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Shrinking Core-Expanding Periphery: The Relational Architecture of High Performing Organizations

By: Ranjay Gulati and D. Kletter

Keywords: Relationships; Design; Organizations

2012
Book

Talk, Inc. : How Trusted Leaders Use Conversation to Power Their Organizations

By: Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind

How can leaders make their big or growing companies feel small again? How can they recapture the "magic"--the tight strategic alignment, the high level of employee engagement--that drove and animated their organization when it was a start-up? As more and more... View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Interpersonal Communication; Organizational Culture; Social and Collaborative Networks; Spoken Communication

01 Sep 1974
Conference Presentation

The Social Functions of Products and the Nature of Organizations

By: R. M. Kanter and B. A. Stein

Keywords: Organizations; Goods and Commodities

August 2013
Article

Lords of the Harvest: Third-party Influence and Regulatory Approval of Genetically Modified Organisms

By: Shon R. Hiatt and Sangchan Park

Little is known about the factors that influence regulatory-agency decision making. We posit that regulatory agencies are influenced by the firms they regulate, but not exclusively via dyadic exchanges as is traditionally argued in the regulatory capture and... View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Government and Politics; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; United States

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26 Jan 2022
News

Why More Organizations Are Dropping College-Degree Requirements for Job Candidates

14 Jul 2023
Blog Post

Building a Culture of Awareness and Accountability in your Organization

For Danika Manso-Brown (HGSE ’18), the life of an activist was one she was born into and one she has made her own. “My parents met organizing a labor union, so the work of creating justice and thinking about humanity was a central part of... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

13 Dec 2007
Working Paper Summaries

Acting Globally but Thinking Locally? The Influence of Local Communities on Organizations

Keywords: by Christopher Marquis & Julie Battilana

Editorial

New Directions for Practice: Nonprofit Strategy Formulation, Organization and Measurement

By: Elaine Backman, Allen Grossman and V. Kasturi Rangan

Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Strategy; Measurement and Metrics; Practice

2006
Article

The Long-Term Value of M&A Activity to Enhance Learning Organizations

Viewing the automobile industry as being made up of independent learning-organisations may reveal some tie-ups that can generate value not easily revealed by traditional financial metrics. The key question to be answered when considering M&A activity between automakers... View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Processes; Manufacturing Industry; Auto Industry

01 Mar 2017
Blog Post

What You Need to Know about the Latino Student Organization

when I was admitted into HBS, and cannot fully express how much I appreciate the thoughtful advice I’ve gained through LASO thanks to all the panels, one-on-one mentorship, and newsletter information received. LASO is incredibly important as a student View Details

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Gender & Race in Organizations Research Group - Race, Gender & Equity

Gender & Race in Organizations Research Group Gender & Race in Organizations Research Group Researchers Hannah Bowles Hannah Riley Bowles is the Roy E. Larsen Senior Lecturer in Public Policy and Management... View Details

09 Apr 2019
Working Paper Summaries

Formal Employment and Organized Crime: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Colombia

Keywords: by Gaurav Khanna, Carlos Medina, Anant Nyshadham, and Jorge Tamayo

2000
Working Paper

The Influence of Time Pressure on Creative Thinking in Organizations

By: Jennifer S. Mueller, T. M. Amabile, William S. Simpson, Lee Fleming and Constance N. Hadley

2011
Working Paper

Fairness, Efficiency and Flexibility in Organ Allocation for Kidney Transplantation

By: Dimitris Bertsimas, Vivek F. Farias and Nikolaos Trichakis

We propose a scalable, data-driven method for designing national policies for the allocation of deceased donor kidneys to patients on a waiting list, in a fair and efficient way. We focus on policies that have the same form as the one currently used in the U.S. In... View Details

Keywords: Fairness; Policy; Health Disorders; Marketplace Matching; Performance Effectiveness; Rank and Position; Health Industry; United States

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January 1999 (Revised March 1999)
Case

Merck & Co., Inc.: Corporate Strategy, Organization and Culture (B)

By: Michael Beer and James Weber

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: United States

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Article

Of Measurement and Mission: Accounting for Performance in Non-Governmental Organizations

By: Debora Spar and James Dail

17 Jun 2009
News

Imagine This: A Health Care System Organized Around the Patient!

December 2021
Article

Left- and Right-Leaning News Organizations Use Negative Emotional Content and Elicit User Engagement Similarly

By: Andrea Bellovary, Nathaniel Young and Amit Goldenberg

Negativity has historically dominated news content; however, little research has examined how news organizations use affect on social media, where content is generally positive. In the current project we ask a few questions: Do news organizations on Twitter use... View Details

Keywords: Negative Press; Twitter; Political Affiliation; Affect; News; Media; Internet and the Web; Emotions; Perspective; Social Media

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2017
Book

The Language of Global Success: How a Common Tongue Transforms Multinational Organizations

By: Tsedal Neeley

For nearly three decades, English has been the lingua franca of cross-border organizations, yet studies on corporate language strategies and their importance for globalization have been scarce. In The Language of Global Success, Tsedal Neeley provides an... View Details

Keywords: Communication; Residency; Corporate Strategy; Globalized Firms and Management; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Brazil; France; Germany; Indonesia; Japan; Taiwan; Thailand; United States