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    Ralph J. Cordiner

    Cordiner established the decentralized management structure at General Electric in the 50’s – an organizational structure that still exists today and is often cited as one of GE’s most important assets. Cordiner generated top market value... View Details
    Keywords: Fabricated Goods

      John W. Brown

      by 2004, and the number of employees increased from 325 to 15,000 during the same time period. Brown steadfastly expanded the company’s product lines and introduced an effective decentralized management structure as the company grew. View Details
      Keywords: Healthcare

        Jean Riboud

        Riboud is credited with building the world’s leading oilfield testing company. During his tenure, he produced a 19-fold increase in revenue (to $6.4 billion) and a 44-fold increase in earnings (to $1.2 billion), often producing results that were the best in the world.... View Details
        Keywords: Utilities & Energy

          Charles Edward Wilson

          Under Wilson’s leadership, a totally new organizational structure was put in place at GE, one that was a decentralized collection of six autonomous divisions. Wilson also began a controversial aggressive anti-union campaign at GE that... View Details
          Keywords: Fabricated Goods

            John D. Nichols

            Though not a name brand, Illinois Tool Works, a manufacturer of component industrial parts, has been recognized by Wall Street and Fortune for superior financial and management performance. Much of that credit is due to Nichols. He established a strong View Details
            Keywords: Fabricated Goods

              Thomas J. Watson, Jr.

              decentralized structure, IBM continued to expand further, acquiring ten new plants in a span of 6 years and increasing foreign investment. Watson also continued to invest heavily in research and development, and IBM came to control 80... View Details
              Keywords: Computers & Electronics
              • 01 Mar 2024
              • News

              What is Web3?

              secure, and decentralized framework where individuals own, and have greater control and sovereignty over, their digital assets and interactions within the digital realm. Blocks and Blockchains The foundational technology of Web3 is the... View Details
              • 01 Mar 2003
              • News

              “Culture Is Everything”

              culture. As a student at HBS, for example, he didn’t take his courses in human behavior seriously. Now, he said, he understands that “culture is everything.” Culture, in fact, was IBM’s problem. “The behavior, values, and systems were created for another age,” he said,... View Details
              Keywords: IBM; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing
              • 16 Aug 2011
              • First Look

              First Look: August 16

              aggregate productivity by affecting the organization of firms. To do this we collect new data on the decentralization of investment, hiring, production, and sales decisions from Corporate Headquarters to local plant managers in almost... View Details
              Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
              • 31 Oct 2004
              • What Do You Think?

              Should the Wisdom of Crowds Influence Our Thinking About Leadership?

              effective, have to have three characteristics: diversity of points of view, independence from each other's opinions, and decentralization (with access to and the ability to draw on "local knowledge"). And they have to have some... View Details
              Keywords: by James Heskett
              • 12 Jul 2022
              • News

              Expanding the Power to Prosper

              send money home to help their families, for example. The blockchain could change all of that though, and cryptocurrencies could empower anyone with a smartphone to have access to an equitable set of financial tools. “Through decentralized... View Details
              Keywords: Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

                Donald V. Fites

                During his tenure as CEO, Fites grew Caterpillar, the world’s #1 producer of earth-moving machinery, from a $10 billion company to a $20 billion plus company. Fites successfully implemented a $1.8 billion modernization program to cut costs and raise profits. Fites’... View Details
                Keywords: Construction & Real Estate

                  Robert W. Johnson, Jr.

                  Johnson established J&J management policies, including the “credo,” which still exists today. He decentralized the company during the 1930s by dividing it into a number of small divisions, each responsible for a few products. As part... View Details
                  Keywords: Healthcare
                  • 20 May 2013
                  • Op-Ed

                  Making America an Industrial Powerhouse Again

                  National Institutes of Health, the NNMI is following a decentralized model, with different institutes to be located in different parts of the US. Decentralization has its advantages (e.g., less bureaucracy),... View Details
                  Keywords: by Gary Pisano; Manufacturing
                  • 01 Dec 2013
                  • News

                  Innovation as Antidote

                  leaders and academics, the forum identified a number of important challenges, and offered five "key imperatives" for progress—from making value the central objective to decentralizing care delivery. Several HBS alumni and faculty members... View Details
                  Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
                  • 01 Dec 2003
                  • News

                  Nonprofits: Choosing a Path for Growth

                  Social enterprises are traditionally organized along one of two lines: The affiliation model favors decentralized control, while the branch model concentrates control at a central headquarters. In analyzing some three hundred social... View Details
                  • 24 Apr 2014
                  • News

                  Corporate venture funds invested wisely can propel a company forward

                  In researching R&D funding at large corporations, Josh Lerner (PhD/PMD 62, 1991), the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking, noted a recent trend toward decentralizing research functions and slashing research budgets. The... View Details
                  • 01 Sep 2018
                  • News

                  Research Brief: Where Top-Down Tops Out

                  recent study, “The Impact of CEOs in the Public Sector: Evidence from the English NHS,” Associate Professor Raffaella Sadun and her coauthors conclude that a singular leader is far less effective in these large and complex public hospitals. The View Details
                  Keywords: Jennifer Myers
                  • 01 Feb 2000
                  • Research & Ideas

                  Keeping Track: Performance Measurement, Control & Strategy

                  threaten their company's franchise or strategy. Is the firm hiring lots of new people who may not be well trained? Is the culture so internally competitive that employees may be tempted to do the wrong thing? Are information systems in place that can support the whole... View Details
                  Keywords: Re: Robert Simons
                  • Web

                  Entrepreneurship in Life Sciences - Course Catalog

                  exploration may include emerging opportunities in pharma & biotech, medical device & diagnostics advances, and related topics such as digital therapeutics, platform technologies, use of real-world evidence, data and computing, AI and GenAI, View Details
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