Structural Change - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 12

link: http://francescagino.com/#/judgment_research Working Papers When 3+1>4: Gift Structure and Reciprocity in the Field By: Gilchrist, Duncan, Michael Luca, and Deepak Malhotra Abstract—Do higher wages elicit reciprocity and hence... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2007
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Steve Schwarzman

foreseeable future? Conditions have really been almost as good as they can be over the last year or so. It’s reasonable to expect that will change because financial markets never remain stable by definition. So I would expect a less... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

12 May 2015
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A Flash of Insight

When American Airlines Flight 11 struck the North Tower of the World Trade Center on the bright, sunny morning of September 11, 2001, it set off a chain of dark events that would kill 3,000 people and change forever the way many Americans... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; 9/11; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

September 2018 (Revised November 2018)
Case

From Beirut With Love (A)

By: Christina R. Wing, Esel Y. Cekin and Samer Al-Rachedy

This case describes how Robert Fadel, CEO and chairman of ABC, one of Lebanon’s leading retail and real estate groups, professionalized the family business. Robert was the second son of the company’s founder, Maurice Fadel, who had run it single-handedly. Concerned... View Details

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30 Aug 2016
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August 30, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51569 Building the Agile Enterprise: IT Architecture, Modularity and the Cost of IT Change By: MacCormack, Alan, Robert Lagerstrom, David Dreyfus, and Carliss Y. Baldwin Abstract—Recent... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Jun 2004
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The Ambidextrous Organization

business. Building an ambidextrous organization is not easy, but the structure itself, combining organizational separation with senior team integration, is not difficult to understand. Given the executive will to make it happen, any... View Details

Keywords: ambidextrous manager; ambidextrous organization; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Mar 2012
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Faculty Research Online

management, change management, and ethics. An interview with Professor Boris Groysberg. See http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/6827.html. Horrible Boss Workarounds Bad bosses are generally more inept than evil and often aren’t purposefully bad,... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

January 2018 (Revised August 2020)
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Continuous Software Development: Agile's Successor

By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang, Samuel Clemens and Olivia Hull

In recent years, the twin software development methodologies of continuous delivery and continuous deployment have risen to prominence in the start-up world and beyond. These methods have enabled technology companies large and small to accelerate their product... View Details

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27 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54078 Stock Market Returns and Consumption By: Di Maggio, Marco, Amir Kermani, and Kaveh Majlesi Abstract—This paper employs Swedish data containing security level information on households' stock holdings to investigate... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Do I Dare Say Something?

senior management, or even bosses all the way down. In contrast, context refers to organizational factors, outside the individual, that provide cues about how voice is likely to be received. Leader behavior is one such contextual cue. Aspects of organizational culture... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

08 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 8, 2008

journey from 2003 to 2006. The case describes the changes in the senior team, structure and processes of the organization. It follows two illustrations of a powerful employee engagement process for honest... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2023
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Alumni and Faculty Books

every business and nonprofit segment. Conventional approaches to strategy development and problem solving no longer work―there is no stable industry or market equilibrium structure that we will return to “when View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

02 Nov 2020
Blog Post

WE RISE

group for entrepreneurs in 2017. What started as a group of 25 is now the 20,000-member Female Founders Alliance, a social purpose organization that provides guidance to founders and works to change elements of the venture capital View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Other Financial Services; Venture Capital / Private Equity

04 Dec 2012
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Homophily and Structure in a Formal Organization Authors:Adam M. Kleinbaum, Toby E. Stuart, and Michael Tushman Publication:Organization Science Abstract Homophily in social relations results from both individual preferences and selective... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

09 Nov 2017
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Paving the Way for Veterans to Serve in Congress

cofounder of With Honor and serves on its advisory board. Barcott says he knows there will be hurdles to reestablishing a cross-partisan spirit in Washington, including structural issues like gerrymandering that protect highly partisan... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

01 Jan 2007
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Hansjörg Wyss, MBA 1965

Chairman, Synthes, Inc. Return to Alumni Achievement Awards main page EARLIER EDUCATION Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, 1959 M.S., Civil & Structural Engineering LIFELONG LESSON FROM HBS "I learned so much in C. Roland... View Details

17 Feb 2021
Research & Ideas

Pandemic Self-Care for CEOs: Rituals, Running, and Cognitive Restructuring

element of structure and control during an uncertain time. The fact that many of the types of exercises mentioned were repetitive and contemplative in nature suggests that this may have been a quality the CEOs sought out, consciously or... View Details

Keywords: by Gamze D. Yucaoglu, Robin Abrahams, and Boris Groysberg

19 Feb 2019
Blog Post

The First Five Years: '30 Under 30' Edition

How do you use what you learned at HBS in this work? Pradhan: “My time at HBS gave me a great appreciation for the fact that most businesses are really just made up of hundreds or thousands of human beings working together under various incentive View Details

Keywords: All Industries

23 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019

GE Appliances (GEA) ushered in strategic and structural changes to encourage innovation and entrepreneurship at the U.S. company and to help it grow. Haier, which had a model designed to bring the company... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Jun 2003
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respond to changes in their competitive environment, Sull argues that outward manifestations of success — such as impressive earnings, media attention, and monuments to their past accomplishments — can cause managers facing new challenges... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Laura Singleton; Donald; Sull; Henry; Chesbrough; Rob; Austin; Leslie; Perlow; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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