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    Self-Managing Organizations: Exploring the limits of less-hierarchical organizing

    Fascination with organizations that eschew the conventional managerial hierarchy and instead radically decentralize authority has been longstanding, albeit at the margins of scholarly and practitioner attention. Recently, however, organizational experiments in... View Details

    • February 1998
    • Case

    Creating the International Trade Organization

    By: David A. Moss, George R. Appling and Andrew D Archer
    In the late 1940s, officials at the U.S. State Department began campaigning for the creation of an International Trade Organization (ITO). This new organization would oversee global negotiations on trade liberalization, foreign direct investment, cartels, and commodity... View Details
    Keywords: Mission and Purpose; Trade; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Globalized Economies and Regions; Agreements and Arrangements; Foreign Direct Investment; Economic Systems; International Relations
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    Moss, David A., George R. Appling, and Andrew D Archer. "Creating the International Trade Organization." Harvard Business School Case 798-057, February 1998.
    • July/August 2004
    • Article

    Stakeholders and Environmental Management Practices: An Institutional Framework

    By: Magali Delmas and Michael W. Toffel
    Despite burgeoning research on companies' environmental strategies and environmental management practices, it remains unclear why some firms adopt environmental management practices beyond regulatory compliance. This paper leverages institutional theory by proposing... View Details
    Keywords: Strategy; Management Practices and Processes; Environmental Management; Adoption; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Organizational Structure; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Competition; Framework; Governance Compliance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
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    Delmas, Magali, and Michael W. Toffel. "Stakeholders and Environmental Management Practices: An Institutional Framework." Business Strategy and the Environment 13, no. 4 (July/August 2004): 209–222.
    • December 1975 (Revised January 1987)
    • Background Note

    Note on Organization Design

    By: Jay W. Lorsch
    Deals with the organizational designer trying to create a structure, rewards, and a system of measurement that are compatible with the external environment, strategy, tasks, the members of the organization, management style, and the existing culture. View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Design
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    Lorsch, Jay W. "Note on Organization Design." Harvard Business School Background Note 476-094, December 1975. (Revised January 1987.)
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    Democratizing Work: Redistributing Power in Organizations for a Democratic and Sustainable Future

    By: Julie Battilana, Julie Yen, Isabelle Ferreras and Lakshmi Ramarajan
    Environmental destruction and social inequalities are increasingly urgent challenges. How can corporations, which have played a key role in creating and reproducing these problems, be part of the solution? In this paper, we advance that a shift to more democratic forms... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Citizenship; Corporate Social Responsibility; CSP; CSR; Domination; Industrial Relations; Power; Resistance; Work; Corporate Governance; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Governance; Power and Influence; Environmental Management; Social Issues
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    Battilana, Julie, Julie Yen, Isabelle Ferreras, and Lakshmi Ramarajan. "Democratizing Work: Redistributing Power in Organizations for a Democratic and Sustainable Future." Organization Theory 3, no. 1 (January–March 2022).
    • 09 Oct 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations

    and Nohria examine how an organization built around the four-drive theory might look. The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you View Details
    Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
    • September 2010 (Revised November 2011)
    • Case

    Salud Digna: Successfully Competing with For-Profit Organizations

    By: Allen S. Grossman and Regina Garcia-Cuellar
    Hugo Moreno, CEO of Salud Digna, was considering his growth options for the next three years. Would becoming a for-profit with access to greater capital be the best strategy or would this cause the organization to lose its social mission? Salud Digna provided... View Details
    Keywords: For-Profit Firms; Health Testing and Trials; Growth and Development Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Nonprofit Organizations; Health Industry; Mexico
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    Grossman, Allen S., and Regina Garcia-Cuellar. "Salud Digna: Successfully Competing with For-Profit Organizations." Harvard Business School Case 311-051, September 2010. (Revised November 2011.)
    • May 1997
    • Teaching Note

    Product Development Process, Organization and Improvement, Instructor's Note

    By: Marco Iansiti
    Explores how development projects fit (or do not fit) within a firm's development strategy and its wider competitive goals. Module materials, and this note, focus on two broad approaches to process design (sequential and flexible) that were originally introduced in the... View Details
    Keywords: Goals and Objectives; Management Practices and Processes; Product Development; Performance Improvement; Competition
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    Iansiti, Marco. "Product Development Process, Organization and Improvement, Instructor's Note." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 697-106, May 1997.
    • 1996
    • Dictionary Entry

    Role; Role Ambiguity; Role Distancing; Role Set; and Role Theory

    By: J. Polzer
    Keywords: Managerial Roles
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    Polzer, J. "Role; Role Ambiguity; Role Distancing; Role Set; and Role Theory." In Blackwell Encyclopedic Dictionary of Organizational Behavior, edited by N. Nicholson. Cambridge, MA: Blackwell Publishers, 1996.
    • 22 Oct 2015
    • Working Paper Summaries

