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HBS Online and Executive Education Leadership: Q+A with Patrick Mullane and Luis Viceira
organizations are working together well. That's the objective. This is not about restructuring; it's about getting the two organizations integrated. So HBS Online and Executive Education will maintain their own organizational structures?... View Details
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2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Business Administration and faculty chair of the HBS Race, Gender & Equity Initiative. She conducts research on race and gender relations in organizations with a focus on organizational change, group dynamics, learning, conflict, power,... View Details
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
how the composition of patenting teams relates to both the scope of their patent applications and the speed of their patent approvals by examining the main effects of team members’ intra-organizational diversity (based on affiliations with formal View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Short Takes
with a host of outside institutions to ensure that patients receive the necessary follow-up treatment. HBS assistant professor Jody Hoffer Gittell and her coauthor, Leigh M. Weiss, a doctoral student at Harvard University, are examining View Details
Keywords: Judith Ross
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books
organizations which has largely overlooked the changing design of executive power and the means of senior executives, who have more leeway to construct their roles than managers at any other organizational... View Details
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Delegation in Multi-Establishment Firms: Evidence from I.T. Purchasing
By: Kristina McElheran
Recent contributions to a growing theory literature have focused on the tradeoff between adaptation and coordination in determining delegation within firms. Empirical evidence, however, is limited. Using establishment-level data on decision rights over information... View Details
Keywords: Business Units; Business Headquarters; Decision Choices and Conditions; Operations; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Power and Influence; Adaptation; Cooperation
McElheran, Kristina. "Delegation in Multi-Establishment Firms: Evidence from I.T. Purchasing." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-101, April 2011. (Revised April 2012, July 2012, January 2013.)
- 07 Sep 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Can the Threat of Networks Be Reduced?
without funding the enforcement of existing laws is pointless.” Greg chose to explore the affect of networks on organization design and function. He challenged us with a comment that networks are a threat to hierarchies and by extension... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
On a Sound Track
headquarters, where Skullcandy creates and markets high-quality, boldly designed headphones, earbuds, speaker docks, iPhone/iPod accessories, and clothing. What’s this first year as CEO been like? We went public in July 2011, a few months... View Details
- September 2002
- Teaching Note
Strategic Planning at NFTE
By: Allen S. Grossman and Daniel F. Curran
Teaching Note for (9-302-002). View Details
- 26 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 26, 2010
Karen A. Jehn, and Martin Euwema Publication:Journal of Organizational Behavior (forthcoming) Abstract Contrary to much boundary spanning research, we examined the negative consequences of boundary spanning contact in multi-organizational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
and are highly work-engaged. All of this suggests a multi-pronged solution to contagious presenteeism: Remove financial incentives for it by providing paid sick leave, audit work designs for features that evoke undue pressure for... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 5
Authors:Tiona Zuzul and Amy C. Edmondson Abstract Building on research in strategy formation and organizational innovation, this paper reports on a field study of a young company in the sustainable cities industry. We examine how company... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
inclusion (D&I) strategies, she is responsible for the firm’s multicultural initiatives designed to retain, develop and advance diverse professionals. Elena is also responsible for PwC’s Diamond program, a coaching and advocacy program... View Details
- 05 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 5, 2006
Manly Men: The Organizational Reconstruction of Men's Identity R. Ely and Debra E. Meyerson Best Paper Proceedings of the Academy of Management (forthcoming). This paper presents a case study of offshore oil platforms—a workplace that has... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 13
HP and Dell that have outsourced most of their computer product design to ODM firms like ASUSTeK, only to watch them morph into competitors. Students can also examine how organizational resources, processes,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Apr 2017
- HBS Case
This Turkish Debt Collector Is Customer-friendly
of both their consumers and regulators. “Usually, with debt collection, the object is to dial for dollars—collect as much as you can in the first phone call, and then outsource the work to the legal system,” says Campbell, whose research focuses on how companies can... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
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Managing Across Borders by Christopher A. Bartlett and Sumantra Ghoshal (Harvard Business School Press) A decade ago HBS professor Christopher A. Bartlett and London Business School professor Sumantra Ghoshal proposed a revolutionary new View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
A., Tom Fangyun Tan, Bradley R. Staats, and Amy C. Edmondson Abstract—To scale service operations requires retrieving knowledge across the organization. However, prior work highlights that individuals on the periphery of organizational... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity
Emerita Deborah Kolb. "Despite bodies of knowledge about social institutions and social issues at the institutional and organizational levels, we know very little about how individual organizations experience and internalize gradual... View Details
- 06 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work
broadening our focus to understand how people can get other essential but taxing managerial tasks accomplished. Joshua is currently working on research designed to help managers and executives handle complex ethical tasks in View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace