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- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
and their impact on organizational climate, which predicts successful outcomes. We addressed this gap with a field experiment suggested by Toyota's problem-solving process. We tested three related process improvement activities: (1)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
additional mediator, beyond structure and responsibilities, that can affect organizational outcomes. Thus, organizations may be capable of integration while different functions retain different incentives to maintain focus on their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Business
data and establish a process for keeping that front-line information flowing and timely. Otherwise, “customer focus” will remain a perennial slogan, not an organizational reality. Oversight over this activity is as important as it is in... View Details
Keywords: by Frank V. Cespedes
- 12 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
development has never been more urgent. Companies of all sorts realize that to survive in today’s volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous environment, they need different leadership skills and organizational capabilities from those... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
integration affects prices, this paper provides evidence that prices can affect integration. Many theories in organizational economics and industrial organization posit that integration, while costly, increases productivity. It follows... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 1, 2018
in order to enjoy this legal protection of their valuable insights. A new threat, however, looms. The same legal system that has protected IP has been used to create an organizational form known as a "Patent Troll." Patent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Family CEOs Spend Less Time at Work
Two years ago, the World Management Survey on organizational leadership reported that firms led by family CEOs (managers related to the family owning the business) are often managed badly, particularly those where a first-born son has... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?
associates and partners to their firms. How new fee structures have shifted firms’ priorities The prioritization of growth has also led to record increases in the use of performance-based fees tied to client-achieved outcomes. While justified as View Details
- 19 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Global Talent, Local Obstacles: Why Time Zones Matter in Remote Work
need for global collaboration accelerates and companies recalibrate their remote and hybrid arrangements, Choudhury and colleagues present the first real-time data on how different time zones affect employees’ ability to communicate in a paper published in View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-051.pdf Alignment in Cross-Functional and Cross-Firm Supply Chain Planning Authors:Santiago Kraiselburd and Noel Watson Abstract In this paper, we seek to use quantitative models to help appreciate the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
greater customer satisfaction and employee retention after six months as compared to (a) socialization that focused on organizational identity (emphasizing the pride to be gained from organizational... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Jun 2019
- Book
Are You a Digital Manager?
need to do their part and devote time and attention to aligning their interests and cultivating collaborations across the organization. Only when everyone understands the big picture and feels a part of it can they prioritize and focus... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Airplane Design Brings Out the Class Warfare in Us All
football stadium, a cruise ship—where people are segmented by rank of some sort. Norton co-authored the study, Physical and Situational Inequality on Airplanes Predicts Air Rage, with Katherine A. DeCelles, an associate professor of View Details
- 09 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 9
aligning strategic choices with organizational architecture. Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/410007-PDF-ENG Meeting the Diversity Challenge at PepsiCo: The Steve Reinemund Era... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating When the Rules Suddenly Change
from the "lack of a clearly defined goal, lack of coordination, unclear or complicated plans," and other signs of ill preparation, according to Marine doctrine. Mental and organizational friction infiltrates negotiation as well.... View Details
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
other outputs by autonomous machines. I argue that organizational researchers of creativity and innovation should invest significant energy in studying artificial intelligence and computer-assisted human intelligence, the ways in which... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
Review The Art of Giving and Receiving Advice By: Garvin, David A., and Joshua D. Margolis Abstract—The article looks at giving and receiving advice as an element of organizational leadership and managerial ability. It suggests that the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
not, how should we modify ideas about management in general? While the work that Tarun and I have done focuses on strategy, the same set of challenges exists in other parts of management thinking, too, such as organizational behavior,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Management Education’s Unanswered Questions
sides of the aisle. As a doctoral student at Harvard he completed all his MBA coursework and went on to earn a master's in sociology and a PhD in organizational behavior. Now he teaches in the MBA and doctoral programs and knows the... View Details
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
initiatives could focus on improving their access to skilled labor, buyers, and capital. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53901 In Search of Organizational Alignment... View Details