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    Learning from Customers: Individual and Organizational Effects in Outsourced Radiological Services

    The ongoing fragmentation of work has resulted in a narrowing of tasks into smaller pieces that can be sent outside the organization and, in many instances, around the world. This trend is shifting the boundaries of organizations and leading to increased... View Details

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    The IT Transformation Health Care Needs

    By: Nikhil R. Sahni, Robert S. Huckman, Anuraag Chigurupati and David M. Cutler
    In recent years, health care organizations have made sizable investments in information technology. They’ve used their IT systems to replace paper records with electronic ones and to improve billing processes, thereby boosting revenue. But so far, IT has been of little... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Information Technology; Performance Improvement; Business Model
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    Sahni, Nikhil R., Robert S. Huckman, Anuraag Chigurupati, and David M. Cutler. "The IT Transformation Health Care Needs." Harvard Business Review 95, no. 6 (November–December 2017): 128–136.
    • 28 Sep 2011
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    The Profit Power of Corporate Culture

    part of an effort to change the culture. This sounds like a lot, but the culture cycle provides a foundation for the creation of an organization capable of setting high goals and meeting them. Q: Your... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 28 Jul 2008
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    Making the Decision to Franchise (or not)

    study was written by HBS professors Dennis Campbell and Srikant Datar, with Tatiana Sandino (HBS DBA '04) of USC's Marshall School of Business. "Franchising is a very observable, real choice that organizations make." -Dennis Campbell "The... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail
    • March–April 1979
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    Choosing Strategies for Change

    By: Leonard A. Schlesinger and John P. Kotter
    "From the frying pan into the fire," "let sleeping dogs lie," and "you can't teach an old dog new tricks" are all well-known sayings born of the fear of change. When people are threatened with change in organizations, similar maxims about certain people and departments... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Strategy; Change Management
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    Schlesinger, Leonard A., and John P. Kotter. "Choosing Strategies for Change." Harvard Business Review 57, no. 2 (March–April 1979).
    • February 2016 (Revised June 2016)
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    Janalakshmi Financial Services' HR Dilemma

    By: Doug J. Chung and Radhika Kak
    Janalakshmi Financial Services (JFS), an Indian microfinance institution, had grown rapidly by providing financial products to its main customer base, the urban poor. However, the company was facing several challenges. JFS’s productivity was declining, and it was... View Details
    Keywords: Microfinance; Salesforce Management; Compensation and Benefits; Sales; Strategy; Financial Services Industry
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    Chung, Doug J., and Radhika Kak. "Janalakshmi Financial Services' HR Dilemma." Harvard Business School Case 516-039, February 2016. (Revised June 2016.)
    • June 2009 (Revised July 2010)
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    Goldman Sachs: The 10,000 Women Initiative

    By: Christopher Marquis, V. Kasturi Rangan and Cathy Ross
    Describes the conception, development, and implementation of Goldman Sachs' five-year, $100 million philanthropic initiative to provide practical business and management education to 10,000 women around the globe. The initiative recently celebrated its first... View Details
    Keywords: Partners and Partnerships; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business Education; Gender; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Financial Services Industry; Education Industry
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    Marquis, Christopher, V. Kasturi Rangan, and Cathy Ross. "Goldman Sachs: The 10,000 Women Initiative." Harvard Business School Case 509-042, June 2009. (Revised July 2010.)
    • October 2006 (Revised January 2009)
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    Vitreon Corporation: The Hyalite Project

    By: Roy D. Shapiro
    Considers decisions facing the leader of a manufacturing staff project team assigned to a plant where yields have deteriorated sharply. The process is complex: the plant organization is not cooperative, and there are deep disagreements about what is wrong and how to... View Details
    Keywords: Leadership; Production; Organizational Culture; Performance Productivity; Groups and Teams; Conflict Management; Manufacturing Industry
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    Shapiro, Roy D. "Vitreon Corporation: The Hyalite Project." Harvard Business School Case 607-031, October 2006. (Revised January 2009.)
    • 13 Mar 2005
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    The Tricky Business of Nonprofit Brands

    mean that implementing activities that protect the brand or attempting to update or modify the brand often meets with resistance internally. In some cases, highly decentralized organizations such as Médecins Sans Frontièrs [also known as... View Details
    Keywords: by Manda Salls
    • 2013
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    Building and Governing a Democratic Federation: The ActionAid International Story

