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  • October 1995 (Revised March 1996)
  • Case

Booz.Allen & Hamilton: Vision 2000

In 1993, Booz.Allen & Hamilton forsook its previous, highly local organizational structure. It was motivated by a desire to serve multinational clients more effectively and to provide greater value to clients with more localized business by collecting best practices... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Service Operations; Service Delivery; Organizational Structure; Global Strategy; Service Industry
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  • March 1992 (Revised March 1998)
  • Case

Adam Opel AG (B)

By: Hugo Uyterhoeven
Should General Motors make a strategic manufacturing investment in East Germany after becoming number one in this market through an aggressive marketing strategy? The proposal, dependent on government assistance and based on a number of uncertain economic assumptions,... View Details
Keywords: Transformation; Investment; Government and Politics; Leadership; Marketing Strategy; Production; Organizational Structure; Strategy; Germany
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  • January 2011 (Revised November 2015)
  • Case

The National Geographic Society (A)

By: David A. Garvin and Carin-Isabel Knoop
In January 2010, John Fahey, president, CEO, and chairman of the board of trustees' executive committee of the Washington, D.C.-based National Geographic Society (NGS), must decide how best to organize the 121-year old mission-driven organization for a world of... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Information Publishing; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Growth and Development Strategy; Managerial Roles; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Internet; Publishing Industry
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  • Mar 2012
  • Article

The Incentive Bubble

The past three decades have seen American capitalism quietly transformed by a single, powerful idea--that financial markets are a suitable tool for measuring performance and structuring compensation. Stock instruments for managers,... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2003
  • News

New Course on Leadership, Values, and Corporate Accountability

After nearly two years of review and deliberation about the structure and content of the MBA required curriculum, in February Senior Associate Dean and MBA Program Chair W. Carl Kester announced several View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 03 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 3, 2009

employs rhetorical theory to reconceptualize institutionalization as change in argument structure. As a state, institutionalization is embodied in the structure of argument used to justify a practice at a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Mar 2012
  • Article

The Looming Challenge to U.S. Competitiveness

The United States is a competitive location to the extent that firms operating in the U.S. are able to compete successfully in the global economy while supporting high and rising living standards for the average American. Changes in the... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2010
  • News

Eight Join HBS Faculty

Torfason is an instructor in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit and teaches the first-year course The Entrepreneurial Manager. His research focuses on how behavior is influenced by the social structures of individuals and organizations.... View Details
  • 30 Jan 2007
  • First Look

First Look: January 30, 2007

accounting standards. Most of these changes took place between 1996 and 2001, and had a significant impact in the structure and interpretation of financial information of banks. This document explains the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Aug 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Death of the Global Manager

business, Bartlett says. "That's a big change that's taken place." The World's Communication Pipeline Another seismic shift is the broader context in which companies now operate, forgotten all too easily in today's... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 11 Apr 2016
  • Blog Post

What You Need to Know about Recruiting at HBS

what you’re good at, what you like, what environments you enjoy working in, including what kind of people you enjoy interacting with. Consider the structure you’ve had in previous roles: did you have a formal mentor? Opportunities for... View Details
  • 13 May 2013
  • Blog Post

"I never thought I would be a business person until…”

large investments into the field. The industry had tangible products that changed people’s lives in a broad spectrum as it dealt comprehensively with infrastructure. That is how I decided to work at STX Group, world’s fourth largest... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
  • Profile

Naeill Leigh

What’s the one thing you’re most excited about learning at HBS? That would be the macro problems of a constantly changing world. In one class, we did one case on the Ukraine and others on the region around the Crimea. It was fascinating... View Details
Keywords: Tech; Financial Services
  • January 1998 (Revised February 1998)
  • Case

Sideco Americana S.A. (A)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Harold F. Hogan Jr
This case focuses on a decision the Sideco management team faces when customers of its newly acquired and privatized water and sewer company neglect to pay its bills. Describes the effort to transform an old-style Argentine construction and engineering company into a... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Government Relations; Transformation; Business or Company Management; Values and Beliefs; Argentina
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  • 16 Apr 2012
  • Research & Ideas

The Inner Workings of Corporate Headquarters

develop those networks very quickly." The more surprising thing about the data, however, is just how quickly networks changed once someone moved from a corporate staff position to a line position or vice versa. The researchers... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 19 Mar 2013
  • First Look

First Look: March 19

Structure and the Division of Labor in Top Management Authors:Guadalupe, Maria, Hongyi Li, and Julie Wulf Abstract Top management structures in large U.S. firms have changed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2006
  • News

East to West

“The case was very appealing because the CEO’s goal was to create a governance structure that would be transparent to investors and stakeholders anywhere in the world. The more we talked, the more it seemed like a way to understand the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Management
  • 24 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 24

Authors:Mary J. Benner and Mary Tripsas Publication:Strategic Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract New industries sparked by technological change are characterized by high technological, market, and competitive uncertainty. In this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Feb 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 9

results illustrate how firms redesign their organizational structure through a set of complementary choices in response to changes in their environment. We discuss several possible interpretations of these... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Nov 2010
  • Research & Ideas

How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making

and productivity, but also in the labor market, as information access and communication technology changes can be expected to affect the wage distribution in opposite directions," their paper states. The researchers looked at... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel