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- 08 Dec 2021
- Blog Post
The Drive to Succeed: Silvio Memme (MBA 2020) and the Transition to Venture Capital
As a child, Silvio Memme (MBA 2020) had a big dream – to one day design engines for Ferrari. While naysayers told him to be realistic, Memme took that advice to mean he would need to pour himself into this goal for it to become a reality....
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- 28 Sep 2006
- Working Paper Summaries
Architectural Innovation and Dynamic Competition: The Smaller “Footprint” Strategy
- September 2016 (Revised March 2017)
- Module Note
Strategy Execution Module 3: Using Information for Performance Measurement and Control
By: Robert Simons
This module reading explains how managers use information to control critical business processes and outcomes. The analysis begins by illustrating how managers use information to communicate goals and track performance. Then the focus turns to the choices that managers...
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Keywords:
Management Control Systems;
Implementing Strategy;
Strategy Execution;
Organization Process;
Feedback Model;
Innovation;
Uses Of Information;
Big Data;
Benchmarking;
Decision Making;
Information;
Performance Evaluation;
Analytics and Data Science
Simons, Robert. "Strategy Execution Module 3: Using Information for Performance Measurement and Control." Harvard Business School Module Note 117-103, September 2016. (Revised March 2017.)
- 06 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
Skills and Behaviors that Make Entrepreneurs Successful
behaviors, and how different types of entrepreneurs are similar and different,” Applegate says. “These insights will enable us to do a better job of educating entrepreneurs,...
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by HBS Working Knowledge
- Article
Management Practices, Relational Contracts and the Decline of General Motors
By: Susan Helper and Rebecca Henderson
General Motors was once regarded as one of the best managed and most successful firms in the world, but between 1980 and 2009 its share of the U.S. market fell from 62.6% to 19.8%, and in 2009 the firm went bankrupt. In this paper we argue that the conventional...
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Keywords:
Organizational Design;
Management Practices and Processes;
Insolvency and Bankruptcy;
Manufacturing Industry;
Auto Industry;
United States
Helper, Susan, and Rebecca Henderson. "Management Practices, Relational Contracts and the Decline of General Motors." Journal of Economic Perspectives 28, no. 1 (Winter 2014): 49–72.
- Research Summary
Overview
Pushing decision authority downward and increasing employee autonomy have become watchwords for the modern organization. Leaders of contemporary organizations view efforts to replace “command and control” systems with less-hierarchical approaches to organizing as...
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- 04 Jun 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Prosocial Bonuses Increase Employee Satisfaction and Team Performance
- 2011
- Book
Capitalism: Its Origins and Evolution as a System of Governance
By: Bruce R. Scott
Capitalism, as defined in this book, is an indirect, three-level system of governance for economic relationships (i.e., economic, administrative, and political). Whereas economic markets can coordinate supply and demand within an existing system thanks to the invisible...
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Keywords:
Economic Systems;
Price;
Governance;
Government and Politics;
Books;
Markets;
Relationships;
System
Scott, Bruce R. Capitalism: Its Origins and Evolution as a System of Governance. Springer, 2011.
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Tried and Tested
first-order importance. The second part is whether I have a clever way of studying it. Can I design an experiment to isolate exactly what I think the causal mechanism is? It’s not just that A happens and...
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- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
Bussgang, Jeffrey Abstract—Relative to established organizations, start-ups can be hard to figure out. What are the jobs to be done? The best entry points? How can you tell whether a company has potential for success View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- April 2006
- Background Note
Managing Innovation in an Uncertain World: Module 1: Innovation and Uncertainty
Describes the first module of a Harvard Business School 30-session elective course called Managing Innovation in an Uncertain World. The course helps students understand the challenges that uncertainty implies for innovation and how to overcome these challenges. The...
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Keywords:
Design;
Curriculum and Courses;
Innovation and Management;
Projects;
Opportunities;
Perspective
MacCormack, Alan D. "Managing Innovation in an Uncertain World: Module 1: Innovation and Uncertainty." Harvard Business School Background Note 606-125, April 2006.
