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- 25 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 25
services. A key tradeoff emerges between the need to motivate observable effort by professionals (best achieved by a MSP) and the need to coordinate decisions that generate spillovers across professionals (best achieved by a vertical... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Nov 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Connecting Goals and Go-To-Market Initiatives
aligning behavior in an organization). The company environment in which go-to-market initiatives are developed and executed: how communication does or doesn't work across internal organizational boundaries; how salespeople are managed; whether they work as a team when... View Details
- 17 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Who is Boss in the Sharing Economy?
coordinate, then there is an inefficiency in functioning as a platform," says Hagiu. In that case, it's incumbent on the firm to "internalize the spillovers" by coordinating its employees' actions. A certain amount of competition among... View Details
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO
the IT department or needed to coordinate their launches with help from sales representatives in the field. Jim Kilts encouraged the formation of operating committees in each business unit or regional group, and then further encouraged... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- Blog
Understanding the Benefits of Our Virtual Programs
acclimate to. Trey Ford (TF): Just apply. Harvard knows a thing or two about education; skeptics are welcome. Fair warning: coordinate with those in your professional and personal circles and be ready-the program will require your full... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
stage in the early 1990s, the computer industry's balance of power -- economic and strategic -- was changed forever. As Baldwin and Clark explain, "The architecture of modularity partitions designers' efforts and efficiently coordinates... View Details
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
number that maximizes joint utility); (ii) an equilibrium selection problem (consumption complementarities often lead to multiple equilibria, which result in different utility levels for the users); and (iii) a coordination problem... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
activity on a massive scale-devising strategies that provide employment for the billions now outside the system, inventing business models that make better use of scarce resources, and creating institutional arrangements for coordinating... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2017
- News
Alumni Peer into the Future of Energy
leverage technology to coordinate a fleet of distributed assets and stabilize the grid as intermittent renewables continue to come down in cost. That feat, to change the way our world is powered, is undoubtedly a tech venture.” Cecily... View Details
- 07 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 7
bankruptcy. While initial ownership concentration is important for coordination of a prearranged bankruptcy filing, it is consolidation of ownership during bankruptcy-and specifically consolidation of ownership of voting classes-that has... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Mike Maples Jr.
will focus less on layers of management hierarchy and coordination and more on creating networks of access where customers as well as loosely-connected providers of their labor are a key part of the network. “So you won’t need the... View Details
- 21 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales
effectively is a governance issue as well as a prerequisite for profitable growth.” Related Reading Connecting Goals and Go-To-Market Initiatives The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 10 Feb 2014
- HBS Case
Stressing Safety in South Africa’s Platinum Mines
implemented pretty quickly by command—acquisitions, divestitures, real estate purchases, layoffs. Long marches take time and the involvement of many people who must produce new elements and coordinate their actions before the change can... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 26
Yu Abstract We provide one of the first tests of recent macro global-game crisis models that show that the precision of public signals can coordinate crises (e.g., Angeletos and Werning 2006; Morris and Shin 2002, 2003). In these models,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Growth of the Social Enterprise
managed centrally. This level of control is conducive to protecting the organization's brand and reputation and coordinating overall strategy and operations. A high degree of control might be particularly desirable when the program being... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Race Does Matter in Mentoring
and design assignments. The education facilitated his transition into management when he was finally promoted two years later. Once in middle management, Williams's career took off; he was charged with coordinating the engineering,... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
electricity production and consumption to reduce spikes in demand; and EMBARQ, based in Washington, DC, which coordinates the interests of business and government to organize city transit services. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 30 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018
the early technical challenges associated with napalm were solved by experimentation under the guidance of the National Defense Research Committee (NDRC), created to coordinate scientific research into the problems of modern warfare.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 23
domestic purposes); g) having the first side work with the other side to tacitly coordinate outside pressure on the other side's Level II constituents to accept the deal that the first side prefers; and h) in extraordinary cases, by... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 8
experience working with one another—is one mechanism that helps teams leverage the benefits of variation in team experience by alleviating coordination problems that variation creates. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace