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Professor Lumumba Seegars
Lumumba Seegars, assistant professor of business administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit, discusses his work studying intergroup inequalities within organizations, how this research helps us... View Details
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
strategy and organizational management. Products are being developed through open innovation, with input from people connected to each other and the company only through a common interest—and electronic media. Virtually every company on... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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Ryann Noe
A blended course of study is nothing new for Ryann (she/her) - she earned her undergraduate degree in Economics and English at Williams College, and wrote her honors thesis on children’s literature. “That may not appear to be a common... View Details
- 15 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Business IT Innovation is so Difficult
Harvard Business School professor Kristina Steffenson McElheran studies the effect of information technology on business process innovation. It's a topic, she is sometimes told, that is, well, less than exciting. "I've had people say to... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Knowledge Integration Rules at Yale
segment called Orientation to Management, a general introduction to concepts, tools, and problem-framing methodologies. In addition, students work on developing interpersonal skills needed to be an effective leader. The next twelve weeks, called View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Research Brief: The Power of Could
dropped into the plot of Breaking Bad, might ask himself what he should do. Walter White is not an aberration: Most people facing ethical dilemmas reflexively ask just that, according to a new paper coauthored by Ting Zhang, a doctoral student in the View Details
- 30 Sep 2019
- Book
Book Excerpt: Why a Volume on Race, Work, and Leadership
women grew 67 percent between 2007 and 2012, more growth than women-owned businesses as whole saw (Nielsen Report, 2017). In light of these advances, a recent study by Ernst and Young (2017) found that one-third of Americans surveyed said... View Details
Keywords: Re: Andi Wang
- 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
- 17 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Advice for the New CEO: Talk to Your Employees Early and Often
CEOs have never had so many ways to communicate with their employees. But despite the availability of Slack, internal newsletters, and virtual town hall meetings, organizations can still go quiet. One of the most common culprits: Major leadership transitions, according... View Details
Keywords: by Ami Albernaz
- November 2017
- Case
Outrageous Ambition: Duke University
By: William C. Kirby and Yuanzhuo Wang
Duke University had grown from a one room schoolhouse in rural North Carolina in 1859 to one of the leading research universities in the U.S. and the world. Since the late 1950s, Duke’s leaders had consciously used the process of strategic planning to guide the... View Details
Keywords: Duke University; University Governance; Internationalization; Duke Kunshan University; Interdisciplinarity; Higher Education; Interdisciplinary Studies; Global Strategy; Governing and Advisory Boards; Business History; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Strategic Planning; Education Industry; United States; China; Singapore
Kirby, William C., and Yuanzhuo Wang. "Outrageous Ambition: Duke University." Harvard Business School Case 318-043, November 2017.
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
How the U.S. Army Develops Leaders
pair of two wars in the same country, fought against the same foe, but taking place just over ten years apart. If you wanted to study leader development, or even organizational development, it would be hard... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
In a recent case study, professor Alan MacCormack and research associate Jay Wynn swung for the moon—Mars, actually. After two high-profile missions to Mars failed in 2000, MacCormack wanted to understand the organizational and procedural... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
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2022 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Business Administration and faculty chair of the HBS Race, Gender & Equity Initiative. She conducts research on race and gender relations in organizations with a focus on organizational change, group dynamics, learning, conflict, power,... View Details
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2018 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Washington, DC. Currently, Zachary is a professor of practice in Leadership Studies at University of San Diego. He is also lead faculty for the RISE Urban Leadership Fellows. A clinical psychologist by training, Zachary teaches courses on... View Details
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2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Images, Identities and the Space(s) Between Images, Identities and the Space(s) Between 06–07 APR 2017 Home Speakers Videos Agenda Blitz Discussions Of Margins and Modalities Rachel Arnett Rachel Arnett, Ph.D. candidate in Organizational... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Short Takes
is substantially lessened. Thomke and Reinertsen, while studying several hundred development projects in the fast-paced integrated circuit (IC) design industry, focused on the efficacy of two production technologies. One technology had... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Caroline Chauncey
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How One Center of Innovation Lost its Spark
usefulness as the competitive environment changes, leaving the firms within the cluster susceptible to an environmental jolt. The findings from the study also contributes to our understanding of View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Service with a Smile
Intentions to Quit,” was published in the December 2002 Journal of Organizational Behavior. Not surprisingly, the researchers found that workers who are asked to suppress negative or unpleasant emotions are often unhappy at work and... View Details
- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
Siemens, the Deutsche Bank, Dresdner, Bosch, BASF, and so on, all managed to somehow reconstruct and reinvent themselves after these upheavals. So I intended to write a long-term study about a company or factory with a focus on its... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making
technology side, they also have to think about the organizational side," she says. "Traditionally, technology is thought of as a tool that enables empowerment, but that's not always the case." Sadun discusses the issue in... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel