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  • 20 Jun 2019
  • News

What Tech Pioneers Can Learn From Emerging Markets

  • Research Summary

Current Research

Kevin P. Coyne has taught classes in undergraduate, MBA, and executive education programs at a wide variety of schools, as well as company training programs. His current research interests include:

Sustainable Competitive... View Details

  • October 2019 (Revised March 2021)
  • Background Note

Modern Automation (B): Robotics

By: William R. Kerr and James Palano
Driven largely by advances in perception and situational awareness, robots in the 2010s were gaining functionality that allowed them to be applied to fundamentally new types of work. The expanding range of new tasks that could be completed by machines had significant... View Details
Keywords: Robotics; Artificial Intelligence; Future Of Work; Technology Commercialization; Information Technology; Commercialization; Employment; AI and Machine Learning
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  • 25 Mar 2020
  • News

Data-centric business: Inside the artificial intelligence factory

    Learning from Customers: Individual and Organizational Effects in Outsourced Radiological Services

    The ongoing fragmentation of work has resulted in a narrowing of tasks into smaller pieces that can be sent outside the organization and, in many instances, around the world. This trend is shifting the boundaries of organizations and leading to increased... View Details

    • December 2016 (Revised May 2018)
    • Module Note

    Strategy Execution Module 15: Using the Levers of Control to Implement Strategy

    By: Robert Simons
    This module reading pulls together key concepts and techniques from the Strategy Execution series into an integrated model—the levers of control. The four levers are: (1) belief systems, (2) boundary systems, (3) diagnostic control systems, and (4) interactive control... View Details
    Keywords: Management Control Systems; Implementing Strategy; Execution; Levers Of Control; Balancing Innovation And Control; Managing Growing Businesses; Turn Around Management; Human Behavior; Organizational Life Cycle; Strategy; Management Systems; Performance; Measurement and Metrics; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Behavior
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      Levers of Control

      Based on a ten-year examination of control systems in over 50 U.S. businesses, this book broadens the definition of control and establishes a critical bridge between the disciplines of strategy and accounting and control. In addition to the more traditional diagnostic... View Details
      • 2021
      • Working Paper

      The Effects of Temporal Distance on Intra-Firm Communication: Evidence from Daylight Savings Time

      By: Jasmina Chauvin, Prithwiraj Choudhury and Tommy Pan Fang
      Cross-border communication costs have plummeted and enabled the global distribution of work, but frictions attributable to distance persist. We estimate the causal effects of temporal distance, i.e., time zone separation between employees, on intra-firm communication,... View Details
      Keywords: Communication Patterns; Time Zones; Geographic Frictions; Knowledge Workers; Multinational Companies; Communication; Multinational Firms and Management; Geographic Location
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      • January 2003 (Revised January 2007)
      • Case

      Guide Dogs for the Blind Association

      By: Allen S. Grossman, Jane Wei-Skillern and Kristin Lieb
      In 2002, Guide Dogs for the Blind Association, the recognized world leader in the breeding and training of guide dogs, was in the midst of broadening its reach and providing additional mobility services. Chief Executive Geraldine Peacock was concerned that systemic... View Details
      Keywords: Transition; Growth and Development Strategy; Resource Allocation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Programs; Networks; Nonprofit Organizations; Competitive Strategy
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      • 2008
      • Working Paper

      Product Development and Learning in Project Teams: The Challenges are the Benefits

      By: Amy C. Edmondson and Ingrid M. Nembhard
      The value of teams in new product development (NPD) is undeniable. Both the interdisciplinary nature of the work and industry trends necessitate that professionals from different functions work together on development projects to create the highest quality product in... View Details
      Keywords: Competency and Skills; Learning; Management Skills; Product Development; Projects; Groups and Teams; Conflict Management; Social and Collaborative Networks
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      • 14 Dec 2015
      • HBS Seminar

      Brian Tomlin, Professor of Business Administration, Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth

      • 16 Apr 2009
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Phenomenological Assumptions and Knowledge Dissemination within Organizational Studies

      Keywords: by Corinne Bendersky & Kathleen L. McGinn
      • 2013
      • Working Paper

      Redrawing the Lines: Did Political Incumbents Influence Electoral Redistricting in the World's Largest Democracy?

      By: Lakshmi Iyer and Maya Reddy
      In 2008, the boundaries of national and state electoral constituencies in India were redrawn for the first time in three decades. We use detailed demographic and electoral data to construct measures of the extent of redistricting in a given constituency. We find the... View Details
      Keywords: Political Elections; India
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      • August 2011
      • Article

      Independent Invention During the Rise of the Corporate Economy in Britain and Japan

      By: Tom Nicholas
      Independent inventors accounted for approximately half of all patents in Britain and Japan by 1930, despite the rise of the corporate economy and the spread of industrial R&D. A mixture of patent renewal and historical citations data reveals that the quality of... View Details
      Keywords: Independent Innovation and Invention; Development Economics; Research and Development; Patents; System; Motivation and Incentives; Tokyo; London; United States
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      • 2021
      • Working Paper

      Changing Ingroup Boundaries: The Effect of Immigration on Race Relations in the U.S.

      By: Vasiliki Fouka and Marco Tabellini
      How do social group boundaries evolve? Does the appearance of a new outgroup change the ingroup's perceptions of other outgroups? We introduce a conceptual framework of context-dependent categorization, in which exposure to one minority leads to recategorization of... View Details
      Keywords: In-group-out-group Relations; Immigration; Race; Attitudes; Boundaries; Prejudice and Bias
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      Overview

      By: Amy C. Edmondson
      My research examines psychological safety and cross-boundary teaming within and between organizations. I am particularly interested in how leaders enable the learning and collaboration that are vital to performance in a dynamic environment. In one stream of my... View Details
      • February 2008 (Revised November 2008)
      • Case

      Radical Collaboration: IBM Microelectronics Joint Development Alliances

      By: Willy Shih, Gary Pisano and Andrew A. King
      IBM's "Radical Collaboration" model has been an innovative approach to meeting the challenges of the huge R&D and capital investments that are needed to stay competitive in the global semiconductor industry. This model has required a rethinking of what is proprietary,... View Details
      Keywords: Cost Management; Investment; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Problems and Challenges; Alliances; Networks; Partners and Partnerships; Research and Development; Competitive Advantage; Semiconductor Industry
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      • 12 Dec 2014
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Bottlenecks, Modules and Dynamic Architectural Capabilities

      Keywords: by Carliss Y. Baldwin
      • July 2023
      • Case

      Moderna: Everything, Everywhere, All at Once

      By: Satish Tadikonda, Shikhar Ghosh and William Marks
      Coming out of the COVID-19 pandemic, Moderna was riding the successes of developing a vaccine in record time and helping stem the tide of the crisis. However, the company had grown at an incredible rate, more than doubled its number of employees, and had to put on hold... View Details
      Keywords: Health Pandemics; Selection and Staffing; Growth Management; Management Succession; Retirement; Technological Innovation; Corporate Strategy; Biotechnology Industry
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      • July 2024
      • Module Note

      The Scope of the Corporation

      By: David J. Collis
      Every company, regardless of size or configuration, has to make decisions about the appropriate scope of its operations. In fact, the issue is so fundamental that Ronald Coase won the Nobel Prize in Economics for merely asking the question, “what determines the scope... View Details
      Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Mission and Purpose
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