Publications

22 Apr 2016
Blog Post

Working With Organizations That Recruit at HBS: An Interview with Mary-Kate Johnson

Business School but my partner is a first year student at HBS. I can tell you from firsthand experience that students have a lot on their plate. They speak with a lot of organizations and meet many recruiters. It's often difficult for... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

2009
Book

Reorganize for Resilience: Putting Customers at the Center of Your Organization

By: Ranjay Gulati

In an era of raging commoditization and eroding profit margins, survival depends on resilience: staying one step ahead of your customers. Sure, most companies say they're "customer focused," but they don't deliver solutions to customers' thorniest problems. Why?... View Details

Keywords: Competency and Skills; Customer Focus and Relationships; Profit; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Cooperation

Web

A Business Investment for You & Your Organization

The Advanced Management Program (AMP) at Harvard Business School is the highest level of executive education. Throughout AMP, the global diversity of other senior executives from around the world challenges your ways of thinking, offers valuable guidance, and creates... View Details

04 Sep 2008
Working Paper Summaries

Wellsprings of Creation: Perturbation and the Paradox of the Highly Disciplined Organization

Keywords: by David James Brunner, Bradley R. Staats, Michael L. Tushman & David M. Upton

2008
Chapter

On Organizations and Oligarchies: Michels in the 21st Century

By: Pamela Tolbert and Shon R. Hiatt

Keywords: Organizations; Government and Politics

May 2007
Article

Silo Busting: Transcending Barriers to Build High Growth Organizations

By: Ranjay Gulati

Keywords: Growth and Development; Organizations

December 1987 (Revised March 1990)
Case

Manufacturers Hanover Corp.: The New Information Technology Organization (B)

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Donna B. Stoddard

Keywords: Information Technology; Organizational Structure

01 Dec 2015
News

What to Do When Your Organization Has Dueling Missions

1994
Article

Doing Diversity: Effectively Managing Identity Group Difference in Organization

By: D. A. Thomas

Keywords: Diversity; Management; Identity; Groups and Teams; Organizations

(with Adam Kleinbaum and Toby Stuart), Organization Science, 2013, 24, 5, 1316-1336.. View Details

2002
Chapter

Organizational Technology: Technological Change, Ambidextrous Organizations and Organizational Evolution

By: M. Tushman and W. Smith

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Design; Technological Innovation

Article

Corporate Finance, the Theory of the Firm, and Organizations

By: David S. Scharfstein and Patrick Bolton

Keywords: Finance; Business Ventures; Theory; Organizations

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2017
Article

Affective, Cognitive and Behavioral Trajectories of Change Recipients in Global Organizations

By: B. S. Reiche, T. B. Neeley and N. Overmeyer

Research rarely addresses how change recipients respond to radical change across affective, cognitive, and behavioral dimensions over time. We examined a radical change in a recently acquired subsidiary of a U.S.-based global organization over a two-year period. With... View Details

Keywords: Change; Spoken Communication; Globalized Firms and Management; Behavior; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues

Article

Why Sexual Harassment Persists and What Organizations Can Do to Stop It

By: Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg

Long before the #MeToo movement, the insidious effects of harassment were well known to organizational researchers. Women who are harassed often leave their jobs, taking valuable relationships, and potential out the door with them and creating the costly need to hire... View Details

Keywords: Work Environment; Sexual Harassment; Harassment; Organizational Culture; Gender; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leading Change

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14 Jul 2023
Blog Post

What You Can Do to Create an Anti-Racist Organization

For Danika Manso-Brown (HGSE ’18), the life of an activist was one she was born into and one she has made her own. “My parents met organizing a labor union, so the work of creating justice and thinking about humanity was a central part of... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

10 Feb 2021
Blog Post

What You Can Do to Create an Anti-Racist Organization

winter of 2021, that national conversation continues, but what have we done, and what can we continue to do, as individuals and organizations to make meaningful progress? Danika Manso-Brown (HGSE ’18), Founder of Manso Brown Group and... View Details

January 2007 (Revised December 2008)
Case

Mercy Corps: Positioning the Organization to Reach New Heights

By: Allen S. Grossman and Caroline Joan King

Mercy Corps, the world's 5th largest international relief and development agency, is at a turning point. The nonprofit's opportunities to grow and serve a larger number of beneficiaries are unprecedented. By looking at the unique relationship between headquarters and... View Details

Keywords: Business Offices; Business Headquarters; Globalized Firms and Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Structure; Nonprofit Organizations

Educators

2023
Book

How the Harvard Business School Changed the Way We View Organizations

By: Jay W. Lorsch

The story of the field of organizational behavior (which overlaps considerably with the origin story of Harvard Business School) and how it created the “medical model” of systems thinking—anchored in the practices of listening, observing, testing, and only then... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Behavior; Systems Thinking; Medical Model; Organizations; Behavior; System; History

September 2014
Article

The New Heretics: Hybrid Organizations and the Challenges they Present to Corporate Sustainability

By: Nardia Haigh and Andrew J. Hoffman

Corporate sustainability has become mainstream; reaching into all areas of business management. Yet despite this progress, large-scale social and ecological issues continue to worsen. In this article, we examine how corporate sustainability has been enacted as a... View Details

Keywords: Social Issues; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Mission and Purpose