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The Flattened Firm--Not as Advertised
For decades, management consultants and the popular business press have urged large firms to flatten their hierarchies. Flattening (or delayering, as it is also known) typically refers to the elimination of layers in a... View Details
- 23 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Strategy-Focused Organization
- 29 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business Press Is a Watchdog that Bites
Dutch Leonard
Herman B. ("Dutch") Leonard is Eliot I. Snider and Family Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and the George F. Baker, Jr. Professor of Public Sector Management at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. In... View Details
- 18 Jun 2015
- News
Should companies eliminate audits?
- Article
The Error at the Heart of Corporate Leadership
- 2014
- Working Paper
Making the Numbers? 'Short Termism' & the Puzzle of Only Occasional Disaster
- 2003
- Working Paper
The Flattening Firm: Evidence from Panel Data on the Changing Nature of Corporate Hierarchies
- January 2021 (Revised February 2021)
- Case
Tech with a Side of Pizza: How Domino's Rose to the Top
Rohit Deshpande
Rohit Deshpandé is a Baker Foundation Professor and Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing, Emeritus at Harvard Business School, where he has been teaching in the Advanced Management Program,... View Details
- February 2008 (Revised November 2011)
- Case
The International Monetary Fund in Crisis
- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
- May 2011
- Article
Consequences and Institutional Determinants of Unregulated Corporate Financial Statements: Evidence from Embedded Value Reporting
- Article
Market Heterogeneity and Local Capacity Decisions in Services
- 18 Jun 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Elections and Discretionary Accruals: Evidence from 2004
- 01 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
John H. Patterson and the Sales Strategy of the National Cash Register Company, 1884 to 1922
- 25 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
When Your Passion Works Against You
- 12 Sep 2023
- What Do You Think?
Who Gets the Loudest Voice in DEI Decisions?
- 08 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated
- July 2023
- Teaching Note