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- 08 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
Are Paywalls Saving Newspapers?
potential effects on their interdependent revenue streams before putting up a paywall. “If you’re a media firm thinking about pursuing a digital paywall sales strategy,” cautions Chung, “you have to make sure you have the reputation and... View Details
- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations
layout to place interdependent groups in adjacent space to encourage trustful bonding. Individuals can be assigned the full-time job of maintaining balanced relationships within and between groups. Of course, these same structural devices... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
- 09 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 9
interdependent work is performed under conditions that make bounded stable teams infeasible, creating a need to understand factors that foster teaming in the absence of team stability. Teaming refers to coordination and mutual adjustment... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Research Summary
Research Thrust
By: Rakesh Khurana
I am trained in organizational sociology and my main areas of interest lie in macro-organizational theory and the dynamics of executive labor markets. To date, my research has focused on two themes. The first revolves around understanding the forces that govern the... View Details
- 07 Apr 2003
- What Do You Think?
Should Global Business Initiatives Be Devalued?
should be devalued. On the one hand, one might argue that such discussions are an overreaction to current events, that nations have become so interdependent and multinational business organizations so vital to the world's economy that... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Technological Disruption Changes Everything
with far too many features and software based on proprietary and interdependent architectures. "Microsoft has way overshot what the customer needs," Christensen said. Potential threats: Sun's Java technology, the Linux operating... View Details
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
a process we term toolmaking (whereby experts create tools that embody their expertise) is central to the way in which experts garner influence in complex organizational settings. We develop a framework that conceptualizes the transformations in the influence of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
More Than the Sum of Its Parts: The Impact of Modularity on the Computer Industry
a problem of nightmarish proportions [because of] the growing complexity of the systems and the interdependent structure of their designs. Each new computer system had to be designed from the ground up, and only new systems could take... View Details
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-063.pdf Team Scaffolds: How Minimal In-Group Structures Support Fast-Paced Teaming Authors:Melissa A. Valentine and Amy C. Edmondson Abstract Across many industries, particularly in health care delivery, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 09 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Matchmaker of the Modern Economy
them were not daredevils skilled in the art of invention, and that, conversely, inventors were struggling creative types with no money "trying desperately to become poor businessmen" in Doriot's witty description. ARD sought to bring together these two View Details
Keywords: by Spencer E. Ante
- 16 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 16, 2008
City from its founding in the 17th century through 2008. Focuses on the decisions made by New York City officials, past and present, highlighting the challenges of economic development at the city level. Enables deep examination of the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 8, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50668 forthcoming Journal of Marketing Research Design of Search Engine Services: Channel Interdependence in Search Engine Results By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Zhenyu Lai Abstract—The authors... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
broadly than operational boundaries, is likely to be a superior strategy. Firms can also strategically “break the mirror” in two ways: by implementing modular partitions within their own boundaries or by building relational contracts that support technical View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 3, 2007
believes that all of St. HOPE's other activities—economic development, civic leadership development, and the arts—are interdependent with transforming urban education. Raises questions of growth, including the challenges of replicating a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
Kleindorfer and Yoram Wind. Wharton School Publishing, forthcoming Abstract Managers often must make decisions that depend on decisions in other parts of the organization. These interactions create a network of interdependent choices and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
centers. It uses a transfer-pricing system designed to account for interdependencies between profit centers and to induce coordination. Further, profit center managers are incentivized with own-level residual income measures. The use of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Public Education Goes to School
about their managerial challenges. They identified them easily, but most viewed them as distinct issues to be solved independently, rather than seeing their organizations as integrated systems in which these are all interdependent parts... View Details
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
organizations and in the right locations to deliver high-value care. The strategy for moving to a high-value health care delivery system comprises six interdependent components: organizing around patients' medical conditions rather than... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
ecosystems, and the associated interdependencies among firms, make traditional antitrust market analysis difficult. The information technology (IT) industry today consists of a rapidly evolving and massively interconnected network of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman