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- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
technological competence in the schools, infrastructure, friendliness to foreign visitors, and marketing the region to the world," explains Kanter. Commission member Paul Guzzi, president of the Greater... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
technology firms, we show that founders who received advice from other founders with more “hands-on” management styles were more likely to reorient their own management activity and, subsequently, experience lower employee attrition View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 1994
- Chapter
The Virtual Organization: Bureaucracy, Technology, and the Implosion of Control
By: N. Nohria and J. D. Berkley
Keywords: Organizational Design; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Information Technology; Power and Influence
Nohria, N., and J. D. Berkley. "The Virtual Organization: Bureaucracy, Technology, and the Implosion of Control." In The Post-Bureaucratic Organization: New Perspectives on Organizational Change, edited by Anne Donnellon and Charles C Heckscher. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1994.
Levers of Control
Based on a ten-year examination of control systems in over 50 U.S. businesses, this book broadens the definition of control and establishes a critical bridge between the disciplines of strategy and accounting and control. In addition to the more traditional diagnostic... View Details
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Managing and Innovating in Financial Services - Course Catalog
navigate and shape an environment in which competition, technology and regulation are constantly changing. We will look at a variety of financial institutions View Details
- January 1991 (Revised March 1996)
- Case
Profiling at National Mutual (A)
This case series describes a company grappling with organizational change through information technology. National Mutual Life Association vies for Australian insurance industry leadership with its long-time competitor. It has purchased an expert system called Client... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Information Technology; Insurance Industry; Australia
Sviokla, John J., and Audris Wong. "Profiling at National Mutual (A)." Harvard Business School Case 191-078, January 1991. (Revised March 1996.)
Stefan H. Thomke
Stefan Thomke (sthomke@hbs.edu), an authority on the management of innovation, is the William Barclay Harding Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He has worked with firms on product, process, and... View Details
Keywords: high technology; high technology; high technology; high technology; high technology; high technology; high technology; high technology; high technology; high technology; high technology; high technology; high technology; high technology; high technology; high technology; high technology; high technology; high technology; high technology; high technology
- December 1989 (Revised February 1993)
- Case
Frito-Lay, Inc.: A Strategic Transition (C)
In 1989, Frito-Lay designed an information technology infrastructure to support time-based competition and organizational restructuring. The company planned to provide timely flexible information to all major decision makers at all levels. This case describes the... View Details
Keywords: Design; Information Technology; Information Infrastructure; Competitive Strategy; Time Management; Organizational Structure; Information Management; Strategic Planning; Performance Effectiveness; Decision Choices and Conditions; Food and Beverage Industry; Food and Beverage Industry
Applegate, Lynda M. "Frito-Lay, Inc.: A Strategic Transition (C)." Harvard Business School Case 190-071, December 1989. (Revised February 1993.)
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Executive Education Courses - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
strategy: Build a firm foundation for exploring and implementing strategy transformation Manage the issues that arise when implementing new approaches Lead strategic and View Details
- March 2023
- Supplement
Innovation at Google Ads: The Sales Acceleration and Innovation Labs (SAIL) (B)
By: Linda A. Hill and Emily Tedards
In 2018, Ana Owczarzak was appointed to lead Google Ads' new innovation and accelerator team - the Sales Acceleration and Innovation Labs (SAIL). The purpose of SAIL was to offer testing and incubation services for individuals within Google Ads who were developing new... View Details
Keywords: Innovation Leadership; Organizational Culture; Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Technology Industry; United States
Hill, Linda A., and Emily Tedards. "Innovation at Google Ads: The Sales Acceleration and Innovation Labs (SAIL) (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 423-077, March 2023.
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
systems were in need of an update, and since GLBG last made heavy IT investments in the late 1990s, the technology had changed considerably. GLBG sought Rechtin’s advice on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jan 2014
- News
Tapping into Opportunity
likely change and then all of us will be thinking about water a lot. Laura Shenkar (MBA 1992) knows that, and the company she founded, Artemis Water Strategy, is dedicated to finding View Details
- 18 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018
though the effects vary with liberal/conservative ideological orientation. Polynomial regression analyses reveal that the fit relationship between individual and organizational political ideology deviates... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Leadership, Ethics, and Corporate Accountability Course | HBS Online
is Fairness Organizational Fairness and Challenges Explicit Bias vs. Implicit Bias Show Hide Details Concepts Employee Considerations An Analysis Using the Reflective Leadership Framework Examining Employee... View Details
- 2007
- Working Paper
Incompatible Assumptions: Barriers to Producing Multidisciplinary Knowledge in Communities of Scholarship
By: Corinne Bendersky and Kathleen L. McGinn
Co-locating knowledge workers from different disciplines may be a necessary but insufficient step to generating multidisciplinary knowledge. We explore the role of assumptions underlying knowledge creation within the field of organizational studies, and investigate how... View Details
Bendersky, Corinne, and Kathleen L. McGinn. "Incompatible Assumptions: Barriers to Producing Multidisciplinary Knowledge in Communities of Scholarship." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-044, December 2007.
Edward McFowland III
Edward McFowland III is an Assistant Professor in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches the first-year TOM course in the required curriculum.
Professor McFowland’s research interests – which lie at the... View Details
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
Umit Gurun, and Scott Duke Kominers Abstract—The patent system is commonly justified as a way to promote social welfare and, more specifically, technological progress. For... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
manage the transition of their information systems? "If a company is addressing the transition of information systems after a merger, it is probably too late to avert the loss of key information technology... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 25 Aug 2016
- News
What's Old is New Again
- December 1992 (Revised May 1993)
- Case
Porsche AG
By: Robert S. Kaplan
Describes the financial management of the research and development departments of an automobile manufacturer and technology supplier. Existing cost systems measure accurately the costs incurred by department and by project. But little formal information is provided... View Details
Keywords: Financial Management; Cost Accounting; Research and Development; Machinery and Machining; Technology Industry; Technology Industry
Kaplan, Robert S. "Porsche AG." Harvard Business School Case 193-071, December 1992. (Revised May 1993.)