Publications

April 2004
Article

The Ambidextrous Organization

By: Charles A. O'Reilly III and Michael L. Tushman

Keywords: Organizations

September 2009 (Revised August 2013)
Case

Colombia: Organizing for Competitiveness

By: Jorge Ramirez-Vallejo and Michael E. Porter

The case is designed to explore the process of building competitiveness, particularly in an unstable environment, with a focus on organizing for competitiveness. View Details

Keywords: Microeconomics; Industry Clusters; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Colombia

September 1984 (Revised March 1993)
Background Note

Marketing Planning and Organization

By: Robert J. Dolan

Presents guidelines for effective marketing planning. Provides a general outline of the contents of a typical marketing plan, the process by which the plan is developed, and considers the benefits successful firms reap from their planning efforts and the problems that... View Details

Keywords: Marketing Strategy; Planning; Design

2004
Book

Global Strategy and Organization

By: Anil K. Gupta and Vijay Govindarajan

In the battle for global dominance, only those organizations that lead the ongoing globalization of their industries will succeed. That's why students need a strategic framework that they can apply in a global setting. View Details

2000
Book

Learning in Action: A Guide to Putting the Learning Organization to Work

By: David A. Garvin

Keywords: Market Intelligence; Learning Organizations; After-Action Reviews; Experimentation; Learning

29 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

How Organizations Create Social Value

organizations in Latin America and Spain. For good governance you need some degree of overlap between governance and management.— Ezequiel A. Reficco This research will be published in Harvard's David Rockefeller Center for Latin American... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

January 2007 (Revised November 2007)
Case

Organic Growth at Wal-Mart

By: Jan W. Rivkin and Troy Smith

In 2005, an executive vice president at Wal-Mart must decide whether to expand the retailer's selection of organic food. The decision is made in the context of wider attempts to move the giant retailer slightly upscale and to focus on environmental sustainability. View Details

Keywords: Food; Growth and Development Strategy; Product; Business Processes; Environmental Sustainability; Expansion; Retail Industry; United States

We explore the impact of geographically bounded intra-firm spillovers (internal agglomeration economies) and geographically bounded inter-firm spillovers (external agglomeration economies) on firms’ location strategies. Using data from the Census Bureau’s Longitudinal... View Details

2016
Chapter

The Organization of Non-market Strategy

By: Dylan B. Minor

The purpose of this paper is to explore how firms organize to engage in non-market strategy. To achieve this end, we explore the organization of non-market strategy via a formal model of the firm. The model is motivated by a qualitative study of the organization of... View Details

Keywords: Non-market Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility; Strategy; Organizational Design; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact

13 Feb 2020
Book

Open Your Organization to Honest Conversations

they tend to remain silent, fearful that speaking up could put their careers at risk. “A CEO might be trying to execute this corporate strategy and everybody in the organization knows it’s off the rails, but no one wants to be the bearer... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Nov 2011
Conference Presentation

Leading Complex Organizations

By: Scott Snook

Keywords: Organizations; Leadership

1983
Book

Negotiating in Organizations

By: M. H. Bazerman and R.J. Lewicki

Keywords: Negotiation; Organizations

March 2002
Background Note

Incentive Strategy Within Organizations

By: Brian J. Hall

This case serves as a supplement to any course on incentive design and implementation. The analysis first locates incentive strategy within the larger structure of organizations and markets and then helps to define the central components and difficulties of incentive... View Details

Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Compensation and Benefits; Performance Evaluation; Strategy; Situation or Environment; Problems and Challenges

1999
Chapter

Cognitions in Organizations

By: A. E. Tenbrunsel, T. L. Galvin, M. A. Neale and M. H. Bazerman

Keywords: Cognition and Thinking; Organizations

02 Feb 2002
Conference Presentation

Leading Complex Organizations

By: Scott Snook

Keywords: Organizations; Complexity; Leadership