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  • 20 Jun 2014
  • News

Innovation is not a side business to running a company—innovation is the business

differentiating among them. The effect of this approach can be profound. IBM, for example, adopted a life-cycle approach to innovation, developing the leadership and organizational capabilities needed at... View Details
  • 30 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: October 30, 2007

Harvard Business School Case 707-519 In response to a huge crisis in 2000, the new CEO of Procter & Gamble has to decide whether to continue with an unusual organizational design or to revert to the old matrix organization. Describes... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2018
  • What Do You Think?

Two Decades Later, is the 'New Economy' Finally Here?

kinwun Summing Up: What are the Earmarks of a “New Economy?” Responses to this month’s column rightly focused on the need for measures and standards before deciding whether we are entering an era of social and economic change as significant as, say, the “industrial... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett

    Chandler’s Legacies

    had integrating the U.S. economy, creating out of necessity new organizational forms, financial instruments and accounting techniques. For my Ph.D. thesis, I decided to study transportation technologies in my home country of Colombia. I... View Details
    • November–December 2017
    • Article

    Innovation Streams and Executive Leadership

    By: Michael Tushman
    Incumbent firms face steep challenges in dealing with technological change and associated innovation streams. The firm's senior leadership team, and especially R&D leadership, plays a central role in shaping a firm's ability to both exploit existing capabilities and... View Details
    Keywords: Ambidexterity; Exploit Vs. Explore; Dynamic Capabilities; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Technology Adoption; Innovation Leadership
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    • 07 Nov 2017
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

    were essential, and radical corporate social responsibility concepts were pursued by some firms. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53419 forthcoming Capitalism Beyond Mutuality New Prospects for View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 05 Jul 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: July 5

    community form is drawn upon in many subfields of organizational theory. Although there is not much convergence on a level of analysis, there is convergence on a mode of action that is increasingly relevant to a knowledge-based economy... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 29 Jan 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: January 29, 2008

    increases with organizational size, smaller adopters have such disproportionate influence because they allow observers better to infer that adoption will be profitable for... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 23 Nov 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care

    more important. So perhaps the most important innovation is organizational—the creation of organizational structures and processes that foster learning in routine practice and the creation of more effective models of care delivery. Q: How... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health
    • 12 Apr 2004
    • Research & Ideas

    Operations and the Competitive Edge

    have adopted in the past and decide if these are still appropriate in today's world. And, if not (for a variety of reasons that we describe in the book), what new principles and methodologies should replace them? Q: Your book focuses on... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • 01 Jun 2005
    • News

    Ideas: Books

    establishing brand identity, identifying the organizational mission, communicating the meaning of the brand, and leveraging brand values. Organizing Control August Thyssen and the Construction of German Corporate Management by Jeffrey R.... View Details
    Keywords: Alfred D. Chandler Jr.; Chandler
    • 27 Aug 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: August 27

    the Organizational Adoption of More or Less Customized Practices By: Raffaelli, Ryan, and Mary Ann Glynn Abstract—We examine how the organizational View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 06 Jun 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?

    already dominated by Microsoft, and given that the financial motive is secondary, it will be very hard for anyone to oust Linux. The organizational stream of research on OSS has identified several drivers of motivation to contribute to... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology
    • 08 Aug 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    The Rise of Employee Analytics: Productivity Dream or Micromanagement Nightmare?

    hiring and productivity, says Jeffrey T. Polzer, the UPS Foundation Professor of Human Resource Management at Harvard Business School. His recent paper probes how organizational researchers should study people analytics practices, which... View Details
    Keywords: by Ben Rand
    • 01 Mar 2015
    • News

    Communicating the Language of Business Across Borders

    one was looking at that, even as global organizations were rapidly moving toward making English their lingua franca.” Since joining the HBS Organizational Behavior Unit nearly eight years ago, Neeley has pursued pathbreaking research on... View Details
    • 01 Apr 1998
    • News

    Short Takes

    invest in flexibility where the likelihood of future changes makes this valuable. The authors identify three general ways managers can increase flexibility in product development. First, they should consider adopting inherently flexible... View Details
    Keywords: Garry Emmons and Caroline Chauncey
    • 10 May 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: May 10

    Working PapersMandatory IFRS Adoption and Financial Statement Comparability Authors:Francois Brochet, Alan Jagolinzer, and Edward J. Riedl Abstract This study examines the effect of mandatory International Financial Reporting Standards... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 09 May 2017
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, May 9

    adoption of feed-in tariffs, subsidies, and tax credits in the 1980s. However the poor technological capabilities of U.S.-based firms meant that it was Danish and other foreign companies that benefitted most. Subsequently the combination... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • February 2023
    • Supplement

    Grupo Sancor Seguros: Facing the Digital Transformation of Insurance in Argentina (B)

    By: Jorge Tamayo, Jenyfeer Martínez Buitrago and Mariana Cal
    In 2021, Alejandro Simón, CEO of Sancor Seguros Group, had to reassess the Group’s digital transformation strategy. View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Cooperative Ownership; Strategy; Business Strategy; Adaptation; Technology Adoption; Insurance Industry; Latin America; South America; Argentina
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    • 08 Jan 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]

    go off on your own and create something different. With consensus decision making and shared responsibility for everything, nobody feels responsible. In our book, we discuss how Japanese companies need to adopt more business unit... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer