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  • May 2001 (Revised May 2015)
  • Case

Compagnie Lyonnaise de Transport (A)

By: Michael Tushman and Michael J. Roberts
Describes the issues surrounding the funding of a centralized research service that supports two related divisions. The company has a very decentralized and financially driven culture, and the centralized service is used unequally, setting up a conflict. View Details
Keywords: Business Divisions; Organizational Culture; Relationships; Conflict Management; Balance and Stability; Transportation Industry; France
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  • 10 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 10

North Rhine-Westphalia, which made their reputations especially vulnerable to criticism. The research supports organizational sociology theory, which has identified the importance of visibility in corporate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Oct 2016
  • First Look

October 11, 2016

to old ways of doing things, and company performance doesn't improve. To fix these problems, senior executives and their HR departments should change the way they think about learning and development, and because context is crucial, needed fixes in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 May 2024
  • In Practice

Job Search Advice for a Tough Market: Think Broadly and Stay Flexible

need to get to breakeven and to deal with unreasonable valuation expectations of the last several years. That being said, my research and research by others has shown that venture capital and startup market... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 19 Jul 2016
  • First Look

July 19, 2016

well as theory and empirical research on the organizational outcomes of private political activism for social change. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51347 The Costs of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2021
  • Working Paper

MLS as a Sports Product—The Prominence of the World's Game in the U.S.

By: Stephen A. Greyser and Kenneth Cortsen
The purpose of this Working Paper is to analyze how soccer at the professional level in the U.S., with Major League Soccer as a focal point, has developed over the span of a quarter of a century. It is worthwhile to examine the growth of Major League Soccer (MLS) from... View Details
Keywords: Soccer; Major League Soccer; Sports; Growth and Development; Organizational Structure; Business Model; Sports Industry; United States
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  • Research Summary

Organisational Learning in Software Requirements Engineering and Management

The current research project addresses the continuing low success rate of software development projects, which has been frequently reported in empirical studies. For example, the 2004 Chaos Report by the Standish Group found that only 29% of 9,236 application... View Details

  • 11 Oct 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Four Ways to Create Lasting Change

HBS professor Michael A. Roberto and Senior Researcher Lynne C. Levesque decided to look deeper into why some initiatives fail and others succeed. How do some change initiatives take hold and almost become part of the firm's very DNA? To... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 20 Jun 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Creating a Positive Professional Image

appearance, but how do you manage something like skin color? Roberts will present her research, called "Changing Faces: Professional Image Construction in Diverse Organizational Settings," in the October issue of the Academy of... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
  • Research Summary

Managing Processes

David A. Garvin is examining the nature and use of managerial and organizational processes—the means by which work is accomplished—including strategic processes that chart corporate direction, resource allocation processes that distribute funds,... View Details
  • September 28, 2021
  • Editorial

A Guide to Implementing the 4-Day Workweek

By: A.V. Whillans and Charlotte Lockhart
As organizations continue to explore a variety of flexible work options, one promising avenue is the four-day workweek: The standard 40 hours per week is reduced to 32 hours, with the same pay and the same productivity expectations. Research suggests reducing hours can... View Details
Keywords: Workweek; Stress; Employees; Health; Performance Productivity; Organizational Change and Adaptation
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The Unexpected Effects of Workplace Transparency

By: Ethan S. Bernstein

Workplace transparency provides a foundation for learning and control, and therefore for satisfaction and productivity. Yet my research shows that an obsession with transparency-enhancing tools and structures can backfire, producing the unintended consequences of... View Details

Keywords: Transparency; Privacy; Productivity; Field Experiments; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Behavior; Social and Collaborative Networks; Human Resources; Leadership; United States; Europe; China; Japan
  • 10 Nov 2015
  • First Look

November 10, 2015

organizational components—formal organizational structure, culture, people, and critical tasks—such that each component, and their interaction, aligns to produce performance. Substantial View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 May 2013
  • What Do You Think?

Why Isn’t ‘Servant Leadership’ More Prevalent?

Do those served grow as persons (and become) more likely themselves to become servants?" Now it appears that a group of organizational psychologists, led by Adam Grant, are attempting to measure the impact of servant leadership on... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 26 Aug 2002
  • Research & Ideas

High-Stakes Decision Making: The Lessons of Mount Everest

ambitious and self-confident managers can convince themselves that they will learn from those mistakes and succeed where others did not. 75 The lesson for managers is that they must recognize the symbolic power of their actions and the strength of the signals they... View Details
Keywords: by Michael A. Roberto
  • 07 Apr 2021
  • Research & Ideas

How Teams Work: Lessons from the Pandemic

post-COVID collaboration in organizational cultures reshaped by remote work. Research by Leslie Perlow, the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership at HBS, and colleagues sheds light on the interactions... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 2013
  • Teaching Note

Xinhua Hospital: Implementation of EMR Project (TN)

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Ning Jia, Weiqi Liu and Shanshan Cao
Established in 1958, Xinhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine (hereafter referred to as "Xinhua Hospital") is an integrated modern teaching and research hospital with a comprehensive set of disciplines and a specialization in... View Details
Keywords: China; Hospitals; China
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  • 2013
  • Case

Xinhua Hospital: Implementation of EMR Project

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Ning Jia, Weiqi Liu and Shanshan Cao
Established in 1958, Xinhua Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine (hereafter referred to as "Xinhua Hospital") is an integrated modern teaching and research hospital with a comprehensive set of disciplines and a specialization in... View Details
Keywords: China; Hospitals; China
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  • 24 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 24

perspective that Porter has taken, often as a result of his specific background and prior research interests. The chapter then turns to extensions of these core concepts in Porter's more recent work. A central focus of this work has been... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 9

making social enterprise an attractive setting to study hybrid organizing. Based on a literature review of organizational research on social enterprise and on our own research... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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