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Course Overview - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

designed for newly appointed CEOs of public parent companies with annual revenues of $2 billion or more. Faculty & Participant Preparation The faculty interviews each participant before the Workshop to identify issues of particular... View Details

08 Oct 2020
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Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated

rotations, or peer mentorship opportunities. The fact that sales was on the third floor and R&D on the second isn’t quite as relevant as it once was. Comprehend/Challenge On the organizational level, this drive is usually satisfied through job design. Best... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

01 Nov 2010
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How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making

decision-making toward the bottom of the corporate ladder. Communication systems, such as e-mail and instant messaging applications, will push the decision-making process toward the top. And that means developing an IT strategy isn't all... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

17 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 17, 2008

ownership concentration affect the need for and process of corporate restructuring? This case provides students with an opportunity to analyze the restructuring of a Turkish multinational business group by way of a merger. Finansbank AŞ... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Planning a Class Session - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

process that enables greater flexibility in the discussion. Preparation should begin with the identification of a small number of core learning objectives for the session, which frame the development of a teaching plan. "Elements of... View Details

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The Experience | Predoctoral Researchers

The Experience Work with faculty to gain experience in a variety of research methodologies. The predoctoral researcher role is designed to provide researchers with exposure to a variety of research areas, while gaining experience with... View Details

05 Jun 2007
Working Paper Summaries

Leading and Creating Collaboration in Decentralized Organizations

Keywords: by Heather M. Caruso, Todd Rogers & Max Bazerman

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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

designing programmable analog signal processing chips. Aprendo Mason Myers Business Track Runner-Up Aprendo is a service that verifies job candidates’ prior education and employment data quickly efficiently... View Details

12 Feb 2018
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Customers at the Back of the Line Are Anxious—Can You Keep Them from Leaving?

—Buell explains in a new working paper, “Last Place Aversion in Queues.” "If I can’t look behind me and see someone else is willing to wait longer than me, I start to question whether waiting in line is worthwhile” Buell’s research investigates how operations can... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail; Service

26 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019

March 2019 Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Thin Slices of Workgroups By: Satterstrom, Patricia, Jeffrey T. Polzer, Lisa Kwan, Oliver P. Hauser, Wannawiruch Wiruchnipawan, and Marina Burke Abstract—In this paper, we... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

09 Mar 2003
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Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation

every interface in the first mainframes. The manufacturing process depended on the design of the computer and vice versa. The design of the operating system affected the View Details

Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor & Scott D. Anthony

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Alumni Engagement | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

resources on governance. Sign Up For OnBoard Program Updates The Leadership Collaborative The Leadership Collaborative is designed to connect and support alumni deeply engaged in social impact as a career and who are currently working... View Details

25 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 25

in the process of making high profits. Even with few truly altruistic firms, an equilibrium may emerge where all firms pretend to be kind and refrain from charging "abusive" prices to their customers. Our main result is that, as... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 Nov 2001
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How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers

roles, products, processes (assembly, equipment maintenance and repair, materials logistics, training, system redesign, administration, etc.), and hierarchical levels (from shop floor to plant manager and above) that in TPS managed... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto

27 Feb 2019
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The Hidden Cost of a Product Recall

manufacturing processes and stem reputational damage. In one of the costliest recalls in history, Johnson & Johnson spent more than $100 million in 1982 (more than $260 million in today’s dollars) to recall 31 million bottles of... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Manufacturing; Consumer Products; Auto; Medical Devices & Supplies

03 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 3

entrepreneurship researchers. Working PapersSpeaking Up Constructively: Managerial Practices That Elicit Solutions from Front-line Employees Authors:Julia Adler-Milstein, Sara J. Singer, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract Ideas that could enable organizations to improve... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

20 Apr 2011
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Blind Spots: We’re Not as Ethical as We Think

and actual behavior, according to the authors. The rapidly developing field of behavioral ethics has described a decision-making process whereby we recognize what we should do—give equal weight to job candidates of all races, for... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

13 Aug 2020
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The U.S. Job Search for International Students

students to get work visas at larger companies? The most common, and sought after, long-term skilled visa category in the U.S. is the H-1B Temporary Specialty Worker classification. H-1B visas do require sponsorship from the employer and are granted through an annual... View Details

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Entrepreneurial Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research

Business Model . Designing organizational structures and processes that allocate responsibilities, promote cross-functional integration, recruit/develop/promote employees, acquire critical resources and... View Details

October 2014
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Leader-as-Architect: Alignment

By: Ethan Bernstein, Ryan Raffaelli and Joshua Margolis

Part of a leader's job is to equip the organization to transform inputs into outputs by defining organizational strategy, shaping organizational identity, and then managing four organizational components—formal organizational structure, culture, people, and critical... View Details