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  • 08 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 8, 2007

firms will have a new CEO within the next four years; your company could very well be next. Senior executives know that a CEO transition means they're in for a round of firings, organizational reshuffles, and other unwelcome career... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Jul 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Airplane Design Brings Out the Class Warfare in Us All

football stadium, a cruise ship—where people are segmented by rank of some sort. Norton co-authored the study, Physical and Situational Inequality on Airplanes Predicts Air Rage, with Katherine A. DeCelles, an associate professor of View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Air Transportation; Sports; Travel
  • 01 Mar 2013
  • News

Sizing Up Social Impact

influence an organization can have on social factors beyond its boundaries." Most research on organizational performance focuses on cause-and-effect situations that assume degrees of linearity and control that exist only in limited... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Crop Production; Agriculture; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities
  • 09 May 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 9

organizational differences could account for about 16% of international differences in post-crisis GDP growth. Platforms, Open/User Innovation, and Ecosystems: A Strategic Leadership Perspective By: Altman, Elizabeth J., and Michael L.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Aug 2013
  • First Look

First Look: August 20

construction technologies, residential and commercial buildings remain stubbornly energy inefficient. This book looks beyond the technological and material aspects of green construction to examine the cultural, social, and organizational... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 18 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 18

Abstract—Innovation has traditionally taken place within an organization's boundaries and/or with selected partners. This Chandlerian approach to innovation has been rooted in transaction costs, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2003
  • News

Up Against The Firewall

place the same level of security that they would for any vital resource. You don’t have to be doing important business across boundaries to have somebody break in and do a significant amount of damage. There’s not a simple, one–stop thing... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Robert Austin; Corporate Services; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services
  • 09 Feb 2016
  • First Look

February 9, 2016

entrepreneurship in organizational sectors. Prior research suggests that firm foundings are driven by collective patterns of activity—that is, by patterns of prior foundings—including support from related markets as well as institutional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 28

structure of the firm, especially its organizational boundaries and property rights. Although these tools involve disparate bodies of knowledge, they must be used in tandem to achieve maximum effect.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 17 Dec 2013
  • First Look

First Look: December 17

Information Costs Approach Zero By: Altman, Elizabeth J., Frank Nagle, and Michael L. Tushman Abstract—Innovation has traditionally taken place within an organization's boundaries and/or with selected partners. This Chandlerian approach... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 16 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018

Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 5 Complementarity By: Baldwin, Carliss Y. Abstract—The purpose of this chapter is to relate the theory of task networks and technology set forth in previous chapters to theories of firm View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Dec 2010
  • News

Innovation Takes Center Stage

“business is an extraordinary force for good.” While Nohria earned a chemical engineering degree from prestigious IIT Bombay, he harbored a dream of becoming an entrepreneur even as he applied to a doctoral program at MIT. At MIT, he discovered his love for the field... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
  • 15 Jan 2013
  • First Look

First Look: January 15

  PublicationsThe Future of Organization Design Authors:Baldwin, Carliss Y. Publication:Journal of Organization Design Abstract The modern corporation has long been the central focus of the field of organization design. Such firms can be likened to nation-states: they... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 24, 2009

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=709043 One Firm One Future at Davis Langdon Harvard Business School Case 409-044 Rob Smith, senior partner of construction consultancy Davis Langdon, has just led the firm through a major View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Jul 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn

understand what your customers really buy and how. In many B2B selling situations, for example, there is an organizational boundary between customer personnel who see the value and those who see the price... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail; Consumer Products
  • 20 Dec 2011
  • First Look

First Look: December 20

Morris, and Leonard Lee Publication:Journal of Organizational Behavior (forthcoming) Abstract This research investigates a new type of team that is becoming prevalent in global work settings, namely, self-managing multicultural teams. We... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 07 Sep 2011
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First Look: Sept. 7

use loan-level data to study how the organizational structure of banks impacts small business lending. We find that decentralized banks—where branch managers have greater autonomy over lending decisions—give larger loans to small firms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 2

treating both its suppliers and its blue collar workforce as homogeneous, interchangeable entities as well as its view that expertise could be partitioned so that there was minimal overlap of knowledge amongst functions or levels in the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Dec 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 7

variables are you tracking? How are you creating accountability for performance on those variables? (4) What strategic boundaries have you set? Does everyone know what actions are off-limits? (5) How are you generating creative tension?... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 29, 2008

weaknesses relative to other top schools, the political challenges of organizational change, and the most appropriate strategy for the Dean to follow. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace