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- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Redefining Health Care
strategies and organizational structures by health plans, providers, and system participants that are misaligned with patient value. For example, providers consolidate into groups to gain clout against... View Details
- 07 Jan 2025
- Blog Post
Revolutionizing Wellness: Kate Twist (MBA 2008) Shapes the Future of Consumer Health Brands
Twist stepped down as CEO and into the Board Chair role at Ever/Body. She is now an advisor for other consumer health and wellness founders on strategic growth, fundraising, and organizational design. She also actively serves as interim... View Details
- 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 intelligence, the ways in which... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 23
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=43830 Team Scaffolds: How Minimal Team Structures Enable Role-Based Coordination By: Valentine, Melissa, and Amy C. Edmondson Abstract—In this paper, we integrate research on role-based coordination with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 1
marketplace and so under-invest in the new technology. The second suggests that incumbent firms develop organizational capabilities and cognitive frames that make them slow to "see" new opportunities and that make it difficult... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 6, 2007
patients' families in an ongoing organizational learning process. The two-case series is particularly distinctive in tracking an organizational change initiative for almost a decade and, as such, uncovers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
Manage your network. Effective managers know they cannot avoid conflict and competition among organizational groups; they build and nurture ongoing relationships. Manage your team. Team members need to know what's required of them... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- January 1996 (Revised December 2005)
- Case
First Community Bank (A)
First Community Bank, a bank-within-a-bank at Bank of Boston, was established in 1990 as a unique venture to serve urban communities. By 1995 it has achieved profitability but must manage relationships with the mainstream at Bank of Boston, serve as a change agent and... View Details
Keywords: Banks and Banking; Business Ventures; Business and Community Relations; Agency Theory; Change Management; Leadership; Balanced Scorecard; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Structure; Problems and Challenges; Banking Industry; Boston
Kanter, Rosabeth M. "First Community Bank (A)." Harvard Business School Case 396-202, January 1996. (Revised December 2005.)
- November 2019
- Supplement
United Technologies Corp.: Are the Parts Worth More Than the Whole?
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Daniel Fisher
After spending more than 50 years creating a diversified industrial conglomerate that Fortune Magazine described as “arguably the most profitable conglomerate in America” in 2014, UTC’s CEO Greg Hayes was under pressure from activist investors (Dan Loeb and Bill... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Business Conglomerates; Financial Management; Corporate Governance; Organizational Structure; Diversification; Valuation; Investment Activism; Financial Strategy; Investment Funds; Value Creation; Aerospace Industry; Electronics Industry; Industrial Products Industry; United States
- April 2002
- Background Note
Local Institutions and Global Strategy
By: Tarun Khanna
Explores how location affects a firm's strategy and identifies the different ways location affects industry structure, choice of a firm's position, and the sustainability of that position. The intellectual foundations lie in an appreciation of institutional economics.... View Details
Keywords: Global Range; Global Strategy; Product Positioning; Market Transactions; Industry Structures; Negotiation Deal; Organizational Design; Outcome or Result; Strategic Planning
Khanna, Tarun. "Local Institutions and Global Strategy." Harvard Business School Background Note 702-475, April 2002.
- 16 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Companies Managed Risk (and Even Benefitted) in World War Internment Camps
researchers found that German companies struggling to maintain long-term survival in India adopted a mix of political risk management strategies: Disguise Some companies used a “cloaking” strategy, altering their organizational View Details
- 30 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30
this area in a variety of disciplines—economics, geography, marketing, organizational behavior, psychology, sociology, and strategy—in order to explore the many ways that locations matter for firms. In eleven varied papers, the authors... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
increase their total equity allocation as the horizon increases, the mean value tilt of the optimal allocation is shown to be positive and stable across time. Download the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/lviceira/JV_GV_20100223.pdf Bond Risk, Bond Return Volatility,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Health Care Conundrum
coordinated and aligned to focus on one or more specific diseases or conditions, such as cancer or heart disease. The organizational structure and staffing, work processes, and facilities will evolve to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Do You Speak Business?
in either a team or a one-on-one setting.” Continues Klump, “I understood enough of Chinese culture to know that you rarely, if ever, confront someone in a group setting, as maintaining face is important. So I waited to have a one-on-one session with my boss, in which... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
Interorganizational Conflict Authors:Elizabeth Long Lingo, Colin Fisher, and Kathleen L. McGinn Publication:In Handbook of Conflict Management Research, edited by Neal M. Ashkansy, Oluremi B. Ayoko, and Karen Jehn. Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming Abstract We... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 28 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 28, 2008
off if platforms were compatible, the quest for market dominance by competing platform providers prevents them from agreeing to a common standard. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-058.pdf The Economics of Structured... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 May 2007
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First Look: May 1, 2007
sharing where all peers are endowed with standard preferences and show that the endogenous structure of the network is conducive to sharing by a significant number of peers, even if sharing is costlier than freeriding. We build on this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 26
strategic priorities. This article explains core links between selling initiatives and basic drivers of enterprise value, and it provides suggestions about how best to communicate strategy to busy people in the field. May 2015 Management Science When 3+1>4: Gift... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
between organizational boundary spanners contributes to the formation of trust between firms. Our findings, using data on the supplier-buyer relationships of two major US auto manufacturers, suggest that history affects trust formation in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace