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  • June 2004 (Revised May 2005)
  • Case

World Vision International's AIDS Initiative: Challenging a Global Partnership

By: Christopher A. Bartlett and Daniel F. Curran
After 25 years of building a network of interdependent, national organizations delivering relief and development that are responsive to local needs, World Vision's International office is planning to implement a major global HIV/AIDS initiative that challenges the... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Decision Choices and Conditions; Globalized Markets and Industries; Governing and Advisory Boards; Management Systems; Networks; Partners and Partnerships; Welfare; Adaptation
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  • August 2014
  • Article

The Varied Work of Challenger Movements: Identifying Challenger Roles in the U.S. Environmental Movement

By: Stephanie Bertels, Andrew J. Hoffman and Rich Dejordy
Organizations within challenger movements often exhibit differences in what they do, with whom they interact, and how they understand or present themselves. This article attempts to understand what underlies such heterogeneity in challenger movements. Adopting a mixed... View Details
Keywords: Status and Position; Environmental Management; Non-Governmental Organizations; Social and Collaborative Networks
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  • 2009
  • Chapter

Organizational Design: Balancing Search and Stability in Strategic Decision Making

By: Jan Rivkin and Nicolaj Siggelkow
Managers often must make decisions that depend on decisions in other parts of the organization. These interactions create a network of interdependent choices and make strategizing difficult. In this chapter, the authors explore the intersection between organizing and... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Design; Strategy; Balance and Stability
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  • 2009
  • Other Unpublished Work

When Weak Ties and Social Alternatives Benefit Organizational Commitment: Evidence from Wikipedia

This study examines the social mechanisms reinforcing participant commitment to collaborative work. Previous literature largely fails to acknowledge the wider context of individual workplace commitments, or suggests that multiple concurrent work and life commitments... View Details
Keywords: Social and Collaborative Networks
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  • 13 Aug 2020
  • Blog Post

The U.S. Job Search for International Students

do international students approach the U.S. job search? As a student, it is important to understand the timing of recruiting for a given industry or company, and the degree of networking that you will have to undertake in the job search,... View Details
  • June 2010
  • Article

Change for Change's Sake

By: Freek Vermeulen, Phanish Puranam and Ranjay Gulati
No one disputes that firms have to make organizational changes when the business environment demands them. But the idea that a firm might want change for its own sake often provokes skepticism. Why inflict all that pain if you don't have to? That is a dangerous... View Details
Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Innovation and Invention; Leading Change; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Creativity; Power and Influence; Adaptation
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    Taking Innovation to the Streets: Microgeography, Physical Structure, and Innovation

    In this paper, I analyze how the physical layout of cities affects innovation by influencing the organization of knowledge exchange. I exploit a novel data set covering all census block groups in the contiguous United States with information on innovation outcomes,... View Details

    • 24 Sep 2019
    • Blog Post

    Launching a Career in Clean Energy

    Established in 2010, the HBS Business & Environment Initiative (BEI) works to deepen understanding of the environmental challenges facing business leaders and inspire new ideas and practical, effective solutions. BEI has established a View Details

      NGOs and Organizational Change

      The organizational dynamics of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have become increasingly complex as they have evolved from small local groups into sophisticated multinational organizations with global networks. Alnoor... View Details

        California Fair Trade: Antitrust and the Politics of 'Fairness' in U.S. Competition Policy

        In the decades before World War II, U.S. antitrust law was anything but settled. Considerable pressure for antitrust revision came from the states. A perhaps unlikely leader, Edna Gleason, organized California's retail pharmacists and coordinated trade networks to... View Details

        • Article

        California Fair Trade: Antitrust and the Politics of 'Fairness' in U.S. Competition Policy

        By: Laura Phillips Sawyer
        In the decades before World War II, U.S. antitrust law was anything but settled. Considerable pressure for antitrust revision came from the states. A perhaps unlikely leader, Edna Gleason, organized California's retail pharmacists and coordinated trade networks to... View Details
        Keywords: Competition; Fairness; Laws and Statutes; Policy; United States
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        • July 2010 (Revised September 2012)
        • Case

        Public Architecture

        By: Lakshmi Ramarajan, Christopher Marquis and Bobbi Thomason
        Public Architecture is a non-profit architecture company dedicated to creating social and professional change through design for the public good. Public has focused on three strategies to create change: 1) promoting the design community's commitment to pro bono work,... View Details
        Keywords: Design; Innovation and Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Nonprofit Organizations; Business Strategy; Integration
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        • 05 Jul 2006
        • Working Paper Summaries

        Information Technology Ecosystem Health and Performance

        Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Gregory L. Richards; Technology
        • December 2004 (Revised October 2005)
        • Case

        Intel Research: Exploring the Future

        By: Alan D. MacCormack and Kerry Herman
        It is 2004 and David Tennenhouse, the director of Intel Research, is reviewing the organization he has built since 2000. Intel Research was charged with exploring new and disruptive technologies that lay off the "silicon roadmap" that drove most of Intel's R&D efforts.... View Details
        Keywords: Disruptive Innovation; Technological Innovation; Research and Development; Performance Evaluation; Venture Capital; Technology Networks; Semiconductor Industry; United States
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        • January 2013
        • Case

        Omidyar Network: Pioneering Impact Investment

        By: Michael Chu and Lauren Barley
        Omidyar Network, having deployed to date over $500 million in ways ranging from donations to commercial equity capital, must decide whether to back Anudip, an Indian organization dedicated to providing the rural unemployed and marginalized with livelihoods linked to... View Details
        Keywords: Social Enterprise; Social Entrepreneurship; Investment; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; India
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        • 29 Jun 2010
        • First Look

        First Look: June 29

        crisis, in contrast, fared less satisfactorily abroad. Second, multinationals that engaged in activities with vertical production linkages or stronger financial constraints exhibited particularly better responses compared to local firms. Finally, being part of a larger... View Details
        Keywords: Martha Lagace

          Jacqueline Ng Lane

          Jackie Lane is an Assistant Professor in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School and a co-Principal Investigator of the Laboratory for Innovation Science at Harvard (LISH) at the Digital Data Design Institute (D^3) at Harvard. She... View Details

          • 16 Apr 2012
          • Research & Ideas

          The Inner Workings of Corporate Headquarters

          "black box." Peering Into The Black Box In a new working paper written with Adam M. Kleinbaum (HBS DBA'08) of Dartmouth's Tuck School of Business, titled Inside the Black Box of Corporate Staff: Social Networks and the... View Details
          Keywords: by Michael Blanding
          • April 2012
          • Article

          Change Agents, Networks, and Institutions: A Contingency Theory of Organizational Change

          By: Julie Battilana and Tiziana Casciaro
          We develop a contingency theory for how structural closure in a network, defined as the extent to which an actor's network contacts are connected to one another, affects the initiation and adoption of change in organizations. Using longitudinal survey data supplemented... View Details
          Keywords: Networks; Theory; Organizations; Change
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            Robert Simons

            Robert Simons is a Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School. For over 35 years, Simons has taught accounting, management control, and strategy execution courses in both the Harvard MBA and Executive Education Programs. For 2024/25, he is teaching a... View Details