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- December 1982 (Revised December 1983)
- Case
Simpson Pump and Valve Co.
By: Robert H. Hayes
Hayes, Robert H. "Simpson Pump and Valve Co." Harvard Business School Case 683-061, December 1982. (Revised December 1983.)
- August 2014
- Case
Opening the Valve: From Software to Hardware (A)
By: Ethan Bernstein, Francesca Gino and Bradley Staats
Valve, one of the world's top video game software companies, has also become an iconic example of an organization with virtually no hierarchy. A 400-person organization, Valve's unique organizational form (described in detail in the case and accompanying employee... View Details
Keywords: Valve; Self-Managed Organizations; Organization Design; Strategy; Flat Organization; Video Games; Organization Alignment; Family Business; Steam; Steam Machine; Design; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Human Resources; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Leadership Style; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Groups and Teams; Alignment; Software; Hardware; Video Game Industry; Seattle
Bernstein, Ethan, Francesca Gino, and Bradley Staats. "Opening the Valve: From Software to Hardware (A)." Harvard Business School Case 415-015, August 2014.
- August 2014 (Revised August 2015)
- Supplement
Opening the Valve: From Software to Hardware (B)
By: Ethan Bernstein, Francesca Gino and Bradley Staats
Valve, one of the world's top video game software companies, has also become an iconic example of an organization with virtually no hierarchy. A 400-person organization, Valve's unique organizational form (described in detail in the case and accompanying employee... View Details
Keywords: Valve; Self-Managed Organizations; Organization Design; Strategy; Flat Organization; Video Games; Organization Alignment; Family Business; Steam; Steam Machine; Design; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Human Resources; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Leadership Style; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Groups and Teams; Alignment; Software; Hardware; Video Game Industry; Seattle
Bernstein, Ethan, Francesca Gino, and Bradley Staats. "Opening the Valve: From Software to Hardware (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 415-016, August 2014. (Revised August 2015.)
- 25 Aug 2011
- News
Across borders, a murky trade
- 26 Mar 2020
- News
Patent protection should take a backseat in a crisis
- 10 Feb 2020
- News
The Executive Success Factors That Lead Directly to Jail
- 06 Sep 2016
- News
Why GitHub Finally Abandoned Its Bossless Workplace
- 04 Mar 2009
- Op-Ed
Credit is Not the Bogey
shrinking or dying. T.J. Maxx, Bed Bath & Beyond, Circuit City—the brand-name mainstays of Retail America—are laying off thousands of workers. Just as crucially, tight credit threatens to shut the safety valve of the low-wage sector... View Details
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
so fluid that all desks have wheels to allow free movement between "cabals" (teams) on a regular basis (which happens frequently enough that Valve created a homegrown tracking app to allow peers to find each other), a unique... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 2015
- Comment
In the Shadow of the Crowd: A Comment on 'Valve's Way'
There are many ways to exercise authority. Perrow (1986), in his review of March and Simon's Organizations (1958), offers a threefold classification of the ways authority can be exercised in organizations: (1) direct, "fully obtrusive" controls such as giving orders... View Details
Keywords: New Forms Of Organizing; Organizational Forms; Non-hierarchical Organizations; Self-organizing Teams; Boss-less Organizations; Organizational Design; United States
Baldwin, Carliss Y. "In the Shadow of the Crowd: A Comment on 'Valve's Way'." Journal of Organization Design 4, no. 2 (2015): 5–7.
- 23 Apr 2024
- In Practice
Getting to Net Zero: The Climate Standards and Ecosystem the World Needs Now
With each month clocking record-breaking temperatures across the planet, this Earth Day reflected the renewed urgency of regulators and businesses to find climate-change solutions. The US Securities and Exchange Commission recently adopted new rules that will mandate... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 31 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Japan Disaster Shakes Up Supply-Chain Strategies
figure it out," Shih says. "For example, if you really wanted to trace conflict minerals, you would turn off the valve at the Congo border and see who screams. It's the same structural problem as in Japan. A Wii has a chip... View Details
- 10 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
New Medical Devices Get To Patients Too Slowly
life and death for patients. "One device I am studying allows you to replace a heart valve through a catheter inserted in the thigh, rather than doing open-heart surgery," she says. "It allows a whole group of people who are very sick to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
heart surgery to repair a mitral valve prolapse. The recovery that followed offered time for reflection. A few months later, on vacation with her husband, Enan sat on the beach in Zanzibar and wrote the plan for what would become Lotus, a... View Details
- 12 Oct 2016
- Research & Ideas
Break the Rules of How Business is Done
an employer? What truly matters in the end is whether that transformational effort adds value. In 2012, the gaming company Valve published their novel Employee Handbook which outlined their organization structure (or lack thereof). View Details
Keywords: by Julia B. Austin
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Elevator Pitch: Game Time
the company completed the largest-ever crowdsourcing campaign for an augmented reality product, raising $1.7 million, and followed it with a $7.5 million Series A in summer 2020. The technology was conceived by inventor Jeri Ellsworth in 2012 while she was at gaming... View Details
- Web
VBHCD Initiative - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Activity-Based Costing (TDABC) Watch an interview with Professor Kaplan on VBHCD Medical Conditions The VBHCD team has examined the following medical conditions: Acute Conditions Joint (knee and hip) replacements Cancer: Head and neck, breast, prostate – surgery and... View Details
- 18 Oct 2024
- News
My Worst Job
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell host of Skydeck. When I was in high school, I worked as a dishwasher at a steakhouse chain in upstate New York. It was not glamorous work. I would clock out covered in a... View Details
- Web
VBHCD Initiative - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Joint (knee and hip) replacements Cancer: Head and neck, breast, prostate – surgery and radiation treatments Heart valve replacements and repairs Neurosurgical procedures – cervical spine, brain Child birth – vaginal and caesarian... View Details
- 19 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Empathy: The Brand Equity of Retail
operational excellence, when a student, Kara Medoff Barnett (MBA '07), threw him a curveball of a question: "What is the hospital doing to teach its doctors about empathy?" It turned out that Barnett's father, also a doctor, had undergone a mitral View Details