by Julie Battilana - Publications - Faculty & Research

June 2010
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Leadership Competencies for Implementing Planned Organizational Change

By: Julie Battilana, Mattia Gilmartin, Anne-Claire Pache, Metin Sengul and Jeffrey A. Alexander

This paper bridges the leadership and organizational change literatures by exploring the relationship between managers' leadership competencies (namely, their effectiveness at person-oriented and task-oriented behaviors) and the likelihood that they will emphasize the... View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Competency and Skills; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Planning; Relationships; Business Processes; Projects; Theory; Change; Behavior; Health Industry; United Kingdom

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2011
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Functional Centralization and the Division of Labor in Management

By: Julie Wulf, Maria Guadalupe and Hongyi Li

This paper shows that the trend towards flatter hierarchies in large US firms since the mid-80's has been accompanied by increased centralization of activities at the top of the organization. In particular, the number of functional managers (e.g., Chief Financial... View Details

Keywords: Executive Compensation; Management Teams; Organizational Structure; Business Strategy; Diversification; Information Technology; United States

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12 Feb 2019
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https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55629 Infringing Use as a Path to Legal Consumption: Evidence from a Field Experiment By: Luo, Hong, and Julie Holland Mortimer Abstract— Copyright infringement may result from frictions... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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Becoming Effective Change Makers: The Power of Networks

Instituting change in an organization or in a sector of society has always been the bane of leaders. However, some leaders do succeed--often spectacularly--at transforming their organizations and even whole sectors of society. What makes some change makers triumph in a... View Details

11 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 11, 2009

Battilana and T. D'Aunno Publication:In Institutional Work: Actors and Agency in Institutional Studies of Organizations, edited by Thomas B. Lawrence, Roy Suddaby, and Bernard Leca. Cambridge, U.K.:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 Mar 2015
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Diversity and Inclusion (D&I), provided a summary of the firm's journey to date and an update on its progress. The message from Fink at the July meeting was clear: the firm needed to do more. This message was also reinforced View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

12 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 12, 2006

Relational Analysis Authors:Julie Battilana and M. Sengul Periodical:In Relational Perspectives in Organization Studies: A Research Companion, edited by Olympia Kyriakidou and Mustafa F. Özbilgin, 197–220.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1

July 31, 2017 AIDS A Commitment Contract to Achieve Virologic Suppression in Poorly Adherent Patients with HIV/AIDS By: Alsan, Marcella, John Beshears, Wendy S. Armstrong, James J. Choi, Brigitte C. Madrian, Minh Ly T. Nguyen, Carlos Del... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 25, 2008

http://papers.nber.org/papers/w14483 The Flattening Firm and Product Market Competition: The Effect of Trade Liberalization Authors: Maria Guadalupe and Julie M. Wulf Abstract This paper establishes a causal effect of competition from... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 23, 2007

Acquisition of Abbey: Banking Across Borders Harvard Business School Case 707-485 Banco Santander, Spain's largest commercial bank, announced in July 2004 the acquisition of Abbey National Bank, the fifth largest U.K. commercial bank.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 Jun 2011
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characterizes the financial world. They also overlook the role of natural selection. To be sure, natural selection in the financial world is not exactly analogous to the processes first described by Darwin and elaborated on View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Feb 2007
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First Look: February 27, 2007

Working PapersPublic Action for Public Goods Authors:Abhijit Banerjee, Lakshmi Iyer, and Rohini Somanathan Abstract This paper focuses on the relationship between public action and access to public goods. It begins by developing a... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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August 2018
Case

Christine Lagarde (C): Managing the IMF

By: Julie Battilana and Carin-Isabel Knoop

This case covers the career of Christine Lagarde from 2011 to 2018 as she takes the helm of a troubled multilateral organization during a time of deepening economic turmoil. As the first female leader of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and as a non-economist,... View Details

Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Power and Influence; Change Management; Global Range; Gender; Equality and Inequality; Climate Change

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March 2015
Teaching Note

OrganJet and GuardianWings

By: Julie Battilana and Felicia Khan

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March 2015
Supplement

Cheryl Dorsey and Lara Galinsky, In-class Comments, March 21, 2012

By: Julie Battilana and Felicia Khan

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February 2012 (Revised October 2014)
Background Note

Self-Monitoring

By: Julie Battilana and Andras Tilcsik

Keywords: Governance; Management

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Aug 2003 - 2003
Conference Presentation

Inter-organizational Cooperation between Not-for-profit Organizations: A Relational Analysis

By: Julie Battilana and M. Sengul

Keywords: Cooperation; Nonprofit Organizations

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December 2010
Article

Building Sustainable Hybrid Organizations: The Case of Commercial Microfinance Organizations

By: Julie Battilana and Silvia Dorado

We explore how new types of hybrid organizations (organizations that combine institutional logics in unprecedented ways) can develop and maintain their hybrid nature in the absence of a "ready-to-wear" model for handling the tensions between the logics they combine.... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Structure; Microfinance; Growth and Development Strategy; Identity; Commercialization; Balance and Stability; Policy; Recruitment; Business Model

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