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Hedgehogs and Foxes: Character, Leadership, and Command in Organizations

- 2024
- Working Paper
Navigating Software Vulnerabilities: Eighteen Years of Evidence from Medium and Large U.S. Organizations
By: Raviv Murciano-Goroff, Ran Zhuo and Shane Greenstein
How prevalent are severe software vulnerabilities, how fast do software users respond to the availability of secure versions, and what determines the variance in the installation distribution? Using the largest dataset ever assembled on user updates, tracking server... View Details
Murciano-Goroff, Raviv, Ran Zhuo, and Shane Greenstein. "Navigating Software Vulnerabilities: Eighteen Years of Evidence from Medium and Large U.S. Organizations." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 32696, July 2024.
- October 2020 (Revised March 2021)
- Case
Pete Carroll: Building a Winning Organization through Purpose, Caring, and Inclusion
By: Ranjay Gulati, Matthew Breitfelder and Monte Burke
Competing at the highest levels of the National Football League (NFL) requires tremendous skill, dedication and persistence. The most successful coaches in the NFL know how to draw out a higher level of performance and consistency from their players. This is typically... View Details
Keywords: National Football League; Leadership Style; Organizational Culture; Mission and Purpose; Relationships; Performance; Success; Sports; Sports Industry
Gulati, Ranjay, Matthew Breitfelder, and Monte Burke. "Pete Carroll: Building a Winning Organization through Purpose, Caring, and Inclusion." Harvard Business School Case 421-020, October 2020. (Revised March 2021.)
Learning in Action: A Guide to Putting the Learning Organization to Work
Most managers today understand the value of building a learning organization. Their goal is to leverage knowledge and make it a key corporate asset, yet they remain uncertain about how best to get started. What they lack are guidelines and tools that transform abstract... View Details
High Commitment High Performance: How to Build A Resilient Organization for Sustained Advantage
How to create the high-performance, high-commitment organization.
Integrating knowledge from strategic management, performance management, and organization design, strategic human resource expert and Harvard Business School Professor Michael Beer outlines... View Details
- 2014
- Working Paper
Don't Take 'No' for an Answer: An Experiment with Actual Organ Donor Registrations
By: Judd B. Kessler and Alvin E. Roth
Over 10,000 people in the U.S. die each year while waiting for an organ. Attempts to increase organ transplantation have focused on changing the registration question from an opt-in frame to an active choice frame. We analyze this change in California and show it... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Health Care and Treatment; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Health Industry
Kessler, Judd B., and Alvin E. Roth. "Don't Take 'No' for an Answer: An Experiment with Actual Organ Donor Registrations." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 20378, August 2014.
- Article
The Mixed Effects of Inconsistency on Experimentation in Organizations
By: Fiona Lee, Amy C. Edmondson, Stefan Thomke and Monica Worline
Keywords: Organizations
Lee, Fiona, Amy C. Edmondson, Stefan Thomke, and Monica Worline. "The Mixed Effects of Inconsistency on Experimentation in Organizations." Organization Science 15, no. 3 (May–June 2004): 310–326.
- Article
Why Sexual Harassment Persists and What Organizations Can Do to Stop It
By: Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg
Long before the #MeToo movement, the insidious effects of harassment were well known to organizational researchers. Women who are harassed often leave their jobs, taking valuable relationships, and potential out the door with them and creating the costly need to hire... View Details
Keywords: Work Environment; Sexual Harassment; Harassment; Organizational Culture; Gender; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leading Change
Ammerman, Colleen, and Boris Groysberg. "Why Sexual Harassment Persists and What Organizations Can Do to Stop It." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (December 21, 2017).
- 2023
- Book
How the Harvard Business School Changed the Way We View Organizations
By: Jay W. Lorsch
The story of the field of organizational behavior (which overlaps considerably with the origin story of Harvard Business School) and how it created the “medical model” of systems thinking—anchored in the practices of listening, observing, testing, and only then... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Behavior; Systems Thinking; Medical Model; Organizations; Behavior; System; History
Lorsch, Jay W. How the Harvard Business School Changed the Way We View Organizations. Business Expert Press, 2023.
- July 2009
- Exercise
Bringing AMP Home: Personal Memos to Improve Your Organization
By: Max H. Bazerman
This exercise helps AMP participants connect the concepts in AMP to specific issues that are current in their organizations. This exercise is done for each participant and each phase is shared with living group colleagues View Details
- Article
Households' Willingness to Pay for 'Green' Goods: Evidence from Patagonia's Introduction of Organic Cotton Sportswear
By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Michael Crooke, Forest L. Reinhardt and Vishal Vasishth
To shed light on individuals' willingness to pay for "green" goods (i.e., goods that are supposed to have lower adverse environmental impacts either in production or in use), we study data from the introduction by Patagonia, Inc., of organic cotton sportswear in the... View Details
Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, Michael Crooke, Forest L. Reinhardt, and Vishal Vasishth. "Households' Willingness to Pay for 'Green' Goods: Evidence from Patagonia's Introduction of Organic Cotton Sportswear." Journal of Economics & Management Strategy 18, no. 1 (Spring 2009): 203–233.
- 1985
- Article
Measuring and Reporting the Financial Condition of Public Organizations
By: Dutch Leonard
Leonard, Dutch. "Measuring and Reporting the Financial Condition of Public Organizations." Research in Governmental and Non-Profit Accounting 1 (1985).
- September 2014
- Article
The New Heretics: Hybrid Organizations and the Challenges they Present to Corporate Sustainability
By: Nardia Haigh and Andrew J. Hoffman
Corporate sustainability has become mainstream; reaching into all areas of business management. Yet despite this progress, large-scale social and ecological issues continue to worsen. In this article, we examine how corporate sustainability has been enacted as a... View Details
Keywords: Social Issues; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Mission and Purpose
Haigh, Nardia, and Andrew J. Hoffman. "The New Heretics: Hybrid Organizations and the Challenges they Present to Corporate Sustainability." Organization & Environment 27, no. 3 (September 2014): 223–241.
Discretion Within the Constraints of Opportunity: Gender Homophily and Structure in a Formal Organization
(with Adam Kleinbaum and Toby Stuart), Organization Science, 2013, 24, 5, 1316-1336.. View Details
- 1996
- Article
Developing an Organization Capable of Implementing Strategy and Learning
By: Michael Beer and Russell Eisenstat
Beer, Michael, and Russell Eisenstat. "Developing an Organization Capable of Implementing Strategy and Learning." Human Relations 49, no. 5 (1996).
- August 1996
- Supplement
Andersen Consulting - EMEAI: Bill Barnard on Organization Change
By: Ashish Nanda and Michael Y. Yoshino
Remarks by William (Bill) Barnard, partner-in-charge for Strategic Services in the subregion of Western Europe, in a conversation he had with Professors Ashish Nanda and Michael Yoshino of the Harvard Business School on November 1, 1995. View Details
Nanda, Ashish, and Michael Y. Yoshino. "Andersen Consulting - EMEAI: Bill Barnard on Organization Change." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 397-501, August 1996.
- 01 Apr 1977
- Conference Presentation
Access to Opportunity and Power: Measuring Racism/Sexism inside Organizations
By: R. M. Kanter
Kanter, R. M. "Access to Opportunity and Power: Measuring Racism/Sexism inside Organizations." Paper presented at the Research Symposium on Social Indicators in Institutional Racism/Sexism, April 01, 1977. (Also published as "Differential Access to Opportunity and Power" in Discrimination in Organizations, edited by R. Alvarez and K.G. Lutterman, Jossey-Bass, 1979.)
- 2011
- Introduction
Community as an Institutional Order and a Type of Organizing
By: Christopher Marquis, Michael Lounsbury and Royston Greenwood
Marquis, Christopher, Michael Lounsbury, and Royston Greenwood. "Community as an Institutional Order and a Type of Organizing." Introduction to Communities and Organizations. Vol. 33, edited by Christopher Marquis, Michael Lounsbury, and Royston Greenwood. Research in the Sociology of Organizations. Emerald Group Publishing, 2011.
- 1994
- Chapter
Strategic Change: How to Realign the Organization to Implement Strategy
By: R. A. Eisenstat and M. Beer
Eisenstat, R. A., and M. Beer. "Strategic Change: How to Realign the Organization to Implement Strategy." In The Portable MBA, edited by L. Fahey and J. Mahaney. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1994.