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  • 2013
  • Working Paper

Delegation in Multi-Establishment Firms: Evidence from I.T. Purchasing

By: Kristina McElheran
Recent contributions to a growing theory literature have focused on the tradeoff between adaptation and coordination in determining delegation within firms. Empirical evidence, however, is limited. Using establishment-level data on decision rights over information... View Details
Keywords: Business Units; Business Headquarters; Decision Choices and Conditions; Operations; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Power and Influence; Adaptation; Cooperation
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  • 23 Jul 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’

especially those that incorporate emerging forms of social media, support that shift. Equally important, though, is the emergence of cultural norms that favor dialogue over monologue. The benefits that... View Details
Keywords: Re: Boris Groysberg
  • 04 Sep 2019
  • News

The School that Donham Built

Donham, Faust noted, wanted students to grasp “the relationship between their particular interests and broader social and economic structures.” He decided courses should be organized around functions—such as finance, marketing, and... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
  • Web

MOC Network - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Delivery Project The Institute for Cancer Care Innovation MOC Network ICIC U.S. Cluster Mapping Project U.S. Competitiveness Project FSG Shared Value Initiative Social Progress Imperative AllWorld Network MOC Network The MOC Affiliate... View Details
  • 28 Oct 2015
  • Research & Ideas

A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur

in the advertising business. It worked for everyone. We all acquired a slight accent at that time.” A: India got its independence in 1947, and even in the 1960s the country was still very heavily influenced by the British Raj. I learned... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Advertising
  • Book Review

Negotiating with Iran: Cultural and Historical Insights

By: James K. Sebenius
In a vitally important relationship famously caricatured as the "Mad Mullahs" v. the "Great Satan," the fraught negotiating history and future of Iran and the United States demands historical, cultural, and psychological insight if there is to be any prospect of... View Details
Keywords: National Security; Negotiation; Power and Influence; Iran; United States
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  • 2010
  • Chapter

What Is Leadership: The CEO's Role in Large, Complex Organizations

By: Michael E. Porter and Nitin Nohria
What is the role of the CEO in a large, complex enterprise? What makes a CEO effective? At first blush, these questions seem easy to answer. A CEO is the epitome of leadership. He or she exercises ultimate power and is responsible for making the most critical choices... View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Leadership; Managerial Roles; Power and Influence
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  • 01 Feb 2002
  • News

Driven

In Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Our Choices, HBS professor emeritus Paul Lawrence and professor Nitin Nohria explore one of the most basic questions of human behavior: What motivates us to act the way we do? Drawing on theories of evolutionary biology and View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 26 Jun 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Three Countries, Three Choices in Post-Soviet Eurasia

power in the region. An explanation, rather, lies in nationalism: in the degree to which these countries constructed and embraced their own concepts of national identity and allowed such concepts to influence economic policy. As Abdelal... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • March 2024
  • Case

Katharine Graham: Changing the World

By: Robert Simons and Shirley Sun
This case traces the life of Katharine Graham from housewife to publisher of the Washington Post. Born into a family of wealth, Graham described herself as a “doormat wife” after she married Phil Graham and stayed at home to raise their children. His unexpected death... View Details
Keywords: Mission and Purpose; Values and Beliefs; Power and Influence; Personal Characteristics; Leadership Style; Success; Work-Life Balance; News; Newspapers; Media; Gender; Publishing Industry
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  • 01 Mar 2012
  • News

In Memoriam

Emeritus, passed away in October at the age of 78. His work focused on exploring the strategic uses of technology by corporations and the relationship between technological change and competitive strategy, as well as the social... View Details
Keywords: obituraries; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • Student-Faculty-Profile

Michelle Shell & Ryan Buell

Research focus Michelle: Ryan and I are both interested in deeply understanding what happens when customers interact with an organization’s operating system. Insights about customer behavior can influence a company to operate differently... View Details
  • 15 May 2013
  • Research & Ideas

From McRibs to Maseratis: The Power of Scarcity Marketing

Canadian culture, all Canadian measurements are in hockey rink units, or HRUs.) Social media activity was intense, and consumers even organized Double Down "Bro Downs" where men competed to see who could guzzle the most Double... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael I. Norton
  • 08 May 2012
  • First Look

First Look: May 8

the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-093.pdf Componential Theory of Creativity Author:Teresa M. Amabile Abstract The componential theory of creativity is a comprehensive model of the social and psychological components necessary... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 29 Jul 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Get Off the Dime!

change to meet the challenges of the twenty-first century. But look how radically different the stories are. In "Approval," the focus was mostly on getting the management committee to say yes, and the method mostly one of analysis to View Details
Keywords: by John P. Kotter & Dan S. Cohen
  • 02 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 2

when they were randomly assigned to wear them (Experiment 1b). Experiment 2 shows that the effects of wearing counterfeit sunglasses extend beyond the self, influencing judgments of other people's unethical behavior. Experiment 3... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • March 2010
  • Article

Female Empowerment: Further Evidence From a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines

By: Nava Ashraf, Dean Karlan and Wesley Yin
Female "empowerment" has increasingly become a policy goal, both as an end to itself and as a means to achieving other development goals. Microfinance in particular has often been argued, but not without controversy, to be a tool for empowering women. Here, using a... View Details
Keywords: Goals and Objectives; Product; Microfinance; Decision Making; Policy; Welfare or Wellbeing; Gender; Power and Influence; Philippines
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  • 31 Oct 2007
  • HBS Case

Climate Change Puts Heat on GMs

What is the responsibility of business regarding social issues? And how does that jibe with maximizing profits? In "UBS and Climate Change—Warming Up to Global Action?" Associate Professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Professor Forest Reinhardt present the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities
  • 25 Jul 2013
  • News

An Engine of Education Innovation

organization functions as an "an engine of innovation," working to define the nature of good teaching, determine the role of technology in education, and influence change in the country's graduate schools of education. Once Match begins... View Details
Keywords: Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services
  • 22 Apr 2008
  • First Look

First Look: April 22, 2008

not to save, make it easier to save, provide financial incentives to induce savings, leverage social networks to support savers, and finally, to programs that excite people to saving. These programs involve a number of different... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace