Organizational Design - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

Chance Encounters: What's at Stake in Return-to-Office Decisions

years, but there continues to be a wasted opportunity to think about workplace design more strategically. I see executives fall into two patterns: The first is the older generation of executives who are demanding to go back in-person—Wall... View Details

Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint, HBS Alumni Bulletin

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OWN: The Power of Company Ownership - Course Catalog

hands to leave it in after your departure. The course may also open up career pathways you hadn’t considered, or influence how you think about your planned entrepreneurial venture. Career Focus: This course is designed to be broadly... View Details

24 May 2011
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First Look: May 24

environmental performance. We hypothesize that key organizational characteristics reflecting visibility, such as size and environmental impact, shape this type of symbolic compliance and that these relationships are moderated by... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 15, 2009

focus events, and maintaining executive dedication to execute the initiative. The case provides a generalizable example for AHCs of how applying explicit management design can foster robust organizational... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

11 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 11, 2009

component of bid-ask spreads. We empirically examine these predictions for a sample of large U.S. banks, exploiting recent mandatory disclosures of financial instruments designated as fair value levels 1, 2, and 3, which indicate... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2013
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Opening the Door

chapters, as well as a casebook now in its eighth edition. Carliss Baldwin is the William L. White Professor of Business Administration in the School's Finance Unit. She studies the process of design and its impact on firm strategy and... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Management

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Serengeti Eyewear: Entrepreneurship Within Corning, Inc.

By: David A. Garvin and Jonathan West

An entrepreneurial division within Corning, Serengeti Eyewear, has grown rapidly in its brief 10-year history. Now it must decide whether to launch a new line of sunglasses and take on the industry leader. The company has prospered by developing and cultivating... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Design; Management Style; Competitive Strategy; Customer Relationship Management; Employee Relationship Management; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Talent and Talent Management; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Manufacturing Industry

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2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Social Change at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada. He holds an MPhil in Innovation, Strategy and Organization and a PhD in Management from Judge Business School at Cambridge University. Ben’s mission is to use fashion to design a... View Details

28 Jan 2002
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Read All About It! Newspapers Lose Web War

people who can see beyond the core business and help you identify the emerging new markets. Structure helps with this, but even if you create organizational autonomy, but then rely 100 percent on managers steeped in the old business, you... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation; Information; Publishing

01 May 2012
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First Look: May 1

marketplace and so under-invest in the new technology. The second suggests that incumbent firms develop organizational capabilities and cognitive frames that make them slow to "see" new opportunities and that make it difficult... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

05 Feb 2007
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Business and the Global Poor

transform their organizational culture. The case studies in this book show that the companies which have succeeded in low-income markets were ones that strengthened their bottom-up market intelligence—finding novel ways to integrate the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

06 Dec 2021
News

December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books

California and the charming village of St-Rémy-de-Provence. In this unique guidebook, the authors share their favorite things to see and do, both the well-known and the insider secrets. An Insider’s Guide to Provence is designed as a... View Details

01 Feb 1997
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Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS

start up an unusually innovative venture. It was a "launch" truly deserving of that designation - a company that would rocket commercial payloads into space. Today, the firm they established, Orbital Sciences Corporation, having broadened... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry and Susan Young; profiles by Garry Emmons

28 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 28

Publications October 2014 John Wiley & Sons International Strategy: Context, Concepts and Implications By: Collis, David J. Abstract—This book is designed for every student who will be involved in managing and advising companies... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

23 Sep 2024
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2024 Summer Internships in Business & Environment

reporting and requires emissions be allocated to products rather than simply reported at an organizational level. This approach is specifically designed to track the carbon released as products move through... View Details

08 Dec 2014
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A Manager’s Guide to International Strategy

shop in the current low-cost location. How to organize? What are the structures, systems, and processes that need to be in place to manage a company's international strategy? Should authority be delegated to many organizational units or... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

29 May 2013
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Faculty Symposium Showcases Breadth of Research

Dishonesty and Its Organizational Implications, she discussed several laboratory and field experiments meant to uncover factors that lead people to make unethical choices. "We seem to face this type of conflict at any given moment... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

2024
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The Everything Token: How NFTs and Web3 Will Transform the Way We Buy, Sell, and Create

By: Steve Kaczynski and Scott Duke Kominers

We demystify the coming digital revolution, showing how NFTs will transform our online and offline interactions.

NFTs aren’t just pictures on the internet, or a fad that has come and gone. Rather, they’re a new technology for creating digital assets and... View Details