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- 2021
- Working Paper
Being the Boss: Gig Workers' Value of Flexible Work
By: Laura Katsnelson and Felix Oberholzer-Gee
Workers who join the gig economy face a challenging trade-off. Gig work provides worktime flexibility and a sense of being one’s own boss, but gig workers forgo certain protections that employees enjoy. In this paper, we study the work patterns of a large sample of... View Details
Keywords: Gig Workers; Flexible Work Arrangements; Worker Welfare; Labor; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
Katsnelson, Laura, and Felix Oberholzer-Gee. "Being the Boss: Gig Workers' Value of Flexible Work." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-124, May 2021.
- 05 May 2022
- HBS Conference
Gender and Work Symposium
- 2019
- Chapter
Teams and Team Effectiveness in Health Services Organizations
By: Bruce J. Fried and Amy C. Edmondson
Book Abstract: Completely updated to address the challenges faced by modern health care organizations, this edition of Shortell and Kaluzny's Health Care Management: Organization Design and Behavior offers a more global perspective on how the United States and... View Details
Fried, Bruce J., and Amy C. Edmondson. "Teams and Team Effectiveness in Health Services Organizations." Chap. 5 in Shortell & Kaluzny's Health Care Management: Organization Design and Behavior. 7th ed., edited by Lawton Robert Burns, Elizabeth H. Bradley, and Bryan Jeffrey Weiner, 98–131. Boston, MA: Cengage Learning, 2019.
- 07 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
Fostering Candor in Teams and Organizations
organizational culture can be established and communicated. An organization may have an environment that encourages casual dress to promote individuality and comfort, it could... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- Teaching Interest
Designing Winning Organizations
The course focuses on only one thing: how to design an organization that executes strategy better than competitors. This course will not teach you how to formulate strategy. Instead, taking strategy as given, you will learn the practical tools, tips, and techniques... View Details
- January 2004 (Revised July 2006)
- Background Note
Incentives within Organizations
By: Brian J. Hall
Serves as a brief introduction to incentive design and implementation. The analysis first locates incentive strategy within the larger structure of organizations and markets and then helps to define the central components and difficulties of incentive design. Focuses... View Details
Hall, Brian J. "Incentives within Organizations." Harvard Business School Background Note 904-043, January 2004. (Revised July 2006.)
- Book Review
Challenges and Opportunities Facing Nonprofit Organizations
By: Arthur C. Brooks
Brooks, Arthur C. "Challenges and Opportunities Facing Nonprofit Organizations." Public Administration Review 63, no. 4 (July 2003): 503–506. (A review of The State of Nonprofit America by Lester M. Salamon, On Being Nonprofit: A Conceptual and Policy Primer by Peter Frumkin, and Pathways to Nonprofit Excellence by Paul C. Light.)
- 05 Jun 2018
- HBS Conference
Information, Markets, and Organizations Conference 2018
- 09 Jun 2025
- HBS Conference
Information, Markets, and Organizations Conference (IMO)
- 05 Apr 2024
- News
Classroom Culture and Norms Working Group Q+A
- Spring 1992
- Article
Student Environmental Organizations
By: Julian Keniry and Brian Trelstad
On campuses around the country, student groups are discovering the benefits of working on projects in cooperation with campus officials. View Details
Keniry, Julian, and Brian Trelstad. "Student Environmental Organizations." New Directions for Higher Education, no. 77 (Spring 1992): 103–112.
- Article
Environmental and Organization Context and Executive Team Characteristics
By: S. Keck and Michael Tushman
Keck, S., and Michael Tushman. "Environmental and Organization Context and Executive Team Characteristics." Academy of Management Journal 36, no. 6 (December 1993): 1314–1344.
- August 2021
- Article
(Un)sustainability and Organization Studies: Towards a Radical Engagement
By: Seray Ergane, Subhabrata Bobby Banerjee and Andrew J. Hoffman
In this essay, we trace the evolution of the field of sustainability in management and organization studies and narrate its epistemological twists and turns. Concerned by the current trajectory that tends to diminish a focus on political concerns, we propose a new... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Perspective; Organizational Change and Adaptation
Ergane, Seray, Subhabrata Bobby Banerjee, and Andrew J. Hoffman. "(Un)sustainability and Organization Studies: Towards a Radical Engagement." Organization Studies 42, no. 8 (August 2021): 1319–1335.
- March 2016
- Case
N12 Technologies: Building an Organization and Building a Business
By: David A. Garvin and Aldo Sesia
N12 Technologies was a startup founded in 2010 that employed nanotechnology to manufacture a patented material to improve the performance of carbon fiber composites, which were used in a wide variety of products, ranging from bicycles to automobiles to aircraft parts.... View Details
Keywords: Startup; Organizational Structure; Nanotechnology; Business Processes; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Design; Management Systems; Commercialization; Industrial Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Auto Industry; Bicycle Industry; Transportation Industry; United States
Garvin, David A., and Aldo Sesia. "N12 Technologies: Building an Organization and Building a Business." Harvard Business School Case 316-002, March 2016.
- summer 1998
- Article
The Processes of Organization and Management
By: David A. Garvin
Keywords: Management
Garvin, David A. "The Processes of Organization and Management." MIT Sloan Management Review 39, no. 4 (summer 1998).
- 30 May 2016
- HBS Conference
Information, Markets, and Organizations Conference 2016
- 11 Jun 2013
- HBS Conference