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- 2018
- Working Paper
Full Substitutability
By: John William Hatfield, Scott Duke Kominers, Alexandru Nichifor, Michael Ostrovsky and Alexander Westkamp
Various forms of substitutability are essential for establishing the existence of equilibria and other useful properties in diverse settings such as matching, auctions, and exchange economies with indivisible goods. We extend earlier models’ definitions of... View Details
Hatfield, John William, Scott Duke Kominers, Alexandru Nichifor, Michael Ostrovsky, and Alexander Westkamp. "Full Substitutability." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-016.
- 2009
- Chapter
Creating Common Ground: Propositions about Effective Intergroup Leadership
Kanter, Rosabeth M. "Creating Common Ground: Propositions about Effective Intergroup Leadership." In Crossing the Divide: Intergroup Leadership in a World of Difference, edited by T. Pittinsky. Harvard Business Press, 2009.
- 2002
- Chapter
Dominant Designs, Technology Cycles, and Organizational Outcomes
By: Michael L. Tushman and Johann Peter Murmann
Tushman, Michael L., and Johann Peter Murmann. "Dominant Designs, Technology Cycles, and Organizational Outcomes." Chap. 10 in Managing in the Modular Age: Architectures, Networks, and Organizations, edited by Raghu Garud, Arun Kumaraswamy, and Richard Langlois, 316–348. Blackwell Publishing, 2002.
- November 1990 (Revised February 1991)
- Case
L. William Seidman and the Resolution Trust Corp.
Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Organizational Design; Public Administration Industry; Financial Services Industry
Vietor, Richard H.K. "L. William Seidman and the Resolution Trust Corp." Harvard Business School Case 391-098, November 1990. (Revised February 1991.)
- 15 Oct 2012
- News
Roth Earns Nobel for Matching Theory
- September 2013
- Case
Management Levels at Staples (A): Company and Organization (Abridged)
By: David A. Garvin
Abridged version of one of six cases that describe the roles and responsibilities of managers at each of the hierarchical levels of management within the U.S. Stores business unit of Staples, the world's largest office supply company. Together, the cases form a... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Managerial Roles; Organizational Design; Management Practices and Processes; Job Design and Levels; Business Processes; Consumer Products Industry; United States
Garvin, David A. "Management Levels at Staples (A): Company and Organization (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 314-004, September 2013.
- June 2020 (Revised May 2022)
- Case
Vanguard Retail Operations (A)
By: Willy C. Shih and Antonio Moreno
The first two cases in this series are set in the financial services industry, and explore whether it is better for back-office workers to be generalists who provide the flexibility of being able to handle the complete range of transactions that the company faces or... View Details
Keywords: Pooling; Generalist Model; Specialist Model; Operations; Service Operations; Management; Job Design and Levels; Financial Services Industry; United States
Shih, Willy C., and Antonio Moreno. "Vanguard Retail Operations (A)." Harvard Business School Case 620-104, June 2020. (Revised May 2022.)
- 2018
- Article
Cracking the Organizational Challenge of Pursuing Joint Social and Financial Goals: Social Enterprise as a Laboratory to Understand Hybrid Organizing
By: Julie Battilana
While in recent decades the social and business sectors have evolved on fairly separate tracks, today companies are increasingly expected to generate social value in addition to profit. As a result, they also increasingly face the distinct challenge of pursuing social... View Details
Keywords: Hybrid Organizations; Hybrid Organizing; Multiple Goals; Social Enterprise; Goals and Objectives; Organizational Design; Organizational Culture
Battilana, Julie. "Cracking the Organizational Challenge of Pursuing Joint Social and Financial Goals: Social Enterprise as a Laboratory to Understand Hybrid Organizing." M@n@gement 21, no. 4 (2018): 1278–1305.
- June 2014 (Revised March 2017)
- Teaching Note
Agero: Enhancing Capabilities for Customers
By: Robert Simons and Natalie Kindred
This is the teaching note for Agero: Enhancing Capabilities for Customers (HBS No. 113-001) View Details
- February 2003 (Revised May 2003)
- Case
Intuit, Inc.: Transforming an Entrepreneurial Company into a Collaborative Organization (A)
Describes how Intuit, Inc.'s CEO, Steve Bennett, changes the company from an entrepreneurial "siloed" organization into a collaborative one. View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leading Change; Organizational Design; Entrepreneurship; Information Industry
Hansen, Morten T., and Christina Darwall. "Intuit, Inc.: Transforming an Entrepreneurial Company into a Collaborative Organization (A)." Harvard Business School Case 403-064, February 2003. (Revised May 2003.)
- March 1990
- Article
Architectural Innovation: The Reconfiguration of Existing Product Technologies and the Failure of Established Firms
By: R. Henderson and K. B. Clark
Henderson, R., and K. B. Clark. "Architectural Innovation: The Reconfiguration of Existing Product Technologies and the Failure of Established Firms." Administrative Science Quarterly 35, no. 1 (March 1990): 9–30.
- 26 Mar 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Disaster!
Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions To Be Answered How does disaster change leadership goals? What signals should leaders send during a crisis? How should... View Details
- 24 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
SuperCorp: Values as Guidance System
Many people today are focused on the global economic crisis, but Harvard Business School professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter sees also a global crisis of business. The model of American capitalism that worked so well to raise the fortunes of millions of people last century... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- May 1997 (Revised July 1997)
- Case
Vermeer Technologies (E): New Beginning
By: Ashish Nanda
The Vermeer team is pleasantly surprised by the benefits and hospitality that their new surroundings offer. Their happiness is tempered, however, by discomfort with some elements of the "Microsoft Way." As the Vermeer engineers embark on a punishing schedule for the... View Details
Keywords: Performance Expectations; Horizontal Integration; Organizational Design; Organizational Culture; Product Development; Information Technology Industry
Nanda, Ashish, and Georgia Levenson. "Vermeer Technologies (E): New Beginning." Harvard Business School Case 397-085, May 1997. (Revised July 1997.)
- 19 Mar 2021
- News
We Are All 'Designers'
- Profile
Jonathan Arena
ceramics” and for college, he attended one of the most prestigious art schools in the United States, the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). Yet even as he made art, business was never far away. “I would start companies all the time,”... View Details
- 1999
- Chapter
Organizing for Worldwide Effectiveness: The Transnational Solution
By: C. A. Bartlett and S. Ghoshal
Bartlett, C. A., and S. Ghoshal. "Organizing for Worldwide Effectiveness: The Transnational Solution." In Global Marketing Management. 4th ed. by J. A. Quelch and C. A. Bartlett. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley Publishing Company, 1999.