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- 13 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55048 From Immigrants to Americans: Race and Assimilation During the Great Migration By: Fouka, Vasiliki, Soumyajit Mazumder, and Marco Tabellini Abstract—How does the appearance of a new out-group affect the economic,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Leadership Execution and Action Planning (LEAP) - Course Catalog
the right leadership team. Addressing conflicting organizational culture issues and retaining key talent. Module 2: Turnarounds in For-Profit and Non-Profit Organizations Turnarounds represent a high-risk execution challenge for leaders.... View Details
- 07 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 7
competition. Their winning concept for the Water Cube combined elements of Chinese culture with innovative materials and sustainability requirements. The multidisciplinary and cross-company team, based in Sydney, Australia with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Organizational Model for Open Source
foundations in the hacker culture appears to be a contradiction in terms? O'Mahony: The hacker culture prizes autonomy and self-determination. Eric Raymond defines hackers as those who love programming for... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- Profile
Ruzwana Bashir
have websites and less than 20% have online booking,) What are your current challenges with Peek? Scaling — we currently have nearly 50 people in the Peek team, and are growing fast, so we’re spending a lot of time thinking about how we maintain our View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
After Ozempic
Back before Ozempic, when Kate Mulroney (MBA 1984) spoke at technical conferences about her work at Novo Nordisk, people often assumed she was talking about Novartis. “I’d have to explain that’s a Swiss company; we’re Danish,” says Mulroney, now head of advanced... View Details
- January 27, 2010
- Article
Leadership with a Small 'l'
By: Richard Bohmer
What exactly do we mean by leadership in health care? Does it mean to take formal positions in senior leadership teams in hospitals, trusts, health boards, ministries of health, and professional societies-what might be termed leadership with a big "L?" Or does it mean... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Leadership; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Organizational Culture; Outcome or Result; Performance Effectiveness; Health Industry
Bohmer, Richard. "Leadership with a Small 'l'." BMJ: British Medical Journal (January 27, 2010): 340:c483.
- 2006
- Working Paper
The Limits of Authority: Motivation versus Coordination
This paper studies the effects of open disagreement on motivation and coordination. It shows how, in the presence of differing priors, motivation and coordination impose conflicting demands on the allocation of authority, leading to a trade-off between the... View Details
Keywords: Decisions; Governance Controls; Organizational Culture; Agency Theory; Conflict and Resolution; Motivation and Incentives
Van den Steen, Eric J. "The Limits of Authority: Motivation versus Coordination." Sloan School of Management Working Paper, No. 4626-06, January 2006. (Available at SSRN.)
- October 1999
- Case
ZEFER: Building a Business at Hyperspeed
In the past 18 months, ZEFER has gone from a several-person Internet consulting firm to a major player in the information-technology services industry. In particular, in the past six months, it has grown from 40 to 400 professionals, has hired a seasoned management... View Details
- November 1993 (Revised October 1995)
- Case
Sunrise Medical, Inc.'s Wheelchair Products
Sunrise's CEO must decide whether to intervene in a decision by a division, Guardian Products, to introduce a new lightweight standard wheelchair. Guardian wants to introduce the wheelchair to complement its line of commodity crutches, walkers, and other patient aids.... View Details
Keywords: Business or Company Management; Competition; Corporate Strategy; Business Divisions; Organizational Culture; Decision Making; Product Marketing; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
McGahan, Anita M. "Sunrise Medical, Inc.'s Wheelchair Products." Harvard Business School Case 794-069, November 1993. (Revised October 1995.)
Mills B. Lane, Jr.
accounts. He was recognized by the Journal of Marketing as a pioneer in bank promotions. Beyond expanding the base of the bank, Lane was instrumental in building Atlanta’s cultural and commercial infrastructure after the Second World War. View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 17 Mar 2017
- News
Schwarzman on Blackstone and the Value of an MBA
market leader with $330 billion dollars in assets under management. Along the way, he has emerged as a patron of education, best known for launching the Schwarzman Scholars, an academic and cultural immersion program designed to foster... View Details
- 07 Jul 2023
- Blog Post
Fostering Candor in Teams and Organizations
organizational culture can be established and communicated. An organization may have an environment that encourages casual dress to promote individuality and comfort, it could fund advanced education and training, or it could establish a... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- July 2022
- Article
The Passionate Pygmalion Effect: Passionate Employees Attain Better Outcomes in Part Because of More Preferential Treatment by Others
By: Ke Wang, Erica R. Bailey and Jon M. Jachimowicz
Employees are increasingly exhorted to “pursue their passion” at work. Inherent in this call is the belief that passion will produce higher performance because it promotes intrapersonal processes that propel employees forward. Here, we suggest that the pervasiveness of... View Details
Keywords: Passion; Self-fufilling Prophecy; Lay Beliefs; Interpersonal Processes; Employees; Performance; Attitudes; Organizational Culture; Social Psychology
Wang, Ke, Erica R. Bailey, and Jon M. Jachimowicz. "The Passionate Pygmalion Effect: Passionate Employees Attain Better Outcomes in Part Because of More Preferential Treatment by Others." Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 101 (July 2022).
- 02 Mar 2021
- News
Does Your Company Lurch From Crisis to Crisis?
- 27 May 2020
- Blog Post
Creating Unity and Belonging through Food and Dance: ‘EKTA’ at HBS
our classrooms, but those discussions failed to highlight the vibrant culture and the multitude of diverse subcultures that make India so special. As a result, I jumped at the first opportunity to share my View Details
- April 2017
- Teaching Plan
An Intern's Dilemma (A) and (B)
By: Sandra J. Sucher
Teaching Plan for HBS Nos. 316-128 and 316-129. View Details
- August 2010 (Revised September 2011)
- Case
Driving Sustainability at Bloomberg L.P.
By: Christopher Marquis, Daniel Beunza, Fabrizio Ferraro and Bobbi Thomason
Describes the addition of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance indicators to the Bloomberg terminal. The initiative grew out of Bloomberg's broader sustainability initiatives and is an example of how committed employees can create positive social... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Knowledge Dissemination; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Culture; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Environmental Sustainability; Publishing Industry; New York (city, NY)
Marquis, Christopher, Daniel Beunza, Fabrizio Ferraro, and Bobbi Thomason. "Driving Sustainability at Bloomberg L.P." Harvard Business School Case 411-025, August 2010. (Revised September 2011.)