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  • 01 May 2013
  • What Do You Think?

Why Isn’t ‘Servant Leadership’ More Prevalent?

Do those served grow as persons (and become) more likely themselves to become servants?" Now it appears that a group of organizational psychologists, led by Adam Grant, are attempting to measure the impact of servant leadership on... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 19 Jan 2016
  • First Look

January 19, 2016

emphasize users over producers. Large parts of the knowledge economy now routinely rely on users, communities, and open innovation approaches to solve important technological and organizational problems. This view of innovation, pioneered... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Sep 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The Power of Ordinary Practices

Teresa M. Amabile's research centers on how the work environment can influence the motivation, creativity, and performance of individuals and teams. A recent study focused on the influence of team leaders on these factors. Professor... View Details
Keywords: Re: Teresa M. Amabile
  • April 2016 (Revised February 2018)
  • Teaching Note

Riot Games: Can Culture Survive Growth?

By: Boris Groysberg and Michael Norris
This teaching note gives instructors a guide for a discussion of Riot Games, a fast growing videogames firm with a strong, player-centric culture. It also offers references to research on culture that will allow students to decide whether or not Riot Games’ culture... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Culture; Growth and Development Strategy; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Video Game Industry
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The role of the manager in cross-sector interactions

My second stream of research takes the individual manager as the unit of analysis in examining cross-sector interactions.  Two papers explore processes and mechanisms that allow managers to cross sectoral boundaries more effectively.

The first paper... View Details
  • 04 Apr 2016
  • HBS Seminar

Shelley Correll, Stanford University

    Corporate Social Responsibility Reporting in China: Symbol or Substance?

    This study focuses on how and why firms strategically respond to government signals regarding appropriate corporate activity. We integrate institutional theory with research on corporate political strategy to develop a political dependence model that explains (a) how... View Details
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    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
    • 30 Jan 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers

    Firms in the United States, Japan, and Germany tend to be managed especially well, while firms in Brazil, China, and India tend to be managed poorly. Those are among the initial findings of the World Management Survey (WMS), a huge international View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • 16 Nov 2021
    • HBS Case

    How a Company Made Employees So Miserable, They Killed Themselves

    on the chopping block themselves. One manager who had overseen 200 workers was accused of “professional incompetence” and abruptly relocated across the country. “I have no work anymore,” he reportedly said. “I am not even in the View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • 10 Sep 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: September 10

    North Rhine-Westphalia, which made their reputations especially vulnerable to criticism. The research supports organizational sociology theory, which has identified the importance of visibility in corporate... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 17 Nov 2015
    • First Look

    November 17, 2015

    forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics Introduction: New Perspectives on Corporate Capital Structure By: Acharya, Viral, Heitor Almeida, and Malcolm Baker Abstract—The National Bureau of Economic Research held a symposium titled... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 25 Sep 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: September 25

    framework for understanding the links between manufacturing and innovation that will enable them to make better outsourcing decisions. They also detail how government must change its support of basic and applied scientific research and... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 2010
    • Article

    Induced Variation in Administrative Systems: Experimenting with Contexts for Innovation

    By: Adrian Caldart, Roberto Vassolo and Luciana Silvestri
    Research on intra-organizational evolution determined that variation results from the autonomous strategic behavior of the firm. We revisit this idea by examining a case of induced variation, where a multinational firm experimented with different, coexisting,... View Details
    Keywords: Integrated Design; Emerging Economies; Organizational Design; Innovation and Management
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    • 02 Sep 2015
    • What Do You Think?

    What's Wrong With Amazon’s Low-Retention HR Strategy?

    but for a healthy democracy not so much." Finding a high correlation in his research between disgruntled employees and employee sabotage, Murray Burt advised us to “Stray into unhappy employee territory at your peril. I suspect... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett; Web Services; Retail; Apparel & Accessories; Consumer Products; Fashion
    • Web

    About - Race, Gender & Equity

    relations in organizations with a focus on leadership, identity, and organizational culture change. Examples of her past research include studies of men and masculinity on offshore oil platforms; the impact... View Details
    • June 2004
    • Case

    Aventis SA (A): Planning for a Merger

    By: Joshua D. Margolis and Carin-Isabel Knoop
    Eight executives at Hoechst and Rhone-Poulenc must make four crucial decisions on the eve of merging their companies to become Aventis--what would become the world's third largest pharmaceutical firm. In addition to formulating a vision and strategy, the two firms must... View Details
    Keywords: Problems and Challenges; Mergers and Acquisitions; Horizontal Integration; Organizational Design; Organizational Culture; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States
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    • August 2021
    • Article

    (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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    How to Create a Psychologically Safe Workplace - Recruiting

    role, benefits, and compensation to name just a few. Yet there is another element that may be more difficult to explain on paper but is just as critical: organizational culture. There are many different ways View Details
    • 18 Oct 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: October 18

    Organizational Forms and Community in the U.S. in 2005 Authors:Glenn R. Carroll and Magnus Thor Torfason Publication:City & Community 10, no. 1 (March 2011) Abstract Recent sociological theory and View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne