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  • August 2019
  • Case

The Allstate Corporation, 2019

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
In July 2019, Allstate, the United States’ number-three property and casualty (P/C) insurer, released its second-quarter earnings, which reported first-half revenues of $22.1 billion, up 11.4% year-over-year. Shareholders cheered the top-line growth, but P/C premiums... View Details
Keywords: Insurance Companies; Strategic Analysis; Strategic Change; Insurance; Strategy; Strategic Planning; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Competitive Strategy; Insurance Industry; North America
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  • Student-Profile

Professor Lumumba Seegars

Lumumba Seegars, assistant professor of business administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit, discusses his work studying intergroup inequalities within organizations, how this research helps us... View Details
  • Student-Profile

Justine Murray

hadn’t originally been part of her plan, Justine soon found herself excited by the idea of undertaking her own research. She volunteered as a research assistant at the London Business School, which confirmed her interest in View Details

    Chandler’s Legacies

    had integrating the U.S. economy, creating out of necessity new organizational forms, financial instruments and accounting techniques. For my Ph.D. thesis, I decided to study transportation technologies in my home country of Colombia. I... View Details
    • Student-Profile

    Ahmmad Brown

    delve deeper into research—“I hadn’t done academic research in over a decade, which made me a different kind of candidate for doctoral programs. In the Organizational Behavior program at HBS, I knew I would... View Details
    • Student-Profile

    Ryann Noe

    says Ryann. “A light went off in my head, and I realized that this was a field where I could merge these two halves of myself.” In between Williams and HBS, Ryann spent four years working in economic consulting and research in New York... View Details
    • 23 Jul 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’

    form, as we move from one element to the next. In the end, these four elements coalesce to form a single integrated process—a single source of organizational power. Talking About talk, Inc. When we began the project that led to this book,... View Details
    Keywords: Re: Boris Groysberg
    • Student-Profile

    Alexandra C. Feldberg

    work, I developed a deep interest in gender and knowledge transfer in organizations. Although I enjoyed the analytical aspects of consulting work, I missed being in an academic environment. I realized that the depth, precision, and rigor of academic View Details
    • 18 Mar 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    The Essentials for Enlightened Experimentation

    R&D systems for performing experiments that will generate the information needed to develop and refine products quickly. The challenges are managerial as well as technical: Organize For Rapid Experimentation Examine and, if necessary, revamp entrenched routines,... View Details
    Keywords: by Stefan Thomke
    • Student-Profile

    Jaylon Sherrell

    agency over the direction of my career,” she says, explaining her decision to return to academia. Jaylon attended The PhD Project’s annual conference in 2020, where she met others like her and learned more about what a doctorate in View Details
    • Student-Profile

    Aurora Turek

    psychology and was introduced to the field of Organizational Behavior. As a rising senior, she served as a summer research assistant at Columbia Business School and went on to accept a full time View Details
    • 09 Jun 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    The Benefits of “Not Invented Here”

    valuable technology on the inside. Some companies are converting internal researchers into external technology scouts, so that the external searching is being conducted by some of the same people who have worked inside within the labs.... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 02 Apr 2001
    • What Do You Think?

    Telecommuting: Dangerous to Health?

    telecommuting is "dangerous to health"—the title of the column that prompted these responses—depends on several factors ranging from organizational culture and job type to skill level and personality. Eleanor Latimer adds... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 16 Apr 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    The Inner Workings of Corporate Headquarters

    Physicists tell us entropy is the natural state of the world, and that law seems especially true in today's multidivisional company. "When you create organizational subunits of any form, they'll have a tendency to focus internally on... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • 30 Sep 2019
    • Book

    Book Excerpt: Why a Volume on Race, Work, and Leadership

    social stratification—the explicit discussion of race and organizational leadership is still considered taboo or irrelevant in many business circles. Recent research has indicated that CEOs (and lower-level... View Details
    Keywords: Re: Andi Wang
    • 01 Dec 2015
    • Research & Ideas

    What to Do When Your Organization Has Dueling Missions

    the social mission. “Hybrids have to simultaneously pursue commercial and social objectives,” says Julie Battilana, an associate professor in the Organizational Behavior unit at Harvard Business School. “The big question is, is it really... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • 01 Mar 2004
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science

    In a recent case study, professor Alan MacCormack and research associate Jay Wynn swung for the moon—Mars, actually. After two high-profile missions to Mars failed in 2000, MacCormack wanted to understand the View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 30 May 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers

    this interview he discusses the development of the German corporation and what modern managers can learn from that history. The book was edited by Thomas K. McCraw, the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History at HBS, and was View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 15 Oct 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Business IT Innovation is so Difficult

    Further research revealed what may be missing. "It has to do with the complementary organizational practices with which the IT has been deployed," she says. Deep hierarchical structures with long lines of... View Details
    Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
    • 02 Oct 2000
    • Research & Ideas

    Networked Incubators: Hothouses of the New Economy

    important and lasting way of creating value and wealth in the new economy? Morten Hansen, Henry Chesbrough, Nitin Nohria, and Donald Sull argue that one type of incubator, called a networked incubator, represents a fundamentally new and enduring View Details
    Keywords: by Morten T. Hansen, Henry W. Chesbrough, Nitin Nohria & Donald N. Sull