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- 13 Oct 2015
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October 13, 2015
alter interactions between functions, in ways that hold major implications for organizational structure. Intense, ongoing coordination becomes necessary across multiple functions, including design, operations, sales, service, and IT....
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- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
cross-disciplinary group of mid-career, research-oriented faculty—has organized to coordinate activities that promote high-quality research in the field of strategy. This editorial essay summarizes the group's view of the characteristics...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
proponent of evolutionary change, he is considering a radical move: create a senior management position responsible for e-commerce to coordinate web-based offerings and outreach across the Society's various departments, transition NGS...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
other leisure boats, and set amongst dramatic coastline, the project would transform the region. Coordinating the many stakeholders in a new country, Jack has to decide the best way to navigate the development risks and whether the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do We Win the Cyberwar?
partnerships, but the coordination was a real challenge—particularly when there was classified information involved.” It’s a broad point, but apply it to cybersecurity, says Lefkowitz, and you see why the National Security Agency might...
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Dan Morrell; illustrations by Victo Ngai
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
beyond.Spataro: That’s right. I think the context is important. Almost 60 percent, based on our telemetry, of the average information worker’s time is actually spent in communication and coordination just to do the rest of their job. So,...
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- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
both organizations and employees benefit by emphasizing newcomers' authentic best selves. Paper: http://www.francescagino.com/publications.html First-Party Content and Coordination in Two-Sided Markets Authors:Hagiu, Andrei, and Daniel...
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Carmen Nobel
- 17 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 17
through corporate-wide coordination by functional managers in headquarters. We find that the number of functional managers closer to the product ("product" functions i.e., marketing, R&D) increase as firms focus their...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
the form of budget deficits, competition from other states, and coordination with central government policies. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu /b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707008 Vignettes on...
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Martha Lagace
- 16 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 16
electricity production and consumption to reduce spikes in demand; and EMBARQ, based in Washington, DC, which coordinates the interests of business and government to organize city transit services. Publisher's link:...
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Anna Secino
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
coordination between sales, marketing, and, crucially, manufacturing. As an egomaniacal, 30-year-old marketing maven, I had been conditioned to look down on the “functional groups” run by people without advanced degrees who got their...
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Walt Disney Studios
- 17 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 17
relationship between changes in the structure of the executive team, firm diversification, and IT investments-which arguably alter returns to exploiting synergies through corporate-wide coordination by functional managers in headquarters....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
interdependence between divisions residual to the formal structure. As a result, those innovations which involve cross-line-of-business interdependence are trumped by the firm's articulated strategy and structure. Social structures could, potentially, fill this View Details
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Martha Lagace
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
7:00 AM meeting for one time zone and then an 8:00 PM meeting for the other side of the world. Trying to do some top-down coordination and rules of engagement to avoid work spilling out everywhere. I think all managers and all employees...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Amy Regan Morehouse on workforce transformation Employers are wrestling with how to provide the resources and foster the motivation workers need for continuous learning in an AI-altered economy. Workers of all stripes are looking to acquire the skills to compete. How...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
how Parker Dewey coordinates with its more than 600 postsecondary education partners to enhance college-to-career transitions. Welcome to the Managing the Future of Work podcast, Jeffrey. Jeffrey Moss: Thanks so much, Joe. I’m honored to...
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mechanisms for coordination and trust (approximately 20 percent of class session): We cover the under revolutionary promise of blockchain technologies to lower the cost of transactions and create new markets and new communities. Companies...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
do you actually do that on purpose? Moretti talks about regional economies essentially have a trajectory to them. He essentially suggests that the only plausible sort of way to shift that trajectory at scale on purpose is what he would describe as a big...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
upskilling, and then you’re adding in this extra coordination layer to the private sector and being a good interface there.Ahuja: Right.Kerr: Tell us a little bit about the administration’s sort of approach to diversity, and you’ve...
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America on the Move - U.S. Competitiveness
V2V exists. Although vehicle communication technology is well-developed, coordination still needs to happen, and there has to be a clear vision... GM can quickly build the technological backbone for VMT into its vehicles, but it should...
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