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- 27 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments
voicemail messages. Now their words are much more authentic and can be remarkably empowering. Social networking is also flattening organizations by distributing access to information. Everyone is equal on the social network. No View Details
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by Staff
- Profile
Mike Maples Jr.
will focus less on layers of management hierarchy and coordination and more on creating networks of access where customers as well as loosely-connected providers of their labor are a key part of the network. “So you won’t need the...
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- 30 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers
hierarchy did form (Thyssen hardly ran some sort of democracy), but one that accorded a space of responsibility and decision-making flexibility to subordinate managers. In spite of the fact that he was personally very authoritarian and it...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
of strategy as “the smallest set of choices to optimally guide (or force) other choices.” The paper shows that this definition coincides with the equilibrium outcome of a “strategy formulation game,” in which such strategy endogenously creates a View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Screen Saver
caught up in the hierarchy of leadership. He engaged with you regardless of your level in the company. That really mattered at a place like Starbucks." Lopez sees a direct connection between his focus at Starbucks and his work at AMC....
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- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
but makes strategy more valuable, that long-range strategies will be more concise, that a choice of what not to do can be very strategic, and that a strategy "bet" can be valuable. It shows how strategy endogenously creates a View Details
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Sean Silverthlorne
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
capital shortages, distributed urban territory to assuage losers of reform and promote economic growth. The findings suggest that 1) growth strategies, and the territorial politics they produce, are products of the post-Mao urban View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 22, 2006
Working PapersCartels and Competition: Neither Markets nor Hierarchies Author:Jeffrey Fear Abstract This article provides an overview on the rise and fall of cartels since the late 19th century when the modern cartel movement properly...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Nov 1999
- Lessons from the Classroom
What’s Next & So What? Leading in the 21st Century
going to have the power and the passion to fundamentally change it. For example, almost half of Sony's profits now come from a guy who six or seven years ago was a lowly engineer in corporate R&D. He had to fight his way up the View Details
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- 12 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 12
attributes of a decision problem. The hierarchy of new conditions varies in the degree to which it specifies the functional form, ranging from more general solutions with weaker constraints, to more specific solutions with stronger...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 25, 2008
unique panel dataset on firm hierarchies (1986-1999) of large U.S. firms and find that increasing competition leads firms to become flatter, i.e., (i) reduce the number of positions between the CEO and division managers (DM), (ii)...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
Architecture of Transaction Networks: A Comparative Analysis of Hierarchy in Two Sectors Authors:Luo, Jianxi, Carliss Y. Baldwin, Daniel E. Whitney, and Christopher L. Magee Publication:Industrial and Corporate Change Abstract Many...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 14
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/415066-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 815-088 John D. Rockefeller: The Richest Man in the World By the late nineteenth century, scale and managerial hierarchies had extended to several major...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
began to emerge, first in the United States and then in Europe: the vertically integrated, multidivisional (or "M-form") corporation that made large investments in manufacturing and marketing and in management hierarchies to...
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by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books
having access to valued resources, which anyone can have, regardless of their income or status in life. Everyone has a resource to offer, so everyone has access to power. Battilana and Casciaro offer a timely, democratized vision of power. While View Details
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
that humor plays a fundamental role in shaping interpersonal perceptions and hierarchies within groups. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51589 September 2016 Harvard Business Review Know Your Customers'...
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Carmen Nobel
- 11 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 11
suppliers and its blue collar workforce as homogeneous, interchangeable entities, and its view that expertise could be partitioned so that there was minimal overlap of knowledge amongst functions or levels in the organizational hierarchy...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
revenue streams, he wondered how to maintain their entrepreneurial culture that he saw as a prerequisite for this—particularly their lean hierarchy and researchers' freedom to follow innovation where it led them—in a company of more than...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
typically refers to the elimination of layers in a firm's organizational hierarchy and the broadening of managers' spans of control. The alleged benefits of flattening flow primarily from pushing decisions downward to enhance customer and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Aug 2016
- Cold Call Podcast
Why College Rankings Keep Deans Awake at Night
is it China, a place into which more resources are going than any other place in the world, and a place with more extraordinary human capital than any other place in the world, and a place (maybe because it's a communist country) that is more obsessed with View Details