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  • 26 Jun 2012
  • First Look

First Look: June 26

Ashraf, Oriana Bandiera, and Kelsey Jack Abstract A substantial body of research investigates the design of incentives in firms, yet less is known about incentives in organizations that hire individuals to perform tasks with positive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Sep 2021
  • News

Confronting Sustainability in Business; Pro-Bono Consulting for Black-Owned Companies

October 11 event will be in English. Interested alumni can register here. Alumni Pro-Bono Service Lifts Black-Owned Enterprises In an effort to maximize its community impact, the HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) recently launched the Opportunity and... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 13 Oct 2015
  • First Look

October 13, 2015

James Heppelmann looked at how this shift is changing the structure of industries and forcing firms to rethink their strategies. In this companion article, the authors look at the effects inside firms, examining the impact that smart, connected products have on... View Details
  • 18 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 18

Abstract—Innovation has traditionally taken place within an organization's boundaries and/or with selected partners. This Chandlerian approach to innovation has been rooted in transaction costs, organizational boundaries, and information... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: December 4

interact in large, contemporary organizations is not well understood. We argue that organizational structures and geography delimit opportunities for interaction such that actors have a greater level of discretion to choose their... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Dec 2015
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December 1, 2015

vary the sales force compensation scheme at an Asian enterprise that sells consumer durable goods. With variation generated by the experimental treatments, we model sales force performance to identify the effectiveness of various forms of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2014
  • Working Paper

Team Scaffolds: How Meso-Level Structures Support Role-based Coordination in Temporary Groups

By: Melissa A. Valentine and Amy C. Edmondson
This paper shows how meso-level structures support effective coordination in temporary groups. Prior research on coordination in temporary groups describes how roles encode individual responsibilities so that coordination between relative strangers is possible. We... View Details
Keywords: Fluid Personnel; Team Scaffolds; Team Effectiveness; Role-based Coordination; Multi-method; Health Care and Treatment; Analytics and Data Science; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Organizational Structure; Outcome or Result; Performance Effectiveness; Groups and Teams; Networks; Behavior; Balance and Stability; Health Industry
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  • 01 Oct 1997
  • News

Shaping the Way Business Does Business: HBR at 75

approach to performance measurement, and the importance of workforce diversity were first introduced." While HBR has served as a platform for innovation, the inner workings of the magazine itself these past 75 years have been marked "more... View Details
  • 01 Oct 1999
  • News

Culture Clash: Exploring Cross Cultural Conflicts in Business

organizational values and business ethics, Paine has long focused on American companies engaged primarily in domestic U.S. business. But faced with an increasing number of questions from international students about whether U.S. corporate... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
  • 18 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Ideas, April 18

trend is the use of online tools to improve physical asset utilization in many traditional off-line businesses. This article discusses the water industry as an example, and the organizational changes and levers relevant to extracting... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Dec 2014
  • Research & Ideas

A Manager’s Guide to International Strategy

shop in the current low-cost location. How to organize? What are the structures, systems, and processes that need to be in place to manage a company's international strategy? Should authority be delegated to many organizational units or... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 11 Jul 2006
  • First Look

First Look: July 11, 2006

performance. Firms that perform well were more market oriented, more competitive, and less consensual in terms of corporate cultures, and more open and participative in terms of organizational climates.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 24

"setup" of a negotiation itself—its parties, their interests, their no-deal options, the sequence and basic process choices or design-into the realm of strategic and tactical choice. Hiding the Evidence of Valid Theories: How Coupled Search Processes Obscure... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Apr 1999
  • News

New Releases

and the Management of Organizations (CCMO) course at HBS. They also highlight the interdisciplinary nature of O&M, covering its four interrelated areas: the nature of human beings and their behavior; compensation, career systems, and View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 07 Feb 2005
  • Research & Ideas

How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders

organization's career imprint. That being said, just as all organizations have corporate cultures, all organizations cultivate career imprints. The question is simply, what makes some organizational career imprints stronger than others?... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
  • 06 Dec 2021
  • Research & Ideas

The Popular Stock Metric That Can Lead Investors Astray

prices lower than $5. Researchers then compared companies’ book-to-market values with four alternative valuation ratios they designed: sales-to-price, gross-profit-to-price, net payouts-to-price, and a composite ratio. The researchers found that although these ratios... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 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 theory suggesting that experiences... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Mar 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, March 21

(relative to the hiring manager) influences other organizational members’ support (or lack thereof) for who is hired through perceptions of the hiring manager’s motives and morality. We apply principles derived from the literature on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 May 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 1, 2018

in order to enjoy this legal protection of their valuable insights. A new threat, however, looms. The same legal system that has protected IP has been used to create an organizational form known as a "Patent Troll." Patent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Oct 2008
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Achieving Excellence in Nonprofits

if they have different organizational forms: nonprofit, for-profit, governmental) in the managerial challenges they face and in the kinds of strategies they need to pursue in creating social value, and that they are more similar to one... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne