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  • 01 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 1

I. Levine, 241-267. Cambridge University Press, 2010 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Publisher's Link: http://www.cambridge.org/gb/knowledge/isbn/item2708038/?site_locale=en_GB Organizational Sustainability: Organization Design... View Details
  • 11 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 11, 2007

existence is only rarely commented upon. The Liverpool-based John Holt & Co with its Nigerian subsidiary John Holt PLC is an interesting case for a pilot study because the company returned in 2001 to an organizational View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Research, April 4

model the technology of step processes with bottlenecks and show how this technology rewards vertical integration, a hierarchical organization, and the use of direct authority. These properties in turn became the organizational hallmarks... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 1

of power, power-devaluation theory, and organizational research on the antecedents of employee voice, we argue that a leader's experience of heightened power produces verbal dominance, which reduces perceptions of leader openness and team... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Apr 2020
  • Op-Ed

Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19

organizational overhaul. Long-term coach Ron Rivera was fired and Matt Rhule was hired as the new head coach. Newton, having started only two games all last season, was in the last year on his contract. With his injury concerns, Carolina... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Abbott , Boris Groysberg, Tali Groysberg, and Abhijit Naik; Sports
  • 21 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 21

Authors:Oriana Bandiera, Andrea Prat, Raffaella Sadun, and Julie Wulf Abstract For both practitioners and researchers, span of control plays an important role in defining and understanding the role of the CEO. In this paper, we combine View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 27, 2007

Cases & Course MaterialsDesign: More Than a Cool Chair Harvard Business School Note 607-026 This introduction to the Design industry includes definitions, and industry statistics, as well as descriptions of geographic clustering, design education, View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 19

for organizational forms beyond the executive team. Download the paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1982531 Causes and Consequences of Firms' Self-Reported Anticorruption Efforts Authors:Healy, Paul M., and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Oct 2002
  • Research & Ideas

What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence

involved with options. No one change by itself will be enough. CEOs must address the organizational architecture: the planning systems; the performance measurement and evaluation systems; the incentives systems; the boundary systems that... View Details
Keywords: by Harvard Management Update
  • 11 Jan 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Calling All Managers: How to Build a Better Call Center

delivery had almost entirely been overlooked. Before being able to generate revenue through the call center, institutions have to fully understand and be able to implement superior customer service." "Each service interaction View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Service; Financial Services
  • 12 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 12, 2006

organizational culture, alignment, leadership style/fit, and change management. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=406111 The Board of Directors at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter (A) Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Jun 2019
  • Book

Are You a Digital Manager?

network is key to performing this role well. Do You Use Your Network to Form Coalitions of Those Who Seek the Same Goals? A coalition is a collection of people who align themselves in pursuit of a common goal—a new strategy, a new... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 28 Apr 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Earth Day Reflections

also examine the strategic and organizational barriers that corporations face in making more efficient use of natural resources or deciding to invest in sustainable technologies. There are four major barriers: The first is that companies... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 26 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 26, 2007

Organizational Response to Environmental Demands: Opening the Black Box Authors:Magali A. Delmas and Michael W. Toffel Abstract This paper combines new and old institutionalism to explain enduring differences in View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Jul 2024
  • Op-Ed

Corporate Boards Are Failing in Their No. 1 Duty

discipline to its operations. That direction enabled him to move forward with clarity. If the board is serious about its responsibilities, it should form a committee to oversee the company’s leadership development process, taking the time... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
  • 12 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 12

commodity boom that had asymmetric effects among states. These two effects generated variation in revenues per capita at the state level thanks to the extreme form of fiscal decentralization that the Brazilian government adopted in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 13, 2009

sacrifice long-term growth to boost short-term performance. We investigate 495 transactions with a focus on one form of long-term activities, namely investments in innovation as measured by patenting activity. We find no evidence that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 22

demand for control over remittances in the baseline survey. We also find positive spillovers of our savings intervention in the form of increased savings at other banks (specifically, banks in the U.S.). We interpret the effects we find... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 17

Where Acros Dorados, an Argentina-based multinational, is facing new organizational challenges as it seeks to build on its recent turnaround and grow in Brazil and Mexico. Woods Staton and his management team have to make some hard... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Apr 2013
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First Look: April 23

paper trail, indicating the paper trail's preventive deterrence effect. This leads to strong enforcement spillovers up the VAT chain. These findings confirm that when taking evasion into account, significant differences emerge between otherwise equivalent View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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