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  • Research Summary

Learning Organizations

David A. Garvin is studying how companies pursue improvement and change through efforts to stimulate organizational learning. He has found the following activities to be common in learning organizations: intelligence gathering; experimentation; learning from... View Details

  • January 2023 (Revised August 2023)
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Nick Saban: Embracing 'The Process' of Sustaining Success

By: Ranjay Gulati and Eppa Rixey
Nick Saban, head coach of the University of Alabama football team from 2007-2022, fielded teams that won 183 of 208 games (88%), including a record-tying six national championships. Saban’s approach to coaching, known to many as “The Process,” and the consistent... View Details
Keywords: Purpose; Leadership And Managing People; Football; Recruiting; Talent Acquisition; Talent And Talent Management; Talent Development And Retention; Organization Change And Adaptation; Organizational Behavior; Sports; Leadership; Leadership Development; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Sports Industry; United States
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Leading Change and Organizational Renewal

By: Michael L. Tushman
Market-leading organizations habitually innovate, adjust quickly to new business conditions, and seize emerging opportunities before competitors do. They perform efficiently today while continuing to explore new sources of value for tomorrow. Such companies don't just... View Details
  • 2000
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Lead Organizational Change by Creating Dissatisfaction and Realigning the Organization with New Competitive Realities

By: Michael Beer and Edwin Locke
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    NGOs and Organizational Change

    The organizational dynamics of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) have become increasingly complex as they have evolved from small local groups into sophisticated multinational organizations with global networks. Alnoor... View Details

    • May 4, 2018
    • Article

    Continuous Development Will Change Organizations as Much as Agile Did

    By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Samuel Clemens
    It's not just for tech companies and startups. View Details
    Keywords: Information Technology; Business Ventures; Corporate Entrepreneurship
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    • 2023
    • Book

    How the Harvard Business School Changed the Way We View Organizations

    By: Jay W. Lorsch
    The story of the field of organizational behavior (which overlaps considerably with the origin story of Harvard Business School) and how it created the “medical model” of systems thinking—anchored in the practices of listening, observing, testing, and only then... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Behavior; Systems Thinking; Medical Model; Organizations; Behavior; System; History
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    • 1995
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    Information-enabled Organization Transformation and Outsourcing

    By: F. W. McFarlan
    Keywords: Information Management; Knowledge Management; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Organizational Change and Adaptation
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    • May 2017 (Revised January 2020)
    • Case

    Webasto Roof Systems Americas: Leadership Through Change (A)

    By: Francesca Gino and Paul Green
    Webasto Roof Systems, Americas, the North American subsidiary of Germany-based Webasto Group, limped into 2014 in poor financial and operational shape. The company's early optimism emerging from the financial downturn had proven naive, and now, five years later, the... View Details
    Keywords: Culture Change; Change Management; Leading Change; Crisis Management; Organizational Culture; Manufacturing Industry; Auto Industry; North and Central America
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    Technological Change and Competitive Strategy

    Richard S. Rosenbloom continues to explore issues in the strategic management of technology and the relationship between technological change and competitive strategy. He is currently investigating the histories of radical technological innovations and their... View Details
    • October 2007 (Revised October 2009)
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    Global Climate Change and BP

    By: Forest L. Reinhardt and Mikell Hyman
    Following the sudden resignation of Sir John Browne, Tony Hayward, BP CEO, must decide how global climate change management will figure into BP's corporate strategy. Climate change management was a major part of BP's strategy under Browne: In 1997 Browne broke from his... View Details
    Keywords: Change Management; Climate Change; Corporate Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Management Teams; Environmental Sustainability; Government and Politics; Energy Sources; Global Strategy; Operations; Utilities Industry; Energy Industry; United Kingdom
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    • 2024
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    Financial Constraints and Short-term Planning are Linked to Flood Risk Adaptation Gaps in U.S. cities

    By: Shirley Lu and Anya Nakhmurina
    Adaptation is critical in reducing the inevitable impact of climate change. Here we study cities’ adaptation to elevated flood risk by introducing a linguistic measure of adaptation extracted from financial disclosures of 431 US cities over 2013–2020. While cities with... View Details
    Keywords: City; Natural Disasters; Climate Change; Adaptation; Risk and Uncertainty; Strategic Planning
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    • August 2021
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    (Un)sustainability and Organization Studies: Towards a Radical Engagement

    By: Seray Ergane, Subhabrata Bobby Banerjee and Andrew J. Hoffman
    In this essay, we trace the evolution of the field of sustainability in management and organization studies and narrate its epistemological twists and turns. Concerned by the current trajectory that tends to diminish a focus on political concerns, we propose a new... View Details
    Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Perspective; Organizational Change and Adaptation
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    • February 2010 (Revised April 2010)
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    Organization and Strategy at Millennium (A)

    By: Julie M. Wulf and Scott Waggoner
    This case examines Millennium's strategic and organizational responses to the rapid evolution of the biopharmaceutical industry. In the early 2000s, as Millennium's competitive advantage in early-stage research slipped away and its losses mounted, founder and CEO Mark... View Details
    Keywords: Transformation; Leading Change; Management Succession; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Biotechnology Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry
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    Leading Change and Organizational Renewal

    agent of corporate change and organizational renewal. Details Drive the changes your organization needs to thrive Anticipate, evaluate, View Details
    • February 2010
    • Supplement

    Organization and Strategy at Millennium (B)

    By: Julie M. Wulf and Scott Waggoner
    This case examines Millennium's strategic and organizational responses to the rapid evolution of the biopharmaceutical industry. In the early 2000s, as Millennium's competitive advantage in early-stage research slipped away and its losses mounted, founder CEO Mark... View Details
    Keywords: Leading Change; Transformation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Crisis Management; Competitive Advantage; Commercialization; Selection and Staffing; Product Development; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Pharmaceutical Industry
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    • 05 Nov 2019
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    Environmental Change and Ground-level Impact

    suppliers and equipment manufacturers. I also try to make sure there’s coherence across the organization in terms of operations, planning, and strategy, because we have many... View Details
    • July–August 2016
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    Beyond the Holacracy Hype: The Overwrought Claims—and Actual Promise—of the Next Generation of Self-Managed Teams

    By: Ethan Bernstein, John Bunch, Niko Canner and Michael Lee
    Holacracy and other forms of self-organization have been getting a lot of press. Proponents hail them as "flat" environments that foster flexibility, engagement, productivity, and efficiency. Critics say they're naive, unrealistic experiments. We argue, using evidence... View Details
    Keywords: Self-Managed Organizations; Self-Managed Teams; Reliability; Adaptability; Holacracy; Organization Design; Organization Structure; Organizational Charts; Organizational Architecture; Organizational Forms; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Productivity; Management Practices and Processes; Management Systems; Managerial Roles; Human Resources; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; North America
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    • April 2012
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    Change Agents, Networks, and Institutions: A Contingency Theory of Organizational Change

    By: Julie Battilana and Tiziana Casciaro
    We develop a contingency theory for how structural closure in a network, defined as the extent to which an actor's network contacts are connected to one another, affects the initiation and adoption of change in organizations. Using longitudinal survey data supplemented... View Details
    Keywords: Networks; Theory; Organizations; Change
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    • 18 Feb 2022
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    Short Intensive Program (SIP): Climate Adaptation

    wildfires, floods, and droughts–and their resulting destruction of lives and properties–sends a clear signal that all members of society must drastically accelerate efforts to both mitigate further climate... View Details