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  • 15 Jun 2009
  • Research & Ideas

GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next

almost exclusively in those same large vehicles likely to be made obsolete by a new 35.5 MPG standard the Administration has promised to implement by 2016. Daniel Heller, Visiting Scholar: All stakeholders must work together to make GM's... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Auto
  • 24 Aug 2020
  • Research & Ideas

How Much Will Remote Work Continue After the Pandemic?

nearly exclusively to the office, indicating the potential for a more temporary condition. Although highly impressionistic, the survey data illuminates the scale at which workers quickly began working from home, causing a potential shift... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 30 Oct 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company

vital to strategy implementation (for example, at exclusive hotel chains) or when the organizational design is highly complex because of sophisticated technologies and a complex value chain (in aerospace or... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
  • 10 Jan 2005
  • Research & Ideas

How to Put Meaning Back into Leading

between leadership and meaning-making has been lost. Most contemporary organizational researchers—both those who advocate the study of leadership and those who argue that it is of little value—talk about leadership almost View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 15 Nov 2017
  • Research & Ideas

How Does a Social Startup Decide to Commercialize? It May Depend on the Founder's Gender

Science. The paper was authored by Stefan Dimitriadis, a doctoral student in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School; Matthew Lee, an assistant professor of strategy at INSEAD; Lakshmi Ramarajan, the Anna Spangler... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Jun 2016
  • What Do You Think?

When Business Performance Falters, is Culture Change the Fix?

“in the context of real people doing real work.” Marlis Krichewsky argued “culture probably cannot change exclusively from within to kindle enthusiasm you need to look beyond yourself and interact with the environment.” Thriveinchange... View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett
  • 04 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: December 4

interact in large, contemporary organizations is not well understood. We argue that organizational structures and geography delimit opportunities for interaction such that actors have a greater level of discretion to choose their... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 1

alternative coding of variables. In two-stage models we also find that prominent venture capitalists might help their portfolio companies by steering them to effective technology strategies, in this case active participation in the IETF, and not simply by lending... View Details
  • 03 Feb 2018
  • Op-Ed

How to Heed BlackRock's Call for Corporate Social Responsibility

Larry Fink recently created a shockwave. As cofounder, chairman, and CEO of BlackRock, one of the world’s largest global asset management firms, in an open letter to CEOs he caught the attention of financial markets and beyond by insisting on the importance of... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Battilana
  • 21 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 21, 2009

mismatch can create. First, hierarchical industry organizations can "lock out" certain types of innovation indefinitely by perpetuating established business practices. Second, even when the vertical hierarchies produce highly innovative sectors in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Jul 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Looking for CEOs in All the Wrong Places

the role third parties play was inadequate in describing the processes at work in the highly specialized CEO market. The size of the candidate pool, for instance, is often underestimated. If you believe most search firms, in fact, it's a very View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs; Employment
  • 09 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 9

Battilana, Julie, and Matthew Lee Abstract—Hybrid organizations that combine multiple organizational forms deviate from socially legitimate templates for organizing and thus experience unique organizing challenges. In this paper, we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 May 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Leading Professional Service Firms

industry are human talent and alignment. The work of professional service firms depends exclusively on the talent and intelligence of the people delivering it. Good firms hire the absolute best people and develop them, motivate them, and... View Details
Keywords: Re: Jay W. Lorsch; Service; Consulting; Accounting
  • 11 Jul 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ’The Future of Boards’

our time a different way." Directors' reflections on the board's role had multiple dimensions. For some, the question was whether and how exclusively the board should focus on compliance with applicable laws and regulations. In their... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Lorsch
  • 07 Jul 2009
  • First Look

First Look: July 7

risks, which threaten the achievement of the firm's strategic objectives, into the open and under control. Its organizational significance is that, by providing a process to identify, measure, monitor, and manage uncertainty in strategic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Nov 2010
  • First Look

First Look: November 2, 2010

  PublicationsMeeting the Challenges of a Person-Centric Work Psychology Authors:Teresa M. Amabile and Steve J. Kramer Publication:Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practice (forthcoming) An abstract is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 3, 2009

Companion Paper Authors:Andrei Hagiu and Bruno Jullien Abstract This is a companion paper to paper No. 08-010. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-092.pdf Exclusivity and Control (revised) Authors:Andrei Hagiu and Robin... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Aug 2013
  • First Look

First Look: August 20

exclusion restriction separating current and future payoff and (2) a finite horizon model in which there is no forward looking behavior in the last period. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=44102 August 2013... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 08 May 2012
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First Look: May 8

economic development, and time-invariant unobserved characteristics of origin and host countries. We further show that egalitarianism correlates in a conceptually compatible way with an array of organizational practices pertinent to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 24 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 24, 2009

  Working PapersLearn-how to Improve Collaboration and Performance Authors:Ingrid M. Nembhard, Anita L. Tucker, Richard M.J. Bohmer, Joseph H. Carpenter, and Jeffrey D. Horbar Abstract Organizational learning, a prerequisite for high... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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