority

Keywords: by Kristina McElheran
  • 02 Aug 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

J. Richard Hackman (1940-2013)

Keywords: by Ruth Wageman & Teresa M. Amabile
  • 18 Oct 2006
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Racial Diversity Initiatives in Professional Service Firms: What Factors Differentiate Successful from Unsuccessful Initiatives?

Keywords: by Modupe Akinola & David A. Thomas; Service

    Rakesh Khurana

    Rakesh Khurana is the Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development at the Harvard Business School. He is also Professor of Sociology at Harvard University, co-Master of Cabot House at Harvard College, and the Danoff Dean of Harvard College. 

    Professor... View Details

    Keywords: executive search
    • Research Summary

    Vicarious Learning in Organizations

    To advance the study of how individuals learn through their interactions with others, Professor Myers has adopted a vicarious learning theory lens. Vicarious learning allows individuals to learn from the outcomes of others’ experiences, rather than solely their own... View Details

    Keywords: Learning And Development; Learning; Health Industry
    • 15 Aug 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Competition and Social Identity in the Workplace: Evidence from a Chinese Textile Firm

    Keywords: by Takao Kato & Pian Shu
    • 2010
    • Working Paper

    Performance Tradeoffs in Team Knowledge Sourcing

    By: Bradley R. Staats, Melissa Valentine and Amy C. Edmondson
    This research examines how teams organize knowledge sourcing (obtaining access to others' knowledge or expertise) and investigates the performance trade-offs involved in two approaches to knowledge sourcing in teams. One approach a team can take is to specialize, such... View Details
    Keywords: Information Management; Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Performance Efficiency; Performance Productivity; Quality; Groups and Teams; Information Technology Industry; India
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    • April 2009
    • Journal Article

    Perspectives on the Productivity Dilemma

    By: Paul S. Adler, Mary Benner, David James Brunner, John Paul MacDuffie, Emi Osono, Bradley R. Staats, Hirotaka Takeuchi, Michael Tushman and Sidney G. Winter
    For more than a century, operations researchers have recognized that organizations can increase efficiency by adhering strictly to proven process templates, thereby rendering operations more stable and predictable. For several decades, researchers have also recognized... View Details
    Keywords: Learning; Innovation and Invention; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Operations; Business Processes; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Efficiency; Performance Improvement; Performance Productivity; Adaptation
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    • 12 Dec 2017
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017

    Organizational Behavior The Energizing Nature of Work Engagement: Toward a New Need-Based Theory of Work Motivation By: Green, Paul, Eli Finkel, Grainne Fitzsimons, and Francesca Gino Abstract—We present... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 09 Jul 2010
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    The Limits of Nonprofit Impact: A Contingency Framework for Measuring Social Performance

    Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim & V. Kasturi Rangan
    • Research Summary

    Research Summaries

    Sameer's research examines the dynamics of social networks inside organizations and their consequences for individual attainment and organizational success.  His research encompasses three broad streams of activity.


    Social Capital... View Details

      Learning in Action: A Guide to Putting the Learning Organization to Work

      Most managers today understand the value of building a learning organization. Their goal is to leverage knowledge and make it a key corporate asset, yet they remain uncertain about how best to get started. What they lack are guidelines and tools that transform abstract... View Details
      • 07 Jun 2011
      • First Look

      First Look: June 7

      at both the senior management and director levels affect corporate philanthropic contributions. We also find that organizational structure constrains the philanthropic influence of board members, but not senior managers, a result that is... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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      Dissertation: A Relational Perspective on Boundary Work: How Attorneys Manage Work-Life Boundaries

      Many professionals struggle with managing boundaries between work and life outside of work. For decades researchers have been trying to understand this issue but we still have much to learn about it. With my dissertation, I aim to improve our understanding of... View Details

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      THEME #2: BUILDING CAPABILITIES THROUGH VARIATION

      Prior work has yet to establish definitively the role that variation (e.g. in individuals' activities or organizational processes) plays in the development of capabilities.  Variation is usually either not considered (e.g., the learning curve examines... View Details

        Dutch Leonard

        Herman B. ("Dutch") Leonard is Eliot I. Snider and Family Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and the George F. Baker, Jr. Professor of Public Sector Management at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. In... View Details

        Keywords: education industry; federal government; health care; nonprofit industry; state government
        • 31 May 2011
        • First Look

        First Look: May 31

        Abstract Theories of the firm have been dominated by a legacy of ideas from early industrialization that pose zero-sum opposition between capital and labor (or capital and nearly everything else), differentiating the economy from society... View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
        • 2006
        • Working Paper

        On the Origin of Shared Beliefs (and Corporate Culture)

        By: Eric J. Van den Steen

        This paper shows why members of an organization often share similar beliefs. I argue that there are two mechanisms. First, when performance depends on making correct decisions, people prefer to work with others who share their beliefs and assumptions, since such... View Details

        Keywords: Organizational Culture; Employees; Values and Beliefs; Mathematical Methods
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        • Teaching

        Overview

        Laura taught undergraduate Military Leadership and Intro to Sociology for 6 and 4 semesters, respectively, at the United States Military Academy (West Point) from 2013-2016 (see course descriptions and links below). She was promoted from instructor to Assistant... View Details
        • 11 Sep 2006
        • Research & Ideas

        Negotiating When the Rules Suddenly Change

        left to round out the team. Then again, there's no point in holding lots of cash with no one worthwhile to spend it on. Conventional negotiation theory doesn't say much about how to craft and execute strategy in such dynamic markets.... View Details
        Keywords: by Michael Wheeler; Sports