    A Normative Theory of Dynamic Capabilities: Connecting Strategy, Know-How, and Competition

    Keywords: by Gary P. Pisano
    • 13 Feb 2020
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    Open Your Organization to Honest Conversations

    conversations are decidedly not the norm. Nor do those who follow and practice strategic management theory recognize that organizations must be... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • September 2011
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    Taking Gender into Account: Theory and Design for Women's Leadership Development Programs

    By: Robin J. Ely, Herminia Ibarra and Deborah Kolb
    We conceptualize leadership development as identity work and show how subtle forms of gender bias in the culture and in organizations interfere with the identity work of women leaders. Based on this insight, we revisit traditional approaches to standard leadership... View Details
    Keywords: Programs; Prejudice and Bias; Leadership Development; Identity; Organizational Culture; Gender
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    Ely, Robin J., Herminia Ibarra, and Deborah Kolb. "Taking Gender into Account: Theory and Design for Women's Leadership Development Programs." Academy of Management Learning & Education 10, no. 3 (September 2011): 474–493. (Winner, Academy of Management Learning and Education, Decade Award, 2021.)
    • 03 Nov 2015
    • Video

    Harnessing productive tensions in hybrid organizations

    • March 2014
    • Case

    Novartis' Sandoz: Between Generics and Pharma

    By: Krishna Palepu and Carin-Isabel Knoop
    Sandoz, which made a significant investment in bio-similars as a way to differentiate itself from its generic drug industry peers, has to negotiate with its parent company and the innovative pharma division on how best to commercialize its bio-similar portfolio. What... View Details
    Keywords: Global Strategy And Leadership; Managing Within A Multi-Business Organization; Generic Pharmaceuticals; Global Strategy
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    Palepu, Krishna, and Carin-Isabel Knoop. "Novartis' Sandoz: Between Generics and Pharma." Harvard Business School Case 114-033, March 2014.
    • 2025
    • Working Paper

    Centralized Governance in Decentralized Organizations

    By: Lin William Cong, Daniel Rabetti, Charles C.Y. Wang and Yu Yan
    We systematically document governance centralization in decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) and study its drivers and economic implications. Using multiple data sources and granular on-chain transactional data, we compare our findings to those in corporate... View Details
    Keywords: Blockchain; Governance; Voting; Organizations; Financial Services Industry
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    Cong, Lin William, Daniel Rabetti, Charles C.Y. Wang, and Yu Yan. "Centralized Governance in Decentralized Organizations." Working Paper, March 2025.
    • 25 Jul 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    An Organization Your Customers Understand

    constituents, managers must choose their primary customer—and organize accordingly. A constituent is a person or group that receives utility from the value creation process of the View Details
    Keywords: by Robert Simons
    • December 2016
    • Module Note

    Strategy Execution Module 10: Using the Job Design Optimization Tool to Build Effective Organizations

    By: Robert Simons
    This module reading provides directions for using the online Job Design Optimization Tool (JDOT) which is available free of charge from Harvard Business School Publishing at https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/resources/marketing/multimedia/JDOT/index.html. This tool can... View Details
    Keywords: Management Control Systems; Implementing Strategy; Execution; Span Of Control; Span Of Accountability; Performance Measurement; Job Design; Organization Design; Strategy; Entrepreneurship
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    Simons, Robert. "Strategy Execution Module 10: Using the Job Design Optimization Tool to Build Effective Organizations." Harvard Business School Module Note 117-110, December 2016.
    • 04 Sep 2008
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Wellsprings of Creation: Perturbation and the Paradox of the Highly Disciplined Organization

    Keywords: by David James Brunner, Bradley R. Staats, Michael L. Tushman & David M. Upton
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    Risk Management

    The recent proliferation of risk management, as a management control system, and the continuing failures in risk oversight suggest that risk practices warrant further research and understanding.

    My mission, ambition, and indeed passion is to document,... View Details

    • February 2018
    • Case

    Vodafone: Managing Advanced Technologies and Artificial Intelligence

    By: William R. Kerr and Emer Moloney
    Vodafone was operating in the fast-moving telecommunications market where innovation and scale were key. Faced with an onslaught of technological advances—big data, automation, and artificial intelligence—CEO Vittorio Colao reflected on how he should change the... View Details
    Keywords: Technological Innovation; Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Opportunities; Telecommunications Industry
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    Kerr, William R., and Emer Moloney. "Vodafone: Managing Advanced Technologies and Artificial Intelligence." Harvard Business School Case 318-109, February 2018.
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