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Credential of Leadership, Impact, and Management in Business | HBS Online

Safe Teams Leading Effective Teams 45-50 hrs Term 1 Course - 7 Modules Organizational Leadership Organizational Leadership equips you with the skills, strategies, and tools to rise to expanded leadership... View Details
  • 29 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 29

provides a more nuanced understanding of the nature and consequences of risk managers' influence activities. An explicit focus on toolmaking extends accounting research that has hitherto focused attention on the structural arrangements... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • March 2012 (Revised September 2012)
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INRIX

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Ryan Johnson
Since its founding in 2004, INRIX, a leading global provider of traffic information and driver services, had received four rounds of financing from leading venture capital (VC) firms and by 2012 had been cash flow positive for the past six quarters. Its founder, Bryan... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Leadership; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Exit or Shutdown; Business Startups; Organizational Structure; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Competitive Strategy; Information Technology Industry; Service Industry; Washington (state, US)
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  • 19 Jun 2012
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First Look: June 19

For decades, management consultants and the popular business press have urged large firms to flatten their hierarchies. Flattening (or delayering, as it is also known) typically refers to the elimination of layers in a firm's View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • October 2018
  • Case

P-Will at DISCO

By: Ethan Bernstein, Naoko Jinjo and Yuna Sakuma
From the outside, DISCO—a Japan-based manufacturer of precision tools for semiconductor production devices—appeared to be a rather ordinary company that had achieved rather extraordinary success: it had simultaneously achieved 70% global market share, had lifted its... View Details
Keywords: Human Capital; P-Will; DISCO; Semiconductors; Self-Managed Organizations; Governance; Human Resources; Selection and Staffing; Management Practices and Processes; Management Systems; Organizational Structure; Organizational Design; Semiconductor Industry; Japan
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  • May 2011
  • Case

The Morrison Company

By: Steven C. Wheelwright and Paul Meyers
The Morrison Company develops and manufactures radio frequency identification tags (RFID) known as smart labels for the retail and pharmaceutical industries. RFID technology is a fast-growing and increasingly competitive industry. Sales have risen dramatically over the... View Details
Keywords: Quantitative Analysis; Technology; Operations Management; Product Lines; Manufacturing; Capacity Planning; Production Planning; Information Technology; Strategy; Production; Organizational Structure; Infrastructure; Product Development; Information Infrastructure; Manufacturing Industry; Retail Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Electronics Industry
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Overview

By: Andy Wu
How can technology entrepreneurs build competitive advantage from the ground up? Professor Andy Wu conducts scholarly research and develops course materials that document how technology entrepreneurs can (1) organize for innovation to create new market opportunities... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Growth Management; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Technology Platform; Technological Innovation; Information Technology Industry; Retail Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Video Game Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; United States; China; Southeast Asia; South Asia
  • 26 Nov 2001
  • Research & Ideas

How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers

in prototype forms before being released. Why? Because designers know that no matter how good their initial efforts, they will miss the mark on the first try. There will be something about the design of the overall system structure or... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto
  • 29 Mar 2016
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March 29, 2016

nature of strategy, organizational design, and leadership. Management: An Integrated Approach is the only introductory management text on the market to address this challenge by taking an integrated and holistic approach to management, as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 20

Publications August 2013 Marketing Science Do Bonuses Enhance Sales Productivity? A Dynamic Structural Analysis of Bonus-Based Compensation Plans By: Chung, Doug J., Thomas Steenburgh, and K. Sudhir Abstract—We estimate a dynamic View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 13 Dec 2021
  • Research & Ideas

The Unlikely Upside of Mergers: More Diverse Management Teams

leadership structure to payroll systems. “The disruption allows these patterns to be changed for the better,” he says. "How firms approach diversity issues during these critical moments could affect their inequality for many future... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • 09 Jun 2021
  • Research & Ideas

How Tennis, Golf, and White Anxiety Block Racial Integration

accessing valuable resources primarily controlled by White people, according to the study, Structuring Local Environments to Avoid Diversity: Anxiety Drives Whites’ Geographical and Institutional Self-Segregation Preferences, which will... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
  • 05 Aug 2015
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How Hormones Foretell Whether People Will Cheat

of whether someone will behave unethically. Two, among those who do cheat, cheating reduces levels of the hormone associated with psychological stress. In other words, people may use cheating as a means of relieving stress. The good news is that corporate cultures and... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 27 Oct 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing

structure, formal management processes, information technology, the informal social network, and people. Organizational structure is a natural beginning but most people expect too much from it. There is no... View Details
Keywords: by Benson Shapiro
  • 08 Feb 2023
  • Op-Ed

Building an Inclusive Workplace? Prepare to Shield It from Economic Fears

Following the murder of George Floyd in 2020, business leaders vowed to change organizational culture to increase diversity and inclusion. Some companies established more robust employee affinity groups, others diversified the voices on... View Details
Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and Nicole Gilmore
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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni

with those targets, allocated resources to achieve those targets, and built board-level sustainability committees and structures to ensure the governance of their climate strategy. At the same time, investors are increasingly engaging... View Details
  • 15 Jun 2009
  • Research & Ideas

GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next

was not—doing. As company leaders rolled out this daring strategy, they also created an organizational structure and culture developed to support a multi-product, vertically integrated enterprise. By the mid... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Auto
  • 16 May 2005
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Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow

always lead to the benefits the organizations had anticipated. For example, many organizations anticipated that fundraising would be easier once they were larger. In fact, fundraising did not necessarily become easier with organizational... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 09 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 9, 2007

crucial for the initial industrialization of these two countries. Recently, differing visions on the importance of business networks have arisen. In the case of Mexico, the literature argues that entrepreneurs relied heavily on an informal institutional View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Recommended Reading - Advancing Racial Equity

and the first of its kind, revealing a history of oppression behind the institutions usually considered the cradle of liberal politics. Dismantling Race in Higher Education: Racism, Whiteness and Decolonising the Academy By: Jason Arday This book reveals the roots of... View Details