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  • 17 Feb 2009
  • Research & Ideas

What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking

to cooperate with the physicians in the future. Thus, moral gray zones enable both managers and workers to perform their roles. Q: Gray zones might be detrimental to organizational health, even subversive.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 13 Mar 2007
  • First Look

First Look: March 13, 2007

greater benefit than verification effects to the performance of diverse groups. Implementing New Practices: An Empirical Study of Organizational Learning in Hospital Intensive Care Units Authors:A. Tucker,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • February 2004 (Revised January 2005)
  • Case

Hewlett-Packard: Culture in Changing Times

By: Michael Beer, Rakesh Khurana and James Weber
HP had been a highly successful and respected company for decades. It was well known for its company culture and management practices--the HP way--which emphasized both profits and people. Changing markets, strong competitors, and the growth of its computer business,... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Decision Choices and Conditions; Human Resources; Leading Change; Managerial Roles; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Performance Effectiveness; Adoption; Competition
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  • 09 Oct 2012
  • First Look

First Look: October 9

investigates teaming in the high-stakes, fast-paced setting of a hospital emergency room and focuses on the effects of a new organizational structure, which we call a team scaffold, on teaming effectiveness and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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
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  • 01 Dec 2006
  • News

Faculty Books

reveal the mechanisms of advancement and speculate on what this means for the future of leadership selection and development. Science Business by Gary P. Pisano (HBS Press) Why has the biotechnology industry failed to perform to... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 01 Jun 2006
  • News

Faculty Books

Pill, and Ingrid Vogel (World Scientific Publishing Co.) Understanding the genesis of financial and currency crises, stock-market booms and busts, and social and labor unrest is crucial in making informed managerial decisions. These phenomena can have a catastrophic... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • Web

2016 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Having its world premiere at Harlem's National Black Theatre in 2013 (executive produced by Harry Belafonte), Bain plays 40 characters in this tour de force production which has been featured at The Apollo Theater, Carnegie Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center, the New Jersey... View Details
  • 19 Oct 2010
  • First Look

First Look: October 19, 2010

different organizational contexts, i.e., summer field training and during academic semesters. Leader performance was measured with leadership grades (supervisor ratings) aggregated over four years at West... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • February 2008
  • Case

Moët Hennessy España

By: Tiziana Casciaro, Vincent Dessain and Elena Corsi
Since being appointed CEO of Moët Hennessy España (MHE), the Spanish subsidiary of the wine & spirits business of Louis Vuitton Moet Hennessy (LVMH), the world's leading luxury products group, Ramiro Otano had overseen a spectacularly successful run at the company by... View Details
Keywords: Interpersonal Communication; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Culture; Performance Effectiveness; Groups and Teams; Food and Beverage Industry; Spain
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  • 10 Nov 2015
  • First Look

November 10, 2015

Typically, this performance is thought to be a characteristic of the firm, not the CEO who happens to run the firm. In contrast to this conventional wisdom, we find that equity issues depend on changes in Q and returns to a greater extent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2017
  • News

Talent: The Best Employee Perk?

“[Just] as organizations that invested financial capital more wisely than their rivals performed better in the past, the companies that do the best job of managing time, talent, and energy are the ones that win today’s competitive races.... View Details
  • 30 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 30, 2016

variation generated by the experimental treatments, we model sales force performance to identify the effectiveness of various forms of conditional and unconditional compensation. We account for salesperson heterogeneity by using a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • Web

Turnarounds and Transformation - Course Catalog

business executives, investors, and/or consultants. First, it would be of interest to those who at some point in their career see themselves as a CEO or senior manager potentially leading a troubled enterprise (small, medium, or large) through a crisis or through... View Details
  • 23 Jul 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Looking for CEOs in All the Wrong Places

typically limit their pool to current CEOs of organizations that have been performing well and that share a similar status with the hiring company. In addition, many firms pass over talented executives because their directors still... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs; Employment
  • 04 Nov 2002
  • Research & Ideas

From Lone Star to Team Player

When does a star performer become a corporate nightmare? And what can you do about it? HBS Working Knowledge's Mallory Stark conducted this e-mail interview with Morten Hansen.Stark: Can you describe what you mean by "lone... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
  • December 2003 (Revised May 2004)
  • Case

Sears Auto Centers (A) (Abridged)

By: Lynn S. Paine
In the early 1990s Sears faced and allegations by the California Department of Consumer Affairs that the company's auto repair centers had been overbilling customers and making unnecessary repairs. Top management must evaluate the problem and come up with a plan to... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Governance; Corporate Accountability; Ethics; Organizational Culture; Compensation and Benefits; Management Teams; Employees; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives; Performance Improvement; Auto Industry
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  • August 2010 (Revised July 2012)
  • Supplement

Leaders Who Make a Difference: Joel Klein Brings Accountability to NYC DOE: Day 2

By: Joseph L. Bower and Sonja Ellingson Hout
Joel Klein took over the NYC Department of Education in 2002 and radically transformed the strategy and organization remarkably with improvements in performance. Day 2 focuses on Klein as a strategist, organization builder and driver of performance. Supplementary... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leading Change; Organizational Structure; Corporate Strategy; Education; Performance Improvement; Public Administration Industry; Education Industry
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  • 11 Jan 2000
  • Lessons from the Classroom

New Game, New Rules: Developing Managers for a Competitive World

corporate management, and how PGL helps executives address these critical issues. Q: How are fundamental changes occurring in the global business environment driving change at the organizational level? A: These are turbulent times for... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 22 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 22

We then introduce a framework that provides a unified perspective on these research streams, thereby highlighting some important areas for future research and policy analysis in entrepreneurial finance. Organizational Designs and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace