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  • 19 Dec 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy

inflexible, organizational structure to successfully execute a strategy. As companies think through the risks and opportunities of various regional strategies, they also need to clarify what they mean by the word "region." I... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
  • 06 Oct 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Why Businesses Need a Language Strategy

organization and cascades down to every single individual. The strategy has to be tied to the firm's vision and, in some cases, integrated in annual reviews. This is done in a variety of ways, from making foreign assignments into... View Details
Keywords: Re: Tsedal Neeley
  • 19 Jul 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf

having to shift around old inventory, and finance would be able to free up capital that had been tied up in inventory. Mattel Canada used collective conversations so effectively that it transformed its division from Mattel's least... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer, Russell Eisenstat & Derek Schrader
  • 01 Oct 2002
  • News

Faculty Research Symposium

compensation used to consist of cash, in the form of salaries and bonuses, executive wealth today is dominated by stock-option holdings. This, in turn, has led to dramatic yearly swings in executive wealth, which are largely tied to huge... View Details
  • 07 Feb 2005
  • Research & Ideas

How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders

organization's career imprint. That being said, just as all organizations have corporate cultures, all organizations cultivate career imprints. The question is simply, what makes some organizational career imprints stronger than others?... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
  • 29 Jul 2014
  • First Look

First Look: July 29

multiparty risk and disaster management, namely that the organizational challenge is to enable multiple actors and subunits with competing and often conflicting values and expertise to establish a virtual, well‐aligned organization. View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Apr 2020
  • Research & Ideas

This Crisis Loan Program Preserved Jobs—and Made Money

Pandemic Coverage from Around Harvard and Beyond COVID-19 Business Impact Center (Harvard Business School) How to Manage Coronavirus Layoffs with Compassion (Harvard Business Review) Organizational Responses to COVID-19 and Climate... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services
  • 25 Feb 2015
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Scholars and Students Unpack the Digital Business Revolution

year—also ties into Iansiti and Lakhani's Digital Innovation and Transformation course, giving MBA students, faculty, and practitioners a chance to explore and address digital challenges and opportunities. The #digHBS Summit, to be held... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education; Technology
  • 15 Jan 2008
  • First Look

First Look: January 15, 2008

explore the role of assumptions underlying knowledge creation within the field of organizational studies, and investigate how incompatible assumptions across subgroups may inhibit the generation of multidisciplinary knowledge. While View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Oct 2020
  • Blog Post

Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged

and connected and OPTIMISTIC in appropriate measure while so many have so many competing personal and business and health and family issues right now.” Meanwhile, cost-cutting, uncertainty, and the necessities of social distancing attenuate or alter the traditional... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 08 Dec 2020
  • Blog Post

Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged

and connected and OPTIMISTIC in appropriate measure while so many have so many competing personal and business and health and family issues right now.” Meanwhile, cost-cutting, uncertainty, and the necessities of social distancing attenuate or alter the traditional... View Details
  • 07 Aug 2007
  • First Look

First Look: August 7, 2007

http://papers.nber.org/papers/W13281 Diasporas and Domestic Entrepreneurs: Evidence from the Indian Software Industry Authors:Ramana Nanda and Tarun Khanna Abstract This study explores the importance of cross-border social networks for entrepreneurship in developing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Feb 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Leadership Program for Women Targets Subtle Promotion Biases

discouraging further actions. "Through this back-and-forth, the would-be leader accumulates experiences that inform his or her sense of self as a leader, as well as feedback about his or her fit for taking up the leader role," according to the paper.... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
  • 14 May 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The Key to Managing Stars? Think Team

What contributes to an individual's ability to remain a star? To what extent does past star performance predicate future star performance? And to what extent does a key organizational factor—colleague quality—help or hinder the ability to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 10 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 10

considerably higher variance in their rates of unsuccessful entrepreneurs. The results are consistent with intra-section learning, where the close ties between section-mates lead to insights about the merits of business plans. Download... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 3, 2008

compared to 56.9% for all other analyst recommendations. We find that appointed analysts' optimism is stronger at precisely those times when firms' benefits are larger and that appointed analysts appear to be more closely tied to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2010
  • News

The Transformers

joined Bridgespan as temporary externs, permanent staff, and board members. Of the current staff of 170, spread over offices in Boston, New York, and San Francisco, 22 arrived from Bain. Bridgespan also maintains close ties to HBS.... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 16 Apr 2013
  • First Look

First Look: April 16

including work/life choices she made as a wife and mother of five children. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/413094-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 113-114 Corporate Solutions at Jones Lang LaSalle (2001) (A) This case describes the strategic and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Dec 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Deflategate and the Sustained Success of the New England Patriots

organizations involved. But Deflategate isn’t the only issue examined by the case. “What started essentially as an analytics exercise ended up as a much broader analysis of the data, the sport, the NFL, and how it’s organized and how it’s structured. So combining both... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Sports
  • 07 Nov 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

Goals Challenges Traditional Organizational Designs By: Battilana, Julie, Michael Fuerstein, and Michael Lee Abstract—For an extended period during the first half of the 20th century, industrial democracy was a vibrant movement, with... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel