Hierarchy - Publications - Faculty & Research

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
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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