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- June 2019
- Exercise
Worldwide Studios: Confidential Instructions—Sam Star's Agent
By: Ken Basin and Guhan Subramanian
Basin, Ken, and Guhan Subramanian. "Worldwide Studios: Confidential Instructions—Sam Star's Agent." Harvard Business School Exercise 919-043, June 2019.
- 1 Feb 1974
- Conference Presentation
Women in Organizations: Change Agent Skills
By: R. M. Kanter
Kanter, R. M. "Women in Organizations: Change Agent Skills." Paper presented at the New Technology in Organization Development Conference, New Orleans, February 01, 1974. (Also in Current Issues and Strategies in Organization Development, edited by W.R. Burke. N.Y.: Behavioral Publications, 1976; Portions published as "On Ending Female Tokenism in T-Groups," Social Change, vol. 5 (1975), pp. 1-3. Reprinted in Sensitivity Training and the Laboratory Approach, edited by R.T. Golembiewski and A. Blumberg. Third Edition. Itasca, IL: Peacock, 1977.)
- March 1996 (Revised February 1997)
- Case
Change Agent Program at Siemens Nixdorf, The
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, John F. McGuire and Afroze A Mohammed
To change its culture, the German computer giant Siemens Nixdorf Information Systems launched a program to train 21 "change agents" who would lead entrepreneurial projects designed to get results and to serve as models of a new style. View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Organizational Culture; Training; Leadership Development; Programs; Human Resources; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Business Model; Computer Industry; Germany
Kanter, Rosabeth M., John F. McGuire, and Afroze A Mohammed. "Change Agent Program at Siemens Nixdorf, The." Harvard Business School Case 396-203, March 1996. (Revised February 1997.)
- 1999
- Chapter
Agents in Negotiations: Toward Testable Propositions
By: T. Kurtzberg, D. Moore, K. L. McGinn and M. H. Bazerman
Kurtzberg, T., D. Moore, K. L. McGinn, and M. H. Bazerman. "Agents in Negotiations: Toward Testable Propositions." In Negotiating on Behalf of Others: Advice to Lawyers, Business Executives, Sports Agents, Diplomats, Politicians, and Everybody Else, edited by Robert Mnookin, Lawrence Susskind, and Pacey C. Foster, 283–298. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, 1999.
- April 2018 (Revised October 2023)
- Case
Coco Chanel: From Fashion Icon to Nazi Agent
By: Geoffrey Jones and Emily Grandjean
This case describes the career of the iconic French fashion designer Coco Chanel who created a transformational business during the first half of the 20th century. Beginning in her early adulthood, Chanel leveraged relationships with acquaintances, friends, and... View Details
Keywords: Business History; Biography; Entrepreneurship; Relationships; Brands and Branding; Ethics; Fashion Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry
Jones, Geoffrey, and Emily Grandjean. "Coco Chanel: From Fashion Icon to Nazi Agent." Harvard Business School Case 318-139, April 2018. (Revised October 2023.)
- July–August 1996
- Article
The Board As a Change Agent
By: J. W. Lorsch
Lorsch, J. W. "The Board As a Change Agent." Corporate Board (July–August 1996).
- Research Summary
Optimal Signaling Policy with Rational and Irrational Agents (with James Burns)
We examine situations in which a single informed agent signals a group of uniformed agents. The uniformed agents must then take an action based on this signal. The motivation for our work comes from real world examples such as terrorist alerts or job safety... View Details
- April 2007
- Case
ABN AMRO Bank N.V.: Global Change Agents
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Lance P. Pierce and Ryan Leo Raffaelli
ABN AMRO Global Banking Group developed its risk management function in response to expansion, and increasingly focused on environmental and social risks. The head of the function needed to influence policies and business decisions in a highly decentralized context in... View Details
- November 2018
- Teaching Plan
Coco Chanel: From Fashion Icon to Nazi Agent
By: Geoffrey Jones and Emily Grandjean
Teaching Note for HBS No. 318-139. View Details
- 26 Jun 2017
- Working Paper Summaries
Inventory Management for Mobile Money Agents in the Developing World
- 22 Jun 2010
- News
7 tips for picking a real estate agent
The Network Secrets of Great Change Agents
Large organizations—and the people working in them—tend to resist change. Yet some people are remarkably successful at leading transformation efforts. What makes them so effective?
View Details- 2020
- Conference Presentation
Learning in Social Environments with Curious Neural Agents
By: M. Sano, J. De Freitas, N. Haber and D. L. K. Yamins
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
An agent for change through investing and philanthropy
Jim Alexandre (MBA 1983), a private equity specialist, talks about how he is an agent for change through his investments and his personal philanthropy. (Published April 2014) View Details
- Web
Agents of Change: The Founding of the African-American Student Union
Archival Collections Bibliography Site Credits Agents of Change: The Founding and Impact of the African-American Student Union celebrates the 50th anniversary of the formation of the African-American Student Union (AASU) at Harvard... View Details
- 20 Jun 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
Show or Tell? Improving Agent Decision Making in a Tanzanian Mobile Money Field Experiment
- 1999
- Chapter
The Effects of Agents and Mediators on Negotiation Behavior
By: M. H. Bazerman, M. A. Neale, K. L. Valley, Y. M. Kim and E. J. Zajac
Bazerman, M. H., M. A. Neale, K. L. Valley, Y. M. Kim, and E. J. Zajac. "The Effects of Agents and Mediators on Negotiation Behavior." In Judgment and Decision Making: An Interdisciplinary Reader. 2nd ed. Edited by T. Connolly, H. Arkes, and K. Hammond. Cambridge University Press, 1996.
- December 1999
- Case
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (B): Nurturing Entrepreneurs and Change Agents
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Jane Roessner
Thirty-one "change agents" at Sun Microsystems, Inc. told the story of their most recent significant change project: its origins and goals, the project team, the chronology of the work, the challenges, results, and lessons learned. Their stories answer two questions:... View Details
- 2018
- Working Paper
Show or Tell? Improving Agent Decision Making in a Tanzanian Mobile Money Field Experiment
By: Jason Acimovic, Chris Parker, David F. Drake and Karthik Balasubramanian
When workers make operational decisions, the firm's global knowledge and the workers’ domain-specific knowledge complement each other. Oftentimes workers have the final decision-making power. Two key decisions a firm makes when designing systems to support these... View Details
Keywords: Employees; Decision Making; Training; Performance Improvement; Money; Mobile Technology; Developing Countries and Economies; Financial Services Industry
Acimovic, Jason, Chris Parker, David F. Drake, and Karthik Balasubramanian. "Show or Tell? Improving Agent Decision Making in a Tanzanian Mobile Money Field Experiment." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-106, May 2018.
- Research Summary
What Happens when Agents Join Many-to-One Matching Market?
In their seminal book about matching theory, Roth and Sotomayor (1990) discuss (among other things) what happens in a one-to-one matching market when a new woman joins it. An elegant result shows that in this scenario there exists a non-empty set of men (related to a... View Details