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  • 08 Mar 2021
  • Blog Post

International Women's Day Featured Stories

hierarchies matters just as much to me as the bottom line. Being the SA Co-Chief DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) Officer has also given me a platform to challenge the status quo. Together with my Co-Chief (shoutout to Ronnie!)... View Details

    Charles M. Schwab

    Schwab’s other achievements include the establishment of a profit sharing plan for Bethlehem employees and the creation of a unique leadership hierarchy that afforded lower managers much independence and greater pay. View Details
    Keywords: Metals
    • 30 Jun 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: June 30

    provides insight into how the broader management of experience accumulation affects team performance. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-145.pdf Measuring and Understanding Hierarchy as an Architectural Element in... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 02 Aug 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: August 2

    working paper shows that the costs faced by multinational corporations in managing governments and political risk grew sharply. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-003.pdf The Architecture of Transaction Networks: A Comparative Analysis of View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 15 Oct 2019
    • News

    In Pursuit of Academia

    later informed her doctoral research in the School’s Organizational Behavior program. “I sat in one of the seats closest to the blackboards. I had a perfect view of the whole section,” recalls Fernandes. From there she saw a hierarchy... View Details
    • 09 Feb 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: Feb. 9

    Hierarchies Authors:Maria Guadalupe and Julie Wulf Publication:American Economic Journals: Applied Economics (forthcoming) Abstract This paper establishes a causal effect of product market competition on various characteristics of... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 16 Jun 2003
    • Research & Ideas

    Peeling Back the Global Brand

    served no purpose at all beyond cosmetic appeal. Yet, silly as it seemed, the effect was real in terms of consumer preferences, he said. We talked about brand more and more as a hierarchy of persuasive elements.— Hans-Willi Schroiff... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Consumer Products; Retail
    • Profile

    Matthew Boys

    eBay, he “crunched data about site users” for about nine months, then transferred to Skype as a business analyst. “It was a fun company to work for,” says Matt. “We had a flat hierarchy – you could talk to anyone in the company. We had... View Details
    • 29 May 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    Research Symposium 2014

    across several measures, including professional status (the hierarchy of each team), psychological safety (the extent to which team members felt comfortable speaking up about work-related issues), and leader inclusiveness (the extent to... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Accounting; Health
    • 14 May 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    Are You Managing To a ‘T’? Time To Break With Tradition

    management. It relies on a new kind of executive, one who breaks out of the traditional corporate hierarchy to share knowledge freely across the organization (the horizontal part of the "T") while remaining fiercely committed to... View Details
    Keywords: by Morten T. Hansen & Bolko Von Oetinger
    • 04 Aug 2003
    • What Do You Think?

    Are We Facing an Attitude Shortage?

    management and less hierarchy and bureaucracy. Their "attitudes approach" has had time to get communicated far and wide. Additionally, the rigors of competing in an economy with constrained demand have given further impetus to... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 01 Jun 2015
    • News

    Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2015

    arm’s length, aloof from those they lead. Li discusses why leaders need to master a new way of developing relationships, which begins by stepping out of traditional hierarchies and connecting directly with their followers by listening,... View Details
    • 27 Sep 2010
    • Research & Ideas

    Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured

    "what-if" scenarios. Encouraging and incorporating dissent will signal to team members across the hierarchy that it is acceptable—even expected—to disagree. Similarly, teams can begin sessions by going around the table and soliciting... View Details
    Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
    • 02 Oct 2013
    • What Do You Think?

    Is Leadership an Increasingly Difficult Balancing Act?

    been unable to keep pace in no small part due to the reliance on hierarchy and the dominant position given very highly compensated CEOs." Jackie Le Fevre put it this way: "Short answer to the question—increasingly difficult... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 01 Nov 2010
    • Research & Ideas

    How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making

    hierarchy are associated with a decentralization of the decision-making process," Sadun says. "On the other hand, we have the communication technologies, which actually do exactly the opposite." It's Different Roles... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • 01 Sep 2012
    • News

    Hierarchy's Last Stand

    It’s a puzzle that some people still seek high status for its own sake. Leadership, wealth, and well-being have increasingly little to do with hierarchy, and the perks of power aren’t what they used to be. Hierarchy hasn’t disappeared,... View Details
    Keywords: Rosabeth Moss Kanter; Corporate Services
    • 23 Apr 2001
    • Research & Ideas

    The Gulf: It’s a Family Affair

    A: Make sure that the family is open to really including the non-family managers in important management decisions. Quite often in the family they get together on Sunday afternoon for dinner and make important decisions and the non-family managers aren't around. There... View Details
    Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Andrea Schulman
    • 26 Jun 2000
    • Research & Ideas

    A New Ecosystem for Business and Society

    dominant form of organization has been of a hierarchy. Now and in the future, Clark said, many more people in the organization will be responsible for taking action and initiating strategic activities. As the old hierarchy is beginning to... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • 01 Dec 2016
    • News

    Takeaways

    leads to action that produces needed results.” —Professor emeritus John Kotter (DBA 1972), That’s Not How We Do It Here!, a book written in fable form “It is now possible to build a new sort of firm that promotes open communication across the corporate View Details
    • 14 Nov 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    Creating a Global Business Code

    "actual." "People at the top of the hierarchy generally have a more positive view of an organization than the people in the middle and on the frontlines," Paine says. "The top of the organization doesn't really... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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