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  • 22 Jan 2018
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Why You Are Unhappy at Work

your CEO make more than the GDP of most industrialized nations? You may work less hard as a result, suggests research by Ethan Rouen. Bad At Your Job? Maybe It's the Job's Fault A poorly designed job can work against the efforts of even... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Nov 2010
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Data.gov: Matching Government Data with Rapid Innovation

and other top executives representing fields as diverse as telecommunications, financial services, and pharmaceuticals, as well as government entities in the US and overseas-debated the pluses and minuses of Data.gov's decisions, its View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Technology
  • 09 Oct 2012
  • First Look

First Look: October 9

investigates teaming in the high-stakes, fast-paced setting of a hospital emergency room and focuses on the effects of a new organizational structure, which we call a team scaffold, on teaming effectiveness and performance outcomes. Using... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Mastering Consulting and Advisory Skills - Course Catalog

leading a number of critical organizational and strategic practices. With his guidance, the student group generated a list of topics they wanted to master and questions they yearned to answer, all in the service of doing high-quality work... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2008
  • News

Alumni Books

while also respecting humanistic values. They lay out the positivist, social constructionist, and postmodernist perspectives on the theory of educational organization to help readers develop new ways of thinking about organizational... View Details
Keywords: Management
  • October 2000 (Revised May 2001)
  • Case

Digitas (A): Strategic Interactive Group

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, David Lane and Courtenay Sprague
Kathy Biro, president of Digitas, an e-strategy consulting firm, has successfully grown out of the company's roots in the strategic interactive group. Her challenges now include managing the integration of the SIG with Digitas's other component, direct marketing firm... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Business Strategy; Internet and the Web; Integration; Expansion; Business or Company Management; Business Model; Organizational Design; Consulting Industry; Massachusetts
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  • 13 Mar 2007
  • First Look

First Look: March 13, 2007

  Working PapersInitiating Divergent Organizational Change: The Enabling Role of Actors' Social Position Author:Julie Battilana Abstract This study addresses the paradox of embedded human agency, or the contradiction between actors'... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace

Beer, the School's Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration and an expert on organizational behavior. "Quite simply, without a sense of purpose, we become alienated from our work and find it harder to motivate... View Details
Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso
  • 08 Dec 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 8

innovations by single user individuals or firms and open collaborative innovation projects. We analyze the design costs and architectures and communication costs associated with each model. We conclude that innovation by individual users... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • April 2018
  • Teaching Note

InsideSales.com (A) and (B)

By: Frank Cespedes
Teaching Note for HBS Nos. 817-018 and 817-042. InsideSales.com (ISC) has been successful selling its software to small- and medium-sized businesses (SMB). But for various reasons, the founders see “the next stage of growth” as building a scalable sales and service... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Design; Customer Relationship Management; Growth Management; Marketing Strategy; Salesforce Management; Talent and Talent Management; Technology Industry
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  • 04 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 4

Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior Psychological Safety: The History, Renaissance, and Future of an Interpersonal Construct By: Edmondson, Amy C., and Zhike Lei Abstract—Psychological... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Jul 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Overcoming the Challenges of Selling Brand New Technology (Hey, Need a 3-D Printer?)

startup figuring out how to market a 3-D printer. “You should approach a product launch as an organizational process, and start with the buyers, not the product” Although 3-D printers have been around since the 1980s, they didn’t find... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology; Consumer Products; Electronics; Industrial Products; Information Technology; Manufacturing; Medical Devices & Supplies; Retail
  • 23 Jul 2018
  • Research & Ideas

The Open Office Revolution Has Gone Too Far

In the past, when it comes to workplaces, office design (and many other artifacts of organizational life) have catered to the observer and not the observed. Unfortunately, it’s the observed who make our... View Details
Keywords: Re: Ethan S. Bernstein
  • 01 Oct 1997
  • News

Expanded Elective Curriculum Offers Students A Wealth of Choices

MBA students to connect with HBS alumni are all part of the latest EC enhancements designed to address the changing needs and interests of MBA students. Course Development After completing the MBA Program's required courses, students... View Details
  • 03 Jun 2008
  • First Look

First Look: June 3, 2008

Authors:Claudio Dell'Era, Alessio Marchesi, and Roberto Verganti Publication:International Journal of Innovation Management 12, no. 1 (March 2008) Abstract In today's business and academic arenas, design is increasingly viewed as a core... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Feb 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018

and industrial designs used by firms to protect their IP globally. We then show that IP protection remains fragmented, the quality of IP applications might be questionable, and the development of a comprehensive IP footprint worldwide is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • June 1997 (Revised February 2000)
  • Case

Walker and Company: Profit Plan Decisions

By: Robert L. Simons and Ramsey Walker
Ramsey Walker, a second-year MBA student, must decide how to control a family business as an absentee owner. After providing background details on the publishing industry, the case requires the reader to: 1) make a product segmentation decision; 2) prepare a profit... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Structure; Family and Family Relationships; Market Design; Management Systems; Planning; Profit; Performance Evaluation; Segmentation; Corporate Strategy; Investment Return; Publishing Industry
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  • December 1978 (Revised January 1986)
  • Case

Pepsi-Cola (A)

By: Walter J. Salmon and Steven R. Palesy
Combining aspects of a functionally organized marketing management system, with a franchised channel of distribution network. Focuses on extending an innovative promotional program to a market where competitive conditions differ. View Details
Keywords: Innovation Strategy; Management; Marketing; Marketing Reference Programs; Network Effects; Distribution; Organizational Design; Franchise Ownership; Competition; Food and Beverage Industry
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  • January 1998 (Revised April 2001)
  • Case

Acer America: Development of the Aspire

By: Christopher A. Bartlett and Anthony St. George
Follows the development, national launch, and global rollout of the Aspire, Acer's first new product developed outside of Taiwan. Implementing a very promising new PC concept proves challenging to Mike Culver and his U.S. team, who are plagued by coordination problems... View Details
Keywords: Global Strategy; Globalized Firms and Management; Organizational Design; Supply Chain; Problems and Challenges; Relationships; Business Subsidiaries; Product Launch; Computer Industry; United States; Taiwan
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  • 24 Feb 2015
  • First Look

First Look: February 24

lead people to more likely engage in further unethical behavior. In five experiments, participants reflected on their past unethical behavior, and then completed a task designed to measure network density. Those who cheated more... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne