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  • November 1998 (Revised December 1998)
  • Case

Asea Brown Boveri (Condensed)

By: Robert L. Simons
The merger of Asea AB and BBC Brown Boveri required a restructuring of operations and a change in organizational cultures. Competitive success also necessitated the benefits of scale while remaining "local" for political and customer-responsiveness reasons. The case... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Mergers and Acquisitions; Restructuring; Cost vs Benefits; Competitive Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Growth and Development; Performance Effectiveness; Consumer Products Industry
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  • 03 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 3

Ann, and Ryan Raffaelli Abstract—The institutional logics perspective highlights how organizations are embedded within broader systems of meaning and how this embeddedness activates salient institutional logics in organizations that can enable or constrain View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Article

Designing Social Networks: Joint Tasks and the Formation and Endurance of Network Ties

By: Sharique Hasan and Rembrand Koning
Can managers influence the formation of organizational networks? In this article, we evaluate the effect of joint tasks on the creation of network ties with data from a novel field experiment with 112 aspiring entrepreneurs. During the study, we randomized individuals... View Details
Keywords: Accelerators; Entrepreneur; Social Networks; Field Experiment; Entrepreneurship; Organizational Design; Networks; Social and Collaborative Networks; Social Media; Information Technology Industry; India
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  • Article

Geographic Mobility, Immobility, and Geographic Flexibility—A Review and Agenda for Research on the Changing Geography of Work

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury
I review and integrate a wide range of literature that has examined how geographic mobility of high-skilled workers creates value for organizations and individuals. Drawing on this interdisciplinary literature, I document that geographic mobility creates value by... View Details
Keywords: Geographic Mobility; Frictions; Work-from-anywhere; Employees; Geographic Location; Organizational Change and Adaptation
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  • Article

Mission-Driven Governance

By: Raymond Fisman, Rakesh Khurana and Edward Martenson

The purpose of this paper is to provide a useful, easily applied theory of governance performance. The existing model is fundamentally adversarial, rooted in the paradigm of principal-agent conflict. At its base is an image of governance as a never-ending struggle... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Knowledge Management; Standards; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Evaluation
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    Eric J. Van den Steen

    Eric Van den Steen is a Professor of Business Administration at HBS, where he teaches strategy. He holds the Roy Little chair, established in honor of the founder of Textron. 

    Professor Van den Steen's research studies the fundamentals of strategy and... View Details

    • 09 Oct 2008
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Dirty Work, Clean Hands: The Moral Psychology of Indirect Agency

    Keywords: by Neeru Paharia, Karim S. Kassam, Joshua D. Greene & Max H. Bazerman
    • Research Summary

    Delegation of Authority in Oligopoly

    This paper studies the consequences of product-market competition on firms' decisions to delegate more or fewer decision-making responsibilities to managers. By simultaneously addressing the choice of both competitive actions and organizational design, the paper... View Details

    • 2020
    • Working Paper

    Recognition Incentives for Internal Crowdsourcing: A Field Experiment at NASA

    By: Jana Gallus, Olivia S. Jung and Karim R. Lakhani
    What might motivate employees to participate in internal crowdsourcing, a peer-based approach to innovation? Should organizations use incentives that are congruent with their established hierarchical structures, or should they use incentives that are aligned with the... View Details
    Keywords: Online Platforms; Employee Engagement; Managerial Recognition; Innovation and Management; Employees; Motivation and Incentives
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    • 03 Oct 2018
    • What Do You Think?

    How Should Managers Deal with the Challenges of Building an Inclusive Workplace?

    CamiloTorres What Are the Most Effective Management Approaches to Inclusion? Inclusion is important to an organization. But it is a challenge in the current day workplace climate, especially when it comes to such things as one-on-one... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 29 Oct 2024
    • HBS Seminar

    Lynn Wu, Wharton

    • Career Coach

    Sasha Grinshpun

    Sasha (HBS '02) combines her gift for quickly gauging life passions of HBSers with her experience in formulating effective job searches for them to score their dream jobs. Her eclectic background spanning consulting, design thinking, and... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Startup - Founder; Entrepreneurship; Startup - Joiner; Entrepreneurship; Technology
    • November 2013
    • Article

    Learning from My Successes and from Others' Failures: Evidence from Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery

    By: D. KC, B. Staats and F. Gino
    Learning from past experience is central to an organization's adaptation and survival. A key dimension of prior experience is whether an outcome was successful or unsuccessful. While empirical studies have investigated the effects of success and failure in... View Details
    Keywords: Healthcare; Health Care; Knowledge Work; Attribution Theory; Quality; Success; Medical Specialties; Health Care and Treatment; Failure; Learning; Health Industry
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    • March 2008
    • Article

    When Growth Stalls

    By: Matthew S. Olson, Derek C. M. van Bever and Seth Verry
    This article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. An abrupt and lasting drop in revenue growth is a crisis that can strike even the... View Details
    Keywords: Growth Strategy; Revenues; Crisis Management; Revenue; Growth and Development Strategy
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    • March–April 2022
    • Article

    Uncovering the Mitigating Psychological Response to Monitoring Technologies: Police Body Cameras Not Only Constrain but Also Depolarize

    By: Shefali V. Patil and Ethan Bernstein
    Despite organizational psychologists’ long-standing caution against monitoring (citing its reduction in employee autonomy and thus effectiveness), many organizations continue to use it, often with no detriment to performance and with strong support, not protest, from... View Details
    Keywords: Monitoring; Transparency; Polarization; Body Worn Cameras; Quasi Field Experiment; Analytics and Data Science; Employees; Perception; Law Enforcement
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    • TeachingInterests

    Managing Human Capital

    By: Ethan S. Bernstein

    The Managing Human Capital course has been specifically designed to teach practical skills for the future general manager (not just the human resource practitioner) who seeks to manage both other people and her or his own career with optimal... View Details

    • 21 Apr 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    Searching for Better Practices in Social Investing

    very talented executives into the mix, you can help organizations change their effectiveness and their view of what's possible." Bannick agreed that investors should curb the need for speed when shifting their focus from financial... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services
    • 2009
    • Other Paper

    Trade Policy and Firm Boundaries

    By: Laura Alfaro, Paola Conconi, Andrew F. Newman and Harald Fadinger
    We examine how trade policy affects firms' organizational choices. We embed a model of firms' vertical integration decisions into a standard perfectly-competitive international trade framework. In the model, integration decisions are driven by a trade-off... View Details
    Keywords: Trade; Policy; Ownership; Business and Government Relations; Vertical Integration; Boundaries
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    • April 2021
    • Case

    Zeynep Ton: The Good Jobs Strategy

    By: Francesca Gino and Frances X. Frei
    The link to this multimedia case should be provided to students in advance as preparation for classroom case discussion.

    In Zeynop Ton’s 2014 book The Good Jobs Strategy: How the Smartest Companies Invest in Employees to Lower Costs and Boost... View Details
    Keywords: Organizations; Selection and Staffing; Compensation and Benefits; Operations; Performance Effectiveness
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    • 07 Jun 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: June 7

    these findings advance understanding of how organizational structure and corporate leadership interact, and how organizations can more effectively realize the strategic value of corporate social... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne