Organizational Adaptation - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

Readers Ask: I Need Tips for Working at Home

huge if the company is based in a major metro. What are the biggest obstacles for companies that want to allow remote work? Choudhury: I feel the biggest obstacle is changing the organizational processes for how communication and... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

17 Sep 2024
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Advice for the New CEO: Talk to Your Employees Early and Often

to research by Harvard Business School Professor Raffaella Sadun. “A CEO transition is a major organizational event, and communication inside the company is such an important aspect of that transition.” Sadun and colleagues describe how a... View Details

Keywords: by Ami Albernaz

01 Dec 2000
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common. Each of the successful organizations they studied, including Mobil, CIGNA, and Duke Children's Hospital, used the balanced scorecard to align and focus all resources on strategy. The authors document how executives institutionalized the focus on strategy by... View Details

Keywords: Rogelio Fussa; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

2007
Chapter

Transforming Organizations: Embrace the Paradox of E and O

By: Michael Beer

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Transformation

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October 1987 (Revised March 1991)
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Colgate-Palmolive (A): Company In Transition

By: James L. Heskett

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Transition; Consumer Products Industry

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2001
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Creating the Culture for Innovation

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter

Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation

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25 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments

business moved on. Not aligning experiments to broader organizational goals. Failing to understand the end goal can lead to misguided decisions about when and how to run such tests. Experiments should answer clear questions that bring an... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

15 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Business IT Innovation is so Difficult

especially larger ones, have done so. Those that have done the heavy IT and organizational lifting, such as Walmart, reap serious dividends. "There's a tremendous gap between the most IT-savvy firms and the IT laggards," says McElheran,... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

30 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company

the case with the other spans, senior managers can adjust the span of influence to promote desired behaviors. They can widen the span when they want to stimulate people to think outside the box to develop new ways of serving customers, increasing internal efficiencies,... View Details

Keywords: by Robert Simons

January 1988
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Philips/Interview with Cor J. Van Der Klugt, President and Professors Aguilar and Yoshino, Video

By: Francis Aguilar

Cor Van Der Klugt answers questions concerning his experience over 1 1/2 years as president in attempting to change Philips organization and culture in accordance with its newly focused strategy and his outlook for the future. View Details

Keywords: Managerial Roles; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Strategy

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2000
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Rebuilding Behavioral Context: A Blueprint for Corporate Renewal

By: Sumantra Ghoshal and Christopher Bartlett

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Behavior

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1995
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Strategic Change: A New Dimension of Human Resource Management

By: R. A. Eisenstat, M. Beer and R. Biggadike

Keywords: Human Resources; Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation

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September 1989
Case

Navistar: Managing Change

Describes 15 years of change at Navistar. Highlights changes in strategy, name, products, services, size, human resources policies, and programs. Underscores the brisk pace and scope of changes. Students are asked to categorize the types of change, evaluate them, and... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Change Management

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August 1996
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Andersen Consulting - EMEAI: Bill Barnard on Organization Change

By: Ashish Nanda and Michael Y. Yoshino

Remarks by William (Bill) Barnard, partner-in-charge for Strategic Services in the subregion of Western Europe, in a conversation he had with Professors Ashish Nanda and Michael Yoshino of the Harvard Business School on November 1, 1995. View Details

Keywords: Management Teams; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Consulting Industry; Europe

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1997
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Restoring People to the Heart of the Organization of the Future

By: R. M. Kanter

Keywords: Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation

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January 1994 (Revised November 1995)
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Phillips 66: Transforming for the 1990s

By: Lynda M. Applegate

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Energy Industry

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2012
Other Unpublished Work

Organizing for Ambidexterity: (Re)Configuring and Orchestrating Exploration and Exploitation Over Time

By: Justin Jansen, Costas Andriopoulos and Michael Tushman

Keywords: Organizational Design; Organizational Change and Adaptation

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April 11, 2017
Article

Systems Change in a Polarized Country

By: Mark R. Kramer

A growing number of U.S. foundations are adopting practices based on systems change to achieve their goals in the current political environment. View Details

Keywords: Political Polarization; Foundations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; United States

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