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  • 2014
  • Working Paper

The Effect of Management Control Elements on Coordination

By: Sara Bormann, Jan Bouwens and Christian Hofmann
This study examines how control elements of a firm affect coordination among profit centers. The firm operates a network of 59 profit centers. It uses a transfer-pricing system designed to account for interdependencies between profit centers and to induce coordination.... View Details
Keywords: Business or Company Management; Organizational Structure; Performance
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  • 12 Dec 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Using the Law to Strategic Advantage

corporate governance structure tailored to the firm. Q: What should CEOs be thinking about in terms of better leveraging their legal resources? Are new organizational structures needed to support this?... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Legal Services
  • 05 Aug 2008
  • First Look

First Look: August 5, 2008

focuses on incentives, responsibilities, and structures, we adopt a process perspective and find that integration was achieved despite an incentive structure which did not support it. By drawing a distinction between the incentive... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Jan 2023
  • In Practice

8 Trends to Watch in 2023

As 2023 begins, businesses and employees face an uncertain economy and labor market, as the twin dilemmas of inflation and interest rates weigh on forecasts. Harvard Business School faculty share the top trends that they believe will shape the workplace and markets... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 14 Dec 2016
  • HBS Seminar

Siobhan O'Mahony and Rebecca Karp, Boston University

  • 2014
  • Working Paper

Hidden Structure: Using Network Methods to Map System Architecture

By: Carliss Baldwin, Alan MacCormack and John Rusnak
In this paper, we describe an operational methodology for characterising the architecture of complex technical systems and demonstrate its application to a large sample of software releases. Our methodology is based upon directed network graphs, which allows us to... View Details
Keywords: Complexity; Applications and Software; Product Design
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  • 28 Oct 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Distinct Effects of Information Technology and Communication Technology on Firm Organization

Keywords: by Nicholas Bloom, Luis Garicano, Raffaella Sadun & John Van Reenen; Technology
  • Teaching Interest

Overview

By: Ethan S. Bernstein
Professor Bernstein currently teaches a second-year MBA course in Managing Human Capital (MHC). He is also the faculty chair for the Harvard Business School Online Developing Yourself as a Leader course and teaches in a variety of executive education... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Innovation Leadership; Management Practices and Processes; Management Succession; Management Style; Management Systems; Management Teams; Managerial Roles; Organizations; Organizational Culture; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance; Information Technology; Strategy; Human Resources; Compensation and Benefits; Employees; Recruitment; Resignation and Termination; Retention; Selection and Staffing
  • 14 Aug 2007
  • First Look

First Look: August 14, 2007

that were not litigated offer empirical evidence supporting the hypotheses. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407001 Cradle-to-Cradle Design at Herman Miller: Moving Toward Environmental... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

Balancing Digital Safety and Innovation By: Tomomichi Amano and Tomomi Tanaka May–June 2025 | Article | Harvard Business Review Designers of consumer-facing digital products have tended to focus on novelty and speed (“move fast and break... View Details
  • 12 Sep 2023
  • What Do You Think?

Who Gets the Loudest Voice in DEI Decisions?

practicing policies designed to increase inclusion and diversity, if not always equity, are more creative and productive than those that ignore such policies. Companies in the top quartile of gender and ethnic/racial diversity are 25... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 18 Jul 2017
  • First Look

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

positively select into negotiations on observable characteristics of the negotiation environment, only women positively select on unobservables such as their ability to negotiate. Organizational Structures and the Improvement of Working... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Nov 2010
  • Research & Ideas

How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making

those cases, the researchers studied the role of Computer-Aided Design (CAD) and Computer-Aided Manufacturing (CAM) software in decision-making. In both instances, the researchers hypothesized that the information software would lead to... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • Web

HBS - The year in Review

partnership. Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard Advanced The structure of the Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard (D^3) encompasses research programs and embedded... View Details
  • Web

A Campus Built on Philanthropy | About

twelve HBS buildings between 1925 and 1927. Facing the banks of the Charles River in a pattern that follows its graceful curve, the original structures represented a continuation of the stately, Georgian Revival style that dominated the... View Details

    Dutch Leonard

    Herman B. ("Dutch") Leonard is Eliot I. Snider and Family Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and the George F. Baker, Jr. Professor of Public Sector Management at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. In... View Details

    Keywords: education industry; federal government; health care; nonprofit industry; state government
    • 2021
    • Article

    How Top Managers Use the Entrepreneurial Gap to Drive Strategic Change

    By: Robert L. Simons and Antonio Davila
    Prior research provides strong evidence for the association between business strategy and the design and use of management control systems. We complement this research by examining the role of management control systems in situations of strategic change. We report the... View Details
    Keywords: Management Control Systems; Accountability; Strategic Change; Organization Change And Adaptation; Organizational Performance; Management Systems; Organizational Structure; Corporate Accountability; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance
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    • 10 Apr 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    John Kotter’s Plan to Accelerate Your Business

    To succeed in today's fast-moving economy, traditional corporate structures are holding back companies, even great companies, from being creative enough and speedy enough to compete effectively. What's needed, argues Harvard Business... View Details
    Keywords: by Kim Girard
    • Web

    Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research

    structural model, we find that among consent policies requiring site-specific decisions, consumer surplus is maximized when consent interfaces clearly display all options and default to acceptance in the absence of an explicit choice.... View Details
    • 07 Jul 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron

    governance, which I describe in detail, I do not suggest that boards of public companies can or should copy it directly. Public and private companies clearly differ markedly in their ownership structures and in the rules governing... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities