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  • 18 Oct 2012
  • HBS Seminar

Julie Battilana, Harvard Business School

    Michael Beer

    MICHAEL BEER

    Mike Beer is the Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School and author Fit to Compete: Why Honest Conversations About Your Company’s... View Details

    • 07 Feb 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure

    reviews, and three books, including the brilliant Theory of Economic Development (1911; English translation, 1934).1 Schumpeter struggled mightily with the research and writing of Business Cycles. As he told his friend and fellow cycle... View Details
    Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw
    • Article

    Know Your Customers' 'Jobs to Be Done'

    By: Clayton M. Christensen, Taddy Hall, Karen Dillon and David S. Duncan
    Firms have never known more about their customers, but their innovation processes remain hit-or-miss. Why? According to Christensen and his coauthors, product developers focus too much on building customer profiles and looking for correlations in data. To create... View Details
    Keywords: Customer Relationship Management
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    • 2018
    • Book

    Re-engaging with Sustainability in the Anthropocene Era

    By: Andrew J. Hoffman and P. Devereaux Jennings
    Re-engaging with Sustainability in the Anthropocene Era applies organization theory to a grand challenge: our entry into the Anthropocene era, a period marked not only by human impact on climate change, but on chemical waste, habitat destruction, and despeciation. It... View Details
    Keywords: Organization Theory; Environmental Management; Policy; Social Issues; Social Entrepreneurship; Pollutants
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    • Research Summary

    Statistical Methodology

    William Simpson is developing methods of inference to use when assumptions of standard models are not met. He has created a hypothesis test to use for ipsative variables that adjusts for the non-zero correlations among variables expected under the null hypothesis. ... View Details

    • December 2010
    • Article

    Building Sustainable Hybrid Organizations: The Case of Commercial Microfinance Organizations

    By: Julie Battilana and Silvia Dorado
    We explore how new types of hybrid organizations (organizations that combine institutional logics in unprecedented ways) can develop and maintain their hybrid nature in the absence of a "ready-to-wear" model for handling the tensions between the logics they combine.... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Structure; Microfinance; Growth and Development Strategy; Identity; Commercialization; Balance and Stability; Policy; Recruitment; Business Model
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    • 2017
    • Working Paper

    Threat of Platform-Owner Entry and Complementor Responses: Evidence from the Mobile App Market

    By: Feng Zhu
    We examine how app developers on the Android mobile platform adjust their innovation efforts (rate and direction) and value-capture strategies in response to Google’s entry threat and actual entry into their markets. We find that, after Google’s entry threat increases,... View Details
    Keywords: Platform-owner Entry; Entry Threat; Innovation; Complementors; Mobile App Industry; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Innovation Strategy; Market Entry and Exit
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    • 2010
    • Working Paper

    Will I Stay or Will I Go?: Cooperative and Competitive Effects of Workgroup Sex and Race Composition on Turnover

    By: Kathleen L. McGinn and Katherine L Milkman
    We develop an integrated theory of the social identity mechanisms linking workgroup sex and race composition across levels with individual turnover. Building on social identity research, we theorize that social cohesion (Tyler, 1999; Hogg and Terry, 2000) and social... View Details
    Keywords: Competition; Ethnicity; Race; Groups and Teams; Identity; Resignation and Termination; Gender; Cooperation
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    • 28 Jun 2022
    • Book

    The Moral Enterprise: How Two Companies Profit with Purpose

    How can government and business work together in this fractious political moment, when finding solutions to pressing problems like inequality and climate change are more urgent than ever? Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University’s John and Natty McArthur University... View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman
    • October 2009
    • Article

    A Decision-making Perspective to Negotiation: A Review of the Past and a Look into the Future

    By: Chia-Jung Tsay and Max Bazerman
    Through the decision-analytic approach to negotiations, the past quarter century has seen the development of a better dialog between the descriptive and the prescriptive, as well as a burgeoning interest in the field for both academics and practitioners. Researchers... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Making; Negotiation; Perspective; Ethics; Emotions; Perception; Relationships; Management Practices and Processes; Training; Behavior
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    • 16 May 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow

    Whether their mission is to protect wildlife, help disabled people, or offer financial services in developing countries, nonprofit organizations often believe they need to grow big before they can achieve significant View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • 12 Oct 2006
    • First Look

    First Look: October 12, 2006

    legally astute manager can use legal tools to assess opportunities, develop the firm's value proposition, and select and perform the activities in the value chain. Also, explains the social context in which... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • January 2006 (Revised May 2006)
    • Case

    Akin Ongor's Journey

    By: Rosabeth M. Kanter
    A retired bank CEO, one of Turkey's most admired leaders, wants to start a leadership institute to develop emerging leaders in the eastern Mediterranean region. Describes his biography and values, the models he established for excellent financial performance and... View Details
    Keywords: Leadership Development; Values and Beliefs; Partners and Partnerships; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business Startups; Environmental Sustainability; Retirement; Education Industry; Turkey; United States
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    • July 1998
    • Supplement

    Bell Atlantic in Union City

    By: Rosabeth M. Kanter
    In this pioneering project to wire a school for the Internet and put computers in students' homes, Bell Atlantic combined its need for a beta site for a technology trial with the school reform efforts of the Union City, New Jersey public schools, under the leadership... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; Social Enterprise; Internet and the Web; Education; Business and Community Relations; Education Industry; New Jersey
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    • October 2008
    • Article

    Sociopolitical Dynamics in Relations Between Top Managers and Security Analysts: Favor Rendering, Reciprocity, and Analyst Stock Recommendations

    By: James Westphal and Michael B. Clement
    We examine how the disclosure of negative firm information may prompt top executives to render personal and professional favors for security analysts, who may reciprocate by rating firms relatively positively. We further examine how negative ratings may prompt... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Disclosure; Relationships; Power and Influence; Ethics
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    • May 2014
    • Case

    Gunfire at Sea (multi-media case)

    By: Michael Tushman and Tom Ryder
    This short video illustrates the challenges of leading innovation and change. This classic case (one of the oldest in the HBS system) retains its timeliness. The case describes how Lt. Sims develops a new form of gunfire at sea—continuous aim gunfire. While 3,000% more... View Details
    Keywords: Organization Behavior; Change; Innovation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leading Change; Innovation Leadership; United States
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    • Clubs

    B-School Blades

      Awa Ambra Seck

      Awa Ambra Seck is an Assistant Professor in the  View Details

      • 02 Sep 2020
      • News

      Putting Common Sense Back in the Driver’s Seat