Organizational Research - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Jul 2011
First Look

First Look: July 5

community form is drawn upon in many subfields of organizational theory. Although there is not much convergence on a level of analysis, there is convergence on a mode of action that is increasingly relevant to a knowledge-based economy... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Sep 2024
Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces 2024 Goldsmith Fellows

noted, “I’m excited to learn from other fellows and explore opportunities for collaboration across other systems, including policy, healthcare, and criminal justice.” Keemia Azvine. Keemia, who is pursuing a MS/MBA in Biotechnology Life Sciences, comes to HBS after... View Details

14 May 2020
Research & Ideas

What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog

aspect of doing business must be completely rethought for both short-term survival and long-term advantage—and CEOs are profoundly aware of that. We want to share with you both high-level findings about the sleep-robbing concerns of corporate leaders, but also what... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

Web

“It’s like a pie-eating contest” | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

researching his first post-graduation work role. “I spent every Monday afternoon at Baker Library searching for jobs.” Then two serendipitous events came together. Just as his roommate extolled the virtues of the fellowship opportunity... View Details

01 Mar 2004
News

Leadership Project Codifies Elusive Traits

legacy (past), global, and emerging (future) — the initiative aims to provide cutting-edge research on the often-elusive topic of leadership. Led by Anthony J. (“Tony”) Mayo (MBA ’88), its seven affiliated faculty members are part of the... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Feb 1997
News

Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management

as sustaining creativity on the job, entrepreneurial thinking in established organizations, and the link between individual creativity and organizational innovation. While the course outlines the components necessary for individual... View Details

04 Dec 2012
First Look

First Look: December 4

employees in a large information technology firm. These findings have implications for research on homophily, gender relations in organizations, and formal and informal organizational structure. Exclusivity,... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

24 Oct 2006
First Look

First Look: October 24, 2006

Working PapersManaging Functional Biases in Organizational Forecasts: A Case Study of Consensus Forecasting in Supply Chain Planning Authors:Rogelio Oliva and Noel Watson Abstract To date, little research... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Learning Curve: Making the Most of Outsourcing

the vendor of outsourced services can improve the efficiency and perhaps the quality of services delivered—particularly in health care, where outsourcing is on the rise. In research recently published in the journal Organization Science,... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Guttry; Health

14 May 2009
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Teams

in your organization, join the club. Despite the mantra that goals are good, the process of setting beneficial goals is harder than it looks. New research by HBS professor Max H. Bazerman and colleagues explores the hidden cost when... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

08 Jan 2001
Research & Ideas

Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]

and shareholders have the ability to put the heat on the company if it is not performing. These represent rather substantial changes in the Japanese organizational model. The leading companies—the Sonys—are rapidly moving in these... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer

21 Jul 2009
First Look

First Look: July 21

9001 Quality Management System standard predicts changes in organizational outcomes such as profits. This is the first large-scale study to explore how employee outcomes such as employment, earnings, and health and safety change when... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

Evolving for Success [Part One]

Kanter, an authority on organizational change who advises major corporations and governments on these very issues, lays out a blueprint to help readers get a handle on work, and life, in an increasingly connected world. Here, in the first... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

17 Apr 2017
HBS Case

This Turkish Debt Collector Is Customer-friendly

of both their consumers and regulators. “Usually, with debt collection, the object is to dial for dollars—collect as much as you can in the first phone call, and then outsource the work to the legal system,” says Campbell, whose research... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

What It Takes: Minorities in the Executive Suite

positions. One of the first things Thomas and Gabarro discovered in their research was a variation in the rules of the traditional "corporate career tournament." According to the tournament concept, Thomas explains, managers who... View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

01 Dec 2011
News

Alumni Book Briefs

’01) (Harvard Business Review Press) Anthony draws on stories from his research and fieldwork with companies like Procter & Gamble to demystify innovation. He presents a simple definition of innovation, breaks down the essential... View Details

Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Finance; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing

30 Jan 2007
First Look

First Look: January 30, 2007

bancos mexicanos. The Competitive Advantage of Management Accounting Author:Robert S. Kaplan Periodical:Journal of Management Accounting Research 18 (2006): 127-135 Abstract The article discusses the role for management accounting systems... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

04 Sep 2019
News

The School that Donham Built

campus on the banks of the Charles. “Dean Donham was an extraordinarily innovative and productive leader,” says Dean Nitin Nohria. “Many iconic HBS elements—including our mission, residential campus, case method teaching, the Harvard Business Review, and the Division... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

06 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?

already dominated by Microsoft, and given that the financial motive is secondary, it will be very hard for anyone to oust Linux. The organizational stream of research on OSS has identified several drivers of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

25 Aug 2022
News

September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

organizations which has largely overlooked the changing design of executive power and the means of senior executives, who have more leeway to construct their roles than managers at any other organizational layer. F.A.R.T.: Top Secret! No... View Details

Publications