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  • 2009
  • Chapter

Company Strategy: Business Model Reconfiguration for Innovation and Internationalization

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Joan E. Ricart
Keywords: Business Strategy; Business Model; Competitive Advantage; Innovation and Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Globalized Firms and Management
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  • March 2007 (Revised May 2012)
  • Case

PRG-Schultz International

By: Paul W. Marshall and James Weber
PRG-Schultz will run out of cash within a couple of months unless the new CEO can reduce costs and restructure the company's debt. PRG was the dominant market leader in the audit recovery industry. The industry consisted of firms which employed accounting professionals... View Details
Keywords: History; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leadership; Restructuring; Cost Management; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Borrowing and Debt; Accounting Audits; Accounting Industry
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  • January 1994 (Revised June 1996)
  • Case

Problems at InSpeech

By: Lynn S. Paine
InSpeech, Inc., the largest U.S. provider of speech, occupational, and physical therapists to nursing homes and hospitals, is faltering badly. The company is having trouble retaining its frontline employees--the clinicians who deliver its services--and its customers.... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business Strategy; Problems and Challenges; Health Care and Treatment; Crisis Management; Mission and Purpose; Values and Beliefs; Health Industry
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  • 20 May 2020
  • Blog Post

Jeff Surette and Mike Peters: A Winning Team at TB12

online, and Surette is embracing his role as an organizational leader. For Peters, the key learning at HBS was changing his way of solving problems. “In the Navy and in regulatory consulting, there was a... View Details
  • 21 Nov 2006
  • First Look

First Look: November 21, 2006

Kathryn S. Roloff Abstract The emergence of a research literature on team learning has been driven by at least two factors. First, longstanding interest in what makes organizational work teams effective leads naturally to questions of how... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Dec 2006
  • First Look

First Look: December 19, 2006

new way of looking at the traditional organizational structure of cost and profit centers. Every unit, by contributing to effective strategy execution, has the opportunity to support and create profit. This capability has important... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 May 2015
  • First Look

First Look: May 26

for two completely different reasons. The first is a change in technology that reduces the value of co-location (stickiness). This tends to lead to the decoupling of design and production activities and to a broad geographic diffusion of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 26, 2007

also apparent using only portfolio investment responses to within-country corporate tax rate changes in a panel from 1994 to 2005. Investors appear to alter their portfolio choices to circumvent home and host country institutional... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Oct 2011
  • What Do You Think?

How Will the ‘Moneyball Generation’ Influence Management?

more analytics won't change their skill set. You have to be a player first." Pete DeLisi added, "We also need to counterbalance analytics with the ability to see the big picture analytics can't be divorced from an understanding... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 01 Jun 2003
  • News

Ruling from the Bench

sharpened my analytical skills, which was invaluable for law school and beyond,” she says. “I also greatly enjoyed the courses on organizational behavior and production — some of those lessons were useful later on, when I had to preside... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Justice, Public Order, and Safety Activities; Government
  • 01 Jan 2008
  • News

Jeffrey R. Immelt, MBA 1982

relationships. I thought Organizational Behavior was for wimps. Now, it’s a large part of what I do.” CURRENT READING The Steel Wave: A Novel of World War II, by Jeff Shaara “In business, the notion of ‘leave us alone and let us make... View Details
  • May 2007
  • Article

Location Strategies and Knowledge Spillovers

By: Juan Alcacer and Wilbur Chung
Given the importance of proximity for knowledge spillovers, we examine firms' location choices expecting differences in firms' strategies. Firms will locate to maximize their net spillovers as a function of locations' knowledge activity, their own capabilities, and... View Details
Keywords: Business Strategy; Corporate Strategy; For-Profit Firms; Knowledge Management; Research and Development; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Disruptive Innovation; Five Forces Framework; Cost Management; Technology; Competition; United States
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  • November 2009
  • Article

What Would Peter Say?

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter
Heeding the wisdom of Peter Drucker might have helped us avoid - and will help us solve - numerous challenges, from restoring trust in business to tackling climate change. He issued early warnings about excessive executive pay, the auto industry's failure to adapt and... View Details
Keywords: Judgments; Employee Relationship Management; Leadership; Goals and Objectives; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; Business and Shareholder Relations
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  • 18 Sep 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

growth, voting rules, and media consumption, vs. individual factors, such as race and education. We use individual-level panel data covering the vast majority of the U.S. voting-age population from 2008 to 2014 and track changes in... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 31 Jan 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017

which finds (a) a shift in the object of observation from organizational outcomes to the detailed individual activities within them; (b) a shift from people observing the technology to technology observing people; and (c) a split in the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • February 2008 (Revised September 2010)
  • Case

Enterprise Culture in Chinese History: Zhang Jian and the Dasheng Cotton Mills

By: Elisabeth Koll
This case focuses on the legal and managerial evolution of limited-liability firms in China, using the example of the Dasheng cotton mills in Nantong near Shanghai. Dasheng, one of the earliest and most successful industrial enterprises in pre-war China, was founded by... View Details
Keywords: History; Law; Organizational Culture; Family Ownership; State Ownership; Corporate Governance; Financial Crisis; Business and Government Relations; Entrepreneurship; Change; Manufacturing Industry; Shanghai; China
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  • 11 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 11, 2007

future lock-in can arise without changing the structure of a should-choice, but by just changing people's temporal focus. Finally, we provide evidence that the should self operates at a higher construal... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Feb 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Evolving for Success [Part One]

Kanter, an authority on organizational change who advises major corporations and governments on these very issues, lays out a blueprint to help readers get a handle on work, and life, in an increasingly... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 16 Dec 2008
  • First Look

First Look: December 16, 2008

  Working PapersSilent Saboteurs: How Implicit Theories of Voice Inhibit the Upward Flow of Knowledge in Organizations Authors:James R. Detert and Amy C. Edmondson Abstract This article examines, in a series of three studies, how people working in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 28

to see a complex technical system in an abstract way and change the system's structure by rearranging its components. In this paper, I argue that the essence of dynamic architectural capabilities lies in the effective management of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel