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  • 17 Feb 2009
  • Research & Ideas

What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking

them, first, requires in-depth knowledge of a given work setting. Quantifying them, next, requires multiple managers and employees answering questions that could get them fired if the company decided to apply its rules to the letter. This... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 13 Mar 2007
  • First Look

First Look: March 13, 2007

the organizational benefits of NPD teams, and identify five attributes of these teams that hinder attainment of their potential: (1) project complexity, (2) cross-functionality, (3) temporary membership, (4) fluid team boundaries and (5)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Jan 2007
  • First Look

First Look: January 30, 2007

found to be associated with the ability to attract specialized solvers with range of diverse scientific interests. Furthermore, successful solvers solved problems at the boundary or outside of their fields of expertise, indicating a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Oct 2024
  • In Practice

Research-Based Advice for the Seasonally Overwhelmed and Schedule Challenged

inability to do so for just as long. How can someone overcome that cultural inheritance? It starts with managing one’s time at work. Technology allows work to encroach relentlessly on employees’ personal lives. If a person fails to put View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 21 May 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research

Knowledge Indeed, when we focus our energy on our strengths, we feel more authentic—and that increases resilience and happiness, improves relationships, and reduces stress, according to research by Francesca Gino, the Tandon Family... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
  • 26 Sep 2024
  • HBS Case

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

says. “These are boundaries or parameters you don’t want to cross. They could involve privacy, safety, or bias. Tell your team which issues you want to hear about as they arise.” Leaders who delegate tasks to human subordinates are still... View Details
Keywords: by Tom Quinn; Auto; Technology
  • 15 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 15

intermediate markets. Our comparative analysis suggests that firms elect the strategy of vertically permeable boundaries when they face low transaction costs and high rates of product innovation, but at the same time believe there are... 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
  • 12 Feb 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

organization theory. Theoretical consilience will enable the accumulation of empirical research into a cohesive body of knowledge on entrepreneurial resource mobilization. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 21 Mar 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, March 21

case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/716068-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 417-073 Leading Global Teams This module aims to help students become effective leaders and members of global teams that must work together across national View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Dec 2013
  • First Look

First Look: December 17

Information Costs Approach Zero By: Altman, Elizabeth J., Frank Nagle, and Michael L. Tushman Abstract—Innovation has traditionally taken place within an organization's boundaries and/or with selected partners. This Chandlerian approach... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 08 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 8

opacity and agility. Clients find it very difficult to judge a firm's performance in advance, because they are usually hiring it for specialized knowledge and capability that they themselves lack. Price becomes a proxy for quality. And... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: December 4

undermines creative thinking in tasks that draw on knowledge from multiple cultures. Three studies (a network survey and two experiments) found that ambient cultural disharmony decreased individuals' effectiveness at connecting ideas from... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 03 Feb 2015
  • First Look

First Look: February 3

Dennis A. Yao Abstract—This article examines how antitrust law and policy can benefit from ideas developed in the academic strategy field. Because accurate assessment and prediction of the effects of firm conduct depend in part on understanding individual firm... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 8

69, no. 4 (December 2010) Abstract How can people and organisations best respond to emergency events that are significantly beyond the boundaries of what they had generally anticipated, expected, prepared for—or even imagined? What forms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Dec 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 14

research on firm entry into new domains by examining heterogeneity in firms' framing and feature-level entry choices. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-007.pdf Modularity for Value Appropriation—How to Draw the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Sep 2006
  • Research & Ideas

How Software Platforms Revolutionize Business

of Management at MIT Sloan School of Management. We asked Hagiu to discuss the book. To learn more about Hagiu's early-stage research into the concept of multi-sided markets, of which many software platforms are a manifestation, see this earlier HBS Working View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Web Services
  • 17 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: January 17

centralization." Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-059.pdf Open Innovation and Organizational Boundaries: The Impact of Task Decomposition and Knowledge Distribution on the Locus of Innovation Authors:Karim R.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 11

than department-level-performance measures; (2) internal supply department routines that respond to specific patients' needs rather than to predetermined stocking routines; (3) knowledge that is necessary for efficient handoffs of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 2

vertically integrated); (2) purchase goods for downstream units from other firms in the sector; and (3) sell goods from upstream units to other firms in the sector. We conjecture that having two-way vertically permeable boundaries may... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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