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- 09 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization
[Editor’s note: This is the third installment of a continuing series on issues that 600 CEOs told us keeps them awake at night. Today's topic: The challenges of making organizational decisions in this uncertain environment.] While we may... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
- 28 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 28
Publications 2006 Journal of Organization Design The Strategic Fitness Process: A Collaborative Action Research Method for Developing Organizational Prototypes and Dynamic Capabilities By: Beer, Michael Abstract—Organizations... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Apr 2022
- Book
What Does Your Business Stand For? Why Building Trust Starts with Purpose
principles into every aspect of the organization. This purpose serves as a compass to guide all decisions, but also as an operating system that shapes all facets of the business, including its strategy, culture, and its public relations. It enables the organization to... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
- 01 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
Dying to Lead: How Reaching the Top Can Kill You Sooner
then-headquarters in Schenectady, New York. He relied heavily on GE’s employee directories, which listed all the managers within the company’s organizational structure. He also used US Census data, and other public and private documents... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 21 Sep 2021
- Office Hours
Readers Ask: How Can I Gain Power and Influence?
power is always relative. You may have great influence in one relationship and be completely dependent in another. Second, people confuse power with authority, but authority is no guarantee of power, and you do not need to be high in the View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- Web
Power and Influence for Positive Impact | HBS Online
Entrenched Power Explain how power hierarchies develop and perpetuate themselves and understand and apply organizational and cultural strategies for overcoming the impact of stereotypes. Highlights What Are... View Details
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
utilize diverse levels of analysis. Paper: http://www.oxfordbibliographies.com/obo/page/management Learning from Customers: Individual and Organizational Effects in Outsourced Radiological Services Authors:Clark, Jonathan R., Robert S.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating in Three Dimensions
authority and hierarchy necessary but decreasingly sufficient, with looser organizational forms, with an increased pace of change, and with greater diversity and global reach, negotiation assumes greater... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Little Understood Problem Confronting Diverse Workplaces
organizational leaders rely on their own experiences and established success standards to form expectations for these workers, resulting in them feeling discouraged and unable to fit in. The paper, Relational Reconciliation: Socializing... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- Web
Sexual Harassment - Race, Gender & Equity
incidents involved sexualized conversations and remarks. Women up and down the organizational hierarchy experienced similar levels of harassment. At the junior, mid, senior, and even C-level, about half of... View Details
- 13 Apr 2021
- Book
How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations
becomes the smartest (and most strategic) thing you can do.” The inclusive managers we heard about in our survey made employees feel heard and respected. They solicited input from across the organizational View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 01 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making
technology side, they also have to think about the organizational side," she says. "Traditionally, technology is thought of as a tool that enables empowerment, but that's not always the case." Sadun discusses the issue in... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
provides insight into how the broader management of experience accumulation affects team performance. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-145.pdf Measuring and Understanding Hierarchy as an Architectural Element in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
Crowded at the Top: The Rise of the Functional Manager
managers have risen in power, general managers may be losing some of theirs. A new working paper, Who Lives in the C-Suite? Organizational Structure and the Division of Labor in Top Management, explores several factors that have led CEOs... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 14 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Are You Managing To a ‘T’? Time To Break With Tradition
management. It relies on a new kind of executive, one who breaks out of the traditional corporate hierarchy to share knowledge freely across the organization (the horizontal part of the "T") while remaining fiercely committed to... View Details
Keywords: by Morten T. Hansen & Bolko Von Oetinger
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
In Pursuit of Academia
later informed her doctoral research in the School’s Organizational Behavior program. “I sat in one of the seats closest to the blackboards. I had a perfect view of the whole section,” recalls Fernandes. From there she saw a View Details
- 10 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
Celebrating 'The Men and Women of the Corporation' 40 Years Later
inequality in the workplace. In particular, the book makes clear how organizational roles and structures shape unequal access to opportunities, resources, and advancement. In a wide-ranging conversation, Robin Ely, the Diane Doerge Wilson... View Details
Keywords: by Robin J. Ely
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
or cult of the CEO was "Made in America." But the main point is that we tend to forget that American firms pioneered a vast, bureaucratic, middle management apparatus. As a trick, I've posted General Motor's organizational chart... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Leadership an Increasingly Difficult Balancing Act?
been unable to keep pace in no small part due to the reliance on hierarchy and the dominant position given very highly compensated CEOs." Jackie Le Fevre put it this way: "Short answer to the question—increasingly difficult... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 14 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Creating a Global Business Code
"actual." "People at the top of the hierarchy generally have a more positive view of an organization than the people in the middle and on the frontlines," Paine says. "The top of the organization doesn't really... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel