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  • 01 Jun 2016
  • News

Research Brief: The High Cost of Election Expectations

perfect laboratory to test initiatives designed to improve both. Eager to showcase the country’s strengthened commitment to democracy, Kenya’s Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) partnered with Assistant Professor... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
  • 01 Dec 1998
  • News

New Releases

boundaries and making the relationship between organizations and markets much more complex." To address such complexities, Jensen, the School's Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration, presents a new, integrated theory of... View Details
  • 07 Oct 2002
  • Research & Ideas

What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence

involved with options. No one change by itself will be enough. CEOs must address the organizational architecture: the planning systems; the performance measurement and evaluation systems; the incentives systems; the boundary View Details
Keywords: by Harvard Management Update
  • 01 Dec 2010
  • News

Faculty Books

Financial System by David S. Scharfstein, as part of The Squam Lake Group (Princeton University Press) In the fall of 2008, fifteen of the world’s leading economists — representing a broad spectrum of economic opinion — gathered at New... View Details
Keywords: business proposals; financial regulation
  • Web

Strategy Execution - Course Catalog

critical performance variables and design management control systems to track progress in achieving key goals. Controlling strategic risk: You will learn how to identify various types of internal and external risks and implement internal... View Details
  • 23 Jun 2015
  • First Look

First Look: June 23, 2015

Sciences Modularity and Organizations By: Baldwin, Carliss Y Abstract—Modularity describes the degree to which a complex system can be broken apart into subunits (modules) that can be recombined in various ways. Modularity is important... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Diversity on Teams: Our Own Harvest - Race, Gender & Equity

framework only raises the bar for us all. (Keeping) all hands on deck A Conversation with David M. Porter on Implicit Bias Don Tomaskovic-Devey on the Inequalities of Pay for Performance Systems If you really want technology to be... View Details
  • 2011
  • Working Paper

Organizations in the Shadow of Communities

By: Siobhan O'Mahony and Karim R. Lakhani
The concept of a community form is drawn upon in many subfields of organizational theory. Although there is not much convergence on a level of analysis, there is convergence on a mode of action that is increasingly relevant to a knowledge-based economy marked by porous... View Details
Keywords: Knowledge Sharing; Organizational Culture; Civil Society or Community; Boundaries; Information Technology; Theory; Value Creation
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  • 18 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 18, 2007

Synthesis Author:Carliss Y. Baldwin Abstract This paper constructs a unified theory of the location of transactions and the boundaries of firms. It proposes that systems of production can be viewed as... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 2012
  • Article

Specialization and Variety in Repetitive Tasks: Evidence from a Japanese Bank

By: B. Staats and F. Gino
Sustaining operational productivity in the completion of repetitive tasks is critical to many organizations' success. Yet research points to two different work-design-related strategies for accomplishing this goal: specialization to capture the benefits of repetition... View Details
Keywords: Motivation; Productivity; Specialization; Variety; Work Fragmentation; Boundaries; Performance Productivity; Organizations; Research; Strategy; Motivation and Incentives; Opportunities; Market Transactions; Resource Allocation; Performance; Goals and Objectives; Learning
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  • 2019
  • Working Paper

Self-Interest: The Economist's Straitjacket

By: Robert Simons
This paper examines contemporary economic theories that focus on the design and management of business organizations. In the first part of the paper, a taxonomy is presented that describes the different types of economists interested in this subject—market economists,... View Details
Keywords: Self-interest; Economist; Moral Philosophers; Regulation; Capture; Organization Design; Economy Theory; Organization Theory; Management Theory; Commitment; Controls; Governance; Customers; Conflict of Interests; Business or Company Management; Competition; Organizational Design; Business Education; Agency Theory; Economics; Theory; Boundaries
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  • 2006
  • Article

The End of Nationality? Global Firms and 'Borderless Worlds'

By: G. Jones
This article provides a historical perspective to current debates whether large global firms are becoming "stateless" and whether this is a historically new phenomenon. It shows that a great deal of international business in the nineteenth century was not easily fitted... View Details
Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Multinational Firms and Management; Trade; Ownership; International Finance; Economic Systems; International Accounting; Globalized Economies and Regions; Geographic Location; Nationality; Boundaries; Global Strategy
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  • Web

Law, Management and Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog

and develop a deeper appreciation of how legal systems operate and how to operate within the boundaries of legal systems. In response to increased student interest in private equity, a module of the course... View Details
  • 10 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 10

Perspective on Ambidexterity: Structural Differentiation and Boundary Activities Authors:Sebastian Raisch and Michael L. Tushman Abstract This paper explores the shifting nature of differentiation and integration in organizations... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

RoGME: Role of Government in Market Economies - Course Catalog

private-sector leaders are now widely expected to provide informed, intelligent leadership on the policy issues at the heart of this course. Career Focus The course is designed for students who aim to lead private-sector institutions of View Details
  • Web

The Strategic Case for Diversity in Digital Transformation - Blog: RGE Report

employment segregation shows that industrial transformation alone doesn’t explain increasing segregation—it’s often how jobs are restructured or outsourced across firm boundaries that matters most . The jobs at the “core” functions often... View Details
  • 29 Sep 2011
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Leveraging Intellectual Property

Appropriation--How to Draw the Boundaries of Intellectual Property Many companies have adopted models of "open innovation," in which they seek ideas from external sources such as university labs, independent entrepreneurs, customers, and... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
  • 01 Mar 2013
  • News

Sizing Up Social Impact

difficult to clearly integrate with MCC's precise directive of focusing on activities that lead to poverty reduction through economic growth. "The MCC has been explicit in setting boundaries around initiatives that it believes will lead... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems
  • 13 Jan 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Making Biotech Work as a Business

systems so companies can work together relatively smoothly. Intellectual property boundaries are clear. Biotechnology, on the other hand, is "definitely" over on the messy end of the interface... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Biotechnology; Health; Technology
  • 28 Feb 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Capital Rules: The Tensions of Global Finance

What fuels a global economy? Certainly the easy flow of capital across national boundaries would seem near the top of the list. But financial globalization is not an on/off switch, notes Professor Rawi Abdelal. Different countries and... View Details
Keywords: by Rawi Abdelal