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- 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
- 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
- August 1995 (Revised November 2000)
- Background Note
Designing and Managing the Information Age Organization
Managers and management theorists spent the majority of this century building and perfecting the hierarchy; however, if we believe the press, they now appear to be engaged in destroying it. While many proclaim the dawning of the "Information Age" organization and the... View Details
Applegate, Lynda M. "Designing and Managing the Information Age Organization." Harvard Business School Background Note 196-003, August 1995. (Revised November 2000.)
- February 1980 (Revised March 1980)
- Background Note
Note on Marketing Organization
Corey, E. Raymond. "Note on Marketing Organization." Harvard Business School Background Note 580-109, February 1980. (Revised March 1980.)
- October 1980
- Background Note
Framework for Analyzing Organizations
Schlesinger, Leonard A. "Framework for Analyzing Organizations." Harvard Business School Background Note 481-066, October 1980.
- Research Summary
Building and Managing Product Centric Organizations
By: Stefan H. Thomke
Building and Managing Product Centric Organizations View Details
- May–June 2001
- Article
Building a Strategy-Focused Organization
By: Robert S. Kaplan and David P. Norton
Kaplan, Robert S., and David P. Norton. "Building a Strategy-Focused Organization." Ivey Business Journal (May–June 2001): 12–19.
- 1983
- Book
Managing Behavior in Organizations
By: Leonard A. Schlesinger, Robert G. Eccles and John J. Gabarro
Keywords: Behavior
Schlesinger, Leonard A., Robert G. Eccles and John J. Gabarro, eds. Managing Behavior in Organizations. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1983.
- 27 Mar 2000
- Conference Presentation
Biotechnology Industry Organization Paper
By: Michael Porter
Keywords: Biotechnology Industry
- April 1985 (Revised March 1987)
- Background Note
Organizing and Controlling MNCs
Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management
Bartlett, Christopher A. "Organizing and Controlling MNCs." Harvard Business School Background Note 385-325, April 1985. (Revised March 1987.)
- February 1991 (Revised February 1992)
- Background Note
Information Technology and Organizations
Applegate, Lynda M. "Information Technology and Organizations." Harvard Business School Background Note 191-136, February 1991. (Revised February 1992.)
- January 1996
- Background Note
Creativity and Innovation in Organizations
Creativity, the production of new and useful ideas by individuals or teams, can appear in many forms and many functions within firms of all kinds--from entrepreneurial start-ups to well-established enterprises. This note describes the varieties of creativity in... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Entrepreneurship; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Organizational Design; Situation or Environment; Creativity
Amabile, Teresa M. "Creativity and Innovation in Organizations." Harvard Business School Background Note 396-239, January 1996.
- 1992
- Book
Managing People and Organizations
By: J. J. Gabarro
Keywords: Management Practices and Processes
Gabarro, J. J., ed. Managing People and Organizations. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1992.
- 1987
- Chapter
Organization Change and Development
By: Michael Beer and Anna Elise Walton
Beer, Michael, and Anna Elise Walton. "Organization Change and Development." In Annual Review of Psychology, Volume 38, edited by Mark R. Rosenzweig and Lyman W. Porter, 339–367. Annual Reviews, 1987.
- September 1986
- Background Note
Developing People and Organizations
Pearson, Andrall E. "Developing People and Organizations." Harvard Business School Background Note 387-050, September 1986.
- Research Summary
Economics of Organization and Firm Performance
A great deal of theoretical and empirical research indicates that economic actors should organize activities so as to minimize the 'transaction costs' associated with managing these activities. But little is known about the consequences of violating this prescription.... View Details