Organizational Economics - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

At the start of the pandemic, the uncertainty primarily concerned health issues—the diffusion of the virus and its effective threat. As the virus expanded from China to other countries, the uncertainty extended to the economic domain. For... View Details

Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa

Student-Profile

Ryann Noe

Economics looks at the architecture and mechanics of systems, and English provides the stories of the people who populate those systems. Similarly, my PhD program sits at the crossroads of management and sociology.” Ryann says that she... View Details

23 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’

executives with general-management responsibility. Our findings revealed that the shift from corporate communication to organizational conversation has occurred because of several long-term changes that have affected the business world... View Details

Keywords: Re: Boris Groysberg

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Anastassia Fedyk

Having grown up in Berkeley to an academic family, some of my earliest interactions with economists came from the behavioral economics seminars. I am as fascinated by this field now as I was then, and my intention has always been to... View Details

30 Sep 2019
Book

Book Excerpt: Why a Volume on Race, Work, and Leadership

Excerpt by Laura Morgan Roberts, Anthony J. Mayo, and Serenity Lee Blacks have been integral to the economic foundation of the United States since its inception, yet that foundation was forged on an institutionalized inequality, which... View Details

Keywords: Re: Andi Wang

29 Jun 2009
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Leading Change

can I do? What are key enterprise risk-management strategies? How Do I Build My Business In This Environment? Building Businesses in Turbulent Times An economic crisis is a charter for business leaders to rewrite and rethink how they do... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

15 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Business IT Innovation is so Difficult

especially larger ones, have done so. Those that have done the heavy IT and organizational lifting, such as Walmart, reap serious dividends. "There's a tremendous gap between the most IT-savvy firms and the IT laggards," says McElheran,... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

14 Oct 2014
First Look

First Look: October 14

Publications October 2014 Journal of International Economics The Global Agglomeration of Multinational Firms By: Alfaro, Laura, and Maggie Xiaoyang Chen Abstract—The explosion of multinational activities in recent decades is rapidly... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

What to Do When Your Organization Has Dueling Missions

the social mission. “Hybrids have to simultaneously pursue commercial and social objectives,” says Julie Battilana, an associate professor in the Organizational Behavior unit at Harvard Business School. “The big question is, is it really... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

22 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”

organizational action."3 By the 1960s, classroom discussions in the business policy course focused on matching a company's "strengths" and "weaknesses"—its distinctive competence—with the "opportunities"... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

How to Put Meaning Back into Leading

organizational scholars assume that leadership equals economic performance—an assumption that is a source of deep concern to you. Can you give us some background to the debate? Joel M. Podolny, Rakesh... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

16 Jun 2010
Working Paper Summaries

Does Diversification Create Value in the Presence of External Financing Constraints? Evidence from the 2008-2009 Financial Crisis

Keywords: by Venkat Kuppuswamy & Belén Villalonga

07 Apr 2008
Research & Ideas

The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits

influence how investors diversify their portfolios; the organizational and ownership decisions firms make; firm investment[PDF] decisions; and myriad financing decisions, including capital structure and repatriation. Perhaps, the biggest... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

30 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers

1933-1945; the Federal Republic (West Germany) or German Democratic Republic (East Germany) 1945-1989. In terms of political or economic history, these divisions make a lot of sense, but in terms of individuals' experiences or business... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Getting Things Done: Motivating Yourself and Others - Course Catalog

from economics and psychology to understand human decision making. In order to establish a baseline from which the rest of the course builds, Module 1 explores the classical economic approach to analyzing... View Details

26 Jul 2010
Research & Ideas

Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn

As economic turmoil continues, many companies are reconsidering their strategies with an eye toward going lean and slashing prices. And that might work for a few companies—but very few. Instead, companies should compete "on the basis... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail; Consumer Products

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Reginald H. Jones

A master of strategic planning, Jones designed a new organizational model for General Electric to ensure more accountability and control for specific large industry sectors. Despite a difficult economic... View Details

Keywords: Fabricated Goods

01 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making

technology side, they also have to think about the organizational side," she says. "Traditionally, technology is thought of as a tool that enables empowerment, but that's not always the case." Sadun discusses the issue in... View Details