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Strategy Execution Online Course | HBS Online
Articulating Business Strategy with the Four Ps Show Hide Details Concepts Making Tough Choices: Course Introduction Balancing Innovation and Control, Part I Balancing Innovation and Control, Part II Managing Other Organizational Tensions... View Details
- 29 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 29
organizational boundaries and organizational designs. We suggest that when critical tasks can be modularized and when problem-solving knowledge is widely distributed and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Strategy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
of Management Studies . Raffaella Sadun : Recipient of the Grande Ufficiale dell'Ordine "Al merito della Repubblica Italiana" in 2021. Raffaella Sadun : Received the 2021 Robert F. Greenhill Award for Outstanding Service to the HBS Community. 2020 Rebecca A. Karp :... View Details
- 27 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing
technology, operations, finance, etc.), different levels in the customer's organizational hierarchy, and different customer regional and line of business organizations. Customers are reached through complex overlapping means including... View Details
Keywords: by Benson Shapiro
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
2011) Abstract Organizational culture-the shared assumptions, values, and behaviors that determine "how we do things around here"-can be measured and shaped. In organizations with large numbers of customer-facing employees, it... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Accidental Innovator
artists seem to rely on accidents to generate interesting and creative outcomes. How often accidents are involved in important innovations is also difficult to say. How do you define the time boundaries of an accident? What does... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 25 Mar 2015
- HBS Case
Tate’s Digital Makeover Transforms the Traditional Museum
four museums, including the acclaimed Tate Modern—has pushed the boundaries of what an art museum can be. Its journey may be both a road map and a caution for many institutions—cultural and business—as they begin to explore the promise of... View Details
- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why IT Does Matter
the past. The economics of financial transactions have continually dropped from dollars to cents. New entrants have joined many industries and have focused on taking strategic advantage of IT's associated economics. Company boundaries... View Details
Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan
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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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Harvard Business School
Andrew E. Honeycutt (DBA) 1975 An Ethnographic Study of Low-Income Consumer Behavior Hassell H. McClellan (DBA) 1978 One-Bank Holding Companies: a Study of Management Clifford E. Darden (DBA) 1982 Organizational Survival as a Function of... View Details
- 30 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company
Operations managers who are insulated from the marketplace must be forced to interact with people in units that are closest to customers. In all of these cases, it's up to senior managers to ensure that individuals work across View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 01 Dec 1998
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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
- 10 Jan 2007
- HBS Case
The Challenge of Managing National Security
Associate Professor Jan Rivkin joined the HBS faculty in 1997 as a member of the Strategy Unit. His special area of interest is examining the interactions that occur between and across the various functional and product boundaries of the... View Details
- 13 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 13, 2007
the organizational benefits of NPD teams, and identify five attributes of these teams that hinder attainment of their potential: (1) project complexity, (2) cross-functionality, (3) temporary membership, (4) fluid team View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 7, 2016
May 2016 American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings International Data on Measuring Management Practices By: Bloom, Nicholas, Renata Lemos, Raffaella Sadun, Daniela Scur, and John Van Reenen Abstract—We examine methods used to survey firms on their management and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 06 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
How to Do Away with the Dangers of Outsourcing
they pursue internally, while relying heavily on outsourcing many of those activities to strategic partners. At the same time, they seek to increase the number and nature of product offerings, many of which are also offered by their partners. As a result, traditional... View Details
- 13 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Biotech Work as a Business
link the islands of expertise together, they need to look at two broad kinds of mechanisms, according to Pisano: organizational—"so firms can expand their boundaries to include multiple capabilities. Virtual integration is a form of... View Details
- 11 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Group Loyalty a Force for Good or Evil?
or where they are crossing ethical boundaries for the good of their own group.” Gino and colleagues write about this paradox in a new paper forthcoming in the journal Organizational Behavior and Human... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 02 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 2
areas. Our results suggest that matching between scientists may be subject to considerable frictions-even among those in relatively close geographic proximity and in the same organizational system. At the same time, even a brief and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne