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  • 19 Oct 2012
  • News

Past and Present

deter him from a path to leadership. “If there is one thing that I pride myself on actually understanding today, it is organizational behavior. My low grade in OB motivated me to really figure it out, because in my job today, it is far... View Details
Keywords: genealogy; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information
  • 01 Sep 2006
  • News

Faculty Books

developing organizational capabilities and managerial competencies to implement a clearly defined strategic intent. This case-based book discusses the marketing challenges faced by global U.S. companies (Bausch & Lomb, Reebok, and... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 25 Jul 2006
  • First Look

First Look: July 25, 2006

paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/06-061.pdf Cross Functional Alignment in Supply Chain Planning: A Case Study of Sales & Operations Planning Authors:Rogelio Oliva and Noel Watson Author's Abstract In 2002, Leitax, a niche... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Apr 2012
  • News

Just Compensation

author of Fair Pay, Fair Play: Aligning Executive Performance and Pay. A business leader, entrepreneur, and consultant throughout her career, Ferracone, prior to launching Farient, led the Human Capital business at Mercer, and before... View Details
Keywords: executives; executive compensation; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 21 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 21, 2010

organizational behavior literatures predict that when it is difficult to align incentives by contracting on output, aligning preferences via employee selection may provide a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Innovating in Health Care - Course Catalog

these innovations by focusing on how to make them happen. The students—with diverse backgrounds, or none—in the field typically form a lifelong network. The course follows a “how to” framework for the following four organizational stages... View Details
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Leadership Execution and Action Planning (LEAP) - Course Catalog

range of organizational challenges. While traditional leadership courses contemplate “what” is leadership, LEAP focuses on “how” leaders must take action at critical moments to shape their organizations and their careers. The course helps... View Details
  • 16 Jul 2021
  • Op-Ed

For Entrepreneurs, the Benefits of Slowing Down

be the team that will get you there. Take the time to consider team additions, upgrades, and perhaps coaching or facilitation to ensure you have the right aligned senior team that is ready, willing, and able to scale to the next level. 2.... View Details
Keywords: by Jeffrey Bussgang
  • 01 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Connecting With Nonprofits

organizational marketing. Understanding Cross-sector Collaboration My field-based research on collaborations between businesses and nonprofits, encompassing a wide range of industries and social sectors, revealed a distinctive pattern in... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
  • 24 Apr 2012
  • First Look

First Look: April 24

in external auditing, and 6) auditing management information systems.   Working PapersEmployee Selection as a Control System Author:Dennis Campbell Abstract Theories from the economics, management control, and organizational behavior... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 25 Mar 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments

business moved on. Not aligning experiments to broader organizational goals. Failing to understand the end goal can lead to misguided decisions about when and how to run such tests. Experiments should answer... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 10 Nov 2015
  • First Look

November 10, 2015

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/315138-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 415-039 Leader-as-Architect: Alignment Part of a leader's job is to equip the organization to transform inputs into outputs by defining View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Feb 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Breaking Through a Growth Stall

Skinner III, head of the Atlanta-based consultancy LCS Partners. The article discusses the importance of understanding your ideal customers; the implications for selling, cost management, growth strategy, and organizational relationships;... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Aug 2018
  • Blog Post

From the Classroom to the Workplace: How I Applied Learnings to my Internship

The way Norwegians may want to buy clothes is very different to the way Spaniards are going to buy clothes, not only for the fashion but also for their preferred mode of payment, delivery, etc. Secondly, I found the concepts that we learned about in LEAD (Leadership... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
  • Web

Transforming Health Care Delivery - Course Catalog

change. It will draw upon a range of approaches for improving value in health care delivery, including continuous improvement, organizational redesign, population health management, precision medicine, patient engagement, digital health,... View Details
  • Web

Corporate Training Programs | HBS Online

global support team dedicated to participant success. Contact Us In Good Company HBS Online programs align with organizations large and small, across various industries and geographies. Here are a few of the outstanding organizations who... View Details
  • October 2009
  • Case

A Big (Double) Deal: Anadarko's Acquisition of Kerr-McGee and Western Gas Resources

By: Clayton M. Christensen and Curtis Rising
On June 23, 2006, Anadarko Petroleum Corporation announced that it was simultaneously acquiring two public companies, Kerr-McGee and Western Gas Resources, in all-cash deals. The total price was about $24 billion, a figure close to Anadarko's market cap at the time.... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Business Model; Transformation; Negotiation; Organizational Culture; Public Ownership; Business and Shareholder Relations; Alignment; Valuation; Energy Industry; United States
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  • 24 Aug 2009
  • Research & Ideas

SuperCorp: Values as Guidance System

another aligned with the core set of principles. This kind of human control system does not work perfectly by itself, but it certainly reduces the need for rules and thus helps people feel autonomous. Rather than feeling forced into... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
  • 16 Jan 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018

change). They can be used to diagnose a culture and to model how likely an individual leader is to align with and shape it. The authors offer five insights regarding culture's effect on companies' success: (1) When View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Dec 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy

regions. At the very least, this sort of mapping sparks creativity. Facing The Organizational Challenge Regional strategies, as I've noted, can take a long time to implement. One deep-seated reason for this is that an organization's... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat