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  • 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
  • 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
  • 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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  • Web

Profiles - MBA

friends. Exploring deployment options for ling.ai in low-resource communities has taught me the importance of simplifying technologies, sustainability, and scalability when designing and developing new tech. I've also been doing research... View Details
  • 30 Jan 2007
  • First Look

First Look: January 30, 2007

high-end fashion industry and the actions of entrepreneurs in the early days of this industry, I seek to redress these shortcomings of prior organizational research. Based on a series of interviews with designers and individuals... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Leadership - Faculty & Research

Intelligence to make AMD a tech powerhouse by late 2023. Lisa Su and AMD (A) and Lisa Su and AMD (B) are not standalone case studies. They are designed to be taught together. Lisa Su and AMD (A) explores AMD’s successes and challenges... View Details
  • 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
  • 23 Jan 2024
  • Book

More Than Memes: NFTs Could Be the Next Gen Deed for a Digital World

a form and scale that has never existed before. You’re not just along for the ride—you’re part of the action. Imagine if you could have a true stake in Star Wars and own a character in that universe. Or play a role in designing the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Information Technology; Technology; Financial Services
  • 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

    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
    • 27 Mar 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: March 27, 2007

    with Abernathy, Rebecca Henderson and Carliss Baldwin, Clark placed product and process designs at the center of his explanation of how innovation determines the structure and evolution of industries.... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 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
    • Web

    2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

    Pricing Lab at HBS to answer this timely macro question. We use novel statistics developed with real-time data and apply them to measure stockouts and detect structural breaks in inflation trends. Participants will leave with a better... View Details
    • Web

    Executive Education - Global

    comprehensive leadership programs that prepare you to assume greater responsibility. Designed for individuals at all levels—from top executives and general managers to up-and-coming leaders and business owners—each intensive program... View Details
    • 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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    • 14 Dec 2016
    • HBS Seminar

    Siobhan O'Mahony and Rebecca Karp, Boston University

    • 12 Oct 2006
    • First Look

    First Look: October 12, 2006

    and emotion is, thus, critical to designing organizations, control systems, and governance structures that promote desired behaviors. Teaching Purpose: Some model of human nature, implicitly if not... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 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
    • 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
    • Web

    Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research

    big bet on innovations in high performance computing and Artificial Intelligence to make AMD a tech powerhouse by late 2023. Lisa Su and AMD (A) and Lisa Su and AMD (B) are not standalone case studies. They are designed to be taught... View Details