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- February 1980 (Revised March 1980)
- Background Note
Note on Marketing Organization
Corey, E. Raymond. "Note on Marketing Organization." Harvard Business School Background Note 580-109, February 1980. (Revised March 1980.)
- October 1980
- Background Note
Framework for Analyzing Organizations
Schlesinger, Leonard A. "Framework for Analyzing Organizations." Harvard Business School Background Note 481-066, October 1980.
- January 1989 (Revised March 1991)
- Case
General Electric Canada: Designing a New Organization
By: Lynda M. Applegate and James I. Cash Jr.
General Electric Canada used sociotechnical design techniques to restructure its financial, administrative, facilities, and information technology service from a decentralized, hierarchical organization to a centralized organization composed of self-managing,... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Design; Information Technology; Groups and Teams; Change; Communication; Information; Industrial Products Industry; Canada
Applegate, Lynda M., and James I. Cash Jr. "General Electric Canada: Designing a New Organization." Harvard Business School Case 189-138, January 1989. (Revised March 1991.)
- August 1995 (Revised November 2000)
- Background Note
Designing and Managing the Information Age Organization
Managers and management theorists spent the majority of this century building and perfecting the hierarchy; however, if we believe the press, they now appear to be engaged in destroying it. While many proclaim the dawning of the "Information Age" organization and the... View Details
Applegate, Lynda M. "Designing and Managing the Information Age Organization." Harvard Business School Background Note 196-003, August 1995. (Revised November 2000.)
- 03 Nov 2015
- Video
Harnessing productive tensions in hybrid organizations
- 22 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Meet LASO: The HBS Latino Student Organization
The Latino Student Organization (LASO) proudly promotes and supports Harvard Business School’s Latino students and works alongside the Latino Alumni Association (HBSLAA). Representing a wide range of backgrounds, experiences, interests,... View Details
- 22 Feb 2018
- Video
Attract the right talent for your organization
- Research Summary
Building and Managing Product Centric Organizations
By: Stefan H. Thomke
Building and Managing Product Centric Organizations View Details
- June 1999 (Revised October 1999)
- Case
Eli Lilly, 1998 (B): Emerging Global Organization
By: Michael Y. Yoshino and Thomas W. Malnight
Examines major issues faced by Eli Lilly as it evaluates the appropriateness of a focused matrix organization with extensive use of cross-functional teams. View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Geography; Globalized Firms and Management; Growth and Development; Knowledge; Management Teams; Product; Organizations; Pharmaceutical Industry
Yoshino, Michael Y., and Thomas W. Malnight. "Eli Lilly, 1998 (B): Emerging Global Organization." Harvard Business School Case 399-174, June 1999. (Revised October 1999.)
- Research Summary
Venture Capital Organizations and Entrepreneurial Finance
By: Paul A. Gompers
Paul A. Gompers is examining corporate control and governance issues in
venture capital organizations and entrepreneurial firms in an effort to
understand how their relationships with their investors affect the venture
capitalists' investment decisions. Using... View Details
- July 1984 (Revised August 1985)
- Background Note
Inertial Forces Within Organizations
By: Richard R. Ellsworth and Joseph L. Badaracco Jr.
Keywords: Organizations
Ellsworth, Richard R., and Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. "Inertial Forces Within Organizations." Harvard Business School Background Note 385-053, July 1984. (Revised August 1985.)
- 15 Aug 2009
- Conference Presentation
Emergent Creativity in Organizations
- 12 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
‘Hybrid’ Organizations a Difficult Bet for Entrepreneurs
Consider two organizations with the same noble purpose: to solve the problem of poor eyesight in developing countries. The first, the Centre for Vision in the Developing World, follows a traditional nonprofit model, soliciting donations... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- November–December 2021
- Article
Successfully Implementing TDABC in Health-Care Provider Organizations
By: Susanna Gallani and Gregory Sabin
This article describes some of the common obstacles that challenge the success of TDABC implementation in health-care provider organizations and suggests potential remedies and preventive measures. View Details
Keywords: Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing; Implementation; Health Care and Treatment; Activity Based Costing and Management
Gallani, Susanna, and Gregory Sabin. "Successfully Implementing TDABC in Health-Care Provider Organizations." Cost Management 35, no. 6 (November–December 2021): 29–33. (Commissioned Article.)
- 2009
- Chapter
Creativity, Improvisation, and Organizations
By: Colin M. Fisher and Teresa M. Amabile
Although the literatures on both organizational creativity and organizational improvisation have been expanding in recent years, the links between these literatures have not been deeply explored. This chapter explores those links to create a conceptualization of... View Details
Keywords: Body of Literature; Innovation and Invention; Organizational Culture; Research; Creativity; Theory
Fisher, Colin M., and Teresa M. Amabile. "Creativity, Improvisation, and Organizations." In The Routledge Companion to Creativity, edited by Tudor Rickards, Mark A. Runco, and Susan Moger. Oxford, U.K.: Routledge, 2009.
- Research Summary
Recruiting specialized inventors into young organizations
Commercializing nascent technologies may require the expertise of those intimately involved in the original invention, especially when tacit knowledge is essential. Yet the organization home to the original invention may not serve as the best commercialization... View Details
- 7 Aug 2009
- Conference Presentation
Organization Building Amid Multiple Institutional Logics: The Case of Commercial Microfinance Organizations
By: Julie Battilana and Silvia Dorado