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  • 27 Oct 2008
  • News

Empowerment

  • 2000
  • Chapter

Empowerment

By: D. Q. Mills and G. Bruce Friesen
Keywords: Power and Influence
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  • Research Summary

Women's Empowerment

"Female Empowerment: Further Evidence From a Commitment Savings Product in the Philippines." (with Dean Karlan and Wesley Yin) April 2009, World Development 38, Issue 3, March... View Details

  • 1994
  • Book

The Empowerment Imperative

By: D. Q. Mills
Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact
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  • August 1992
  • Article

The Truth about Empowerment

By: D. Q. Mills
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  • September 2001 (Revised January 2002)
  • Case

Votia Empowerment AB (B)

Supplements the (A) case. View Details
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  • August 2001 (Revised January 2002)
  • Case

Votia Empowerment AB (A)

The founder of a Swedish company specializing in e-democracy examines the economics of her business and the value proposition it delivers to customers, including municipalities, unions, and companies. View Details
Keywords: Internet and the Web; Communication; Entrepreneurship; Government and Politics; Sweden
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  • Article

Control in an Age of Empowerment

By: R. Simons
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  • November 14, 2013
  • Article

Public Reporting, Consumerism, and Patient Empowerment

By: Robert S. Huckman and Mark A. Kelley M.D.
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  • Dec 10 2014
  • Testimonial

Evolving from Problem Solving to Empowerment

  • 16 Oct 2013
  • News

Public Reporting, Consumerism, and Patient Empowerment

    The Promise of Micro Finance and Women's Empowerment

    The microfinance revolution has transformed access to financial services for low-income populations worldwide. As a result, it has become one of the most talked about innovations in global development in recent decades. However, its expansion has not been without... View Details

    • April 2013 (Revised November 2015)
    • Case

    Advanced Leadership Pathways: Gilberto Dimenstein and Community Empowerment in Brazil

    By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Alexandre Naghirniac, Ai-Ling Jamila Malone and Daniella Suarez
    In 2011, Gilberto Dimenstein, a well-known Brazilian journalist, created a new model that connected disparate resources to revitalize Sao Paulo. He wanted his model to expand across Brazil and the world. Dimenstein covered many of the social issues facing Brazil as a... View Details
    Keywords: Social Change; Websites; Education; Awareness; Marketing Communication; City Innovation; Leadership; Social Enterprise; Social Entrepreneurship; Web Sites; Marketing; City; Brazil
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    • January 2024 (Revised June 2024)
    • Case

    School of Rock: Tuning into Structured Empowerment (A)

    By: Tatiana Sandino, Jeffrey Rayport, Samuel Grad and Stacy Straaberg
    In summer 2021, School of Rock was a youth-oriented music education company with 291 franchise- and company-owned schools globally. Before CEO Rob Price’s hire in 2017, School of Rock’s nonconformist rock ‘n’ roll culture led to variability in teaching styles,... View Details
    Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Plan; Change Management; Transformation; Communication Strategy; Decisions; Curriculum and Courses; Teaching; Employee Relationship Management; Knowledge Sharing; Leadership Style; Business or Company Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Style; Marketing Strategy; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Franchise Ownership; Performance Expectations; Performance Improvement; Strategic Planning; Attitudes; Conflict Management; Corporate Strategy; Applications and Software; Technology Adoption; Education Industry; Music Industry; Massachusetts; United States
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    • January 2024 (Revised June 2024)
    • Supplement

    School of Rock: Tuning into Structured Empowerment (B)

    By: Tatiana Sandino, Jeffrey Rayport, Samuel Grad and Stacy Straaberg
    In September 2022, Price and his team evaluated the past year’s strategies to increase Method App adoption and discussed new initiatives to consider. View Details
    Keywords: Business Strategy; Technology Adoption; Education Industry; Music Industry; United States; Massachusetts
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    • March 2018 (Revised March 2019)
    • Technical Note

    Control or Flexibility? Structured Empowerment Offers Both — Lessons from Retail & Service Chains

    By: Tatiana Sandino
    This note explains how several retail and service organizations use a practice described here as “structured empowerment” to balance control and flexibility as they grow. I define structured empowerment as a practice that grants employees both (a) the power to make... View Details
    Keywords: Service Operations; Standards; Employees; Service Delivery; Decision Making; Power and Influence; Retail Industry; Service Industry
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    • March 2019
    • Technical Note

    Control or Flexibility? Structured Empowerment Offers Both—Lessons from Retail & Service Chains (Abridged)

    By: Tatiana Sandino
    This note explains how several retail and service organizations use a practice described here as “structured empowerment” to balance control and flexibility as they grow. I define structured empowerment as a practice that grants employees both (a) the power to make... View Details
    Keywords: Service Operations; Standards; Employees; Service Delivery; Decision Making; Power and Influence; Retail Industry; Service Industry
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    • 2013
    • Case

    Advanced Leadership Pathways: Gilberto Dimenstein and Community Empowerment in Brazil (A)

    By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Alexandre Naghirniac, Ai-Ling Jamila Malone and Daniella Suarez
    In 2011, Gilberto Dimenstein, a well-known Brazilian journalist, created a new model that connected disparate resources to revitalize Sao Paulo. He wanted his model to expand across Brazil and the world. Dimenstein covered many of the social issues facing Brazil as a... View Details
    Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Urban Scope; Social Issues; Education; Knowledge Dissemination; Learning; Leading Change; Brazil
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    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    Black Empowerment and White Mobilization: The Effects of the Voting Rights Act

    By: Andrea Bernini, Giovanni Facchini, Marco Tabellini and Cecilia Testa
    How did southern whites respond to the 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA)? Leveraging newly digitized data on county-level voter registration by race between 1956 and 1980, and exploiting pre-determined variation in exposure to the federal intervention, we document that... View Details
    Keywords: Government Legislation; Race; Behavior; Voting; Prejudice and Bias
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    • Research Summary

    "On design of operations & production management technology-base and performance database for empowerment of global/local industries in the international business environment"

    His current research interests are in the reinforcement of continuous improvement schemes such as TPM, its global transfer and road-mapping for empowerment of industries. One of his aims while at Harvard TOM Unit is to establish infrastructure which enables... View Details