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  • 31 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 31

prototypical large-enterprise form in contemporary emerging economies. By exploring the evolution of the diversified business groups organized around British trading companies from the late eighteenth century until today, this chapter demonstrates that such View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Apr 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance

make multinational financial decision making so challenging. As such, these materials are the most distinctive materials in the course. The materials in the first module are more innovative in their pedagogic approach as they take... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services
  • November 2000 (Revised May 2002)
  • Case

Oracle Corporation

By: Frances X. Frei and Hanna Rodriguez-Farrar
Oracle Corp., the world's second-largest independent software company (behind Microsoft) was the world's dominant supplier of database software. Oracle also sold application software, such as the popular enterprise resource planning and customer relationship management... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Internet and the Web; Service Operations; Service Delivery; Applications and Software; Management Teams; Innovation and Invention; Web Services Industry; Information Technology Industry
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  • 23 Jul 2018
  • Research & Ideas

The Open Office Revolution Has Gone Too Far

(like employee satisfaction). Those are fine for understanding individual perceptions, but aren’t so good at quantifying real behavioral responses and organizational performance outcomes from open offices. The gap between perceptions and... View Details
Keywords: Re: Ethan S. Bernstein
  • 21 Jan 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Lessons for Retailers from the Rebirth of Indie Bookstores

Raffaelli, a professor in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. “All the ingredients were there for the independent sector to see the end of its days.” Something miraculous started happening in 2009, however. After... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 01 Mar 2006
  • News

Drive-In Nation

and Japanese competitors. The American carmakers seem less passionate about their product, and relations between the different organizational functions seem more constrained, as does the product-design process.” Flexible and Nimble HBS... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers; Retail Trade
  • 06 Jun 2013
  • Op-Ed

How to Do Away with the Dangers of Outsourcing

calls "neglectful" parents. High levels of direction coupled with low levels of support produce "authoritarian" parents—what in an organizational context most closely resembles the old command-and-control... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati; Manufacturing; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion
  • 14 Jul 2015
  • First Look

First Look: July 14, 2015

needs of all relevant stakeholders. The original Beer et al. model remains a valuable guide to the next 30 years of HRM. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49360 Forthcoming Innovation Policy and the Economy... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

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faced. The second objective is to understand how crises always contain the possibility of substantial innovation. Some of this innovation occurs at an organizational level as the time pressures and... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2016
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016

approaches to solve technological and organizational problems. This view of innovation counters the dominant paradigm, which casts firms’ profit-seeking incentives as the main driver of technical change.... View Details
  • 25 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 25, 2007

Divergent Organizational Change: The Enabling Role of Actors' Social Position Author:Julie Battilana Periodical:Best Paper Proceedings of the Academy of Management (2007) Abstract This study addresses the paradox of embedded human agency,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 26, 2008

organizational structure, we suggest that interdivisional innovations are driven primarily by social networks. Putting Leadership Back into Strategy Author:Cynthia A. Montgomery Publication:HBS Centennial... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Feb 2019
  • Blog Post

The First Five Years: '30 Under 30' Edition

Island, an innovative private equity firm established by Glenn Hutchins, MBA 1983, (previously cofounder of Silver Lake and a fellow Harvard alum). Our vision is to improve on traditional private equity by building a more concentrated... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 01 Dec 2008
  • News

Lesson from the Fall

assignments; Requiring that a different degree of directors’ wealth be at risk through investments in company shares to ensure they have interests totally aligned with those of shareholders; Completely separating the role of CEO and board chairman. This last View Details
Keywords: Malcolm S. Salter; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities
  • 10 Apr 2006
  • Research & Ideas

American Auto’s Troubled Road

their product, and relations between the different organizational functions seem more constrained, as does the product-design process." Flexible And Nimble HBS professor Kent Bowen, a technology and operations management expert who... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto
  • July 2011
  • Teaching Note

MindTree: A Community of Communities (TN)

By: David A. Garvin
Teaching Note for 311049. View Details
Keywords: Knowledge Management; Management Practices and Processes; Civil Society or Community; Goals and Objectives; Leadership Style; Innovation and Invention; Business or Company Management; Organizational Culture; Information Technology Industry
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  • 19 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019

other outputs by autonomous machines. I argue that organizational researchers of creativity and innovation should invest significant energy in studying artificial intelligence and computer-assisted human... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 02 Feb 2016
  • First Look

February 2, 2016

multicultural social interactions in the context of negotiations, work teams, and global leadership. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50440 2015 Handbook of Qualitative Organizational Research: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Jul 2012
  • First Look

First Look: July 31

success and failure in organizational learning, to date the phenomenon has received little attention at the individual level. Drawing on attribution theory in psychology, we investigate how individuals learn from their own past... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 08 Dec 2014
  • Research & Ideas

A Manager’s Guide to International Strategy

shop in the current low-cost location. How to organize? What are the structures, systems, and processes that need to be in place to manage a company's international strategy? Should authority be delegated to many organizational units or... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna