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- 1994
- Working Paper
What is the Optimum Amount of Organizational Slack? A Study of the Relationships between Slack and Innovation in Multinational Firms
- January 1994
- Case
ABC Sales and Service Division: A Case Study of Personal and Organizational Transformation
- June 1991 (Revised April 1995)
- Background Note
Corporate Strategy: A Conceptual Framework
- November 1989 (Revised February 1992)
- Case
Ford Motor Co.: Dealer Sales and Service
- October 1981
- Background Note
Note on Rewards Systems
- 1970
- Book
Studies in Organization Design
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Nanda is working on a project that studies how management of conflict of interest influences professional identity, the role of professional associations, and the... View Details
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- Article
Centralization and Organization Reproduction: Ethnic Innovation in R&D Centers and Satellite Locations
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Current Research
Professor John is a behavioral scientist who uses both laboratory and field experiments to investigate questions that are at the intersection of marketing, organizational behavior, and public policy.
Professor John’s work has been published in leading... View Details
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Customer-Centricity as a Vehicle for Organic Growth
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Designing Productive Zones of Privacy
A common theme that integrates my research and course development is how increasingly transparent workplaces can improve productivity and performance by putting up certain boundaries to observation. While the research above empirically and theoretically explores the... View Details
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Divergent change in organizations
The first stream of research in Professor Battilana’s work aims to identify the conditions that enable individual actors to initiate divergent change within organizations as well as the conditions enabling successful implementation of such change. It combines... View Details
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Energy, IT, real estate, and sustainability
Professor Henderson’s current research focuses on the energy, information technology, and real estate sectors and the challenges firms encounter as they attempt to act in more sustainable ways. This work is an outgrowth of her decade-long examination of the... View Details
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Hybrid organizing
While historically the commercial and social sectors have evolved on fairly separate tracks, over the last 30 years we have witnessed a blurring of the boundaries between these two sectors. In an effort to account for this transition, Professor Battilana’s second... View Details
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Leadership and Organizational Behavior (LEAD)
Professor Bernstein taught Leadership and Organizational Behavior (LEAD) from 2013-2016 (7 sections). This course focuses on how managers become effective leaders by addressing the human side of enterprise.
The course is divided into five modules:
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Management Control Systems in Multiunit Companies
Professor Sandino conducts research on early-stage multiunit companies that introduce management control systems to help maintain operations, as well as company culture, as they grow, but also to enable adaptation to the different markets that they serve. Building... View Details
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Mastering Strategy Execution
Professor Robert Simons’ research encompasses three areas of management accountability that are the foundation for successful strategy execution: organization design, performance measurement and control, and risk management. In addition, Simons is interested in the... View Details