Publications

1991
Chapter

Marketing Planning and Organization

By: R. J. Dolan and A. J. Silk

Keywords: Marketing; Planning; Organizational Design

December 1975 (Revised January 1987)
Background Note

Note on Organization Design

By: Jay W. Lorsch

Deals with the organizational designer trying to create a structure, rewards, and a system of measurement that are compatible with the external environment, strategy, tasks, the members of the organization, management style, and the existing culture. View Details

Keywords: Organizational Design

Educators

July 1994
Background Note

Note on Retail Organizations

By: David E. Bell

Describes a typical organizational structure for retailers and discusses duties of various individuals such as buyer, category manager, etc. View Details

Keywords: Customers; Managerial Roles; Organizational Structure; Retail Industry

Educators

1965
Book

Product Innovation and Organization

By: J. W. Lorsch

Keywords: Product; Innovation and Invention; Organizational Structure

13 Oct 2015
News

Why Organizations Don’t Learn

July 1984 (Revised August 1985)
Background Note

Inertial Forces Within Organizations

By: Richard R. Ellsworth and Joseph L. Badaracco Jr.

Keywords: Organizations

1989
Book

The Management of Organizations

By: Michael Tushman, C. O'Reilly and D. Nadler

Keywords: Organizations; Management

winter 2009
Article

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

2014
Article

The Governance of Social Enterprises: Mission Drift and Accountability Challenges in Hybrid Organizations

By: Alnoor Ebrahim, Julie Battilana and Johanna Mair

We examine the challenges of governance facing organizations that pursue a social mission through the use of market mechanisms. These hybrid organizations, often referred to as social enterprises, combine aspects of both charity and business at their core. In this... View Details

Keywords: Governance; Hybrid Organizations; Nonprofit; Performance Measurement; Legal Form; Agency Theory; Stakeholder Management; Mission and Purpose; Social Enterprise; Corporate Accountability

1998
Chapter

Building Smarter, Faster Organizations

By: J. Bruce Harreld

Keywords: Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Performance Efficiency

2012
Chapter

Technological Innovation and Organizations

By: Pierre Azoulay and Josh Lerner

Keywords: Technological Innovation; Organizational Design; Organizational Change and Adaptation

1994
Chapter

Project Leadership and Organization

By: K. B. Clark, M. Iansiti and R. Billington

Keywords: Projects; Leadership; Organizational Design

15 Aug 2009
Conference Presentation

Emergent Creativity in Organizations

By: Teresa M. Amabile

Keywords: Creativity; Organizations

1974
Chapter

On the Amoral Organization

By: Joseph L. Bower

Keywords: Ethics; Organizational Culture

01 Mar 2009
News

Honoring HBS’s Organization Men

A SEMINAL WORK: Lorsch and Lawrence, together again. A celebration of the past and a look to the future were all part of the program at an evening last December with HBS professor emeritus Paul Lawrence and professor Jay Lorsch, authors of View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

November 2011
Case

Lowell General Physician Hospital Organization

By: Richard M.J. Bohmer and Natalie Kindred

This case focuses on the Alternative Quality Contract (AQC), a novel payment program designed to incentivize providers to deliver less costly, high quality health care. Under the AQC, offered by Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts, providers received a fixed-dollar... View Details

Keywords: Cost Management; Service Delivery; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; Massachusetts

Educators

February 10, 2009
Editorial

Rethinking Our Rules of Organ Donations

Essay argues for presumed consent as a method for reducing wait times for patients undergoing solid organ transplantation. View Details

Keywords: Medical Specialties; Policy; Health Industry

Article

National Image as a Competitive Disadvantage: The Case of the New Zealand Organic Food Industry

By: Geoffrey Jones and Simon Mowatt

This article examines why organic agriculture and food consumption developed more strongly in some countries than others between the 1970s and the 2000s. The focus is the limited growth of the New Zealand organic sector, which contrasts with countries such as Denmark,... View Details

Keywords: Industrial Organization; Chinitz; Agglomeration; Clusters; Cities; Mines; Political Economy; FDI; Agribusiness Industry; Agriculture; Agribusiness; Entrepreneurship; Business History; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Retail Industry; New Zealand; Denmark