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    Deborah M. Winshel

    Deborah Winshel is a Senior Lecturer in the General Management Unit of Harvard Business School.  She teaches several MBA required courses: Leadership and Organizational Behavior (LEAD), Leadership and Corporate Accountability and the Field Immersion course (2025 in... View Details

    • 2007
    • Casebook

    Managing School Districts for High Performance: Cases in Public Education Leadership

    By: Stacey Childress, Richard F. Elmore, Allen S. Grossman and Susan Moore Johnson
    Managing School Districts for High Performance brings together more than twenty case studies and other readings that offer a powerful and transformative approach to advancing and sustaining the work of school improvement. At the center of this work is the... View Details
    Keywords: Management; Strategy; Leadership; Public Sector; Organizational Design; Education; Performance Improvement
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    • November–December 2020
    • Article

    Getting Serious About Diversity: Enough Already with the Business Case

    By: Robin Ely and David A. Thomas
    Leaders may mean well when they tout the economic payoffs of hiring more women and people of color, but there is no research support for the notion that diversifying the workforce automatically improves a company’s performance. This article critiques the popular... View Details
    Keywords: Diversity; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Change; Trust
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      Karim R. Lakhani

      Karim R. Lakhani is the Dorothy & Michael Hintze Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He specializes in technology management, innovation, digital transformation and artificial... View Details

      Keywords: biotechnology; communications; computer; health care; high technology; information technology industry; internet; pharmaceuticals; software; video games

        Gary P. Pisano

        Gary Pisano is the Harry E. Figgie, Jr. Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School where he has been on the faculty since 1988. From 2018-2023, Pisano was Harvard Business School’s Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Promotion and... View Details

        Keywords: biotechnology; electronics; health care; manufacturing; pharmaceuticals
        • 08 Oct 2008
        • Research & Ideas

        Book Excerpt: A Sense of Urgency

        mounted, the stock tanked, people were laid off, and some good employees jumped ship. The platform burned for all but the most complacent. Yet the economic collapse meant there was little or no funding left for new plant equipment, a new... View Details
        Keywords: by John P. Kotter
        • November 1983 (Revised October 1989)
        • Case

        Procter & Gamble Europe: Vizir Launch

        By: Christopher A. Bartlett
        Describes P&G's expansion in Europe, including the development of a strong country subsidiary management, responsive to local market differences. The launch of a new product presents strategic and organizational challenges as P&G considers making this their first... View Details
        Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Trade; Business or Company Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Product Launch; Emerging Markets; Organizational Design; Problems and Challenges; Expansion; Europe
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        • 2016
        • Book

        Innovation Policy and the Economy, Volume 17

        By: Shane Greenstein, Josh Lerner and Scott Stern
        The seventeenth volume of the National Bureau of Economic Research’s Innovation Policy and the Economy provides an accessible forum for bringing the work of leading academic researchers to an audience of policymakers and those interested in the interaction... View Details
        Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Governance; Policy; Economy
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        • September 26, 2018
        • Article

        Ownership and Power Structure: Together at Last

        By: Laura Alfaro, Nicholas Bloom, Paola Conconi, Harald Fadinger, Patrick Legros, Andrew Newman, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
        Economists have largely ignored the deep interdependency between integration and delegation. This column describes a new theory of integration and delegation choices aimed at shedding light on how these distinct elements of organizational design interact. Contrary to... View Details
        Keywords: Power; Organisational Design; Economics; Ownership; Organizational Design
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        • 06 Jun 2005
        • Research & Ideas

        Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?

        attention trying to figure out ways to fight this battle. Q: Could you summarize your results? A: First of all, let us make a caveat regarding our approach. Our methodology is formal economic modelling. What this means is that we... View Details
        Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology
        • March–April 2023
        • Article

        The New-Collar Workforce

        By: Colleen Ammerman, Boris Groysberg and Ginni Rometty
        Many workers today are stuck in low-paying jobs, unable to advance simply because they don’t have a bachelor’s degree. At the same time, many companies are desperate for workers and not meeting the diversity goals that could help them perform better while also reducing... View Details
        Keywords: Diversity; Recruitment; Social Issues; Higher Education; Competency and Skills
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        • Research Summary

        Delegation of Authority in Oligopoly

        This paper studies the consequences of product-market competition on firms' decisions to delegate more or fewer decision-making responsibilities to managers. By simultaneously addressing the choice of both competitive actions and organizational design, the paper... View Details

          Ashish Nanda

          Ashish Nanda is Senior Lecturer and C. Roland Christensen Distinguished Management Educator at Harvard Business School. From 2018 to 2021, he was course head for the MBA Required Curriculum course in Strategy. Beginning in 2022, he is teaching an MBA Elective... View Details

          Keywords: accounting industry; advertising; asset management; banking; brokerage; consulting; e-commerce industry; education industry; executive search; financial services; information technology industry; internet; investment banking industry; legal services; management consulting; professional services; real estate; service industry; sports; tourism

            Reza R. Satchu

            Reza Satchu is a Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurship Management Unit at the Harvard Business School where he teaches The Entrepreneurial Manager, The Founder Mindset and Founder Launch. He is also the Founder, Managing Partner and majority shareholder of... View Details

            • 04 Nov 2002
            • Research & Ideas

            From Lone Star to Team Player

            keep rewarding and promoting them. Managers may feel that they need them, of course, as they do perform well. So it is pretty gutsy to fire them in today's rather poor economic environment. But if you're really serious about building a... View Details
            Keywords: by Mallory Stark
            • February 2009 (Revised June 2019)
            • Case

            Cleveland Clinic: Transformation and Growth 2015

            By: Michael E. Porter and Elizabeth O. Teisberg
            The Cleveland Clinic's health care services are internationally renowned for quality. In 2008, The Clinic began to restructure the organization into teams defined around patient needs, rather than traditional medical specialties. "Patients First!" takes shape as the... View Details
            Keywords: Health; Health Care Operations; Health Care Quality; Health Care; Strategy And Leadership; Strategy Development; Health Care and Treatment; Leading Change; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Measurement and Metrics; Service Delivery; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Outcome or Result; Health Industry; Cleveland
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            • 05 Dec 2005
            • What Do You Think?

            Is Growth Good?

            growth targeted. In fact, many kinds of growth offer great returns while requiring little or none of the world’s resources, therefore having seemingly few limits. Fran Henry makes the case for economic growth when she says,... View Details
            Keywords: by James Heskett
            • 07 Jun 2011
            • First Look

            First Look: June 7

            operates. Through text narrative, cases, and readings, the authors skillfully examine the development of strategy, organizational capabilities, and management challenges for operating in the global economy. Preview the book:... View Details
            Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
            • Research Summary

            Non-Financial Incentives

            My research shows how firms combine many facets of internal governance to motivate managers. A perspective that underlies much of my research is that managers are not motivated by financial rewards alone: “it’s not just about the... View Details

            • Research Summary

            Understanding the Drivers and Limits of Corporate Growth

            By: Gary P. Pisano

            Perhaps no issues garners more attention of senior executives and Boards of Directors than growth.  Yet, the underlying factors shaping and limiting corporate growth are poorly understood.  Empirically, we know that some corporations grow much faster than... View Details