Enabling - Publications - Faculty & Research

November 2008
Teaching Note

Royal DSM N.V.: Information Technology Enabling Business Transformation (TN)

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Deborah Soule

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Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Information Technology; Transformation; Consumer Products Industry; Food and Beverage Industry

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2007
Working Paper

Initiating Divergent Organizational Change: The Enabling Role Of Actors' Social Position

By: Julie Battilana

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02 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

Digital Initiative Summit: Freeing Patient Data to Enable Innovation

to remedy the information-sharing glut that is slowing health care innovation and harming patient care, according to panelists discussing "Digital Health: Freeing Patient Data to Enable Innovation" at the Digital Initiative Summit held... View Details

Keywords: Re: Karim R. Lakhani; Health

2021
Working Paper

Enabling Mission Impact: Funding Strategies for High-Risk High-Reward Innovation

By: Carolyn J. Fu, Lars Frolund and Fiona Murray

Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Research and Development

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April 2004 (Revised April 2006)
Teaching Note

Eyeblaster: Enabling the Next Generation of Online Advertising (TN)

By: Elie Ofek

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Keywords: Online Advertising; Advertising Industry

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July 2000
Case

Patent & License Exchange, The: Enabling a Global IP Marketplace

The Patent & License Exchange (pl-x) is a start-up company seeking to create a market for intellectual property over the Web. The company has targeted the United States as its initial market and has developed its services and processes for the United States. Now it is... View Details

Keywords: Patents; Globalized Markets and Industries; Service Industry; Japan; United States

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Time to Change: Temporal Shifts As Enablers of Organizational Change

By: Nancy Staudenmayer, Marcie Tyre and Leslie Perlow

Keywords: Change; Organizations

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12 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

When Design Enables Discrimination: Learning from Anti-Asian Bias on Airbnb

Airbnb hosts of Asian descent had significantly fewer stays early in the COVID-19 pandemic—and the design of the travel site may have inadvertently enabled discrimination that shut Asians out, says new research by Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds; Technology; Travel

02 Sep 2014
Research & Ideas

Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping

Gareth Olds grew up toeing the poverty line. For years his parents struggled to support three children in Anchorage, Alaska, where food costs run high. His stepfather held down a steady but low-paying job as a dental assistant, and his mom performed a series of odd... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

Article

Formulaic Transparency: The Hidden Enabler of Exceptional U.S. Securitization

By: Amar Bhide

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Integrating: A Managerial Practice that Enables Implementation in Fragmented Health Care Environments

By: Michaela J. Kerrissey, Patricia Satterstrom, Nicholas Leydon, Gordon Schiff and Sara J. Singer

How some organizations improve while others remain stagnant is a key question in health care research. This inductive qualitative study examines primary care clinics implementing improvement efforts in order to identify mechanisms that enable implementation despite... View Details

Keywords: Organization And Management Theory; Quality Improvement; Health Care and Treatment; Performance Improvement; Integration; Cooperation

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Team Scaffolds: How Mesolevel Team Structures Enable Role-based Coordination in Temporary Groups

By: Melissa A. Valentine and Amy C. Edmondson

This paper shows how mesolevel structures support effective coordination in temporary groups. Prior research on coordination in temporary groups describes how roles encode individual responsibilities so that coordination between relative strangers is possible. We... View Details

Keywords: Groups and Teams; Health Care and Treatment; Cooperation; Health Industry

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Integrating: A managerial practice that enables implementation in fragmented healthcare environments [Under Review]

In this paper with Michaela Kerrisey, Sara Singer, Nicholas Leydon, and Gordon Schiff, we identify the factors that enabled primary care clinics to overcome implementation barriers and explain how clinic managers can integrate those factors across roles. Our... View Details