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The Impact of the 'Open' Workspace on Human Collaboration

By: Ethan Bernstein and Stephen Turban
Organizations’ pursuit of increased workplace collaboration has led managers to transform traditional office spaces into “open,” transparency-enhancing architectures with fewer walls, doors, and other spatial boundaries, yet there is scant direct empirical research on... View Details
Keywords: Open Office; Transparency; Collaboration; Collective Intelligence; Workspace; Workspace Design; Architecture; Cubicles; Boundaries; Spatial Boundaries; Human Behavior; Propinquity; Co-location; Interaction; Sociometers; People Analytics; Buildings and Facilities; Communication; Design; Human Resources; Leadership; Management; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Networks; Social and Collaborative Networks; Information Technology; United States
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  • 06 Feb 2014
  • HBS Seminar

Anna Lamin, Northeastern University

  • 20 Aug 2019
  • Working Paper Summaries

Spatial Agglomeration and Superstar Firms: Firm-level Patterns from Europe and US

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro, Maggie X. Chen, and Harald Fadinger
  • September 2018
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Knowledge Integrators and the Survival of Manufacturing Clusters

By: Giulio Buciuni and Gary P. Pisano
Over the past two decades, the greater prevalence of global supply chains has had contrasting effects on Western manufacturing clusters. While some of them dwindled, others proved resilient. Contributing to the recent literature on co-located clusters and clusters'... View Details
Keywords: Production; Industry Clusters; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Strategy; Competition
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  • 2014
  • Working Paper

Pay Harmony: Peer Comparison and Executive Compensation

By: Claudine Gartenberg and Julie Wulf
This study suggests that peer comparison affects both wage setting and productivity within firms. We report three changes in division manager compensation following a 1991–1992 controversy over executive pay. We argue that this controversy increased wage comparisons... View Details
Keywords: Pay-for-Performance; Internal Labor Markets; Peer Comparison; Firm Geography; Behavior; Executive Compensation; Policy
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    Pay Harmony: Peer Comparison and Executive Compensation

    This study suggests that peer comparison affects both wage setting and productivity within firms. We report three changes in division manager compensation following a 1991-1992 controversy over executive pay. We argue that this... View Details

    • March 2010 (Revised October 2011)
    • Case

    Highland District County Hospital: Gastroenterology Care in Sweden

    By: Michael E. Porter, Jennifer F Baron and Martin Rejler
    Sweden's Highland District County Hospital, similar to a community hospital in the US, undertook a major restructuring to integrate care delivery for medical conditions served by the Department of Medicine. Each subspecialty within the Department would form a single,... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Sweden
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    • 05 Jul 2006
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Exploring the Structure of Complex Software Designs: An Empirical Study of Open Source and Proprietary Code

    Keywords: by Alan D. MacCormack, John Rusnak & Carliss Y. Baldwin; Video Game; Web Services
    • Research Summary

    Integrated Care for Total Knee Replacement: Quality of Life, Quality of Movement, User Acceptability

    This study provides an opportunity to focus on the challenge of cross-organizational coordination in the healthcare setting. It is structured as a randomized clinical trial involving seven European hospitals (in seven different countries). It is focused specifically... View Details
    • 07 Apr 2010
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Location Strategies for Agglomeration Economies

    Keywords: by Juan Alcácer & Wilbur Chung; Technology
    • 25 Mar 2010
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Local R&D Strategies and Multi-location Firms: The Role of Internal Linkages

    Keywords: by Juan Alcacer & Minyuan Zhao; Technology
    • 2010
    • Working Paper

    Local R&D Strategies and Multi-location Firms: The Role of Internal Linkages

    By: Juan Alcacer and Minyuan Zhao
    This study looks at the role of firms' internal linkages in highly competitive technology clusters, where much of the world's R&D takes place. The leading players in these clusters are multi-location firms that organize and integrate knowledge across sites worldwide.... View Details
    Keywords: Geographic Location; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Industry Clusters; Research and Development; Competitive Advantage; Semiconductor Industry
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    • December 2014
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    Location Strategies for Agglomeration Economies

    By: Juan Alcácer and Wilbur Chung
    Geographically concentrated industry activity creates pools of skilled labor and specialized suppliers, and increases opportunities for knowledge spillovers. The strategic value of these agglomeration economies may vary by firm, depending upon the relative value of... View Details
    Keywords: Location Strategies; Location Choices; Agglomeration Economies; Strategy; Value Creation; Geographic Location; Industry Clusters; Microeconomics; Manufacturing Industry; United States
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    • 08 Oct 2020
    • News

    How to Manage a Hybrid Team

    • April 2012
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    Local R&D Strategies and Multi-location Firms: The Role of Internal Linkages

    By: Juan Alcacer and Minyuan Zhao
    This study looks at the role of firms' internal linkages in highly competitive technology clusters, where much of the world's R&D takes place. The leading players in these clusters are multilocation firms that organize and integrate knowledge across sites worldwide.... View Details
    Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Technological Innovation; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Research and Development; Risk and Uncertainty; Competition; Competitive Advantage; Technology
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    • October 2014
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    Hidden Structure: Using Network Methods to Map System Architecture

    By: Carliss Y. Baldwin, Alan MacCormack and John Rusnak
    In this paper, we describe an operational methodology for characterizing the architecture of complex technical systems and demonstrate its application to a large sample of software releases. Our methodology is based upon directed network graphs, which allows us to... View Details
    Keywords: Architecture; Modularity; Dominant Designs; Complexity; Product Design; Software
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    • 2018
    • Chapter

    Are Licensing Markets Local? An Analysis of the Geography of Vertical Licensing Agreements in Bio-Pharmaceuticals

    By: Juan Alcacer, John Cantwell and Michelle Gittelman
    As the value chain of the pharmaceutical industry disaggregates, upstream discovery is increasingly carried out by small research-specialized firms while downstream development, testing and marketing is conducted by global pharmaceutical firms. Licensing plays an... View Details
    Keywords: Geographic Location; Local Range; Rights; Research and Development; Biotechnology Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry
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    • 2009
    • Working Paper

    Virtual Team Learning: Reflecting and Acting, Alone or With Others

    By: Deborah L. Soule and Lynda M. Applegate
    This paper examines virtual team learning in new product development situations. New product development activities manifest novelty, uncertainty and complexity, presenting an extreme need for learning in the course of the work. We present data from an exploratory... View Details
    Keywords: Competency and Skills; Learning; Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Product Development; Groups and Teams; Behavior
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    • 2015
    • Working Paper

    Can Marshall's Clusters Survive Globalization?

    By: Giulio Buciuni and Gary P. Pisano
    It is widely presumed that in today's globalized economy, the value of geographic clustering of manufacturing industries is no longer valuable. Manufacturing is represented as a highly mobile "commodity" that can be sourced from anywhere in the world where factor costs... View Details
    Keywords: Manufacturing; Globalization; Marshall Industrial Clusters; Global Supply Chains; Manufacturing Industry
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    • 2007
    • Working Paper

    Incompatible Assumptions: Barriers to Producing Multidisciplinary Knowledge in Communities of Scholarship

    By: Corinne Bendersky and Kathleen L. McGinn
    Co-locating knowledge workers from different disciplines may be a necessary but insufficient step to generating multidisciplinary knowledge. We explore the role of assumptions underlying knowledge creation within the field of organizational studies, and investigate how... View Details
    Keywords: Knowledge Management; Knowledge Sharing; Business Processes; Groups and Teams
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