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- 19 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Global Talent, Local Obstacles: Why Time Zones Matter in Remote Work
need for global collaboration accelerates and companies recalibrate their remote and hybrid arrangements, Choudhury and colleagues present the first real-time data on how different time zones affect employees’ ability to communicate in a paper published in View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
greater customer satisfaction and employee retention after six months as compared to (a) socialization that focused on organizational identity (emphasizing the pride to be gained from organizational... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 19, 2007
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-051.pdf Alignment in Cross-Functional and Cross-Firm Supply Chain Planning Authors:Santiago Kraiselburd and Noel Watson Abstract In this paper, we seek to use quantitative models to help appreciate the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Health Care Conundrum
coordinated and aligned to focus on one or more specific diseases or conditions, such as cancer or heart disease. The organizational structure and staffing, work processes, and facilities will evolve to... View Details
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Public Education Goes to School
organizational coherence in support of the strategy Developing and managing human capital Allocating resources in alignment with the strategy Using performance data for decision making and accountability... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
What It Takes: Minorities in the Executive Suite
a culture that fosters and makes the most of diversity, "creating an enabling organizational context, ensuring that opportunity exists, and making certain that development takes place." In the corporations employing the... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 04 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Business
data and establish a process for keeping that front-line information flowing and timely. Otherwise, “customer focus” will remain a perennial slogan, not an organizational reality. Oversight over this activity is as important as it is in... View Details
Keywords: by Frank V. Cespedes
- 07 Jun 2019
- Book
Are You a Digital Manager?
need to do their part and devote time and attention to aligning their interests and cultivating collaborations across the organization. Only when everyone understands the big picture and feels a part of it can they prioritize and focus... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Web
Private Equity Finance - Course Catalog
increasing or mitigating risk. Capital structure, security choice, alignment of incentives, and broader capital markets issues will be central to the cases in this module. A detailed exploration of the structure and functioning of credit... View Details
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
initiatives could focus on improving their access to skilled labor, buyers, and capital. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53901 In Search of Organizational Alignment... View Details
- 24 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 24, 2009
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=709043 One Firm One Future at Davis Langdon Harvard Business School Case 409-044 Rob Smith, senior partner of construction consultancy Davis Langdon, has just led the firm through a major View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 15, 2016
hiring (in this study, by the head office of a U.S. retail chain) or decentralized hiring (by store managers) leads to higher quality employee-company matches. While centralized hiring can ensure that enough resources are invested in consistently hiring people View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Next Normal
leads both Jennifer and the team member to an understanding of how the individual’s interests, skills, and goals connect to the team’s overall goals. Reimert finds this personal touch crucial for creating alignment in a group of people... View Details
- 21 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 21, 2006
Kathryn S. Roloff Abstract The emergence of a research literature on team learning has been driven by at least two factors. First, longstanding interest in what makes organizational work teams effective leads naturally to questions of how... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 2/5
minimize the fact that Trump has blatantly aligned himself with white supremacists through his gracious coverage of white supremacist rallies in Charlottesville, VA. Let’s also not forget this is a candidate that prompted the fawning... View Details
- 20 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Airplane Design Brings Out the Class Warfare in Us All
football stadium, a cruise ship—where people are segmented by rank of some sort. Norton co-authored the study, Physical and Situational Inequality on Airplanes Predicts Air Rage, with Katherine A. DeCelles, an associate professor of View Details
- 09 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 9
aligning strategic choices with organizational architecture. Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/410007-PDF-ENG Meeting the Diversity Challenge at PepsiCo: The Steve Reinemund Era... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought
Beyond How to Manage Coronavirus Layoffs with Compassion (Harvard Business Review) Organizational Responses to COVID-19 and Climate Change: A Conversation with Rebecca Henderson (Environmental Insights) COVID-19 Business Impact Center... View Details
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
an honest, collective, and public conversation about their organization's alignment with espoused strategy and values. The research has identified a syndrome of six silent barriers to effectiveness and a dynamic theory of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jul 2022
- News
Wired to be Inspired
be in everything they did. It informed their strategy, it informed their organizational practices, it informed their culture and hiring, it really permeated the organization in two significant ways. The first was purpose was like a... View Details