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- 01 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational
structure, social history, and educational system, companies developed under a system of family management that emphasized personal relationships more than formal structures, and relied more on broad-gauged... View Details
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
tighter coupling is more likely in suppliers with certain types of managerial structures (certified management system and unions). We also find important interactions between these organizational structures: managerial structures offset... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Evolving for Success [Part Two]
company. While they needed some independence and autonomy to get started, the problem is that an Arrow customer is just as likely to use the Web one day and a sales rep the next, yet wants to know that he or she is in the same system with... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 04 Aug 2003
- What Do You Think?
Are We Facing an Attitude Shortage?
while training primarily for skills at all levels in an organization. Further, to reengineer an organization to do more with less, high-performing organizations not only hire for attitude and train for skills, they provide outstanding support View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 22 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 22, 2008
Hurricane Katrina as a catalyst for the transformation of the public education system in New Orleans, President Sarah Usdin and CEO Matt Candler must adapt their strategy to respond to a continuously... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Think of it as Professors in Cars Having Coffee
have included divergent takes on such topics as: Ep 16: Is the Job of the Presidency Too Big for One Person to Lead effectively? Moon: “A corporation is designed to enable the company to be led, whereas when you look at the presidency, we've set up a View Details
- 18 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 18
PublicationsTechnology Manager's Journey: An Extended Narrative Approach to Educating Technical Leaders Authors:Robert D. Austin, Richard L. Nolan, and Shannon O'Donnell Publication:Academy of Management Learning & View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 2012
- Article
Specialization and Variety in Repetitive Tasks: Evidence from a Japanese Bank
By: B. Staats and F. Gino
Sustaining operational productivity in the completion of repetitive tasks is critical to many organizations' success. Yet research points to two different work-design-related strategies for accomplishing this goal: specialization to capture the benefits of repetition... View Details
Keywords: Motivation; Productivity; Specialization; Variety; Work Fragmentation; Boundaries; Performance Productivity; Organizations; Research; Strategy; Motivation and Incentives; Opportunities; Market Transactions; Resource Allocation; Performance; Goals and Objectives; Learning
Staats, B., and F. Gino. "Specialization and Variety in Repetitive Tasks: Evidence from a Japanese Bank." Management Science 58, no. 6 (June 2012): 1141–1159.
- 16 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Nitin Nohria: Why US Competitiveness Matters
that our friends abroad cheer for America with foreboding and pessimism, the way sports fans nervously pull for a team whose lead is slimming and whose energy is fading. These outsiders recognize that the system of democratic capitalism... View Details
Keywords: by Nitin Nohria
- 20 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 20
uncover in the data. We show that inventors were highly educated and that father’s income and education were important intergenerational transmission channels. Inventors tended to migrate to places that were... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 30
Anand was instated as chief diversity officer for Sodexo, North America. Anand and Landel worked with several executives to develop and implement systems that were conducive to a diversity strategy. The team started to build the human... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 26
diseases, and seamlessly integrating Twine with a client organization's electronic medical record (EMR) system and information technology (IT) infrastructure. The need to solve these problems had become more pressing since Twine was named... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
circumscribe citizen-employees, and they engage in production and trade. But individual corporations are no longer adequate to serve as the primary unit of analysis. Over the years, systems of distributed innovation-so-called business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Mar 2015
- What Do You Think?
Can a Laissez-Faire Approach Fix Labor Market Inequality?
broad legislation to keep power in balance, you don't need to micromanage all the particulars, like individual wages." AIM expressed the opinion that "the voluntary actions of Walmart are not replicable but it is the best approach to solving View Details
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
automobile. Spar: At HBS we think a lot about educating leaders for both business and society. I think this is another area where history can be really critical. When you think about leadership it's not all that useful to consider it in... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Studying Japan from the Inside
governance system from U.S. companies; banks acted as monitors for Japanese companies, and the boards of Japanese companies had been dominated by insiders. In April this year, however, the commercial code was revised, and now Japanese... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 10 Jan 2005
- What Do You Think?
Public Pension Reform: Does Mexico Have the Answer?
Summing Up Judging from responses to the January column, the debate concerning reform of the social security system in the U.S. will take many directions before the question can even be framed adequately. If the responses are an... View Details
- 12 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 12
and Partners P-TECH, an innovation in public education conceived by IBM in partnership with the New York City K-12 public education system and the city's two-year colleges, had... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 28
greater risk and thus affects resource allocation. Download the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1999484 Big BRICs, Weak Foundations: The Beginning of Public Elementary Education in Brazil, Russia, India, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Technological Disruption Changes Everything
education programs or, as we like to call it, Harvard Business School. In health care, Christensen set the scene by outlining the four layers of health care professionals: The specialist and sub-specialist physicians top the pecking... View Details