    By: Sherine Jayawickrama and Alnoor Ebrahim
    This report examines the governance model and reform process of an international nongovernmental organization (INGO), ActionAid International (AAI). It describes the evolution of AAI's governance model and draws key lessons for peer INGOs. The paper is based on a... View Details
    Keywords: Governance; NGO; Accountability; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Non-Governmental Organizations
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    Jayawickrama, Sherine, and Alnoor Ebrahim. "Building and Governing a Democratic Federation: The ActionAid International Story." White Paper Series, Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations, June 2013.
    • October 2010 (Revised November 2010)
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    DLA Piper and Christie's International (B)

    By: Robert G. Eccles and Dilyana Karadzhova
    Nigel Knowles, joint CEO and Managing Partner of international law firm DLA Piper, responds to Christie's complaint that the relationship between the two organizations has major shortcomings and needs to be improved or will otherwise be terminated. A number of actions... View Details
    Keywords: Law; Leadership Style; Organizations; Relationships; Trust; Attorney and Client Relationships; Legal Services Industry
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    Eccles, Robert G., and Dilyana Karadzhova. "DLA Piper and Christie's International (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 411-065, October 2010. (Revised November 2010.)
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    Ownership Qutotient: Putting the Service Profit Chain for Unbeatable Competitive Advantage

    By: W. Earl Sasser

    Professors Jim Heskett and Earl Sasser, in collaboration with Joe Wheeler have been examining cuatomer and employee ownership behaviors which have a profound impact on long term profit and growth. Their findings are published in Ownership Quotient:... View Details

    • May 1999
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    African Communications Group (Condensed)

    Describes the opportunities that confront the African Communications Group, an entrepreneurial organization that plans to introduce a wireless pay-phone system in Tanzania. Provides a foundation for the analysis of value creation and of value capture. The possibility... View Details
    Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Telecommunications Industry; Tanzania
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    McGahan, Anita M. "African Communications Group (Condensed)." Harvard Business School Case 799-148, May 1999.
    • 12 Jan 2017
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    What Cancer Researchers Can Learn from Direct-to-Consumer Companies

      Service Productivity Management

      Here is an in-depth guide to the most powerful available benchmarking technique for improving service organization performance — Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The book outlines DEA as a benchmarking technique, identifies high cost service units, isolates... View Details
      • April 2013
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      Overcoming Resistance to Organizational Change: Strong Ties and Affective Cooptation

      By: Julie Battilana and Tiziana Casciaro
      We propose a relational theory of how change agents in organizations use the strength of ties in their network to overcome resistance to change. We argue that strong ties to potentially influential organization members who are ambivalent about a change (fence-sitters)... View Details
      Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Social and Collaborative Networks; Power and Influence; Health Industry; United Kingdom
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      Battilana, Julie, and Tiziana Casciaro. "Overcoming Resistance to Organizational Change: Strong Ties and Affective Cooptation." Management Science 59, no. 4 (April 2013): 819–836.
      • 25 Aug 2021
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      Don’t Write Off Zoom - It’s Not a One-Trick Pony as Remote Work Is Here to Stay!

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      The Unexpected Effects of Workplace Transparency

      By: Ethan S. Bernstein

      Workplace transparency provides a foundation for learning and control, and therefore for satisfaction and productivity. Yet my research shows that an obsession with transparency-enhancing tools and structures can backfire, producing the unintended consequences of... View Details

      Keywords: Transparency; Privacy; Productivity; Field Experiments; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Behavior; Social and Collaborative Networks; Human Resources; Leadership; United States; Europe; China; Japan
      • Winter 2020
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      Unsubstantiated Allegations and Organizational Culture

      By: Eugene F. Soltes
      When organizations investigate allegations of misconduct, they routinely determine that some allegations are unsubstantiated. A variety of factors may contribute to the conclusion that an allegation does not warrant substantiation, including a lack of supporting... View Details
      Keywords: Misconduct; Organizational Culture
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      Soltes, Eugene F. "Unsubstantiated Allegations and Organizational Culture." Seattle University Law Review 43, no. 2 (Winter 2020): 413–439.
      • 28 Feb 2017
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      Patent Trolls and Small-Business Employment

      Keywords: by Ian Appel, Joan Farre-Mensa, and Elena Simintzi
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