Organizational Innovation - Publications - Faculty & Research

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A Case Study in the Assimilation of Technology Support for Teams

Keywords: Groups and Teams; Information Technology; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Technological Innovation

01 Dec 2000
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Code of Change. Despite its importance, Beer and Nohria assert that the process of change remains poorly understood, and only a third of corporate change initiatives succeed. After encountering widely divergent assumptions by leading executives about View Details

Keywords: Rogelio Fussa; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

05 Nov 2024
Research & Ideas

AI Can Help Leaders Communicate, But Can't Make Employees Listen

go before humans cede the craft of writing to machines—if that ever happens in an organizational context. Overcoming aversion “is the billion-dollar question in front of the AI industry,” says Choudhury, who teamed on the paper with Bart... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Information Technology; Technology

28 Mar 2004
Research & Ideas

HBS Celebrates Social Enterprise Initiative

encounters countless barriers because organizational innovation implies changes in strategy, structure, systems, and attitudes. And if one continues to push on the edge of the envelope, as is our norm, then... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

11 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 11

E. Ricart Publication:Harvard Business Review 89 Abstract Most executives believe that competing through business models is critical for success, but few have come to grips with how best to do so. One common mistake, the authors' studies show, is enterprises'... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Jan 2001
What Do You Think?

Have We Extended the Boundaries of the Firm Too Far?

results for those engaged in it. Those organizations thought to be most able to extend their boundaries are those able to work in a "componentized" manner, with "certain pieces of technology or innovation that can be... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

04 Sep 2019
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The School that Donham Built

Lawrence, a world-renowned scholar of organizational behavior and the previous incumbent of the Donham chair. “Paul knew and deeply respected Donham,” Hill says. “He credited him with creating an intellectual space where Paul and other... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

07 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 7

risks, which threaten the achievement of the firm's strategic objectives, into the open and under control. Its organizational significance is that, by providing a process to identify, measure, monitor, and manage uncertainty in strategic... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

28 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 28

cognitive, normative, or regulative mainstays of an organizational field. Institutional innovation, like all innovation, is both novel and useful but differs in that it is also legitimate, credible, and appropriate. Legitimacy is hinged... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2011
News

Reimagining the MBA

knowledge into action and, at the same time, be aware of their own character and values. In short, the School’s vision for 21st-century leadership requires a commitment to three dimensions of learning: knowing, doing, and being (see sidebar next page). View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; FIELD program; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

03 Jun 2015
What Do You Think?

Is the Time Right for Self-Management?

Gary Hamel's book, The Future of Management, in which he described innovative efforts to enable employees to define their own jobs and shape their work at companies such as Google, Whole Foods Market, and W. L. Gore & Associates, Inc.... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

23 Feb 2010
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multi-location firms increase internal ties when they face appropriability risks from direct competitors. Our empirical analysis of the global semiconductor industry shows that when leading firms co-locate with direct market competitors, View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

18 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 18

greater customer satisfaction and employee retention after six months as compared to (a) socialization that focused on organizational identity (emphasizing the pride to be gained from organizational... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

February 2023
Supplement

Astyanax Kanakakis at norbloc: A Founder's Experience with the DIFC Fintech Hive

By: Linda A. Hill and Lydia Begag

norbloc was founded in 2016 in Stockholm, Sweden, by Astyanax Kanakakis and his co-founders, Vitalii Demianets and Sam Saatchi. Kanakakis and Demianets got to work to address a key gap in the industry: Know Your Customer (KYC) data sharing. As the first distributed KYC... View Details

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Crucibles of Crisis Leadership - Course Catalog

successes and failures of different teams as they tried to navigate the large storms they faced. The second objective is to understand how crises always contain the possibility of substantial innovation. Some of this innovation occurs at... View Details

27 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 27

Foundation, focused on building the organizational capabilities of nonprofits that served the disadvantaged youth in the United States, has recently been named an intermediary in the federal government's new social View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

November 2023
Case

From Imitation to Innovation: Zongshen Industrial Group (Abridged)

By: Willy Shih and Nancy Dai

Like other small shops based in Chongqing, China, Zongshen Industrial Group started by assembling motorcycles from "standard" parts. The quality of its early products was good enough for rural Chinese buyers, though wealthier consumers usually purchased premium... View Details

Keywords: Disruptive Innovation; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Competitive Strategy; Supply Chain; Product Positioning; Manufacturing Industry; Motorcycle Industry; China

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27 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 27, 2007

with Abernathy, Rebecca Henderson and Carliss Baldwin, Clark placed product and process designs at the center of his explanation of how innovation determines the structure and evolution of industries. Download the paper:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

April 2008 (Revised April 2009)
Case

Heidrick & Struggles International, Inc.

By: Robert G. Eccles and David Lane

As CEO of leading executive search firm Heidrick & Struggles for the past 18 months, Kevin Kelly was pleased with his accomplishments so far but concerned about threats he perceived to Heidrick's position at the highest levels of the executive search business. In... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Recruitment; Disruptive Innovation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Employment Industry; Service Industry

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February 2000 (Revised October 2000)
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E-commerce at Williams-Sonoma

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Daniel Galvin

Describes Williams-Sonoma's development of a third channel of business on the Internet. Describes the strategies for managing changes in the organizational, operational, and technological structure of the company. The new e-commerce division confronts challenges posed... View Details