Structure - Publications - Faculty & Research

13 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13

Laoye must decide which of these options offers the greatest growth opportunities. In addition, as her company grows, she must decide how best to structure the payer and provider aspects of her business in a way that maximizes synergies... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Feb 2012
Research & Ideas

Leadership Program for Women Targets Subtle Promotion Biases

describe how previously identified "second-generation" forms of subtle gender bias have impeded women's progress. These practices and patterns, although unintentional, favor men and create structural career blocks for women. The... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

21 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

Faculty Research Looks to Latin America

I've begun to study Latin America. "I've written a series of papers on how industry structure changes following liberalization. Going forward I'm doing a series of cases and starting some research on high-tech clusters in emerging... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

16 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 16

of integrated services. Executive Peter Barge is put in charge of a new team, called Corporate Solutions, whose mission was to draw connections between the service lines in order to foster integration. How should Barge structure Corporate... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

January 1998 (Revised February 1998)
Case

Sideco Americana S.A. (A)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Harold F. Hogan Jr

This case focuses on a decision the Sideco management team faces when customers of its newly acquired and privatized water and sewer company neglect to pay its bills. Describes the effort to transform an old-style Argentine construction and engineering company into a... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Government Relations; Transformation; Business or Company Management; Values and Beliefs; Argentina

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30 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 30, 2015

a host of issues related to how contracts between financial intermediaries and their customers are structured and how risks are shared between them, as well as the consequences of (unexpected) deviations from the ex-ante optimal... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

04 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 4

resources to meeting that customer's needs. This article will show you how to identify the best primary customer for your business by analyzing perspective, capabilities, and profit potential; allocate resources through structural... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

January 1990 (Revised September 1994)
Case

Cray Research, Inc.: Preparing for the 1990s

By: Francis Aguilar

Describes the major changes Cray Research faced from 1985 (the time of the original case) to 1990. The dramatic decision to divide the company into two separate firms sets the stage for an analysis of the major strategic and organizational challenges facing senior... View Details

Keywords: Policy; Management Systems; Change Management; Technology Adoption; Business Units; Organizational Structure; Business Strategy; Management Teams; Growth and Development Strategy; Information Technology

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06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

contracts are structured as a repeated tournament with no carryover of performance across periods, we predict and find that workers subject to implicit rewards (penalties) exhibit performance reactions that counterbalance those of workers... View Details

06 Oct 2015
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October 6, 2015

unavoidably exert influence over politics through power that is generated by both structure and process. While both political economy and management scholars address international firms, neither field has an adequate understanding of the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’

conversation, we have attached to each element a word that begins with the letter I. “ organizational conversation replaces the traditional one-way structure of corporate communication with a dynamic process in which leaders talk with... View Details

Keywords: Re: Boris Groysberg

31 Aug 2009
Research & Ideas

Why Competition May Not Improve Credit Rating Agencies

and this is what we study. We looked exclusively at corporate bonds (there are no structured products, mortgage-backed securities, etc., in our sample). We find that stronger competition leads to three things: First, ratings move toward... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

29 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 29, 2007

under severe economic conditions. We show that many structured finance instruments can be characterized as economic catastrophe bonds, but offer far less compensation than alternatives with comparable payoff profiles. We argue that this... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

2003
Conference Paper

Follow the Money: What Really Drives Technology Innovation in Construction

By: John D. Macomber

Technology enthusiasts, academics, and software companies remain concerned about the slow pace of innovation in the construction industry. Tools are widely available that seem to provide eminently sensible and clearly apparent improvement to the process of design and... View Details

Keywords: Buildings and Facilities; Technological Innovation; Construction; Design; Performance Improvement; Motivation and Incentives; Knowledge Management; Adoption; Business Model; Capital Structure; Supply Chain

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30 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 30

Baldwin, and Christopher L. Magee Abstract Hierarchy is a generic structure in which levels are asymmetrically ordered. In an industry setting, classic supply chains display strict hierarchy, whereas clusters of firms have linkages going... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

29 Mar 2008
Research & Ideas

Creativity, Entrepreneurship, and Organizations of the Future

creativity in organizations. Address and answer the questions: can creativity scale? Can creativity be consistently achieved and maintained in organizations? What organizational structural features are conducive to creativity? Encourage... View Details

Keywords: by Teresa M. Amabile & Mukti Khaire

21 Nov 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017

platforms. We explore this "rating aggregation problem" and offer a structural approach to solving it, allowing for (1) reviewers to vary in stringency and accuracy, (2) reviewers to be influenced by existing reviews, and (3)... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

Building ’Brandtopias’—How Top Brands Tap into Society

ideology, identify it in popular culture, and figure out how the ideology impacts the brand's customers?" What marketers usually think of as unpredictable trends often have a structure that is deeply tied to what is happening in the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

19 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 19, 2007

and self-improvement. Additionally, we show that future lock-in can arise without changing the structure of a should-choice, but just changing people's temporal focus. Finally, we provide evidence that the should self operates at a higher... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

October 1991 (Revised August 1993)
Case

Acid Rain: Burlington Northern, Inc. (A)

By: Forest L. Reinhardt

Burlington Northern (BN) hauls low-sulfur coal from the northern Great Plains to electric utilities in the Midwest. Acid rain legislation may affect the geographic scope of BN's markets. Railroad managers need to assess the economic effects of acid rain controls and... View Details