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- 2019
- Working Paper
‘Organizing’, ‘Innovating’ and ‘Managing’ in Complexity Space
By: Michael C. Moldoveanu
We two-dimensional measure of organizational complexity that distinguishes between the informational and computational dimensions of complexity and aims to function as a maximally context-invariant environment for posing fundamental questions about organizational...
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Moldoveanu, Michael C. "‘Organizing’, ‘Innovating’ and ‘Managing’ in Complexity Space." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-128, June 2019.
- 2012
- Other Unpublished Work
Organizing for Ambidexterity: (Re)Configuring and Orchestrating Exploration and Exploitation Over Time
By: Justin Jansen, Costas Andriopoulos and Michael Tushman
- August 2000 (Revised August 2005)
- Case
STAR TV in 1993
Describes STAR TV, a pan-Asian satellite network that has standardized its strategy across its target markets. STAR's acquisition by Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation provides an opportune point to analyze whether the viability of this strategy is likely to increase or...
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Keywords:
Integration;
Adaptation;
Globalization;
Television Entertainment;
Telecommunications Industry
Ghemawat, Pankaj, and Timothy J. Keohane. "STAR TV in 1993." Harvard Business School Case 701-012, August 2000. (Revised August 2005.)
- July 2000 (Revised September 2005)
- Case
Madison Avenue: Digital Media Services (A)
Introduces a "new-economy" company, Madison Avenue, facing challenges of mega-success. In the two years since its founding, the company's revenues have grown from zero to nearly $30 million, head count has swollen from the start-up handful to more than 200, and the...
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Keywords:
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Design;
Online Advertising;
Advertising Industry
Spear, Steven J., and Jeremy Dann. "Madison Avenue: Digital Media Services (A)." Harvard Business School Case 601-020, July 2000. (Revised September 2005.)
- October 1992 (Revised June 1994)
- Case
American Airlines, Inc.: Proposal for a Three-Class Transcon Service
American Airlines, Inc., the largest airline in the United States, is considering a proposal to enhance its flagship New York JFK - Los Angeles transcontinental service from a two-class (first and coach) to a three-class (first, business, and coach) product. The...
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Keywords:
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Marketing Strategy;
Air Transportation Industry;
United States
Dhebar, Anirudh S. "American Airlines, Inc.: Proposal for a Three-Class Transcon Service." Harvard Business School Case 593-042, October 1992. (Revised June 1994.)
- October 1994 (Revised March 1996)
- Case
Step Change at Du Pont's Camden Plant
By: Nitin Nohria
Nohria, Nitin. "Step Change at Du Pont's Camden Plant." Harvard Business School Case 495-017, October 1994. (Revised March 1996.)
- 2003
- Chapter
Understanding Outcomes of Organizational Learning Interventions
By: Amy C. Edmondson and Anita Williams Woolley
Edmondson, Amy C., and Anita Williams Woolley. "Understanding Outcomes of Organizational Learning Interventions." Chap. 10 in Blackwell Handbook of Organizational Learning and Knowledge Management, edited by M. Easterby-Smith and M. Lyles, 185–211. Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2003.
- November–December 2022
- Article
Your Company Needs a Space Strategy. Now.
By: Matthew Weinzierl, Prithwiraj (Raj) Choudhury, Tarun Khanna, Alan MacCormack and Brendan Rosseau
Space is becoming a potential source of value for businesses across a range of sectors, including agriculture, pharmaceuticals, consumer goods, and tourism. To understand what the opportunities are for your company, the authors advise you to consider the four ways in...
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Keywords:
Space Strategy;
Emerging Markets;
Natural Resources;
Analytics and Data Science;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Adaptation;
Competition;
Aerospace Industry
Weinzierl, Matthew, Prithwiraj (Raj) Choudhury, Tarun Khanna, Alan MacCormack, and Brendan Rosseau. "Your Company Needs a Space Strategy. Now." Harvard Business Review (November–December 2022): 80–91.
- Web
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the insp... Harvard Business School New Venture Competition: Entrepreneurs Adapt in Challenging Times 05 Apr 2021 Entrepreneurship continues to thrive during a year of unprecedented challenges, with innovative f... Meet the 2021 New...
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- 03 Oct 2018
- What Do You Think?
How Should Managers Deal with the Challenges of Building an Inclusive Workplace?
CamiloTorres What Are the Most Effective Management Approaches to Inclusion? Inclusion is important to an organization. But it is a challenge in the current day workplace climate, especially when it comes to such things as one-on-one activities between men and women....
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by James Heskett
- February 2018
- Supplement
Qualtrics (B)
By: Doug J. Chung and James M. Lattin
Qualtrics was an online survey research platform and since the beginning, the company had relied entirely on an inside sales model—sales done remotely without face-to-face contact with clients. The low-cost inside sales model, along with an emphasis on a strong sales...
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Keywords:
Inside Sales Model;
Sales;
Strategy;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Organizational Change and Adaptation
Chung, Doug J., and James M. Lattin. "Qualtrics (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 518-083, February 2018.
- October 2017
- Article
Elevating Repositioning Costs: Strategy Dynamics and Competitive Interactions
By: Anoop R. Menon and Dennis Yao
This paper proposes an approach for modeling competitive interactions that incorporates the costs to firms of changing strategy. The costs associated with strategy modifications, which we term “repositioning costs,” are particularly relevant to competitive interactions...
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Keywords:
"Repositioning Costs;
Strategy Dynamics;
Strategic Interaction;
Capabilities;
Cost;
Strategy;
Change;
Game Theory;
Organizational Change and Adaptation
Menon, Anoop R., and Dennis Yao. "Elevating Repositioning Costs: Strategy Dynamics and Competitive Interactions." Strategic Management Journal 38, no. 10 (October 2017): 1953–1963.
- October 2003
- Case
ABS Global
By: David E. Bell, Hal Hogan and Jose M. M. Porraz
ABS Global is considering an acquisition in Australia. Efficient production and distribution is becoming more difficult as it becomes global. Yet trade restrictions and local preferences for its product, bull semen, dictate that ABS come up with a new way to...
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Keywords:
Acquisition;
Production;
Global Strategy;
Distribution;
Adaptation;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Australia
Bell, David E., Hal Hogan, and Jose M. M. Porraz. "ABS Global." Harvard Business School Case 504-053, October 2003.
- January 1987 (Revised January 1988)
- Case
Frito-Lay, Inc.: A Strategic Transition (A)
The setting is a food manufacturing company which has stumbled in terms of its historic growth and profit achievements. In trying to recapture its momentum, the president has used information technology as one element in his program of transition. The case focuses on...
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Keywords:
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Information Technology;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Manufacturing Industry;
Food and Beverage Industry
Mead, Melissa J., and Jane C. Linder. "Frito-Lay, Inc.: A Strategic Transition (A)." Harvard Business School Case 187-065, January 1987. (Revised January 1988.)
- October 2014
- Supplement
Atlantis Paradise Island Resort and Casino (B): Improving Performance with New Core Values
By: Lynda M. Applegate, Chekitan S. Dev and Gabriele Piccoli
The leadership team of Atlantis Paradise Island, under new ownership, decided that better alignment of the core values with the vision and mission statement would create a more compelling and consistent organizational narrative that would redouble employee commitment...
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Keywords:
Organization Behavior;
Service Management;
Strategy;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Service Industry
Applegate, Lynda M., Chekitan S. Dev, and Gabriele Piccoli. "Atlantis Paradise Island Resort and Casino (B): Improving Performance with New Core Values." Harvard Business School Supplement 815-073, October 2014.
- January 1994 (Revised November 1995)
- Case
Phillips 66: Transforming for the 1990s
Applegate, Lynda M. "Phillips 66: Transforming for the 1990s." Harvard Business School Case 194-022, January 1994. (Revised November 1995.)
- July 1998
- Supplement
Organizational Change at Andersen Consulting - EMEAI
By: Ashish Nanda
Supplements Andersen Consulting - EMEAI: Reorganization for Revitalization. An alternative to video Organizational Change at Anderson Consulting - EMEAI, Video.
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Nanda, Ashish. "Organizational Change at Andersen Consulting - EMEAI." Harvard Business School Supplement 899-035, July 1998.
- 12 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 12
ties between section-mates lead to insights about the merits of business plans. Download the paper: http://papers.nber.org/papers/w16918 Delegation in Multi-Establishment Firms: Adaptation vs. Coordination in I.T. Purchasing Authority...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
consolidate as well as rethink their purchasing practices—moving from looking for products to looking for cost-effective solutions that added value and improved patient outcomes. These market forces caused Becton Dickinson to try to adapt...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
A Modern-Day Classic
and “integration” to help managers grasp how an organization is an entity made up of so many modular units, and that the ideal structure of that entity depends on its way of adapting to the features of its chosen environment. “Contingency...
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