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- 09 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 9
this time. Read the article: http://hbr.org/2012/10/great-leaders-dont-need-experience/ar/1 Working PapersTeam Scaffolds: How Minimal In-Group Structures Support Fast-Paced Teaming Authors:Melissa Valentine and Amy C. Edmondson Abstract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
Working PapersTraveling Agents: Political Change and Bureaucratic Turnover in India Authors:Lakshmi Iyer and Anandi Mani Abstract We develop a framework to examine how politicians with short-term electoral pressures control bureaucrats... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Can Start Ups Grow?
"These social resources are acquired by mimicking the structures and activities of established firms, and by affiliating with high-status customers respectively," she wrote in the abstract to her recent paper, Great Oaks from... View Details
- 31 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 31
Abstract tIn this paper, we consider how the structures of tasks and teams interact to affect team performance. We study the effects of diversity in experience on a team's ability to respond to task changes... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- February 2006 (Revised November 2006)
- Case
GE's Growth Strategy: The Immelt Initiative
Follows the actions of GE CEO, Jeff Immelt, as he implements a growth strategy for the $150 billion company in a tough business environment. In four years, he reinvigorates GE's technology, expands its services, develops a commercial focus, pushes developing countries,... View Details
Keywords: Transformation; Judgments; Global Strategy; Leadership Style; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Structure
Bartlett, Christopher A. "GE's Growth Strategy: The Immelt Initiative." Harvard Business School Case 306-087, February 2006. (Revised November 2006.)
- 29 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 29
differences in ownership structure across countries, measured by the difference in sectoral vertical integration indexes, are smaller in sectors with similar levels of protection. Finally, ownership View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 9
extensive historical study: (1) link responsibility and control, (2) manage moral hazard, (3) pool risk in sound institutions, (4) adopt market conforming approaches to the extent possible, and (5) structure markets to promote safe... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Short Intensive Program (SIP): Climate Adaptation
wildfires, floods, and droughts–and their resulting destruction of lives and properties–sends a clear signal that all members of society must drastically accelerate efforts to both mitigate further climate change and enable resilience and... View Details
- January 1998 (Revised February 1998)
- Case
Sideco Americana S.A. (A)
By: Lynn S. Paine and Harold F. Hogan Jr
This case focuses on a decision the Sideco management team faces when customers of its newly acquired and privatized water and sewer company neglect to pay its bills. Describes the effort to transform an old-style Argentine construction and engineering company into a... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Government Relations; Transformation; Business or Company Management; Values and Beliefs; Argentina
Paine, Lynn S., and Harold F. Hogan Jr. "Sideco Americana S.A. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 398-081, January 1998. (Revised February 1998.)
- 23 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Market Research Meets the “People Factor”
impact that it should. The professors offer suggestions for both groups, so that both sides can better understand the other's point of view and use research more effectively. Even favorable surprises imply a change in the status quo,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Faculty Research Online
management, change management, and ethics. An interview with Professor Boris Groysberg. See http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6827.html. Horrible Boss Workarounds Bad bosses are generally more inept than evil and often aren’t purposefully bad,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
The Ambidextrous Organization
business. Building an ambidextrous organization is not easy, but the structure itself, combining organizational separation with senior team integration, is not difficult to understand. Given the executive will to make it happen, any... View Details
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 10 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Breakthrough Negotiation: Don’t Leave It On the Table
handful of overarching ideas about breakthrough negotiation. The seven principles that follow represent an overview of how breakthrough negotiators operate. Principle 1: Breakthrough Negotiators Shape The Structure Of Their Situations... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Watkins
- Profile
Frank Spencer
didn't wake up one morning and say, 'I no longer want to be a public CEO; I think I want to be a preacher," he says. "The church has always been a part of how I've structured my life." Recently, that relationship became... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Audit: War & Peace
you get to the negotiation table but also, and more important, the conditions, the scope of what is being addressed, how to structure the right process, and how to control the frame of the negotiation. These are things that can View Details
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
consistent with stock prices being subject to temporary fluctuations caused by changes in market risk aversion, which adds an additional layer of short-term volatility to stock returns. In recessions, even as long-term fundamentals remain... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 03 Mar 2010
- What Do You Think?
To What Degree Does “Identity” Affect Economic Performance?
the commitment and loyalty of employees who perceive themselves as the most disposable of corporate assets ." What will it take to turn around negative trends in "identity"? Ajay Kumar Gupta suggests that "creation of View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- Web
The Strategic Case for Diversity in Digital Transformation - Blog: RGE Report
full potential for innovation and impact. Diversity and Workforce Development: It’s About Change, Not Just Adoption As digital tools reshape work, the challenge for boards goes beyond adoption and application and includes the shift in workforce View Details
- 23 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
We Rise
Facebook group for entrepreneurs in 2017. What started as a group of 25 is now the 20,000-member Female Founders Alliance, a social purpose organization that provides guidance to founders and works to change elements of the venture... View Details