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  • 15 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 15

improvements in expenditures on education per capita, literacy, and schools per children. Yet we also find that such improvements did not take place in states that had more slaves before abolition or those that cultivated cotton during colonial times. Thus, we explain... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • May 2024
  • Case

SofMedica Group: Managing Growth

By: Boris Groysberg and Sarah L. Abbott
SofMedica Group had expanded from its origins as a medical equipment distributor in Romania to a holding company with four business lines operating in six countries. This expansion had been driven by SofMedica’s mission: to make cutting edge medical technology... View Details
Keywords: Growth; Healthcare Access; Healthcare; Medical Devices; Medical Equipment ＆ Devices; Medical Care; Eastern Europe; Quality Management System; Health Care and Treatment; Growth Management; Education; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Quality; Leadership; Mission and Purpose; Expansion; Developing Countries and Economies; Technological Innovation; Health Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Europe; Romania
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  • February 2019 (Revised April 2021)
  • Case

Honda Innovations: Leveraging External Insights to Accelerate Creation

By: Antonio Davila
Nick Sugimoto, CEO of Honda Innovations—the open innovation organization of Honda, has to decide how to extend his organization’s approach to innovation across the world. Honda Innovations dates back to 2000 when Honda created Honda Research Institute in Silicon... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Radical Innovation; Corporate Venturing; Corporate Innovation; Organization Structure; Management Control; Business Units; Disruption; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Global Strategy; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Organizational Structure; Strategy; Auto Industry; San Francisco; Japan
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  • 09 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 9, 2018

research to understand when and for whom cash and non-cash rewards increase intrinsic motivation, organizational commitment, and optimal functioning in order to improve the design and implementation of existing reward programs.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • Web

Diversity on Teams: Our Own Harvest - Race, Gender & Equity

stewards of our labor, our lives, and one another. This article features the HBS Race, Gender & Equity Initiative’s video playlist . Organizational self-awareness Maureen Scully on Mobilizing Privileged Allies to Address Inequalities... View Details
  • 26 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 26, 2008

retail trading areas. We hypothesize two effects, cannibalization and complementarity, and conjecture that the magnitude of these effects may change over time and may differ between the catalog and online channels. We find that opening... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009

responsibilities, that can affect organizational outcomes. Thus, organizations may be capable of integration while different functions retain different incentives to maintain focus on their stakeholders' needs. We hypothesize that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 2

treating both its suppliers and its blue collar workforce as homogeneous, interchangeable entities as well as its view that expertise could be partitioned so that there was minimal overlap of knowledge amongst functions or levels in the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 May 2014
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First Look: May 20

consistency across the hotel properties in the brand portfolio. Competition was heating up, and Paul had a goal to expand her hotel portfolio to twenty properties in the next ten years. Paul knew that she had to make some major changes to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Feb 2016
  • First Look

February 2, 2016

that accounting research would benefit from a greater focus on the study of causal mechanisms (or causal pathways), increased emphasis on structural modeling of the phenomena of interest, and more in-depth descriptive research. We argue these View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Apr 2017
  • HBS Case

This Turkish Debt Collector Is Customer-friendly

requires a total change in organizational identity. Moving from an environment that is adversarial to one that is co-creating value with customers requires a company to carefully coordinate systemic View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
  • 10 Jan 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance

Such motives spring from the humanitarian values possessed by the organizations or individuals involved. Utilitarian motives, on the other hand, cater to the partners' organizational needs, focusing on issues like risk management or the... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin, Ezequiel Reficco & SEKN research team
  • 10 Mar 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Breakthrough Negotiation: Don’t Leave It On the Table

Watkins The best negotiators also work to foster organizational learning, both during and after a negotiation. They pay careful attention to managing the team learning process, establishing clear roles and responsibilities for observation... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Watkins
  • 28 Jan 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Read All About It! Newspapers Lose Web War

people who can see beyond the core business and help you identify the emerging new markets. Structure helps with this, but even if you create organizational autonomy, but then rely 100 percent on managers steeped in the old business, you... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation; Information; Publishing
  • September 2019
  • Case

Shell: A Company of Opportunity?

By: Joseph B. Fuller and Emer Moloney
The Opportunity Hub was a cloud-based platform that enabled managers to market projects they were working on and associated resourcing needs as “Opportunity Owners” and employees, or “Opportunity Seekers,” to browse these statements of need and engage when they had... View Details
Keywords: Business Divisions; Change Management; Competency and Skills; Experience and Expertise; Talent and Talent Management; Energy; Energy Sources; Non-Renewable Energy; Renewable Energy; Human Resources; Employees; Retention; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Jobs and Positions; Job Design and Levels; Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Labor; Human Capital; Labor Unions; Leading Change; Resource Allocation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Evaluation; Performance Productivity; Strategic Planning; Projects; Motivation and Incentives; Business Strategy; Social and Collaborative Networks; Technology Platform; Chemical Industry; Energy Industry; Information Technology Industry; Technology Industry; United Kingdom; Netherlands
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  • 01 Oct 2000
  • News

Lydia M. Marshall: Gumption and Grace

admit that her leadership and organizational skills have helped the nonprofit's various constituencies work toward the common goal of increasing economic self-sufficiency and ending poverty. The exchange tells a lot about Marshall. A... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 21 Jul 2015
  • First Look

First Look: July 21, 2015

  Publications In press Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes When Doing Good Is Bad in Gift-giving: Mis-predicting Appreciation of Socially-responsible Gifts By: Cavanaugh, A., F. Gino, and G.J. Fitzsimons Abstract—Gifts... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Privacy Statement (English) - Global

personal data protection laws, including the GDPR. 5. SECURITY OF PERSONAL DATA We have taken appropriate technical and organizational measures to provide a level of security for the personal data appropriate to the risk. Unfortunately,... View Details
  • 07 Dec 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Henry Heinz and Brand Creation in the Late Nineteenth Century

Today we might point to Heinz and Noble's skill in exploiting economies of scope, in developing additional goods that utilized existing inputs and organizational capabilities. 48 But neither man thought in theoretical terms about what he... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn
  • 01 Mar 2003
  • News

Books

tasks: strengthening links between portfolio objectives and overall company goals; ensuring that the relationship among projects creates greater value and efficiency; and making sure that projects build organizational capacity to respond... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information