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- 18 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 18
Abstract—Innovation has traditionally taken place within an organization's boundaries and/or with selected partners. This Chandlerian approach to innovation has been rooted in transaction costs, organizational boundaries, and information... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 19
platform. This result helps explain why the owner of a proprietary platform such as Microsoft has chosen to contribute to the development of Linux. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/12-114_60db6865-8e08-4861-98d2-4ba4dd99352a.pdf Who... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 9
has been little empirical evidence on the propensity with which core-periphery structures are observed in practice, the factors that explain differences in the design of such structures, or the manner in which these structures evolve over... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 27, 2007
with Abernathy, Rebecca Henderson and Carliss Baldwin, Clark placed product and process designs at the center of his explanation of how innovation determines the structure and evolution of industries. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Sep 2020
- News
How To Make Diversity a Reality
together a team—a very capable team, like you would if you were launching a new product—who will be focused on designing a plan and a strategy around how are you going to make these improvements and how you're going to do it at scale. And... View Details
- 15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008
specialties; integrates standard and custom care processes; and surrounds them with specifically configured information and business systems. Such organizational designs imply new roles for physicians. The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 20
Study Results Author:Robert Simons Abstract This paper reports the collective finding from 102 field studies that look at the relationship between two organization design variables: span of control and span of accountability. Clustering... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Oct 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
powerful insights and practical guidelines that allow managers to bridge professional divides and organizational boundaries in order to work together effectively, this is a new exploration of the challenges involved in today's global... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Dec 2006
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First Look: December 12, 2006
populations. The authors call it "catalytic innovation." Based on Clayton Christensen's disruptive-innovation model, catalytic innovations challenge organizational incumbents by offering simpler, good-enough solutions aimed at... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 17
relationship, greater partner integration is associated with higher costs, but not with higher product quality. Our results shed light on the subtle interplay between formal and relational contracting. They have important implications for practice, with respect to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2015
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September 15, 2015
pricing decisions on a daily basis. Rue La La is in the online fashion sample sales industry, where they offer extremely limited-time discounts on designer apparel and accessories. One of the retailer's main challenges is pricing and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jul 2020
- News
The First Five Years: Meaghan Fitzgerald (MBA 2016)
role? “As some of my classmates can attest to, I often ping friends asking for a copy of a case I think would be relevant to a particular challenge at work. Most recently, I’ve been thinking about the classes I took related to strategy and View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Growing Together
Education program, Governing for Nonprofit Excellence: Critical Issues for Board Leadership (GNE). GNE provides leaders of nonprofit boards with valuable insights on matters such as strategic planning, managing mission transitions and View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
- 26 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018
forthcoming Journal of International Business Studies Organizational Innovation in the Multinational Enterprise: Internalization Theory and Business History By: da Silva Lopes, Teresa, Mark Casson, and G. Jones Abstract—This article... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 May 2009
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First Look: May 5, 2009
stage can continue to deliver the resources, capabilities, and platforms needed to fuel the emerging opportunities of the future. This business lifecycle view of innovation requires new leadership and organizational models and new... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 4
ultimate "target agreement" with sufficient support to be sustainable. For example, generating the backing necessary from several organizational units for a proposed project to be approved may call for a small-scale... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 28 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 28, 2007
by contrast, developed an explicit strategy for collaboration and made organizational changes to aid performance in these efforts. Ultimately, these actions allowed them to identify and exploit new business opportunities. In sum,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- September 2019
- Case
Shell: A Company of Opportunity?
By: Joseph B. Fuller and Emer Moloney
The Opportunity Hub was a cloud-based platform that enabled managers to market projects they were working on and associated resourcing needs as “Opportunity Owners” and employees, or “Opportunity Seekers,” to browse these statements of need and engage when they had... View Details
Keywords: Business Divisions; Change Management; Competency and Skills; Experience and Expertise; Talent and Talent Management; Energy; Energy Sources; Non-Renewable Energy; Renewable Energy; Human Resources; Employees; Retention; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Jobs and Positions; Job Design and Levels; Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Labor; Human Capital; Labor Unions; Leading Change; Resource Allocation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Evaluation; Performance Productivity; Strategic Planning; Projects; Motivation and Incentives; Business Strategy; Social and Collaborative Networks; Technology Platform; Chemical Industry; Energy Industry; Information Technology Industry; Technology Industry; United Kingdom; Netherlands
Fuller, Joseph B., and Emer Moloney. "Shell: A Company of Opportunity?" Harvard Business School Case 320-025, September 2019.
- 28 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Accountability at the World Bank
democratic decision-making and accountability," Ebrahim told the committee. As author of NGOs and Organizational Change: Discourse, Reporting, and Learning (Cambridge University Press, 2003), co-editor of Global Accountabilities:... View Details
Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
All in the Family
make sense of family-business dynamics. The School has made further strides in the past six years with courses, cases, and conferences designed to explore the frustrating yet fascinating dynamics that make family businesses among the most... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso