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  • 22 Sep 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Silo Lives! Analyzing Coordination and Communication in Multiunit Companies

Although many companies aspire to promote easy interaction and coordination across departments, office locations, and pay scales, the "boundaryless" organization—like the paperless office—hasn't materialized. The corporate silo is alive and well. This observation is... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • June 2005
  • Teaching Note

The Walt Disney Co.: The Entertainment King (TN)

By: David J. Collis
Teaching Note to (9-701-035). View Details
Keywords: History; Business or Company Management; Creativity; Boundaries; Business Strategy; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry
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  • March 2010 (Revised June 2010)
  • Case

Whose Money Is It Anyway? (A)

By: V.G. Narayanan, Richard G. Hamermesh and Rachel Gordon
The Brigham and Women's Physician's Organization (BWPO) and its corporate parent disagree over who has jurisdiction over significant legacy funds. Are they controlled by the BWPO or do they belong to BWPO's corporate parent? The BWPO and its corporate parent must... View Details
Keywords: Accounting; Investment Funds; Governance Controls; Agreements and Arrangements; Boundaries; Health Industry
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  • 2011
  • Working Paper

Organizations in the Shadow of Communities

By: Siobhan O'Mahony and Karim R. Lakhani
The concept of a community form is drawn upon in many subfields of organizational theory. Although there is not much convergence on a level of analysis, there is convergence on a mode of action that is increasingly relevant to a knowledge-based economy marked by porous... View Details
Keywords: Knowledge Sharing; Organizational Culture; Civil Society or Community; Boundaries; Information Technology; Theory; Value Creation
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  • 18 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 18, 2007

Synthesis Author:Carliss Y. Baldwin Abstract This paper constructs a unified theory of the location of transactions and the boundaries of firms. It proposes that systems of production can be viewed as... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 10

Perspective on Ambidexterity: Structural Differentiation and Boundary Activities Authors:Sebastian Raisch and Michael L. Tushman Abstract This paper explores the shifting nature of differentiation and integration in organizations... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Oct 2002
  • Research & Ideas

What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence

involved with options. No one change by itself will be enough. CEOs must address the organizational architecture: the planning systems; the performance measurement and evaluation systems; the incentives systems; the boundary View Details
Keywords: by Harvard Management Update
  • 29 Sep 2011
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Leveraging Intellectual Property

Appropriation--How to Draw the Boundaries of Intellectual Property Many companies have adopted models of "open innovation," in which they seek ideas from external sources such as university labs, independent entrepreneurs, customers, and... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
  • 23 Jun 2015
  • First Look

First Look: June 23, 2015

Sciences Modularity and Organizations By: Baldwin, Carliss Y Abstract—Modularity describes the degree to which a complex system can be broken apart into subunits (modules) that can be recombined in various ways. Modularity is important... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Feb 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Capital Rules: The Tensions of Global Finance

What fuels a global economy? Certainly the easy flow of capital across national boundaries would seem near the top of the list. But financial globalization is not an on/off switch, notes Professor Rawi Abdelal. Different countries and... View Details
Keywords: by Rawi Abdelal
  • 13 Jan 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Making Biotech Work as a Business

systems so companies can work together relatively smoothly. Intellectual property boundaries are clear. Biotechnology, on the other hand, is "definitely" over on the messy end of the interface... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Biotechnology; Health; Technology
  • 02 Oct 2012
  • First Look

First Look: October 2

Evidence from a Field Experiment Authors: Kevin Boudreau, Tom Brady, Ina Ganguli, Patrick Gaule, Eva Guinan, Karim Lakhani, and Tony Hollenberg Abstract We present the results of a field experiment conducted within the Harvard Medical School View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2019
  • Working Paper

Self-Interest: The Economist's Straitjacket

By: Robert Simons
This paper examines contemporary economic theories that focus on the design and management of business organizations. In the first part of the paper, a taxonomy is presented that describes the different types of economists interested in this subject—market economists,... View Details
Keywords: Self-interest; Economist; Moral Philosophers; Regulation; Capture; Organization Design; Economy Theory; Organization Theory; Management Theory; Commitment; Controls; Governance; Customers; Conflict of Interests; Business or Company Management; Competition; Organizational Design; Business Education; Agency Theory; Economics; Theory; Boundaries
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  • 26 Sep 2024
  • HBS Case

If a Car Can Drive Itself, Can It Make Life-or-Death Decisions?

What would Aristotle think about self-driving cars? As the abilities of artificial intelligence systems to automate complex tasks accelerate, warnings about the dangers of outsourcing life-and-death decisions to machines are pumping the... View Details
Keywords: by Tom Quinn; Auto; Technology
  • 07 Mar 2005
  • What Do You Think?

Should Business Management Be Regarded as a Profession?

type of system is not new to the financial services field." And Kim Osorio reminds us, "Within my field of human resources we already have a certification program... ." Will recent events lead to a more intense debate, as... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 29 Sep 2015
  • First Look

September 29, 2015

patients; however, organizations have struggled to obtain outcomes data from electronic health record (EHR) systems. This study describes how Texas Children’s Hospital customized a commercial EHR system and assembled a cross-functional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: October 30, 2007

accessing knowledge that resides outside the boundaries of any one organization. We provide an overview of distributed innovation systems that are achieving success in three different industries. We explore... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jan 2017
  • First Look

January 3, 2017

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/117113-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 117-114 Management Control Systems Module 14: Managing Strategic Risk This module reading provides an overview of the business conduct boundaries,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 24 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 24, 2009

  Working PapersRunning Out of Numbers: Scarcity of IP Addresses and What to Do About It (revised) Author:Benjamin Edelman Abstract The Internet's current numbering system is nearing exhaustion: existing protocols allow only a finite set... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Dec 2013
  • First Look

First Look: December 17

Japan. An entire system of governance was blown away. In 1911, an imperial tradition of more than 2,000 years ended. After the subsequent disasters of world war and Maoist utopianism, China was an impoverished third world economy holding... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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