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- March 2016
- Teaching Note
Advanced Leadership Pathways: Laurent Adamowicz and Bon'App
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Tessa Natanay Hamilton and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
After a successful career as Chairman and CEO of Paris-based luxury food company, Fauchon, Laurent Adamowicz sought to provide a solution to a large scale complex problem. Ultimately, Adamowicz created a mobile application to provide consumers with more accessible and... View Details
- Research Summary
Thin Slices of Teams with Professor Jeff Polzer, Patricia Satterstrom, and Lisa Kwan
How do people evaluate team effectiveness from short observations of interactions among team members? What are the cues people take in in such narrow windows of experience? What contributes to the accuracy of evaluations based on thin slices of... View Details
- 30 Nov 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
The Stock Market and Bank Risk-Taking
- 2012
- Chapter
The Confederacy of Heterogeneous Software Organizations and Heterogeneous Developers: Field Experimental Evidence on Sorting and Worker Effort
By: Kevin J. Boudreau and Karim R. Lakhani
Software development occurs in a patchwork or "confederacy" of different types of institutions (universities, small start-ups, multinational enterprises, government agencies, etc.) utilizing varied work approaches. Here we speculate on one possible explanation for this... View Details
Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Applications and Software; Product Development; Organizations; Employees; Behavior; Competition; Cooperation; Creativity; Information Technology Industry
Boudreau, Kevin J., and Karim R. Lakhani. "The Confederacy of Heterogeneous Software Organizations and Heterogeneous Developers: Field Experimental Evidence on Sorting and Worker Effort." In The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity Revisited, edited by Josh Lerner and Scott Stern, 483–502. University of Chicago Press, 2012.
- October 2003 (Revised January 2004)
- Exercise
Electric Maze Exercise, The
By: Amy C. Edmondson and Hanna Rodriguez-Farrar
This team-based exercise uses an educational tool called "The Electric Maze," developed by Interel Corp., to teach insights about the social and psychological challenges facing employees who must engage in collaborative learning. The tool is a grid-patterned rug with... View Details
Edmondson, Amy C., and Hanna Rodriguez-Farrar. "Electric Maze Exercise, The." Harvard Business School Exercise 604-046, October 2003. (Revised January 2004.)
- April 1990 (Revised August 1997)
- Case
Organizational Capabilities and U.S. War Production: The Controlled Materials Plan of World War II
By: Robert D. Cuff and Richard S. Tedlow
A vehicle for the discussion of a very important set of institutional arrangements that helped enable America to mobilize its economy for World War II. View Details
Keywords: Economy; Production; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Strategic Planning; War; United States
Cuff, Robert D., and Richard S. Tedlow. "Organizational Capabilities and U.S. War Production: The Controlled Materials Plan of World War II." Harvard Business School Case 390-166, April 1990. (Revised August 1997.)
Eva Ascarza
Eva Ascarza is the Jakurski Family Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Marketing Unit. She is the co-founder of the Customer Intelligence Lab at the D^3 institute at Harvard Business School. She teaches the Marketing core in the MBA required... View Details
- February 2012 (Revised October 2013)
- Case
OpenIDEO
By: Karim R. Lakhani, Anne-Laure Fayard, Natalia Levina and Stephanie Healy Pokrywa
The case describes OpenIDEO, an online offshoot of IDEO, one of the world's leading product design firms. OpenIDEO leverages IDEO's innovative design process and an online community to create solutions for social issues. Emphasis is placed on comparing the IDEO and... View Details
Keywords: Social Issues; Product Design; Social and Collaborative Networks; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Ghana; New Zealand
Lakhani, Karim R., Anne-Laure Fayard, Natalia Levina, and Stephanie Healy Pokrywa. "OpenIDEO." Harvard Business School Case 612-066, February 2012. (Revised October 2013.)
