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  • September–October 2016
  • Article

Growing New Corporate Businesses: From Initiation to Graduation

By: Sebastian Raisch and Michael Tushman
Large companies initiate many new businesses, but few of them reach scale. The ambidexterity literature describes how companies create exploratory businesses, but says little about how they subsequently scale these businesses. The strategy literature uses real option... View Details
Keywords: Ambidexterity; Comparative Case Study; Corporate Venturing; Exploration; Organization Design; Real Option Theory; Organizational Design; Corporate Strategy; Corporate Entrepreneurship
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    Improving the Rhythm of Your Collaboration

    Winner of the annual MIT Sloan Management Review Richard Beckhard Memorial Prize, for the most outstanding MIT SMR article on planned change and organizational development. Chosen by MIT Sloan faculty judges Deborah Ancona, John Van Maanen, and Cyrus... View Details

    • 24 Jun 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: June 24

    innovation is attracting exceptional creative talent. Or making the right investments. Or breaking down organizational silos. All of these things may help-but there's only one way to ensure sustained innovation: you need to lead it-and... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 11 Dec 2006
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Three Perspectives on Team Learning: Outcome Improvement, Task Mastery, and Group Process

    Keywords: by Amy C. Edmondson, James R. Dillon & Kathryn S. Roloff
    • 01 Jul 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: July 1

      Publications August 2013 Research in Organizational Behavior The Shifting Landscape of LGBT Organizational Research By: Anteby, Michel, and Caitlin Anderson Abstract—Over the past generation, sexual... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • May 1993 (Revised June 2004)
    • Case

    PepsiCo Bottling in Mexico

    By: Kenneth A. Froot
    This case describes Pepsico's program to restructure its Mexican bottling network. It wants to work with existing bottlers and find an organizational arrangement that will allow the bottlers to grow and change with the Mexican soft drink industry. View Details
    Keywords: Bottling; Mergers and Acquisitions; Joint Ventures; Multinational Firms and Management; International Finance; Valuation; Programs; Organizational Design; Food and Beverage Industry; Mexico
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    • March 2002 (Revised June 2005)
    • Case

    AOL Time Warner, Inc.

    By: Stephen P. Bradley and Erin Sullivan
    AOL Time Warner, which has been billed as the "first fully integrated media and communications company of the Internet Century," raises the fundamental question of how value will be created and captured by the merger of AOL and Time Warner. This case describes just how... View Details
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Internet and the Web; Value Creation; Organizational Culture; Consolidation; Change Management; Telecommunications Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; United States
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    • 09 Dec 2020
    • Blog Post

    How to Create a Psychologically Safe Workplace

    may or may not follow. HOW TO INCORPORATE PSYCHOLOGICAL SAFETY INTO RECRUITING Developing a psychologically safe workplace requires organizational leadership to adopt these values and practices so that they... View Details
    • 30 Jan 2023
    • HBS Seminar

    Martine Haas, Wharton

    • Program

    Competing in the Age of AI—Virtual

    inherent risks Create opportunities to build competitive advantage Reimagine your company's value propositions to create new revenue streams Redesign organizational systems, processes, and roles to be AI... View Details
    • March 2001 (Revised September 2002)
    • Case

    Merck Latin America (A)

    By: Michael Beer and James Weber
    Introduces Grey Warner, the vice president of Merck's Latin America region, and his efforts to improve the organizational effectiveness of the region and to introduce a more global business culture and values. Discusses Merck's ethics and values, its Latin American... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Culture; Ethics; Business Processes; Strategic Planning; Change Management; Values and Beliefs; Globalized Firms and Management; Employee Relationship Management; Business Strategy; Government and Politics; Economy; Pharmaceutical Industry; Latin America
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      Organizing the In-between

      This article examines the population dynamics and viability of network weavers, which are organizations that provide network relations for others. An analysis of the population dynamics of the intergovernmental organizations (IGOs) that are the basis of the... View Details
      • Research Summary

      Management Control Systems in Multiunit Companies

      By: Tatiana Sandino

      Professor Sandino conducts research on early-stage multiunit companies that introduce management control systems to help maintain operations, as well as company culture, as they grow, but also to enable adaptation to the different markets that they serve. Building... View Details

      • June 2017 (Revised October 2017)
      • Case

      Organizing for Performance: Four Vignettes

      By: Robert Simons
      This case provides four examples of organizations with very different business strategies: Walmart, Starbucks, Harvard Business School, and Google. To support their varying strategies, each of these organizations requires a specific configuration to provide the most... View Details
      Keywords: Strategy And Execution; Management Control Systems; Organization; Span Of Control; Job Design; Resource Allocation; Organizational Design; Competitive Strategy; Value Creation
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      • June 1999
      • Case

      NovaCare, Inc. - Helping Make Life a Little Better

      NovaCare, a rehabilitation and employee-services comapny, has evolved over a 15-year period. Senior management believes that its success is largely due to its core values, which are shared on a daily basis and drive decisions. Operational and structural changes have... View Details
      Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Growth Management; Organizational Culture; Service Industry
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      • 23 Apr 2007
      • Research & Ideas

      Are Great Teams Less Productive?

      to help organizations better access, integrate, and leverage the talents and insights of their employees. An earlier career as an organizational change consultant led me to realize how many thoughtful, caring individuals were stymied in... View Details
      Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
      • 2020
      • Working Paper

      Iterative Coordination and Innovation

      By: Sourobh Ghosh and Andy Wu
      Agile management practices from the software industry continue to transform the way organizations innovate across industries, yet they remain understudied in the organizations literature. We investigate the widespread Agile practice of iterative coordination: frequent... View Details
      Keywords: Innovation; Goals; Specialization; Coordination; Field Experiment; Software Development; Organizations; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Goals and Objectives; Integration; Software
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      • 19 Dec 2006
      • First Look

      First Look: December 19, 2006

      demand. Download working paper: http://www.nber.org/papers/w12756 The Value of a 'Free' Customer Authors:Sunil Gupta, Carl F. Mela, and Jose M. Vidal-Sanz Abstract Central to a firm's growth and marketing policy is the revenue and profit... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • June 2023 (Revised July 2023)
      • Case

      Social Media Background Screening at Fama Technologies

      By: Joseph Pacelli, Jillian Grennan and Alexis Lefort
      Fama Technologies is an online screening company that uses AI to analyze job applicants' publicly available online content for signs of risk and culture fit. The case opens with Ben Mones, founder and CEO, looking to secure funding from venture firms. He is running... View Details
      Keywords: Human Resources; Recruitment; Retention; Selection and Staffing; Organizational Culture; Talent and Talent Management; AI and Machine Learning; Social Media; Venture Capital; Entrepreneurship; United States
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      • 01 Jun 2010
      • Sharpening Your Skills

      Sharpening Your Skills: Social Reporting

      reporting of financial and nonfinancial performance in order to improve sustainable strategy. HBS senior lecturer Robert G. Eccles and coauthor Michael P. Krzus explain the benefits and value of the One Report method. Plus: book excerpt.... View Details
      Keywords: by Staff