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- Spring 1992
- Article
Student Environmental Organizations
By: Julian Keniry and Brian Trelstad
On campuses around the country, student groups are discovering the benefits of working on projects in cooperation with campus officials. View Details
Keniry, Julian, and Brian Trelstad. "Student Environmental Organizations." New Directions for Higher Education, no. 77 (Spring 1992): 103–112.
- 25 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
An Organization Your Customers Understand
Imagine an organization made up of a variety of three-dimensional shapes. Rectangular blocks represent the functions: manufacturing, R&D, and sales and marketing. The spheres are regional offices. Pyramids represent product groups—one... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- April 2003 (Revised October 2003)
- Background Note
Leading Public Professional Service Organizations
By: Ashish Nanda
Public professional service organizations (PPSOs) are professional service organizations that serve the public. This case describes the unique challenges facing PPSO leaders. View Details
Nanda, Ashish. "Leading Public Professional Service Organizations." Harvard Business School Background Note 903-123, April 2003. (Revised October 2003.)
- 13 Feb 2020
- Book
Open Your Organization to Honest Conversations
they tend to remain silent, fearful that speaking up could put their careers at risk. “A CEO might be trying to execute this corporate strategy and everybody in the organization knows it’s off the rails, but no one wants to be the bearer... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- Research Summary
Sustaining innovation in mature organizations
A theoretical investigation of how mature organizations can prevent exploitation (refinement of existing capabilities) from driving out exploration (development of new capabilities). We propose that perturbations create opportunity for organizations to learn. To... View Details
- March 2002
- Background Note
Incentive Strategy Within Organizations
By: Brian J. Hall
This case serves as a supplement to any course on incentive design and implementation. The analysis first locates incentive strategy within the larger structure of organizations and markets and then helps to define the central components and difficulties of incentive... View Details
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Compensation and Benefits; Performance Evaluation; Strategy; Situation or Environment; Problems and Challenges
Hall, Brian J. "Incentive Strategy Within Organizations." Harvard Business School Background Note 902-131, March 2002.
- November 2016
- Article
Spatial Organization of Firms and Location Choices Through the Value Chain
By: Juan Alcacer and Mercedes Delgado
We explore the impact of geographically bounded, intra-firm linkages (internal agglomerations) and geographically bounded, inter-firm linkages (external agglomerations) on firms' location strategies. Using data from the Census Bureau's Longitudinal Business Database,... View Details
Keywords: Location Choices; Agglomeration Economies; Value Chain; Organization Theory; Geographic Location; Business Strategy
Alcacer, Juan, and Mercedes Delgado. "Spatial Organization of Firms and Location Choices Through the Value Chain." Management Science 62, no. 11 (November 2016).
- Research Summary
Divergent change in organizations
By: Julie Battilana
The first stream of research in Professor Battilana’s work aims to identify the conditions that enable individual actors to initiate divergent change within organizations as well as the conditions enabling successful implementation of such change. It combines... View Details
- 1996
- Chapter
Cognitions in Organizations
By: A. E. Tenbrunsel, T. L. Galvin, M. A. Neale and M. H. Bazerman
- 1995
- Book
Reengineering the Organization
By: R. L. Nolan, D. B. Stoddard, T. H. Davenport and S. Jarvenpaa
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation
- 2011
- Book
Communities and Organizations
By: Christopher Marquis, Michael Lounsbury and Royston Greenwood
Marquis, Christopher, Michael Lounsbury, and Royston Greenwood, eds. Communities and Organizations. Vol. 33, Research in the Sociology of Organizations. Emerald Group Publishing, 2011.
- 23 Jun 2009
- Research Event
Business Summit: Global Environment-Transformed Organization
According to two panel sessions, successful organizations must continually transform themselves in today's dynamic world. Panelists said globalization has played or will play a key role in the transformations of their organizations,... View Details
- June 1992
- Article
The Learning Organization
By: D. Q. Mills and G. B. Friesen
Mills, D. Q., and G. B. Friesen. "The Learning Organization." European Management Journal 10, no. 2 (June 1992): 146–156.
- 08 Nov 2021
- News
Building Your Scaled Digital Organization
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Organizing the Family-Run Business
Figure 1. Senior management is the organizing mechanism and voice of the employees. The family council and family assembly are the organizing mechanisms and voice of the family. The board of directors is the... View Details
- November 1985
- Case
Four-Way Organization (A)
Lax, David A. "Four-Way Organization (A)." Harvard Business School Case 186-142, November 1985.
- January 1975
- Background Note
Union Organization Technique
Kuechle, David. "Union Organization Technique." Harvard Business School Background Note 675-117, January 1975.