- 2021
- Working Paper
The Effects of Temporal Distance on Intra-Firm Communication: Evidence from Daylight Savings Time
By: Jasmina Chauvin, Prithwiraj Choudhury and Tommy Pan Fang
Cross-border communication costs have plummeted and enabled the global distribution of work, but frictions attributable to distance persist. We estimate the causal effects of temporal distance, i.e., time zone separation between employees, on intra-firm communication,... View Details
Keywords: Communication Patterns; Time Zones; Geographic Frictions; Knowledge Workers; Multinational Companies; Communication; Multinational Firms and Management; Geographic Location
Chauvin, Jasmina, Prithwiraj Choudhury, and Tommy Pan Fang. "The Effects of Temporal Distance on Intra-Firm Communication: Evidence from Daylight Savings Time." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-052, September 2020. (Revised November 2021.)
- January 2015 (Revised October 2016)
- Case
onefinestay: Building a Luxury Experience in the Sharing Economy
By: Jill Avery, Anat Keinan and Liz Kind
onefinestay was a two-sided marketplace that offered high-end home rentals to travelers who sought a more authentic and local experience than a typical upscale hotel might provide. After five years of rapid growth, it was time to do a comprehensive analysis of the... View Details
Keywords: Luxury Goods; Brand Building; Brand Management; Hospitality; Hotels; Digital Marketing; Brand Positioning; Luxury Service; Airbnb; Sharing Economy; Collaborative Consumption; Disruptive Business Model; Travel; Alternatives To Hotel; Branding; Customer Service; Exceeding Consumer Expectations; Client Acquisition; Reputation Management; Word Of Mouth; 2-way Business Model; Marketing; Marketing Strategy; Brands and Branding; Luxury; Disruption; Business Model; Entrepreneurship; E-commerce; Accommodations Industry; Tourism Industry; Travel Industry; United Kingdom
Avery, Jill, Anat Keinan, and Liz Kind. "onefinestay: Building a Luxury Experience in the Sharing Economy." Harvard Business School Case 515-072, January 2015. (Revised October 2016.)
Sunil Gupta
Co-Chair, Driving Digital Strategy
Sunil Gupta is the Edward W. Carter Professor of Business Administration and co-chair of the executive program on Driving... View Details
Karim R. Lakhani
Karim R. Lakhani is the Dorothy & Michael Hintze Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. He specializes in technology management, innovation, digital transformation and artificial... View Details
Deepak Malhotra
Deepak Malhotra's teaching, research and advisory work is focused on negotiation, deal-making and conflict resolution. In 2020, Deepak was named MBA Professor of the Year by Poets & Quants. He has won... View Details
- February 2001 (Revised March 2003)
- Case
i2 TradeMatrix
i2 has recently acquired Aspect Development and is incorporating Aspect's offerings into its TradeMatrix product for business-to-business e-commerce. TradeMatrix embeds i2's existing products for optimizing supply chain performance by applying advanced planning and... View Details
Keywords: Internet and the Web; Applications and Software; Organizational Culture; Mergers and Acquisitions; Information Technology Industry
McAfee, Andrew P. "i2 TradeMatrix." Harvard Business School Case 601-008, February 2001. (Revised March 2003.)
- 04 Apr 2016
- HBS Seminar
Ariel Stern, Harvard Business School
- 22 Mar 2017
- HBS Seminar
Gerald C. Kane, Boston College
- 05 Dec 2013
- News
This Is What It Looks Like When a Google Manager Gets Feedback
- 2013
- Article
Logic Pluralism, Organizational Design, and Practice Adoption: The Structural Embeddedness of CSR Programs
By: Mary Ann Glynn and Ryan Raffaelli
The institutional logics perspective highlights how organizations are embedded within broader systems of meaning and how this embeddedness activates salient institutional logics in organizations that can enable or constrain organizational decisions, practices, and... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Design; Management Practices and Processes; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
Glynn, Mary Ann, and Ryan Raffaelli. "Logic Pluralism, Organizational Design, and Practice Adoption: The Structural Embeddedness of CSR Programs." Research in the Sociology of Organizations 39B (2013): 175–198.