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- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Leadership Groups for Staying on Track
your bearings or deviating from your beliefs and values. Because they know your life story, they are able to perceive how prior events in your life or your motivations may be influencing your decisions today. In addition, in your group...
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by Bill George
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Pushing decision authority downward and increasing employee autonomy have become watchwords for the modern organization. Leaders of contemporary organizations view efforts to replace “command and control” systems with less-hierarchical approaches to organizing as...
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- 22 Jan 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Separating Homophily and Peer Influence with Latent Space
- 14 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove on the Confident Leader
through the confusion to identify the next peak that the company should be moving toward? When they're not sure where they're going, how can they guide and inspire others? Grove, author most recently of Swimming Across (Warner Books,...
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- 02 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 3, 2008
Exercise of Leadership, a New Model Authors:Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen, Steve Zaffron, Kari L. Granger Abstract This paper is the (pre-course) introduction document to an experimental course developed by the authors and taught at...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Channels of Influence
- 05 Jul 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
Designing an Agile Software Portfolio Architecture: The Impact of Coupling on Performance
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
embrace Western models of professional organization as they now exist, or to set off on an independent path, adapting elements of Western practices to their own historical and cultural situation. In doing so, the authors in this volume...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 2, 2016
forthcoming Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Don't Stop Believing: Rituals Improve Performance by Decreasing Anxiety By: Brooks, Alison Wood, Julianna Schroeder, Jane Risen, Francesca Gino, Adam D. Galinsky, Michael I....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 2008
- Book
Climate Change: What's Your Business Strategy?
By: Andrew J. Hoffman and John G. Woody
Climate change is one of the most pressing challenges facing the world today. And increasingly, it's become a crucial business issue. How will you and your company respond?
In Climate Change: What's Your Business Strategy? Andrew Hoffman and John... View Details
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Hoffman, Andrew J., and John G. Woody. Climate Change: What's Your Business Strategy? Harvard Business Press, 2008. (Chinese Edition: 必看!绿色战略中的商机, China Machine Press; Danish Edition: Klimaforandring - Hvad er din forretningsstrategi?, Gyldendal, 2009; Portuguese Edition: Mudanças Climáticas: Desafios e Oportunidades Empresariais, Elsevier and Alterações Climáticas, Actual Editoras.)
- 2015
- Chapter
Optimal Process Control of Symbolic Transfer Functions
By: Christopher Griffin and Elisabeth Paulson
Transfer function modeling is a standard technique in classical Linear Time Invariant and Statistical Process Control. The work of Box and Jenkins was seminal in developing methods for identifying parameters associated with classical (r, s, k) transfer functions....
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Transfer Functions;
Markov Processes;
Stochastic Models;
Process Control;
Research;
Information Technology
Griffin, Christopher, and Elisabeth Paulson. "Optimal Process Control of Symbolic Transfer Functions." In Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Feedback Computing. IEEE, 2015.
- 2019
- Working Paper
Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 9 Organizing to Rationalize
The purpose of this chapter is to explain what the technologies of flow production with stochastic bottlenecks require and reward in organizations. I argue that organizations successfully implementing these technologies are likely to have unified governance and...
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Baldwin, Carliss Y. "Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 9 Organizing to Rationalize." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-033, September 2019.
- 24 Jan 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
The Impact of Component Modularity on Design Evolution: Evidence from the Software Industry
- 11 Jul 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
Managing Proprietary and Shared Platforms: A Life-Cycle View
- 03 Sep 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Supply Chain Screening Without Certification: The Critical Role of Stakeholder Pressure
- 22 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Control Your Inventory in a World of Lean Retailing
implemented what we propose. Yet lean retailers like Home Depot and Wal-Mart already incorporate some SKU-level analysis in their own inventory decision making. Calculating SKU-level variation can be done on a simple spreadsheet, so...
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- 04 Jun 2014
- What Do You Think?
Does Internet Technology Threaten Brand Loyalty?
There are two predominant sides to the discussion of this question. One is that the amount of information about products and services is becoming so voluminous that it will lead to increased consumer confusion. As a result, the use of surrogates (such as brands) in our...
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- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
inspired-makes all the more impressive what the design firm IDEO has already achieved. Its help-seeking and help-giving culture is behind the firm's success. But how has IDEO managed to make helping the norm? To answer this question, the View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- March 2007
- Article
Authority, Risk, and Performance Incentives: Evidence from Division Manager Positions inside Firms
By: Julie Wulf
I show that performance incentives vary by decision-making authority of division managers. For division managers with broader authority, i.e., those designated as corporate officers, both the sensitivity of pay to global performance measures and the relative importance...
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Motivation and Incentives;
Performance;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Business Model;
Globalization;
Measurement and Metrics;
Status and Position;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Business Divisions
Wulf, Julie. "Authority, Risk, and Performance Incentives: Evidence from Division Manager Positions inside Firms." Journal of Industrial Economics 55, no. 1 (March 2007): 169–196.
- 14 Jun 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
Expressive Voting and Its Cost: Evidence from Runoffs with Two or Three Candidates
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by Vincent Pons and Clémence Tricaud