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- January 2009 (Revised July 2009)
- Case
Alibaba's Taobao (A)
By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Julie M. Wulf
This case examines the decision of Alibaba Group to diversify from an international business-to-business (B2B) exchange (Alibaba.com) into a B2C and C2C exchange (Taobao.com) for Chinese retailers and consumers. In China, Taobao had managed to displace the once...
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Keywords:
Business Model;
Demand and Consumers;
Market Transactions;
Service Operations;
Diversification;
Internet and the Web;
China
Oberholzer-Gee, Felix, and Julie M. Wulf. "Alibaba's Taobao (A)." Harvard Business School Case 709-456, January 2009. (Revised July 2009.)
- 20 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 20
314-087 Jurlique: Globalizing Beauty from Nature and Science Considers the marketing and strategic challenges faced by natural beauty brands using the case of Australian-based Jurlique, which was acquired by...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 2012
- Working Paper
Earnings Management from the Bottom Up: An Analysis of Managerial Incentives Below the CEO
By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Julie Wulf
Performance-based pay is an important instrument to align the interests of managers with the interests of shareholders. However, recent evidence suggests that high-powered incentives also provide managers with incentives to manipulate the firm's reported earnings. The...
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Keywords:
Compensation and Benefits;
Interests;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Motivation and Incentives;
Earnings Management;
Performance Evaluation;
Stock Options
Oberholzer-Gee, Felix, and Julie Wulf. "Earnings Management from the Bottom Up: An Analysis of Managerial Incentives Below the CEO ." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-056, January 2012. (Revised August 2012.)
- April 2014
- Article
Who Lives in the C-Suite? Organizational Structure and the Division of Labor in Top Management
By: Maria Guadalupe, Hongyi Li and Julie Wulf
Top management structures in large U.S. firms have changed significantly since the mid-1980s. While the size of the executive team—the group of managers reporting directly to the CEO—doubled during this period, this growth was driven primarily by an increase in...
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Keywords:
Communication;
Functions;
Centralization;
M-form;
Hierarchy;
Top Management Team;
C-Suite;
Activities;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Diversification;
Managerial Roles;
Organizational Design;
Information Technology;
Organizational Structure;
Management Teams;
United States
Guadalupe, Maria, Hongyi Li, and Julie Wulf. "Who Lives in the C-Suite? Organizational Structure and the Division of Labor in Top Management." Management Science 60, no. 4 (April 2014): 824–844.
- Summer 2017
- Article
Copyright Enforcement: Evidence from Two Field Experiments
By: Hong Luo and Julie Holland Mortimer
Effective dispute resolution is important for reducing private and social costs. We study how resolution responds to changes in price and communication using a new, extensive dataset of copyright infringement incidences by firms. The data cover two field experiments...
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Luo, Hong, and Julie Holland Mortimer. "Copyright Enforcement: Evidence from Two Field Experiments." Journal of Economics & Management Strategy 26, no. 2 (Summer 2017): 499–528.
- July – August 2011
- Article
The Enabling Role of Social Position in Diverging from the Institutional Status Quo: Evidence from the U.K. National Health Service
By: Julie Battilana
This study examines the relationship between social position, both within the field and within the organization, and the likelihood of individual actors initiating organizational changes that diverge from the institutional status quo. I explore this relationship using...
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Keywords:
Status and Position;
Transformation;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Projects;
Leading Change;
Managerial Roles;
Relationships;
Power and Influence;
Health Industry;
United Kingdom
Battilana, Julie. "The Enabling Role of Social Position in Diverging from the Institutional Status Quo: Evidence from the U.K. National Health Service." Organization Science 22, no. 4 (July–August 2011): 817–834.
- 2017
- Chapter
On Hybrids and Hybrid Organizing: A Review and Roadmap for Future Research
By: Julie Battilana, Marya Besharov and Bjoern Mitzinneck
The purpose of this chapter is to advance research on hybrids by bringing together work from these multiple perspectives; identifying common themes in the antecedents, challenges, opportunities, and management strategies associated with hybridity and highlighting...
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Battilana, Julie, Marya Besharov, and Bjoern Mitzinneck. "On Hybrids and Hybrid Organizing: A Review and Roadmap for Future Research." Chap. 5 in The SAGE Handbook of Organizational Institutionalism. 2nd ed. Edited by Royston Greenwood, Christine Oliver, Thomas B. Lawrence, and Renate E. Meyer, 128–162. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, 2017.
- 11 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 11
corporate center and how to incentivize subsidiary executives. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/710436-PDF-ENG Corporate Strategy at Berkshire Partners Julie M. Wulf and Scott...
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Martha Lagace
- December 2015
- Article
Harnessing Productive Tensions in Hybrid Organizations: The Case of Work Integration Social Enterprises
By: Julie Battilana, Metin Sengul, Anne-Claire Pache and Jacob Model
We examine the factors that influence the social performance of hybrid organizations that pursue a social mission, and sustain their operations through commercial activities, by studying work integration social enterprises (WISEs). We argue that social imprinting and...
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Keywords:
Hybrid Organizations;
Social Enterprise;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Organizations;
Performance Productivity
Battilana, Julie, Metin Sengul, Anne-Claire Pache, and Jacob Model. "Harnessing Productive Tensions in Hybrid Organizations: The Case of Work Integration Social Enterprises." Academy of Management Journal 58, no. 6 (December 2015): 1658–1685.
- 2022
- Book
Democratize Work: The Case for Reorganizing the Economy
By: Isabelle Ferreras, Julie Battilana and Dominique Méda
What happens to a society—and a planet—when capitalism outgrows democracy? The tensions between democracy and capitalism are longstanding, and they have been laid bare by the social effects of COVID-19. The narrative of “essential workers” has provided thin cover for...
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Keywords:
Democratic Capitalism;
Essential Workers;
Sustainability;
Equality and Inequality;
Climate Change;
Social Issues
Ferreras, Isabelle, Julie Battilana, and Dominique Méda, eds. Democratize Work: The Case for Reorganizing the Economy. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022.
- 15 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 15
Harmony: Peer Comparison and Executive Compensation By: Gartenberg, Claudine, and Julie Wulf Abstract—This study suggests that peer comparison affects both wage setting and productivity within firms. We...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 2002
- Case
Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
By: Vijay Govindarajan and Julie Lang
Sam Walton, founder of Wal-Mart in 1962, had the vision for his store to sell low cost, branded products. By setting up its own distribution system and truck fleet, and evaluating retail stores as separate investment centers, Wal-Mart's control systems helped to build...
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- September–October 2017
- Article
Blurring the Boundaries: The Interplay of Gender and Local Communities in the Commercialization of Social Ventures
By: Stefan Dimitriadis, Matthew Lee, Lakshmi Ramarajan and Julie Battilana
This paper examines the critical role of gender in the commercialization of social ventures. We argue that cultural beliefs about what is perceived to be appropriate work for each gender influence how founders of social ventures incorporate commercial activity into...
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Keywords:
Community;
Cultural Beliefs;
Social Enterprise;
Gender;
Local Range;
Commercialization;
Culture
Dimitriadis, Stefan, Matthew Lee, Lakshmi Ramarajan, and Julie Battilana. "Blurring the Boundaries: The Interplay of Gender and Local Communities in the Commercialization of Social Ventures." Organization Science 28, no. 5 (September–October 2017): 819–839.
- 10 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
doctrines more narrowly construed. The first decade of the twenty-first century, bookended by 9/11 and a global financial crisis, witnessed the clamorous and urgent return of both “the political” and “the economic” to historiographical...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
Direct Reports? Authors:Gary L. Neilson and Julie Wulf Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 4 (April 2012) Abstract If senior executives are feeling ever more pressed for time, why would they add more...
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Carmen Nobel
- 04 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 4
organs faces widespread disapproval. We survey a representative sample of Americans to assess disapproval for several forms of kidney markets and to understand why individuals disapprove by identifying factors that predict disapproval,...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 May 2016
- First Look
May 17, 2016
political economy. This book highlights the parallels between issues discussed by Serra and modern political and scholarly consciousness and illustrates the importance and influences of historical debate in modern economic thinking....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 2007
- Other Unpublished Work
Effects of Inventory on Demand for Rentals in the Home Video Market
By: Ioannis Ioannou, Julie Mortimer and Richard Mortimer
Retailer inventory decisions can greatly influence observed demand for a product by affecting, among other things, product availability (stock-outs) and product visibility in the store. These inventory decisions are affected by numerous factors including vertical...
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- Article
Advancing Research on Hybrid Organizing—Insights from the Study of Social Enterprises
By: Julie Battilana and Matthew Lee
Hybrid organizations that combine multiple organizational forms deviate from socially legitimate templates for organizing and thus experience unique organizing challenges. In this paper, we introduce and develop the concept of hybrid organizing, which we define as the...
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Keywords:
Hybrid Organizations;
Social Enterprise;
Organizational Structure;
Social Entrepreneurship
Battilana, Julie, and Matthew Lee. "Advancing Research on Hybrid Organizing—Insights from the Study of Social Enterprises." Academy of Management Annals 8 (2014): 397–441.
- 05 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2007
Leadership in a World of Difference, edited by T. Pittinsky. Harvard Business School Press, in press Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-090.pdf Tradeoffs in Staying Close: Geographic Dispersion and Corporate...
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Martha Lagace