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- 13 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 13, 2007
that facilitate teamwork has been a pursuit of researchers for nearly a half-century. We review existing literature on teams and team learning in organizational behavior and technology and innovation to offer insights for research on new... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Leading Race Work in Business Schools - Race, Gender & Equity
a focus on leadership, identity, and organizational culture change. Tony Mayo Tony Mayo is the Thomas S. Murphy Senior Lecturer of Business Administration and C. Roland Christensen Distinguished Management Educator in the View Details
- 09 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Moving From Bean Counter to Game Changer
management level.” If only they could be heard. Often these individuals remain buried in hierarchy, impacting only their isolated areas of influence. In the working paper Organizational Toolmaking: Transformations in the Influence of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Service with a Smile
Intentions to Quit,” was published in the December 2002 Journal of Organizational Behavior. Not surprisingly, the researchers found that workers who are asked to suppress negative or unpleasant emotions are often unhappy at work and... View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
New Releases
research has led to the development of a new organizational framework - the differentiated network - that will enable MNCs to succeed. Through systematic examination of MNCs, Nohria and Ghoshal show that... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Four Promoted to Full Professor
Clayton M. Christensen has a joint appointment in the Technology and Operations Management and General Management units. His research focuses on the management of technological innovation, developing View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Ink: Your Best Self
portfolio familiar to any executive. Courtesy Amy Jen Su Courtesy Amy Jen Su What trends in the business world are creating new pressures on leaders? Organizational life in general has gotten more complicated. Work has become increasingly... View Details
Keywords: April White
- Career Coach
Lauren Murphy
individual leaders as well as senior management teams to improve team alignment with organizational goals. Lauren brings decades of management experience to her coaching work. For 14 years, she was the Director, Career Education &... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products; Investment Management; Financial Services (All); Manufacturing; Publishing / Communications / Advertising; Retail; Health Care; Clean Technology; Energy; Commercial Banking; Financial Services (All); Consulting; Education; Entertainment / Media; Entrepreneurship; Financial Services (All); Government; Hospitality; Investment Banking; Financial Services (All); Private Equity; Financial Services (All); Real Estate; Search Fund; Financial Services (All); Sports; Technology; Telecommunications; Venture Capital; Financial Services (All)
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Faculty Retirements
the Age of Options Executive Education workshop. A graduate of Harvard College (1958) as well as HBS, Sloane has served as a consultant to industrial and commercial companies in the areas of corporate strategic development and View Details
- December 2011 (Revised June 2013)
- Supplement
Bananas (B)
As owner and CEO, Wim Van der Borght had grown Bananas in 8 years from a 4.5 million euro company into a 40 million euro group of companies with a range of field marketing activities in Belgium and the Netherlands. The core of the group consisted of two companies —... View Details
Van den Steen, Eric. "Bananas (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 712-452, December 2011. (Revised June 2013.)
- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Challenge of the Multi-site Nonprofit
some possible solutions—at the Faculty Research Symposium held at HBS on May 20. Whether a particular nonprofit organizational structure favors central or local control, inevitable tensions develop between... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- December 2010
- Teaching Note
Corporate Strategy at Berkshire Partners (TN)
By: Julie M. Wulf
Teaching Note for 710-414. View Details
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Organizations and Markets: A Challenging View of the World
and leading others. This is a fundamental concept discussed in Coordination, Control, and the Management of Organizations (CCMO), one of the MBA Program's most popular electives. The course takes an interdisciplinary approach to View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Short Takes
resource practices such as employee selection and conflict resolution affect how well care providers work together, as well. Gittell and Weiss are currently surveying managers, care providers, and patients to further develop and test... View Details
Keywords: Judith Ross
- March 2017
- Supplement
OXXO's Turf War Against Extra (B)
By: Tatiana Sandino, Gerardo Pérez Cavazos and Annelena Lobb
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Organizational Culture; Organizational Design; Competitive Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Retail Industry; Mexico
Sandino, Tatiana, Gerardo Pérez Cavazos, and Annelena Lobb. "OXXO's Turf War Against Extra (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 117-022, March 2017.
- March 2017 (Revised April 2017)
- Case
OXXO's Turf War Against Extra (A)
By: Tatiana Sandino, Gerardo Pérez Cavazos and Annelena Lobb
In 2006, Mexican convenience store chain OXXO faced a threat from a formidable competitor, the rival convenience chain Extra. OXXO had embarked on an initiative to fortify its corporate culture and operating system, but the threat of Extra raised the question of... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Culture; Organizational Design; Competitive Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Retail Industry; Mexico
Sandino, Tatiana, Gerardo Pérez Cavazos, and Annelena Lobb. "OXXO's Turf War Against Extra (A)." Harvard Business School Case 117-021, March 2017. (Revised April 2017.)
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
New Releases
to present this material in a way that not only proves stimulating and convincing to scholars interested in innovation, the management of knowledge, and organizational learning," Pisano writes, "but that is also accessible to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Stem Cell Man
Last year, Brock Reeve (MBA ’88) was named executive director of the Harvard Stem Cell Institute to bring his managerial and diplomatic skills to bear on achieving organizational cohesion and help speed laboratory innovations to market.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
New MBA Leadership Course
design-team member and course head Lynn S. Paine, one of ten HBS faculty members who taught LCA this year. Paine explains that after a lengthy review of the first-year offerings on managers’ responsibilities that began in 2001, the faculty voted to View Details
- April 2009
- Case
GSK's Acquisition of Sirtris: Independence or Integration?
By: Toby E. Stuart and James Weber
An executive from pharmaceutical company GSK must choose how much to integrate a recently acquired biotechnology firm, Sirtris. Moncef Slaoui, GSK's global head of R&D, championed the acquisition of Sirtris to gain access to its potentially revolutionary science.... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Resource Allocation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Research and Development; Science-Based Business; Integration
Stuart, Toby E., and James Weber. "GSK's Acquisition of Sirtris: Independence or Integration?" Harvard Business School Case 809-026, April 2009.