Organization Boundaries - Publications - Faculty & Research

21 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

Inside the OR: Disrupted Routines and New Technologies

minimal: "[We did] one dry run the afternoon before," said an anesthesiologist. "I don't even think the surgeon showed up." Boundary spanning—communicating and coordinating with areas of the View Details

Keywords: by Hilah Geer

15 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 15

tax policy. Teams and Team Effectiveness in Health Services Organizations Authors:Bruce J. Fried, Sharon Topping, and Amy C. Edmondson Publication:In Health Care Management: Organization Design and Behavior.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Sep 2023
Book

Digital Strategy: A Handbook for Managing a Moving Target

learn- ing and organizing bear the potential to generate new ways of creating and capturing value, and of stretching and redefining the traditional boundaries of the (single) firm that are leaning toward... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Information Technology; Technology

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AOM PDW 2014: Being There/Being Them: Entry, Exit, and In-Between in Organization Ethnography

Co-Organizers: Michel Anteby, Harvard; Curtis K. Chan, Harvard; Julia DiBenigno,... View Details

14 May 2013
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First Look: May 14

and society at large. To do that, it has to increase shareholder value while at the same time improving the firm's performance on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) dimensions. This article outlines a process that can be used to execute a sustainable strategy... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Mastering Strategy Execution

By: Robert Simons

Professor Robert Simons’ research encompasses three areas of management accountability that are the foundation for successful strategy execution: organization design, performance measurement and control, and risk management. In addition, Simons is interested in the... View Details

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Thomaz Galvao

responsible for their social mobility. Through education, I’ve been able to reach a status usually denied to Black people. I want to push the boundaries even further, to continue the path of achieving new highs where people like me are... View Details

29 Jan 2018
Book

How 'Teaming' Saved 33 Lives in the Chilean Mining Disaster

exacerbating the drilling accuracy problem. "No one person, or even one leadership team, or one organization or agency, could have successfully innovated to solve this problem" Rescuers soon divided into subteams to experiment with... View Details

Keywords: by Amy C. Edmondson; Mining

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Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

(19) Annual Reports (2) Annuities (1) Arts (2) Asset Management (3) Asset Pricing (4) Assets (11) Attitudes (18) Auctions (4) Balanced Scorecard (11) Banks and Banking (30) Behavioral Finance (7) Behavior (75) Bids and Bidding (1) Bonds (7) Borrowing and Debt (14)... View Details

01 May 2012
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First Look: May 1

findings that have implications for theory and practice, and that suggest new directions for future research. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-093.pdf Information Technology and Boundary of the Firm: Evidence from... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

17 Feb 2009
Research & Ideas

What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking

to cooperate with the physicians in the future. Thus, moral gray zones enable both managers and workers to perform their roles. Q: Gray zones might be detrimental to organizational health, even subversive. When employees do things behind the scenes, an View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

16 Feb 2010
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The Outside-In Approach to Customer Service

Reorganize for Resilience: Putting Customers at the Center of Your Business (Harvard Business Press). Gulati, whose research explores leadership and strategic challenges for building high growth organizations in turbulent markets, is the... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Consumer Products

14 Sep 2020
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You're Right! You Are Working Longer and Attending More Meetings

How do people adjust their work patterns?” Longer days and more check-ins The team compared the frequency and timing of emails sent within and outside organizations eight weeks before the start of pandemic-related lockdowns and eight... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

10 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 10, 2007

conclude that stars add more value than they capture. I discuss implications for managers in the motion picture industry. Brokerage, Boundary Spanning, and Leadership in Open Innovation Communities Authors:Lee Fleming and David M.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

08 Oct 2020
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Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated

How Remote Work Changes What We Think About Onboarding What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadership The COVID Two-Step for... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

2012
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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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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

organizational practices varies across organizations within and across countries, and how this affects productivity at the micro and macro level. Research Communication within Firms: Evidence from CEO Turnovers , Management Science... View Details

26 Nov 2007
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Best Practices of Global Innovators

performance dimensions, including both lower cost and increased differentiation. Successful organizations achieve the latter in 2 ways; first, by leveraging a partner's superior capabilities and skills, and second, by accessing a... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

31 Jul 2023
News

Striving for Imperfection

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Since he left HBS in 1990, Charles Conn (MBA 1990) has built a full and varied portfolio career. Early on, he was a partner at McKinsey and then a tech executive, founding Ticketmaster-Citysearch. Today,... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

19 Apr 2004
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Birth of the American Salesman

"The development of modern sales management is an uniquely American story." Why do you think this is? Walter Friedman: In the early nineteenth century, many nations, certainly all the European ones, had traveling peddlers and peddling networks. But no nation... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard

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