Organizational Innovation - Publications - Faculty & Research

winter 2009
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Creativity, Improvisation, and Organizations

By: Colin M. Fisher and Teresa M. Amabile

'Improvisational creativity' involves simultaneously identifying new challenges and generating responses, with little or no time to prepare. View Details

Keywords: Innovation and Management; Organizational Culture; Creativity; Theory; Performance

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Vivek Garg

patient care, such as pricing, insurance, and organizational issues," says Vivek. "At MPAC, I got a broad exposure to how other interest groups—including payers, the government, private industry—think about medicine and care... View Details

06 Nov 2013
What Do You Think?

Is Top-Down Resource Allocation on the Rise?

organization is still important for the best results. A number of factors were cited in determining the mix of inputs, responsibilities, and decisions associated with an RAP designed to maintain organizational agility over its life cycle.... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

December 2005 (Revised May 2007)
Case

Polaroid Entering Digital Imaging

Focuses on Polaroid's attempt to respond to the changes to its competitive environment that are entailed by the rise of digital imaging. View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Technological Innovation; Competition; Consumer Products Industry; Technology Industry

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01 Apr 1998
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Short Takes

values of their managers and the organizational culture they create. In their working paper, "Chinese Corporate Culture, Market Orientation, Innovation, and Firm Performance," HBS professor Rohit DeshpandŽ and John U. Farley, a professor... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Caroline Chauncey

08 May 2015
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Ubiquitous digital connectivity is now essential to competitiveness

Marco Iansiti, the David Sarnoff Professor of Business Administration, believes all businesses—both established and startup—must embrace digital transformation. Iansiti’s analysis of innovation in digital technology at General Electric,... View Details

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Getting Things Done: Motivating Yourself and Others - Course Catalog

presentation on a frontier topic in the broad area of motivation—both self-motivation and organizational approaches. Examples: students might present a "mini-case" on a company that uses innovative incentive... View Details

14 Feb 2012
First Look

First Look: February 14

PublicationsTeaming: How Organizations Learn, Innovate, and Compete in the Knowledge Economy Author:Amy C. Edmondson Publication:Jossey-Bass, in press Abstract Continuous improvement, understanding complex systems, and promoting View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Mar 2013
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Alumni News | Bookshelf

Assembly-Line Innovation The title of the 2012 e-book Building a Growth Factory (Harvard Business Review Press) conjures an image of raw materials being dumped into a black box and emerging on conveyor belts as fully formed iPhones,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Jun 2004
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The Ambidextrous Organization

processes of the past, while also gazing forward, preparing for the innovations that will define the future. This mental balancing act is one of the toughest of all managerial challenges — it requires executives to explore new... View Details

Keywords: ambidextrous manager; ambidextrous organization; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

19 Jan 2022
In Practice

7 Trends to Watch in 2022

As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment of new health care... View Details

Keywords: by HBS News

13 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

Managing the Support Staff Identity Crisis

Last year, Harvard Business School professor Ranjay Gulati met with the marketing department of a large American corporation and posed a seemingly simple question: What do marketing people actually do? "I got this nervous laughter," says Gulati, an expert on... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Sasha Grinshpun

have the conversation around, "What do you really want?!" Sasha graduated from the Harvard Business School, with a concentration in innovation, organizational behavior and design thinking. She finished Yale, with a BA in... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Startup - Founder; Entrepreneurship; Startup - Joiner; Entrepreneurship; Technology

04 Feb 2008
Research & Ideas

Putting Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector

cover in one of the chapters in the book. A network approach requires leaders to focus not only on management challenges and opportunities at an organizational level, but also more broadly on how to mobilize resources both within and... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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The Strategic Case for Diversity in Digital Transformation - Blog: RGE Report

prioritize innovation and technological strategy, particularly when they involve a critical mass of women directors. But this innovation advantage isn’t limited to gender. Companies that intentionally... View Details

11 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

The New International Style of Management

customer-centric tends to be deeply embedded throughout the organization." 'corporate Culture Trumps National Culture' These findings suggest that excellence in global corporate competition demands certain success-enabling View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

01 Sep 2003
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Books

scenarios early on in the product development process, while the financial and organizational costs of changing course are still relatively low. In Experimentation Matters, Thomke defines six principles that managers should keep in mind... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg; Margie Kelley; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

of organizational life (e.g., ethical decision making, race relations, and worker well-being). In addition to having published more than a hundred journal articles, Art is author or editor of several books including Attitudes In and... View Details

09 May 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 9

so as to encompass a wider range of emotionally resonate capabilities in the context of innovative change. For incumbent firms, we argue that the way the TMT cognitively thinks about, and emotionally frames, non-incremental View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne