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Leadership Fellows

here Review the List of Proposal Questions to prepare your Leadership Fellows Proposal Complete and submit the Leadership Fellow Proposal Form Email the Leadership Fellows Program with any questions Student-Proposed: Students will work... View Details

2007
Article

Three Perspectives on Team Learning: Outcome Improvement, Task Mastery, and Group Process

By: Amy C. Edmondson, James R. Dillon and Kate Roloff

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 about how members of newly formed teams learn to work together... View Details

Keywords: Learning; Organizational Culture; Performance Improvement; Practice; Groups and Teams; Research; Adaptation; Cooperation

07 Feb 2022
Research & Ideas

Digital Transformation: A New Roadmap for Success

a survey of more than 1,500 senior executives from over 90 countries helped form a picture of today’s digitally mature company. However, it’s one thing to know where you aspire to be, and another to understand how to get there. In this... View Details

Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards

March–April 2017
Article

Innovation Outcomes in a Distributed Organization: Intrafirm Mobility and Access to Resources

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury

Prior research has established a relation between intra-firm mobility and innovation outcomes at distributed organizations. The literature has also uniformly agreed on the mechanism underlying this relationship: the sharing of tacit knowledge and recombination of ideas... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Structure; Innovation and Invention; Resource Allocation

November 2011
Article

How Great Companies Think Differently

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter

Corporate leaders have long subscribed to the belief that the sole purpose of business is to make money. That narrow view, deeply embedded in the American capitalist system, molds the actions of most corporations, constraining them to focus on maximizing short-term... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Profit; Leadership; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Shareholder Relations; Behavior; Social Issues; Competitive Advantage

Purchase

11 Dec 2012
First Look

First Look: Dec. 11

of bank leverage and risk exposures contributes to a form of systemic risk. We compute bank exposures to system-wide deleveraging, as well as the spillover of a single bank's deleveraging onto other banks. We show how our model can be... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Oct 2012
First Look

First Look: October 16

other, are open-source software communities, in which the participants are much more loosely coupled by comparison. The mirroring hypothesis predicts that these different organizational forms will produce products with distinctly... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Article

B Corps: Can It Remake Capitalism in Japan?

By: Geoffrey Jones

This article examines the B Corporation movement that originated in the United States in 2006. The founders sought to create a new type of company whose governance structure mandated them to consider financial, social and environmental performance. A certification... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Responsibility; Sustainability; B Corporations; Stakeholder Capitalism; Governance; Organizational Structure; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Japan

Article

Neither a Bazaar nor a Cathedral: The Interplay between Structure and Agency in Wikipedia's Role System.

By: Ofer Arazy, Hila Lifshitz - Assaf and Adam Balila

Roles provide a key coordination mechanism in peer-production. Whereas one stream in the literature has focused on the structural responsibilities associated with roles, the another has stressed the emergent nature of work. To date, these streams have proceeded largely... View Details

Keywords: Wikipedia; Knowledge Work; Organizational Structure; Knowledge; Information Publishing

18 Jul 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017

between competitors in health care markets—whether payers or providers. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52843 May 2017 Strategic Organization Firms, Crowds, and Innovation By: Felin, Teppo, Karim R.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

March 2025
Teaching Note

Seattle's Climate Pledge Arena: Ticket to a Greener Future

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jacob A. Small

Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 325-110. CEO Tim Leiweke reviewed the process by which his newly formed Oak View Group had managed a major rebuild of a landmark arena in Seattle which attracted a National Hockey League franchise and major entertainers concerned about... View Details

Keywords: Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Leadership; Bids and Bidding; Standards; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Green Buildings; Construction; Partners and Partnerships; Sports Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Seattle

Purchase

30 Jan 2007
First Look

First Look: January 30, 2007

worldviews may conflict during the process of business innovation. After researching the movement of Internet and computing pioneers among various organizations during a period between the early 1960s and the mid-1990s, the authors... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

30 Sep 2019
Book

6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees

creating racially diverse organizations are getting sidelined." That’s especially important today, since inclusion programs have shifted in recent years toward recognizing more forms of diversity—based... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

2016
Working Paper

The Microstructure of Work: How Unexpected Breaks Let You Rest, but Not Lose Focus

By: Pradeep Pendem, Paul Green, Bradley R. Staats and Francesca Gino

How best to structure the work day is an important operational question for organizations. A key structural consideration is the effective use of breaks from work. Breaks serve the critical purpose of allowing employees to recharge, but in the short term, translate to... View Details

Keywords: Breaks; Productivity; Attention; Workload; Harvesting; Working Conditions; Behavior; Performance Productivity; Organizations

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