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  • 23 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 23

of capital, causing them to shrink and possibly exit the market. The strategy was used by Sun Microsystems in the 1980s and Dell Computer in the 1990s. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-063.pdf The Determinants of Individual View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 21

substantial variation in management practices across organizations in every country and every sector, mirroring the heterogeneity in the spread of performance in these sectors. One factor linked to this variation is ownership. Government,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2014
  • Working Paper

Team Scaffolds: How Meso-Level Structures Support Role-based Coordination in Temporary Groups

By: Melissa A. Valentine and Amy C. Edmondson
This paper shows how meso-level structures support effective coordination in temporary groups. Prior research on coordination in temporary groups describes how roles encode individual responsibilities so that coordination between relative strangers is possible. We... View Details
Keywords: Fluid Personnel; Team Scaffolds; Team Effectiveness; Role-based Coordination; Multi-method; Health Care and Treatment; Analytics and Data Science; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Organizational Structure; Outcome or Result; Performance Effectiveness; Groups and Teams; Networks; Behavior; Balance and Stability; Health Industry
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Valentine, Melissa A., and Amy C. Edmondson. "Team Scaffolds: How Meso-Level Structures Support Role-based Coordination in Temporary Groups." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-062, January 2012. (Revised June 2014.)
  • 04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4

interact in large, contemporary organizations is not well understood. We argue that organizational structures and geography delimit opportunities for interaction such that actors have a greater level of discretion to choose their... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 18 Apr 2017
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First Look at New Ideas, April 18

trend is the use of online tools to improve physical asset utilization in many traditional off-line businesses. This article discusses the water industry as an example, and the organizational changes and levers relevant to extracting... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 1

http://www.people.hbs.edu/liyer/BCCI_JEBO_Final_Sept2013.pdf August 2013 Contemporary Accounting Research The Role of Performance Measures in the Intertemporal Decisions of Business Unit Managers By: Bouwens, Jan, Margaret A. Abernethy,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 29, 2008

and team learning, in organizational behavior, and technology and innovation to offer insights for research on new product development teams. Building on prior work, we summarize the organizational benefits... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Jul 2006
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First Look: July 11, 2006

performance. Firms that perform well were more market oriented, more competitive, and less consensual in terms of corporate cultures, and more open and participative in terms of organizational climates.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

The Gulf: It’s a Family Affair

Davis Goes To Hbs I was originally trained in economics, getting my undergraduate and Masters degrees in this field. I was working in Boston as an economist in my early twenties and realized that I really liked psychology—and family psychology at that. I stumbled onto... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Andrea Schulman
  • 20 Apr 2020
  • Book

Why COVID-19 Raises the Stakes for Healthy Buildings

recently wrote a book about it: Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Drive Performance and Productivity, to be published April 21. Although facilities managers might think they’re saving a few dollars on electricity and air filters,... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Real Estate; Health
  • 16 Jan 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018

companies offer a direct stake in the company's performance through stock, a share in profits, or both. Companies with employee stock ownership plans report significantly higher sales growth and higher revenue per employee than do... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Dec 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy

inflexible, organizational structure to successfully execute a strategy. As companies think through the risks and opportunities of various regional strategies, they also need to clarify what they mean by the word "region." I... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
  • 05 Jun 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Using Competition to Reform Healthcare

Knowledge next month.How can providers compete on value? To do so, they must embrace a series of strategic and organizational imperatives, shown in Figure 5-1. We describe the imperatives in the context of hospitals and physician groups.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health
  • 06 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 6

understood and managed. The key to success? Incentives. Fortunately, new research has shed light on the role incentives can play in promoting new ideas, but these findings have been absent from innovation literature-until now. By using the principles of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008

world and capture relevant management information. In 2007, ProntoWash, an international car-wash company based in Argentina, was planning for rapid growth through a combination of owned and franchised operations. CEO Sergio Kompel needed to find a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Apr 2017
  • HBS Case

This Turkish Debt Collector Is Customer-friendly

sees 65 percent turnover, Turkasset became choosy about its employees, hiring less than one in 100 applicants. Once hired, it paid them higher salaries and performed more in-depth training. The investment paid off, dropping the turnover... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

What It Takes: Minorities in the Executive Suite

some difficult twists and turns. Promotions, for instance, are typically much harder to come by in the early stages of their careers than they are for whites. And once they make the leap into middle and upper management, these trailblazers have to put together a... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
  • 17 Feb 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Man vs. Machine: Which Makes Better Hires?

who has studied how companies make organizational decisions in industries such as health care and education. “They are figuring out how to use the information of managers and combine it with this new technology.” Testing the testers To... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Employment
  • 19 Jul 2016
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July 19, 2016

proposals on material versus immaterial issues affect firms’ subsequent ESG performance and market valuation. We find that 58% of the shareholder proposals in our sample are filed on immaterial issues. We document that filing shareholder... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Apr 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Star Power! How to Win in Professional Services

this point before. But we want to review the key differences briefly from the perspective of the CEO because the implications are crucial: for how the job of the senior leader is defined, and for what successful performance in the job... View Details
Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch & Thomas J. Tierney
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