Publications

Educators

December 2010
Article

Building Sustainable Hybrid Organizations: The Case of Commercial Microfinance Organizations

By: Julie Battilana and Silvia Dorado

We explore how new types of hybrid organizations (organizations that combine institutional logics in unprecedented ways) can develop and maintain their hybrid nature in the absence of a "ready-to-wear" model for handling the tensions between the logics they combine.... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Structure; Microfinance; Growth and Development Strategy; Identity; Commercialization; Balance and Stability; Policy; Recruitment; Business Model

Web

A Business Investment for You & Your Organization

The Advanced Management Program (AMP) at Harvard Business School is the highest level of executive education. Throughout AMP, the global diversity of other senior executives from around the world challenges your ways of thinking, offers valuable guidance, and creates... View Details

October 1990
Article

The Structure and Governance of Venture-Capital Organizations

By: William A. Sahlman

Keywords: Governance; Venture Capital; Organizations

Article

Operations Research in the Public Sector and Nonprofit Organizations

By: Zilla Sinuany-Stern and H. David Sherman

Public sector and nonprofit organizations (NPO) have been growing substantially in number and size since the turn of the millennium. In light of the ongoing economic crises these sectors are expected to grow even more with expanded demands for services, increased need... View Details

Keywords: Third Sector; Operations; Public Sector; Nonprofit Organizations

11 Jun 2020
In Practice

Are Digital Organizations Better at Overcoming COVID?

chains and people analytics to artificial intelligence-based models and automated biotechnology research, organizations further along the digital curve are responding differently than those still wondering how to evolve. The digital... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

01 Oct 1989
Conference Presentation

Organization Decision Support: An Interacting Team Perspective

By: L. M. Applegate and J. C. Henderson

Keywords: Organizations; Decisions; Groups and Teams

14 Sep 2015
Video

2015 G&WS: Susan Sturm Presents on Re-framing Diversity in Organizations

March 2004 (Revised February 2006)
Case

Salt Lake Organizing Committee, The: 2002 Olympics

By: H. Kent Bowen, Bryce LaPierre and Courtney Purrington

After two and a half years of effort, Fraser Bullock, COO of the 2002 Winter Olympics, faced projected deficits and post-9/11 security requirements only five months before the opening ceremony. Summarizes the organizational structure and processes put in place by... View Details

Keywords: Framework; Knowledge Dissemination; Business or Company Management; Managerial Roles; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Planning; Practice; Risk and Uncertainty; Safety; Sports; System

Educators

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

A Perfect Fit: Aligning Organization & Strategy

Monday morning. Eight managers, handpicked by their superiors, face one another in the middle of a room. Seated in a semicircle behind them is the company's top management team. As the members of the inner circle report what they have learned about their View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

Research Summary

Communication (and Coordination?) in a Modern, Complex Organization

This is a descriptive study of the structure of communications in a modern organization. We analyze a dataset with millions of electronic mail messages, calendar meetings and teleconferences for many thousands of employees of a single, multidivisional firm during a... View Details

October 2020
Article

Patronage and Selection in Public Sector Organizations

By: Emanuele Colonnelli, Mounu Prem and Edoardo Teso

In all modern bureaucracies, politicians retain some discretion in public employment decisions, which may lead to frictions in the selection process if political connections substitute for individual competence. Relying on detailed matched employer-employee data on the... View Details

Keywords: Employees; Selection and Staffing; Political Elections; Public Sector; Brazil

1980
Chapter

A Social Systems Model for Organization Development

By: Michael Beer

1984
Book

Organization Change and Development: A Systems View

By: Michael Beer

1999
Book

Mentoring Dilemmas: Developmental Relationships in Multicultural Organizations

By: A. J. Murrell, F. J. Crosby and R. J. Ely

Keywords: Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues

April 2011
Module Note

Information and Control Systems for Customer-Centric Organizations

By: Francisco de Asis Martinez-Jerez

Keywords: Customer Focus and Relationships; Information Technology

2022
Chapter

Coordinating Marketing and Sales in B2B Organizations

By: Frank V. Cespedes

This chapter focuses on the topic of coordinating marketing and sales in Business-to-Business (B2B) organizations. It provides an historical overview, indicating that this is not a new issue facing firms, that the business press has outlined a recurring set of... View Details

Keywords: Marketing; Practice; Research; Sales