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  • 13 Apr 2010
  • First Look

First Look: April 13

demanding that middle- and lower-level managers redo their forecasts, plans, and budgets. In some cases, top executives simply acquiesce to increasingly unrealistic analyst forecasts and adopt them as the basis for setting View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15

may explain different ways of organizing across organizations. This study contributes to understanding social entrepreneurship as a field of practice and it describes avenues for theorizing about the different organizational approaches... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019

predicting their current language learning. Further, we find that recipients’ cognitive and affective responses over time differentially influence two future behavioral outcomes: intention to leave the organization and willingness to View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 27 Jul 2015
  • Research & Ideas

The ‘Promotion’ That Makes You Feel Bad

large numbers of global firms adopting company-wide English-only policies, Neeley has spent years studying how the policy affects non-native English speakers. For example, her research into a Japanese company that required all workers to... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
  • 30 Aug 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Turning Employees Into Problem Solvers

reports. The paper, authored by Julia Adler-Milstein, an HBS doctoral candidate in the Health Policy Management program; Sara J. Singer, assistant professor at the Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School; and HBS professor Michael W. Toffel, also... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health
  • 15 Nov 2016
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November 15, 2016

now served and begin to scale back from those areas? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/617021-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 417-035 Zurich Insurance: Fostering Key People Management Practices Zurich Insurance was undergoing View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • September 2024
  • Case

Topaz: Navigating Governance, Legacy, and Change

By: Christina R. Wing and Carla Larangeira
Since its founding in 2011, the Garza Sada brothers and their father positioned Topaz among leading family offices in Monterrey, Mexico, with several assets under management. Topaz aspired to have a transformative impact across multiple Mexican industries. An industry... View Details
Keywords: Business Conglomerates; Family Business; Governing and Advisory Boards; Managerial Roles; Management Succession; Family Ownership; Corporate Governance; Organizational Structure; Adoption; Financial Services Industry; Real Estate Industry; Education Industry; Energy Industry; Latin America; Mexico
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  • 27 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 27, 2009

Publisher's Abstract Most organizational change initiatives fail spectacularly (at worst) or deliver lukewarm results (at best). In his international bestseller Leading Change, John Kotter revealed why change is so hard and provided an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 1

primarily on substitutes but copied from rivals. Next, they actively tested their assumptions and made major resource commitments to the business model they identified as the most lucrative. Finally, they deliberately maintained a loosely structured View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Aug 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses

Education offerings that teach scientists business and organizational fundamentals? What about joint MBA/Ph.D. programs? How about science/business seminars, more science-based cases, and more science-savvy faculty to teach them? We don't... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Biotechnology; Health
  • September 2003 (Revised November 2005)
  • Case

Best Buy Co., Inc. (A): An Innovator's Journey

By: Dorothy A. Leonard and Brian DeLacey
The CEO of Best Buy, a hugely successful retailing company, has hired consulting firm Strategos to imbue the company with an improved innovative capability. The six-month program of experimental learning yields new business ideas and also trains Best Buy employees as... View Details
Keywords: Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Management Teams; Creativity; Adoption; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Employees; Learning; Training; Programs; Retail Industry; United States
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  • 08 Nov 2010
  • Research & Ideas

How to Fix a Broken Marketplace

apply to the schools that they honestly wanted most. The Boston School Committee adopted the proposal. Roth also has helped design markets to match new doctors with residency programs and new economists with new jobs. Lately, he has been... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
  • 01 Aug 2008
  • What Do You Think?

Has the Time Come for “Stretch” in Management?

achieve organizational efficiency ... (by) highly motivated and committed staff with the passion to overachieve." Further, it is thought to work best in cultures where people have the latitude on occasion to fail (or as Mariana van... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • Web

Rock 100: The Summit - Entrepreneurship

Marketing and Selling Disruptive Products to Mainstream Customers , Geoffrey A. Moore Eager Sellers and Stony Buyers: Understanding the Psychology of New-Product Adoption , John T. Gourville The Innovator’s DNA , Dyer et. Al Organization... View Details
  • 10 Nov 2015
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November 10, 2015

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/315138-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 415-039 Leader-as-Architect: Alignment Part of a leader's job is to equip the organization to transform inputs into outputs by defining organizational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 19, 2010

One explanation for these patterns is that U.S. firms are organized in a way that allows them to use new technologies more efficiently. A model of endogenously chosen organizational form and IT is developed to explain these new micro and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 May 2013
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First Look: May 21

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=44789 If Technology Has Arrived Everywhere, Why Has Income Diverged? By: Comin, Diego A., and Martí Mestieri Ferrer Abstract—We study the lags with which new technologies are adopted across countries and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 24, 2009

  Working PapersLearn-how to Improve Collaboration and Performance Authors:Ingrid M. Nembhard, Anita L. Tucker, Richard M.J. Bohmer, Joseph H. Carpenter, and Jeffrey D. Horbar Abstract Organizational learning, a prerequisite for high... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Aug 2017
  • News

Unlocking Potential

have to put [inmates] in an environment that’s helpful and loving. Then, when you add in education, they’re going to succeed.” Anderson says that because prison life is largely about survival. Inmates learn to use manipulation and deceit to stay ahead, and they View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli; Community Partners; Legal Services; Professional Services
  • 08 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 8

customers to deliver services in a rapidly changing, uncertain, and complex environment (e.g., hospitals)—play an important role in the economy. Organizational learning studies in these settings have largely investigated autonomous... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne