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    Collective Genius

    Why can some organizations innovate time and again, while most cannot? You might think the key to innovation is attracting exceptional creative talent. Or making the right investments. Or breaking down organizational silos. All of these things may help--but there's... View Details

    • 20 Dec 2016
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    December 20, 2016

    forthcoming Research in Organizational Behavior The Dynamic Componential Model of Creativity and Innovation in Organizations: Making Progress, Making Meaning By: Amabile, Teresa M., and Michael G. Pratt... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 1994
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    The Delicate Balance in Managing for Creativity

    By: T. M. Amabile
    Organizational stimulants and obstacles to creativity are summarized. The management tasks of supporting creativity and encouraging innovation are described as a delicate balance between over-control and chaos. A technology used to assess the climate for creativity is... View Details
    Keywords: Management; Creativity
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    Amabile, T. M. "The Delicate Balance in Managing for Creativity." R&D Innovator 3 (1994): 1–9.
    • June 1991 (Revised June 1993)
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    Railroads and the Beginnings of Modern Management (Abridged)

    By: Thomas K. McCraw
    Consists of three selections by the most innovative of the early American railroad managers describing the organizational structures and control systems they created. Questions to be asked are: why and how such managerial techniques were created, how well they worked,... View Details
    Keywords: Business History; Rail Transportation; Organizational Structure; Management Systems; Rail Industry; United States
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    McCraw, Thomas K. "Railroads and the Beginnings of Modern Management (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 391-131, June 1991. (Revised June 1993.)
    • June 1977 (Revised May 1995)
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    Railroads and the Beginnings of Modern Management

    Consists of three selections by the most innovative of the early American railroad managers which describe the organizational structures and control systems they created. Questions to be asked are: why and how such managerial techniques were created, how well they... View Details
    Keywords: Rail Transportation; Organizational Structure; Management Systems; Rail Industry; United States
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    Chandler, Alfred D., Jr. "Railroads and the Beginnings of Modern Management." Harvard Business School Case 377-231, June 1977. (Revised May 1995.)
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    Senior Teams, Strategic Innovation, and Change

    By: Michael L. Tushman
    This research stream explores the relations... View Details
    • 05 Feb 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    The Middle Manager of the Future: More Coaching, Less Commanding

    American Journal of Sociology. While artificial intelligence promises to transform the workplace and disrupt the organizational chart, Zhang’s research suggests that middle managers will still play a key role even in innovation-heavy... View Details
    Keywords: by Ben Rand
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    Making a Difference: Developing Actionable Knowledge for Practice and Theory

    By: Michael Beer
    There is a widely acknowledged gap between academic research and practice. While the field of organizational studies and development has had an impact on management practice in some organizations, it has had only a modest impact on widely accepted management practice... View Details
    Keywords: Actionable Knowledge; Actionable Practice; Normal Science; Scholar-consultant; Management Practices and Processes; Theory; Innovation Leadership; Organizations; Performance Effectiveness
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    Beer, Michael. "Making a Difference: Developing Actionable Knowledge for Practice and Theory." Journal of Applied Behavioral Science 56, no. 4 (December 2020): 506–520.
    • April 2007
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    Knowledge-based Innovation: Emergence and Embedding of New Practice Areas in Management Consulting Firms

    By: N. Anand, H. K. Gardner and T. Morris
    How do innovative knowledge-based structures emerge and become embedded in organizations? We drew on theories of knowledge-intensive firms, communities of practice, and professional service firms to analyze multiple cases of new practice area creation in management... View Details
    Keywords: Knowledge; Innovation and Invention; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Structure; Economy; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Experience and Expertise; Service Operations; Consulting Industry
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    Anand, N., H. K. Gardner, and T. Morris. "Knowledge-based Innovation: Emergence and Embedding of New Practice Areas in Management Consulting Firms." Academy of Management Journal 50, no. 2 (April 2007).
    • April 1999
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    Understanding and Building Organizations' Capabilities to Innovate: Managing Innovation: Overview TN for Module 4

    By: Clayton M. Christensen
    An overview teaching note showing instructors how to link together the concepts students should learn from discussing the cases in the fourth module of the Managing Innovation course. Summarizes the "Resources, Processes, & Values" framework of organizational... View Details
    Keywords: Competency and Skills; Framework; Innovation and Management; Management Practices and Processes; Resource Allocation; Value
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    Christensen, Clayton M. "Understanding and Building Organizations' Capabilities to Innovate: Managing Innovation: Overview TN for Module 4." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 699-165, April 1999.
    • March 2023 (Revised March 2025)
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    Accelerating AI Adoption in the U.S. Air Force

