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  • March 2007
  • Article

Local Company Politics: A Proposal

By: Raymond Fisman and Eric D. Werker
Corrupt politicians, and poor government more generally, are commonly viewed as a primary barrier to economic progress. The roots to these problems run deep in many political systems across the developing world, and attempts at reform have rarely found much success.... View Details
Keywords: Behavior
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  • 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
  • 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

    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

    • 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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    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

    • 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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    • 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
    • 1998
    • Book

    The Multinational Traders

    By: Geoffrey Jones
    This book examines the history and theory of multinational trading companies. The essays in this volume demonstrate the importance of trading companies in trade and investment flows in the world economy from the nineteenth century to the present day. The empirical... View Details
    Keywords: Company History; Trade; Globalization; Books; Organizational Structure; Perspective; Diversification; Theory; Asia; Europe; United States
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      Crystal Guo

      Crystal Guo is a doctoral student in the Health Policy Management PhD program at Harvard. Prior to pursuing her PhD, Crystal received her B.A. in English and Economics from the University of California, Berkeley in 2019 and completed her Health Policy and Management,... View Details
      Keywords: health care

        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
        • 10 Jan 2012
        • Working Paper Summaries

        The Evolving Basis for Legitimacy of the World Trade Organization: Dispute Settlement and the Rebalancing of Global Interests

        Keywords: by Arthur Daemmrich
        • 25 Feb 2002
        • Research & Ideas

        The Country Effect: Does Location Matter?

        market driven structure. The blending of national cultures over time in Hong Kong, where a high level of economic success has been recorded, may ultimately hurt the performance of companies in that country. H.K. firms have not developed a... View Details
        Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
        • 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

        • 06 Oct 2016
        • HBS Seminar

        John Van Reenen, MIT Sloan School of Management

        • 03 May 2010
        • Research & Ideas

        What Is the Future of MBA Education?

        “Rebalancing must occur." -Srikant Datar "Increasingly, we believe, business schools are at a crossroads and will have to take a hard look at their value propositions," the authors write in the introduction. "This was true before the View Details
        Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education
        • 2024
        • Working Paper

        Corporate Culture Homogeneity and Top Executive Incentive Design: Evidence from CEO Compensation Contracts

        By: Dennis Campbell, Ruidi Shang and Zhifang Zhang
        We examine how corporate cultures characterized by high degrees of homogeneity in the underlying values and beliefs of organizational members are related to the design of CEO incentive compensation contracts. We argue that culture homogeneity within firms lowers... View Details
        Keywords: Corporate Culture; Compensation Design; Accounting; Management Control; Incentive Systems; Organizational Culture; Job Design and Levels; Governance; Executive Compensation; Motivation and Incentives
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        • 28 Jun 2007
        • Working Paper Summaries

        Alignment in Cross-Functional and Cross-Firm Supply Chain Planning

        Keywords: by Santiago Kraiselburd & Noel Watson
        • July 2016
        • Article

        Do Prices Determine Vertical Integration?

        By: Laura Alfaro, Paola Conconi, Harald Fadinger and Andrew F. Newman
        What is the relationship between product prices and vertical integration? While the literature has focused on how integration affects prices, this paper provides evidence that prices can affect integration. Many theories in organizational economics and industrial... View Details
        Keywords: Price; Vertical Integration; Product
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        • 2014
        • Working Paper

        Entrepreneurship as Experimentation

        By: William R. Kerr, Ramana Nanda and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
        Entrepreneurship research is on the rise but many questions about its fundamental nature still exist. We argue that entrepreneurship is about experimentation: the probabilities of success are low, extremely skewed and unknowable until an investment is made. At a macro... View Details
        Keywords: Experiments; Innovation; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention
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