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  • 31 Jul 2008
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Communication (and Coordination?) in a Modern, Complex Organization

Keywords: by Adam M. Kleinbaum, Toby E. Stuart & Michael L. Tushman
  • 2008
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Communication (and Coordination?) in a Modern, Complex Organization

By: Adam M. Kleinbaum, Toby E. Stuart and Michael L. Tushman
This is a descriptive study of the structure of communications in a modern organization. We analyze a dataset with millions of electronic mail messages, calendar meetings and teleconferences for many thousands of employees of a single, multidivisional firm during a... View Details
Keywords: Business Conglomerates; Interpersonal Communication; Organizational Structure; Social Issues; Boundaries
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Kleinbaum, Adam M., Toby E. Stuart, and Michael L. Tushman. "Communication (and Coordination?) in a Modern, Complex Organization." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-004, July 2008.
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Communication (and Coordination?) in a Modern, Complex Organization

This is a descriptive study of the structure of communications in a modern organization. We analyze a dataset with millions of electronic mail messages, calendar meetings and teleconferences for many thousands of employees of a single, multidivisional firm during a... View Details

    Reconsidering the Urban Disadvantaged

    Villa Victoria examines how of a group of low-income Puerto Rican migrants with little formal education living in a Boston enclave resisted the efforts of the city to relocate them in the name of "urban renewal." After a successful grassroots movement, the... View Details

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    Identity Change and Complexity

    People in today's world have unprecedented access to different cultures and experiences, enabling them to develop identities that are highly complex and relatively dynamic. In order for people to effectively communicate with, collaborate with, and contribute to others... View Details
    • June 2002
    • Background Note

    Complexity Theory and Negotiation

    By: Michael A. Wheeler and Gillian Morris
    This case highlights an application of current thoughts in complexity science to negotiation theory. It emphasizes a provocative approach that questions much of traditional negotiation research thus far. The case explains the roots of complexity science and some broad... View Details
    Keywords: Complexity; Negotiation Tactics; Outcome or Result; Interpersonal Communication
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    Wheeler, Michael A., and Gillian Morris. "Complexity Theory and Negotiation." Harvard Business School Background Note 902-230, June 2002.
    • March 2020 (Revised June 2023)
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    EyeControl: Inspiring Communication

    By: Paul A. Gompers and Danielle Golan
    Eye-controlled communication device startup EyeControl was founded in Tel Aviv, Israel in 2016 by cofounders with a shared personal connection to locked-in syndrome—a neurological disorder that left sufferers cognitively sound, yet paralyzed, with the exception of eye... View Details
    Keywords: Health Disorders; Communication Technology; Business Startups; Expansion; Finance; Decision Making; Social Enterprise; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
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    Gompers, Paul A., and Danielle Golan. "EyeControl: Inspiring Communication." Harvard Business School Case 820-078, March 2020. (Revised June 2023.)
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    Understanding Financial Communication Strategy

    Greg Miller is investigating financial communication. Financial communication is the process through which managers explain the firm to the external stakeholders. While capital providers are the primary audience for this information, effective financial communication... View Details
    • 10 Jul 2012
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    Communicating Frames in Negotiations

    Keywords: by Kathleen L. McGinn & Markus Nöth
    • 2014
    • Working Paper

    Linguistic Complexity in Firm Disclosures: Obfuscation or Information?

    By: Brian J. Bushee, Ian D. Gow and Daniel Taylor
    Prior research argues that the linguistic complexity of a firm’s disclosures reflects managerial obfuscation. However, complex language can be used either to obfuscate or to convey information, with the effect likely depending on the incentives of the source. We... View Details
    Keywords: Communication; Financial Reporting
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    Bushee, Brian J., Ian D. Gow, and Daniel Taylor. "Linguistic Complexity in Firm Disclosures: Obfuscation or Information?" Working Paper, January 2014.
    • 2024
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    Categorical Processing in a Complex World

    By: Marco Sammon, Thomas Graeber and Christopher Roth
    In real-world news environments, quantitative information is rarely presented in isolation; it is characterized through qualitative comparisons with various reference levels. Company earnings, for example, are commonly compared to analyst forecasts, previous earnings,... View Details
    Keywords: Announcements; Cognition and Thinking; Communication Strategy
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    Sammon, Marco, Thomas Graeber, and Christopher Roth. "Categorical Processing in a Complex World." Working Paper, November 2024.
    • 07 Nov 2012
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    Causes and Consequences of Linguistic Complexity in Non-US Firm Conference Calls

    Keywords: by Francois Brochet, Patricia Naranjo & Gwen Yu; Accounting
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    Testing Substitutability

    By: John William Hatfield, Nicole Immorlica and Scott Duke Kominers
    We provide an algorithm for testing the substitutability of a length-N preference relation over a set of contracts X in time O(|X|3⋅N3). Access to the preference relation is essential for this result: We show that a substitutability-testing algorithm with access only... View Details
    Keywords: Substitutability; Matching; Communication Complexity; Preference Elicitation; Marketplace Matching; Communication; Mathematical Methods; Economics
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    Hatfield, John William, Nicole Immorlica, and Scott Duke Kominers. "Testing Substitutability." Games and Economic Behavior 75, no. 2 (July 2012): 639–645.
    • 30 Nov 2017
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    SEAS Complex Reaches for a New Frontier

    The beam going up (photos by Ashley Garrett, MBA 1987) The Harvard community marked a major milestone on Wednesday as members gathered along Western Avenue in Allston to celebrate the “topping-off” of the new Science and Engineering View Details
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    Regulatory negotiations and risk communication

    In the pharmaceutical industry a drugs benefits and risks are constantly being weighed by companies, regulators, physicians and drug consumers. While companies and regulators must make decisions based on population statistics about drug outcomes, physicians and drug... View Details
    • 24 Apr 2014
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    Leading in the face of complex challenges

    John B. Hess (AB 1975, MBA 1977), CEO of Hess Corporation and chair of The Harvard Business School Campaign, is working to ensure the School continues to educate the leaders who will help solve the world’s most pressing and complex... View Details
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    Choosing Between Lotteries: Remarkable Coordination Without Communication

    By: Yoella Bereby-Meyer, Simone Moran, Brit Grosskopf and Dolly Chugh
    The current research examines tacit coordination behavior in a lottery selection task. Two hundred participants in each of three experiments and 100 in a fourth choose to participate in one of two lotteries, where one lottery has a larger prize than the other.... View Details
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    Bereby-Meyer, Yoella, Simone Moran, Brit Grosskopf, and Dolly Chugh. "Choosing Between Lotteries: Remarkable Coordination Without Communication." Journal of Behavioral Decision Making 26, no. 4 (October 2013): 338–347.
    • 10 Jul 2018
    • Blog Post

    Embracing Entrepreneurship & the Asian American Community

    How I incorporated my experience in the Asian American community at HBS into co-founding Fish Sauce.  Wilson Kyi (MBA '18) graduated from the University of Southern California with a degree in Industrial and Systems Engineering and worked... View Details
    • 09 Jun 2023
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    How to Communicate your Organizations’ People-Centered Values

    facilitate these complex conversations, and organizations who invest in bringing in external facilitators can build a higher degree of trust with employees. Communicating with Candidates at HBS HBS... View Details
    Keywords: All Industries
    • 14 Apr 2016
    • News

    Final OK for Science and Engineering Complex in Allston

    Keywords: Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development
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