- 27 Nov 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Skilled Immigration and the Employment Structures of US Firms
- 2008
- Working Paper
Exploring the Duality between Product and Organizational Architectures: A Test of the Mirroring Hypothesis
By: Alan D. MacCormack, John Rusnak and Carliss Y. Baldwin
A variety of academic studies argue that a relationship exists between the structure of an organization and the design of the products that this organization produces. Specifically, products tend to "mirror" the architectures of the organizations in which they are...
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Keywords:
Open Source Distribution;
Product Design;
Organizational Design;
Organizational Structure;
Performance Effectiveness;
Information Technology Industry
MacCormack, Alan D., John Rusnak, and Carliss Y. Baldwin. "Exploring the Duality between Product and Organizational Architectures: A Test of the Mirroring Hypothesis." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-039, March 2008. (Revised October 2008, January 2011.)
- 24 Sep 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
“I read Playboy for the articles”: Justifying and Rationalizing Questionable Preferences
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by Zoë Chance & Michael I. Norton
- Program
Leading and Building a Culture of Innovation
practice to encourage behaviors that drive creative thinking and a new level of collaborative learning across your team and organization Create a culture that promotes both...
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- 01 Mar 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Hurry Up and Wait: Differential Impacts of Congestion, Bottleneck Pressure, and Predictability on Patient Length of Stay
- December 2013
- Article
Land Politics and Local State Capacities: The Political Economy of Urban Change in China
By: Meg Rithmire
Despite common national institutions and incentives to remake urban landscapes to anchor growth, generate land-lease revenues, and display a capacious administration, Chinese urban governments exhibit varying levels of control over land. This article uses a paired...
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Keywords:
China;
Land Politics;
Urban Planning;
Local Government;
Northeast China;
Property Rights;
Urban Development;
Property;
Government and Politics;
China
Rithmire, Meg. "Land Politics and Local State Capacities: The Political Economy of Urban Change in China." China Quarterly, no. 216 (December 2013): 872–895.
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
enterprises seem incapable of transformative innovation, it is due to how we design and manage them, rather than anything inherent in their scale. In fact, Creative Construction argues, if used properly,...
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Dina Gerdeman
- April 1993 (Revised December 2001)
- Case
General Dynamics and Computer Sciences Corporation: Outsourcing the IS Function (B)
By: F. Warren McFarlan and Katherine Seger
Designed to look at outsourcing from the perspective of a major computer services company trying to get into the business.
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Keywords:
Communication Technology;
Business Startups;
Business Plan;
Business Strategy;
Job Cuts and Outsourcing;
Financial Management;
Management Teams;
Communication Strategy;
Organizational Design;
Product Design;
Accounting;
Activity Based Costing and Management;
Computer Industry;
Information Technology Industry
McFarlan, F. Warren, and Katherine Seger. "General Dynamics and Computer Sciences Corporation: Outsourcing the IS Function (B)." Harvard Business School Case 193-145, April 1993. (Revised December 2001.)
- May 2017
- Supplement
Buffer.com (B)
By: Susanna Gallani, Tiffany Y. Chang, Brian J. Hall and Jee Eun Shin
Buffer decided to release its salaries and compensation calculation formula to the public, and the public reaction was greater and more positive than they would have imagined. The company experienced both an increase in volume and a change in the kinds of inbound...
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Keywords:
Compensation;
Compensation Design;
Company Values;
Culture;
Transparency;
Attraction;
Selection;
Performance Measurement;
Performance Measures;
Performance Metrics;
Startup Management;
Compensation and Benefits;
Organizational Culture;
Values and Beliefs;
Performance Evaluation;
Measurement and Metrics
Gallani, Susanna, Tiffany Y. Chang, Brian J. Hall, and Jee Eun Shin. "Buffer.com (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 917-020, May 2017.