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  • 28 Sep 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Improving Accountability at the World Bank

democratic decision-making and accountability," Ebrahim told the committee. As author of NGOs and Organizational Change: Discourse, Reporting, and Learning (Cambridge University Press, 2003), co-editor of Global Accountabilities:... View Details
Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim
  • Web

Print View - Course Catalog

process. Other topics include: Rigorously designing and executing integration. Choosing the right leadership team. Addressing conflicting organizational culture issues and retaining key talent. Module 2:... View Details
  • September 1993 (Revised January 1997)
  • Case

Serengeti Eyewear: Entrepreneurship Within Corning, Inc.

By: David A. Garvin and Jonathan West
An entrepreneurial division within Corning, Serengeti Eyewear, has grown rapidly in its brief 10-year history. Now it must decide whether to launch a new line of sunglasses and take on the industry leader. The company has prospered by developing and cultivating... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Design; Management Style; Competitive Strategy; Customer Relationship Management; Employee Relationship Management; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Talent and Talent Management; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Manufacturing Industry
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  • 07 Oct 2002
  • Research & Ideas

What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence

look at the design of option plans and be much more careful about the rate at which they vest. There'll be talk about whether some of the proceeds should go into incentive banks, with a claw-back if there's poor performance. We'll talk... View Details
Keywords: by Harvard Management Update
  • 01 Dec 2008
  • News

The CEO and the Functions of Leadership

a number of categories that will prove important when considering the CEO’s role: Direction: A core function of leadership is setting the strategy for the organization, and setting specific financial goals that the organization will seek to achieve. Identifying View Details
  • 23 May 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

demand is relatively unimportant in explaining variation in spending after accounting for physician beliefs. Physician organizational factors matter, but the single most important factor is physician beliefs about treatment: 35% of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • Web

Field Course: Transforming Health Care Delivery - Course Catalog

students develop the managerial skills required to identify and implement transformational change. It will draw upon a range of approaches for improving value in health care delivery, including continuous improvement, organizational... View Details
  • Web

Turnarounds and Transformation - Course Catalog

sessions covering topics such as designing turnaround programs, successfully driving necessary cultural change, and transformation performance management techniques and systems. Some of these sessions will include and be co-taught with... View Details
  • 04 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 4

results contribute to the literature on how alternative organizational forms can be designed to solve complex innovation tasks. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2384068 Sharing View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
  • 24 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018

staff are well positioned to conceive improvement opportunities based on first-hand knowledge of what works and does not work. The innovation contest may be a relevant and useful vehicle to elicit staff ideas. However, the success of the contest likely depends on... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 09 Jul 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Chance Encounters: What's at Stake in Return-to-Office Decisions

years, but there continues to be a wasted opportunity to think about workplace design more strategically. I see executives fall into two patterns: The first is the older generation of executives who are demanding to go back in-person—Wall... View Details
Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint, HBS Alumni Bulletin
  • 05 Jan 2017
  • Blog Post

Simple Ways to Take Gender Bias Out of Your Jobs

description is another important way to mitigate job-listing gender bias. Bohnet recommends listing only the skills that are absolutely necessary for the role. Often, job descriptions are designed by a committee of opinionated... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 01 Feb 1997
  • News

Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management

as sustaining creativity on the job, entrepreneurial thinking in established organizations, and the link between individual creativity and organizational innovation. While the course outlines the components necessary for individual... View Details
  • 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
  • Web

Harvard Business School

Organization Andy Zelleke (PhD) 2003 Freedom and Constraint: The Design of Governance and Leadership Structures in British and American Firms Christopher O. Wheat (PhD) 2005 Organizational Positions and the... View Details
  • January 2010
  • Case

Pratham - Every Child in School and Learning Well

By: Srikant M. Datar, Stacey M. Childress, Rachna Tahilyani and Anjali Raina
The case focuses on how Pratham, a non-governmental organization, provided quality education to underprivileged children in India by collaborating with the government. It focuses on the problem Madhav Chavan, the founder, is trying to solve, the contributing factors... View Details
Keywords: Non-Governmental Organizations; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Social and Collaborative Networks; Performance Evaluation; Change Management; Organizational Design; Early Childhood Education; Management Systems; Strategy; Quality; Education Industry; India
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  • December 2003 (Revised April 2004)
  • Case

Dragon's Teeth Vineyards

By: Alan D. MacCormack, Marius Leibold, Sven Voelpel and Kerry Herman
Dragon's Teeth Vineyards (DTV) is a South African wine producer that is considering whether to use genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in its wine-making process. GMOs promise to lower the costs of wine production significantly through increased yields and reduced... View Details
Keywords: Technological Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Genetics; Transition; Brands and Branding; Product Development; Product Design; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Technology Adoption; Food and Beverage Industry; Biotechnology Industry; South Africa
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  • 24 Apr 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54407 forthcoming ACM SIGecom Exchanges Good Markets (Really Do) Make Good Neighbors By: Kominers, Scott Duke Abstract—This article gives a (very) brief exposition of what market design is,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jan 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

The two cases challenge Colao’s organizational model of International Values and Local Roots that aims to maintain productive tension between global mandates and local practices. Colao meticulously designed... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 08 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 8, 2007

  Working PapersStrategy-proofness versus Efficiency in Matching with Indifferences: Redesigning the NYC High School Match Authors:Atila Abdulkadiroglu, Parag A. Pathak, and Alvin E. Roth Abstract The design of the New York City (NYC)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace