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- 23 Jun 2023
- HBS Case
This Company Lets Employees Take Charge—Even with Life and Death Decisions
of centralization without the costs of bureaucracy and hierarchy. For organizations inside or outside of health care, the case study invites some critical questions: What function should the back office... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
HBS Clubs and Associations
of the Juvenile Justice Fund in Atlanta, which provides resources and services for youth and their families who are involved with the juvenile justice system. “I was able to... View Details
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Corporate Strategy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Company The Walt Disney Company creates corporate value by harnessing fit across the value chains of its multiple business units. Compete in theme parks and resorts, video entertainment, and consumer product... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
boss but a rock star courted by suppliers, shopping center developers, and the media. Josh is eager to step into his father’s role and passionate about the family business. But... View Details
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard
business-unit managers choose local measures that influence, but are not necessarily identical to the corporate scorecard measures. The most remarkable transformations and partnerships occur in support View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
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Modern Capitalism: Mergers and Syndicates - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School
transcontinental [railroad] became.” 36 Regulation supported the abilities of companies in other industries to become larger corporations as well, and companies sometimes subsumed other organizations with... View Details
- 2012
- Working Paper
Conflict Policy and Advertising Agency-Client Relations: The Problem of Competing Clients Sharing a Common Agency
By: Alvin J. Silk
What restrictions should be placed on advertising agencies with respect to serving accounts or clients that are competitors of one another in order to avoid conflicts in interest? In recent decades, the advertising and marketing services industry has undergone a number... View Details
Keywords: Advertising; Service Delivery; Competition; Conflict of Interests; Policy; Practice; Advertising Industry; United States
Silk, Alvin J. "Conflict Policy and Advertising Agency-Client Relations: The Problem of Competing Clients Sharing a Common Agency." Marketing Science Institute Report, No. 12-104, May 2012.
- 05 Nov 2014
- HBS Seminar
CV Harquail, Authentic Organizations and Stevens Institute of Technology
- 2012
- Article
Conflict Policy and Advertising Agency-Client Relations: The Problem of Competing Clients Sharing a Common Agency
By: Alvin J. Silk
What restrictions should be placed on advertising agencies with respect to serving accounts or clients that are competitors of one another in order to avoid conflicts of interest? In recent decades, the advertising and marketing services industry has undergone a number... View Details
Keywords: Advertising Agency; Competitors; Marketing Services Industry; Structural Changes; Agency-client Relationships; Hybrid Conflict Policies; Safeguards; Advertising; Advertising Industry; Europe; Latin America; North and Central America
Silk, Alvin J. "Conflict Policy and Advertising Agency-Client Relations: The Problem of Competing Clients Sharing a Common Agency." Foundations and Trends® in Marketing 6, no. 2 (2012): 63–149.
- 09 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization
placing blame after the fact. The US military uses after-action reviews (AARs) to gather and record lessons to apply in the future. The Army’s Opposing Force (OPFOR) is a brigade whose function is to prepare... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Power of Imperfect Eating By Kavita Bhatnagar (SELP 11, 2022) Penguin Enterprise Rather than dictating which foods are good or bad, this book weaves together stories that mirror the intricate, emotional, and often imperfect... View Details
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO
across divisions, and members discovered areas in which they could combine forces to tackle new business opportunities. Gillette's complex organizational matrix meant that many operations issues arose at the intersection of groups—for... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- Article
Exploring the Duality Between Product and Organizational Architectures: A Test of the 'Mirroring' Hypothesis
By: Alan MacCormack, Carliss Y. Baldwin and John Rusnak
A variety of academic studies argue that a relationship exists between the structure of an organization and the design of the products that the organization produces. Specifically, products tend to "mirror" the architectures of the organizations in which they are... View Details
Keywords: Organization Design; Architecture; Modularity; Open Source Software; Communication; Design; Governance; Management Practices and Processes; Open Source Distribution; Product Design; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Structure; Performance; Problems and Challenges; Behavior; Software
MacCormack, Alan, Carliss Y. Baldwin, and John Rusnak. "Exploring the Duality Between Product and Organizational Architectures: A Test of the 'Mirroring' Hypothesis." Research Policy 41, no. 8 (October 2012): 1309–1324.
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Information Technology - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
meaningful use program that was introduced in 2009 and 2010. However, the capabilities of today’s IT infrastructure fall well short of that needed to truly support value-based care. Consensus among IT... View Details
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
favor posted prices; our estimates suggest the latter is more important for explaining the shift away from auctions. We provide supporting evidence from a survey of eBay sellers and discuss why sellers might... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
Boards and Corporate Governance: A Balanced Scorecard Approach
A board's most important function is approval and oversight of strategy and of major strategic decisions, such as acquisitions and large capital... View Details
Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Krishna G. Palepu
- 17 Oct 2023
- Blog Post
HBS Section I Celebrates Parents, Mentors, and Partners Day
esteemed LEAD professor. Even students who did not have external guests present enthusiastically joined the audience, providing their support and applause for our guest participants. It was a celebration of... View Details
- March 1995 (Revised July 1995)
- Case
Apple Computer (B)(Abridged) : Building a Worldwide Strategy
By: Michael Beer and Gregory C. Rogers
Describes the building of Apple's new strategy. Explores how the human resource function at Apple Computer can best support that strategy. View Details
Beer, Michael, and Gregory C. Rogers. "Apple Computer (B)(Abridged) : Building a Worldwide Strategy." Harvard Business School Case 495-045, March 1995. (Revised July 1995.)
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Faculty Q&A: Cents and Sensibilities
is a good case study. A few years ago, California was in complete crisis, fiscally. One option was to become a more “competitive” state—lower taxes, lower spending, “lean and mean.” The other perspective was, “No, that’s not who... View Details