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  • 11 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 11

suppliers and its blue collar workforce as homogeneous, interchangeable entities, and its view that expertise could be partitioned so that there was minimal overlap of knowledge amongst functions or levels in the organizational View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 May 2011
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First Look: May 24

environmental performance. We hypothesize that key organizational characteristics reflecting visibility, such as size and environmental impact, shape this type of symbolic compliance and that these relationships are moderated by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15

Architecture of Transaction Networks: A Comparative Analysis of Hierarchy in Two Sectors Authors:Luo, Jianxi, Carliss Y. Baldwin, Daniel E. Whitney, and Christopher L. Magee Publication:Industrial and Corporate Change Abstract Many... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Dec 2008
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First Look: December 16, 2008

  Working PapersSilent Saboteurs: How Implicit Theories of Voice Inhibit the Upward Flow of Knowledge in Organizations Authors:James R. Detert and Amy C. Edmondson Abstract This article examines, in a series of three studies, how people working in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 14

Additionally, labor quality and the structure of demand and a long tradition of work in organizational behavior suggests that the successful adoption of productivity enhancing managerial practices requires complementary changes in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Jul 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”

began to emerge, first in the United States and then in Europe: the vertically integrated, multidivisional (or "M-form") corporation that made large investments in manufacturing and marketing and in management hierarchies to... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
  • 19 Jun 2012
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First Look: June 19

For decades, management consultants and the popular business press have urged large firms to flatten their hierarchies. Flattening (or delayering, as it is also known) typically refers to the elimination of layers in a firm's View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 23

advice for the simplest bilateral negotiations between monolithic parties, for negotiations through agents or with linked "internal" and "external" aspects, for negotiations in hierarchies and networks, as well as for... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 12 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 12

attributes of a decision problem. The hierarchy of new conditions varies in the degree to which it specifies the functional form, ranging from more general solutions with weaker constraints, to more specific solutions with stronger... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Sep 2016
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September 6, 2016

that humor plays a fundamental role in shaping interpersonal perceptions and hierarchies within groups. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51589 September 2016 Harvard Business Review Know Your Customers'... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 06 Dec 2021
  • News

December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books

having access to valued resources, which anyone can have, regardless of their income or status in life. Everyone has a resource to offer, so everyone has access to power. Battilana and Casciaro offer a timely, democratized vision of power. While View Details
  • 06 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

of strategy as “the smallest set of choices to optimally guide (or force) other choices.” The paper shows that this definition coincides with the equilibrium outcome of a “strategy formulation game,” in which such strategy endogenously creates a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 28

access pushes decisions down, as it allows for superior decentralized decision making without an undue cognitive burden on those lower in the hierarchy. Better communication pushes decisions up, as it allows employees to rely on those above them in the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 12

collective, the nature and importance of relationships, how personal space and the role of time are viewed, the extent to which authority and hierarchy are accepted, how ambiguity and risk are regarded, and so on. Extending this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 20

typically refers to the elimination of layers in a firm's organizational hierarchy and the broadening of managers' spans of control. The alleged benefits of flattening flow primarily from pushing decisions... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 4

results contribute to the literature on how alternative organizational forms can be designed to solve complex innovation tasks. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2384068 Sharing Design Rights: A Commons Approach for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
  • 11 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 11

capital shortages, distributed urban territory to assuage losers of reform and promote economic growth. The findings suggest that 1) growth strategies, and the territorial politics they produce, are products of the post-Mao urban View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Oct 1996
  • News

Leading In a New Era

stands to reason that what and how people communicate will determine the success or failure of an enterprise. Says HBS's Chris Bartlett, "We need to think about organizations in a more flexible way, in terms of processes — not as a View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
  • 01 Dec 2008
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A Force for Good

productive teamwork. Enhance creativity through more flexible organizational structures. Bet on people. Think big. Say no respectfully. McArthur liked to say that the faculty was the “whole ball game,” and in fact, he lavished time and... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Wood Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Rail Transportation; Transportation
  • 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009

mismatch can create. First, hierarchical industry organizations can "lock out" certain types of innovation indefinitely by perpetuating established business practices. Second, even when the vertical hierarchies produce highly... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace