Structural Changes - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019

or Hands: How Do Employees Respond to a Radical Global Language Change Over Time? By: Reiche, Sebastian, and Tsedal Neeley Abstract— To understand how recipients respond to radical change over time across... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

08 Dec 2015
News

Living the Legacy

them individually, telling them why I thought CORe would be good.” And he’s noticed changes since his children completed the course. “Their vocabulary is more business-oriented. Now they talk about economic trade-offs, balance sheets, and... View Details

13 May 2014
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Inside Africa

“The tone most Americans bring to discussions of Africa is one of pity; pity for people who are poor and helpless,” says Teresa Clarke (MBA 1988, JD 1987, AB 1984). Clarke is working to change that: eliminating those preconceptions by... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

12 Jun 2006
Research & Ideas

The Promise of Channel Stewardship

"Kash" Rangan, distribution channels are the hardest to change of all the elements of marketing strategy. Clearly, companies need a new strategy for going to market, he says. In his new book Transforming Your Go-to-Market... View Details

Keywords: by V. Kasturi Rangan & Marie Bell; Consumer Products

12 Jul 2010
Research & Ideas

Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide

within stores. Align incentives within your organization and in the supply chain. Use technology judiciously and pay attention to emerging new technologies, whose value might still not be apparent. Explain the changes you are making to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Retail; Auto

October 2008 (Revised December 2010)
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Intel NBI: Intel Corporation's New Business Initiatives (A)

By: Willy C. Shih and Thomas Thurston

For Intel Corporation, the processes and priorities that have made it so successful are difficult to overcome as the company tries to diversify away from its core. The case examines the history and evolution of the New Business Initiatives (NBI) group, as the leader... View Details

Keywords: Business Divisions; Transition; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Business History; Management Practices and Processes; Resource Allocation; Organizational Structure; Problems and Challenges; Risk and Uncertainty

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02 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 2, 2007

unidimensional concept captured by the cumulative production volume or number of projects completed by a team. Implicit in this approach is the assumption that teams are stable in their membership and internal organization. In practice, however, such stability is rare,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

20 Jan 2022
Blog Post

Lessons Learned from My HBS Career Journey in Environmental Sustainability

execute business strategy to bring positive change in the world. For the past year and a half, I’ve been trying to figure out how to continue meeting the goal I outlined in my HBS essay while working in a business facing role. Some soul... View Details

01 Dec 2003
News

Business Answers the Call

of personality, coupled with the leadership of his successor, a former investment banker, extraordinary structural changes were made in the Seattle system. Nielsen retired from the school board in 2001 but... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

09 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Around the World of Entrepreneurial Ventures

pizza delivery to what he termed technologically-intensive ones, such as CD metallization and products for cell phones. All twenty-nine sites are closely linked to their country context. They also represent a variety of deal structures... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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

01 Dec 2005
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Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper

until recently. “Over the past 24 months, cap rates have dropped probably 200 to 300 basis points,” says Furber. “That’s a monster change and somewhat unprecedented.” Up for debate is whether the structural... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Real Estate

13 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 13, 2010

Management Series. Oxford University Press, 2010 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Purchase the Book: http://ukcatalogue.oup.com/product/9780199552863.do Shadow of the Contract: How Contract Structure Shapes Inter-Firm Dispute... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2018
News

Democratizing Data to Favor Farmers

struggled to determine if they were getting good deals,” Baron says. “They had to take their dealer’s word for it.” Years later, after spells at Google and HBS, Baron is now using modern tools—from cloud computing to machine-learning—to force transparency on an... View Details

Keywords: Sasha Issenberg

29 Sep 2011
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Leveraging Intellectual Property

the inherent intellectual property issues can be sticky. This paper discusses how firms can address these issues by adopting a system of modularity, wherein innovation in one part of a project will not require changes in all the other... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

June 2022 (Revised January 2023)
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Buurtzorg

By: Ethan Bernstein, Tatiana Sandino, Joost Minnaar and Annelena Lobb

As co-founders of home nursing company Buurtzorg, Jos de Blok and Gonnie Kronenberg prized both self-management and organizational learning. Buurtzorg’s 10,000 nurses across 950 neighborhood nursing teams in the Netherlands were empowered to manage themselves, both in... View Details

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10 Sep 2021
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Perspectives on Anti-Racism in the HKS Curriculum

these learnings in the business context at HBS. Austin: If the past year has taught us anything, it’s that structural racism isn’t just a public policy problem. Changing the policies, practices, and... View Details

01 Jun 2005
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When No News Isn’t Good News

give someone else so much power over you?” Seizing the initiative on soliciting feedback also provides the opportunity to structure communication in a way that makes sense for you. While a regular weekly, monthly, or quarterly session... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; career consulting; career advice

22 Mar 2017
Research & Ideas

What's the Ideal Frequency for a Sales Quota?

according to Chung and Narayandas. The paper follows a 2013 study in which Chung and colleagues developed a structural model to determine the ideal frequency of quotas. That study showed that quarterly bonuses would improve sales among... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Patients - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Employers Suppliers Policymakers Patients Patients Consumers, as health plan subscribers and patients, should be the ultimate beneficiaries of a value-based health care delivery system. They can and should act as catalysts for change —but... View Details

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