    By: Maria P. Roche and Alexander Farrow
    In August 2022, the Pentagon tasked U.S. Air Force Captain Victor Lopez to launch a new office for AFWERX, an Air Force innovation unit that leveraged commercial developers and military talent to acquire advanced technologies. This task was particularly arduous because... View Details
    Keywords: Technological Innovation; Organizational Design; AI and Machine Learning; Adoption; Technology Adoption; United States
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    Roche, Maria P., and Alexander Farrow. "Accelerating AI Adoption in the U.S. Air Force." Harvard Business School Case 723-429, March 2023. (Revised March 2025.)
    • 2012
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    Knowledge-based Innovation: Emergence and Embedding of New Practice Areas in Management Consulting Firms

    By: Heidi K. Gardner, N. Anand and Tim Morris
    How do innovative knowledge-based structures emerge and become embedded in organizations? We drew on theories of knowledge-intensive firms, communities of practice, and professional service firms to analyze multiple cases of new practice area creation in management... View Details
    Keywords: Competency and Skills; Innovation and Invention; Knowledge; Organizations; Practice; Mathematical Methods; Consulting Industry
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    Gardner, Heidi K., N. Anand, and Tim Morris. "Knowledge-based Innovation: Emergence and Embedding of New Practice Areas in Management Consulting Firms." In Management Consulting, edited by Stephanos Avakian and Timothy Clark. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2012.
    • March 2004 (Revised July 2005)
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    ACCION International: Maintaining High Performance Through Time

    By: Michael Chu
    ACCION International has been a major innovator in microfinance for 30 years. Reviews organizational context under which key industry-shaping concepts were developed (from peer group lending, guarantee funds, equity investment funds, and regulated commercial banking... View Details
    Keywords: Joint Ventures; Equity; Microfinance; Employee Relationship Management; Non-Governmental Organizations
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    Chu, Michael. "ACCION International: Maintaining High Performance Through Time." Harvard Business School Case 304-095, March 2004. (Revised July 2005.)
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    Research Interests

    Research interests are focused on issues of innovation and productivity as they relate to improved outcomes in biotechnology and pharmaceutical R and D. These span topics from decision-making, organizational structure and communication, to the development of novel... View Details

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    Workforce Change

    By: Sandra J. Sucher

    This research encompasses layoffs, furloughs and restructuring, global practices that affect millions of employees and thousands of companies every year. In this work I aim to replace bad practice that damages trust with good (or at least better) practice through... View Details

    Keywords: Layoffs; Leadership And Change Management; Global Innovation; Strategic Decision Making; Multinational Corporations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; United States; France; Germany; Hungary; Finland; United Kingdom; Netherlands; China; Japan; Brazil
    • September 1991
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    Rethinking the Corporate Workplace: Case Managers at Mutual Benefit Life

    By: Robert G. Eccles Jr.
    In early 1991, a spirit of innovation and organizational change was in the air at Mutual Benefit Life, with the success of the new "case manager" program its most concrete manifestation. Using powerful computer workstations, case managers could see insurance... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Technological Innovation; Change Management; Information Technology; Insurance; Human Resources; Insurance Industry
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    Eccles, Robert G., Jr. "Rethinking the Corporate Workplace: Case Managers at Mutual Benefit Life." Harvard Business School Case 492-015, September 1991.

      Stefan H. Thomke

      Stefan Thomke (sthomke@hbs.edu), an authority on the management of innovation, is the William Barclay Harding Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He has worked with firms on product, process, and... View Details

      Keywords: aerospace; automobiles; automotive; banking; biotechnology; chemical; computer; defense; electronics; health care; high technology; home video games; information technology industry; manufacturing; marketing industry; pharmaceuticals; plastics; semiconductor; service industry; telecommunications; video games
      • 23 Jun 2023
      • HBS Case

      This Company Lets Employees Take Charge—Even with Life and Death Decisions

      creativity was just out of the box. You can get so much out of a person, they bring so much to the table, and it is so innovative to work this way. I wish lots of other people had that, too.” Maybe they can. Ethan Bernstein, the Edward W.... View Details
      Keywords: by Annelena Lobb; Health
      • 02 Sep 2021
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      The Balance of Power Between Employees and Employers

        Linda A. Hill

        Linda A. Hill is the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and Faculty Chair of the Leadership Initiative. Hill is regarded as one of the top experts on leadership and innovation. Hill is... View Details

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