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  • 07 Jul 2009
  • First Look

First Look: July 7

an effective set of choices. Balancing search and stability, the authors argue, is a central challenge of organizing. They explore this challenge with an agent-based simulation that shows (1) how a change in organizational structure, for example, a shift from View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2000
  • News

Q&A: Andrew Kendall

other half will be split equally between general administrative work and being out in the field. We are a decentralized operation, with over eighty reservations and one hundred staff members scattered throughout the state, so... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management; Forestry and Logging; Agriculture; Special Design Services; Professional Services; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services
  • 11 Aug 2009
  • First Look

First Look: August 11, 2009

seeking by the managers. However, this increase in market size will lead to the entry of more firms, which calls for more decentralized decision making. Under reasonable conditions, the aggregate effect leads to a U-shaped relationship... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Apr 2008
  • First Look

First Look: April 15, 2008

decentralizing operations from headquarters to their stores, and, to a weaker extent, by providing higher variable pay to their store managers. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-091.pdf An Exploration of Technology... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Feb 2001
  • Research & Ideas

The Ten Deadly Mistakes of Wanna-Dots

policies, purchasing procedures. Allocate just enough resources to keep it alive but not enough to risk its becoming an innovator — because that would require more investment. Under the banner of decentralization and business unit... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
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Ryu Kawano

directly engaged in working projects, "inspired an interest in social enterprise that I hadn't had before." Specifically, Ryu spent a week consulting for one of the largest microfinance organizations in India serving a rural population. "We assessed a... View Details
  • Web

SPACE: Space, Public and Commercial Economics - Course Catalog

sector, including space-for-earth and space-for-space activities in LEO, cislunar, Mars, and other areas of operation. Identify feasible ways of regulating and governing decentralized space activities, including the establishment of... View Details
  • 03 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 3

http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/608054-PDF-ENG Gucci Group: Freedom within the Framework F. Asís Martinez-Jerez, Elena Corsi, and Vincent DessainHarvard Business School Case 109-079 Gucci Group's CEO had to decide if his View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2006
  • News

Forestalling Terror

is for a third outcome: The DNI becomes the centralized provider of the leadership and infrastructure that allow the community to take decentralized yet coordinated action. That’s what we see in really effective private-sector firms, like... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Waleed Iskandar; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 23 Dec 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard

large operating losses into positive operating margins, while achieving levels of patient care and satisfaction that were ranked best in their category. Having constructed the high-level strategy map and scorecard, leaders cascade the strategy down to View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
  • 15 Nov 2016
  • First Look

November 15, 2016

hiring (in this study, by the head office of a U.S. retail chain) or decentralized hiring (by store managers) leads to higher quality employee-company matches. While centralized hiring can ensure that enough resources are invested in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Feb 2005
  • Research & Ideas

How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders

employers, Baxter and Abbott. For example, Termeer structured Genzyme, like Baxter, as a highly decentralized organization with many mini-general management positions; in fact, for several years, some Genzyme divisions were so autonomous,... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
  • 10 Jun 2022
  • Blog Post

New Venture Competition 2022: Business and Environment Ventures

consumer’s site, through decentralized & innovative vertical farming. We Develop, Build & Operate hydroponic vertical farms, and sell the produce (fodder) to our customer via a secure long-term off-take agreement. Graze it is... View Details
  • 08 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 8

Product Market Competition Lead Firms to Decentralize? Authors:Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen Publication:American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings 100, no. 2 (May 2010) Abstract There is a widespread sense that over the last two decades... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Dec 2010
  • Op-Ed

Tax US Companies to Spur Spending

measures relating to government spending, would stem from decentralized actors responding to private information and incentives. Consider the potential effects of a temporary 2 percent tax on corporations' "excess" cash... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai
  • 02 Apr 2013
  • First Look

First Look: April 2

and previous studies of decentralization in China, I discuss this work according to the theoretical approaches (institutional, ideational, and socio-historical) used to explain the origins of regional differences. I conclude by examining... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Impact Stories - Business & Environment

infrastructure, there’ll need to be a shift in the IT layer that ensures those assets can be coordinated and optimized. Singularity is using an algorithmic approach to achieve carbon reduction and sustainability, cost savings, and reliability through a more View Details
  • 09 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Challenge of the Multi-site Nonprofit

of the national brand? Do affiliates receive an appropriate level of national services from the fees they pay? Traditionally these strains have fueled centralization versus the decentralization debate in the nonprofit community, Grossman... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2013
  • News

Minding The Gap

first looked at the sector, we realized almost every district had some great schools and every school had some great classrooms, but no urban district had a portfolio—a system—of great schools. From the outset, our goal has been to change that reality." Remarkably, in... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Blagg, Deborah; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services
  • 07 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Sept. 7

capitalism. Read the article: http://hbr.org/2011/09/global-capitalism-at-risk-what-are-you-doing-about-it/ar/1 A Darker Side to Decentralized Banks: Market Power and Credit Rationing in SME Lending Authors:Rodrigo Canales and Ramana... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne