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Mastering Strategy Execution
By: Robert Simons
Professor Robert Simons’ research encompasses three areas of management accountability that are the foundation for successful strategy execution: organization design, performance measurement and control, and risk management. In addition, Simons is interested in the... View Details
- December 2015
- Background Note
Incentive Systems
By: Brian J. Hall
This note serves as a supplement to any course on incentive design within organizations. The note focuses on the principal difficulties in designing incentive systems, including the tradeoff between objective and subjective performance metrics, how to design incentive... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Strategy; Compensation and Benefits; Motivation and Incentives; Performance Evaluation; Strategy
Hall, Brian J. "Incentive Systems." Harvard Business School Background Note 916-029, December 2015.
- 2022
- Book
Win from Within: Build Organizational Culture for Competitive Advantage
By: James Heskett
There is significant evidence that an effective organizational culture provides a major competitive edge—higher levels of employee and customer engagement and loyalty translate into higher growth and profits. Many business leaders know this, yet few are doing much to... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Culture; Competitive Advantage; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leadership
Heskett, James. Win from Within: Build Organizational Culture for Competitive Advantage. New York: Columbia University Press, 2022.
- 21 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Common Strategy Mistakes
"Michael Porter didn't get to be a giant in the field of competition and strategy by hunting small game." Joan Magretta begins her new book on Harvard Business School's Michael Porter's work by noting that, from the start of his... View Details
Keywords: by Joan Magretta
- March–April 2012
- Article
The Genesis and Dynamics of Organizational Networks
By: Gautam Ahuja, Guiseppe Soda and Akbar Zaheer
An extensive body of knowledge exists on network outcomes and on how network structures may contribute to the creation of outcomes at different levels of analysis, but less attention has been paid to understanding how and why organizational networks emerge, evolve, and... View Details
Keywords: Economic Sociology; Economics And Organization; Social Networks; Organization And Management Theory; Interorganizatonal Relationships; Networks; Strategy; Change
Ahuja, Gautam, Guiseppe Soda, and Akbar Zaheer. "The Genesis and Dynamics of Organizational Networks." Organization Science 23, no. 2 (March–April 2012): 434–448.
- 09 Jan 2020
- Book
Rethinking Business Strategy in the Age of AI
more akin to an Apple, a Tesla, or a Nest, or a GoPro—where it’s a consumer product that has the foundation of sexy hardware technology and sexy software technology,” he is quoted in a book published today, Competing in the Age of AI: View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- Program
Aligning Strategy and Sales
strategy and sales activities and discover how to synchronize your strategic priorities, go-to-market initiatives, and sales team to boost revenue and long-term success. This program is eligible for the Certificate of Management... View Details
- 2018
- Chapter
The Strategic Imperative of Psychological Safety and Organizational Error Management
By: Amy C. Edmondson and Paul Verdin
Despite discussion in the management literature about agile organizations or learning organizations, many large organizations are top-down, slow to change, and fraught with obstacles to learning. We describe “strategy-as-learning” to contrast with the traditional... View Details
Edmondson, Amy C., and Paul Verdin. "The Strategic Imperative of Psychological Safety and Organizational Error Management." In How Could this Happen? Managing Errors in Organizations, edited by Jan U. Hagen. Palgrave Macmillan, 2018.
- 2014
- Working Paper
Institutional Strategies in Emerging Markets
By: Christopher Marquis and Mia Raynard
We review and integrate a wide range of literature that has examined the strategies by which organizations navigate institutionally diverse settings and capture rents outside of the marketplace. We synthesize this body of research under the umbrella term... View Details
Marquis, Christopher, and Mia Raynard. "Institutional Strategies in Emerging Markets." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 15-013, September 2014.
- 2015
- Book
Leading Sustainable Change: An Organizational Perspective
The business case for acting sustainably is becoming increasingly compelling—reducing our global footprint to sustainable levels is the defining issue of our times, and it is one that can only be addressed with the active participation of the private sector. However,... View Details
Henderson, Rebecca, Ranjay Gulati, and Michael Tushman, eds. Leading Sustainable Change: An Organizational Perspective. Oxford University Press, 2015.
- 03 Oct 2023
- News
10 Pitfalls That Destroy Organizational Trust
- 18 Sep 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Institutional Strategies in Emerging Markets
Keywords: by Christopher Marquis & Mia Raynard
- Article
Recent Advances in the Empirics of Organizational Economics
By: Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
We present a survey of recent contributions in empirical organizational economics, focusing on management practices and decentralization. Productivity dispersion between firms and countries has motivated the improved measurement of firm organization across industries... View Details
Keywords: Economics; Management Practices and Processes; Performance Productivity; Geographic Location; Motivation and Incentives; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Competition; Human Capital; Markets; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Multinational Firms and Management; India; Brazil; United States
Bloom, Nicholas, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen. "Recent Advances in the Empirics of Organizational Economics." Annual Review of Economics 2 (2010): 105–137.
- 11 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard
P. Norton aims to make strategy a continual process. The Execution Premium: Linking Strategy to Operations for Competitive Advantage shows managers how to weave organizational... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- April 2011
- Article
Strategies for Learning from Failure
By: Amy C. Edmondson
Many executives believe that all failure is bad (although it usually provides lessons)--and that learning from it is pretty straightforward. The author, a professor at Harvard Business School, thinks both beliefs are misguided. In organizational life, she says, some... View Details
Keywords: Learning; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Leadership; Business Processes; Organizational Culture; Failure; Opportunities
Edmondson, Amy C. "Strategies for Learning from Failure." Harvard Business Review 89, no. 4 (April 2011).
- October 24, 2023
- Article
10 Beliefs That Get in the Way of Organizational Change
By: Frances X. Frei and Anne Morriss
In their new book, Move Fast and Fix Things, Frances Frei and Anne Morriss outline five strategies to help leaders tackle their hardest problems and quickly make change. Their final strategy is to execute your plan with a sense of urgency. They argue that most... View Details
Frei, Frances X., and Anne Morriss. "10 Beliefs That Get in the Way of Organizational Change." Harvard Business Review (website) (October 24, 2023).
- May 2008 (Revised May 2010)
- Background Note
Organizational Alignment, Performance, and Change in Professional Service Firms
By: John J. Gabarro
This note describes the relationship between organizational alignment and performance in professional service firms and how to use McKinsey 7S Alignment to diagnose a firm's or practice's alignment, identify misalignments and determine how to bring about the changes... View Details
Gabarro, John J. "Organizational Alignment, Performance, and Change in Professional Service Firms." Harvard Business School Background Note 908-416, May 2008. (Revised May 2010.)
- 2017
- Book
Geography, Location, and Strategy
By: Juan Alcácer, Bruce Kogut, Catherine Thomas and Bernard Yin Yeung
Changes in both technology and global political economy have vastly accelerated the pace of globalization in the last 40 years, eroding barriers that limited firms' geographic scope and unleashing a seemingly unlimited set of new threats, challenges, and opportunities... View Details
Alcácer, Juan, Bruce Kogut, Catherine Thomas and Bernard Yin Yeung, eds. Geography, Location, and Strategy. Vol. 36, Advances in Strategic Management. Emerald Publishing Limited, 2017.
- October 20, 2020
- Article
Expanding AI's Impact with Organizational Learning
By: Sam Ransbotham, Shervin Khodabandeh, David Kiron, François Candelon, Michael Chu and Burt LaFountain
Most companies developing AI capabilities have yet to gain significant financial benefits from their efforts. Only when organizations add the ability to learn with AI do significant benefits become likely. View Details
Ransbotham, Sam, Shervin Khodabandeh, David Kiron, François Candelon, Michael Chu, and Burt LaFountain. "Expanding AI's Impact with Organizational Learning." MIT Sloan Management Review, Big Ideas Artificial Intelligence and Business Strategy Initiative (website) (October 20, 2020). (Findings from the 2020 Artificial Intelligence
Global Executive Study and Research Project.)
- 2003
- Class Lecture
Creating Competitive Advantage Through Organizational Learning
By: David A. Garvin
Garvin, David A. "Creating Competitive Advantage Through Organizational Learning." Boston: Harvard Business School Publishing Class Lecture, 2003. Electronic. (Faculty Lecture.)