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- 11 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard
resource capacity that are necessary to fulfill the sales and production needs of the strategic plan. Without this coupling, operational plans either provide too little or too much capacity for the strategic...
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by Martha Lagace
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
and shifted the iconic institution to respond to digital disruption and a consensus culture. This case examines his efforts to turn Sesame Workshop around. It notes Sesame's storied history View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Clicks and Mortar
gotten used to as consumers. Antonio Moreno: People still like going to a physical store to have an experience and learn about products, but now that can be decoupled from the act of taking possession of a...
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- 2012
- Working Paper
Private and Public Decisions in Social Dilemmas: Evidence from Children's Behavior
Substantial research with adult populations has found that selfish impulses are less likely to be pursued when decisions are publicly observable. To the best of our knowledge, however, this behavioral regularity has not been systematically explored as potential...
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Age Characteristics;
Behavior;
Decisions;
Games, Gaming, and Gambling;
Announcements;
Situation or Environment
Houser, Daniel, Natalia Montinari, and Marco Piovesan. "Private and Public Decisions in Social Dilemmas: Evidence from Children's Behavior." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-073, February 2012.
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Power and Influence for Positive Impact | HBS Online
in launching and sustaining a movement for change, the limits of individual influence, and the importance of building collective support in order for change to happen....
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- 25 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018
ownership, the partners focused on improving operations and enhancing sales with impressive results: sales doubled and EBTIDA increased by over 40%. But the "Great Recession" had an immediate...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making
rights within the firm," Sadun says. "Take Swedish manufacturing companies, for example. You see that they are completely decentralized, and the middle manager is basically a mini-CEO with loads of decision-making power. View Details
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by Carmen Nobel
- 30 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
The Life and Role of a CEO
The Conductor, who orchestrates the organization to fulfill its mission While the CEOs do have ultimate power and responsibility, the success of the company depends on their team. To lead effectively, CEOs...
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- 05 Jul 2022
- Op-Ed
Hear Me Out: Introverts Can Be Loud and You Might Like Microsoft Teams
item on the order, scan it and then physically wheel it into the operation. Then, additionally in many cases, they have to put it away into freezers and coolers. "Every driver in the industry would loudly...
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by Danielle Kost
- 26 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
David, Goliath, and Disruption
and that's great." Better, he said, aiming his remarks at entrepreneurs, is to focus on what a technology can be used for in order to create a viable business. "When we talk about what it View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 25 Jun 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Machiavelli, Morals, and You
of one of the keys to leadership: the notion of accountability. Badaracco, the school's John Shad Professor of Business Ethics, uses the novel as part of his course called The Moral Leader, an unusual course for MBA students in which students discuss View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 13 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Biotech Work as a Business
and the organizational structures which have emerged." His suggestion for companies going forward: Think twice about the strategies and assumptions that are driving your industry. Universities, venture...
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- 2023
- Working Paper
LALIGA—From a Soccer Competition Organizer to a Global Player in the Sports and Entertainment Industry
By: Stephen A. Greyser, Kenneth Cortsen and Juan Fuentes Fernández
LALIGA, the first- and second-tier professional soccer league (known as “football” outside of the U.S. and Canada) in Spain, enters its 100th soccer season later this decade. The most popular game in the world (Giulianotti, 2012) has gone through many changes since...
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Soccer;
"Sports Organizations,;
Business History;
Strategy;
Brands and Branding;
Technology Adoption;
Sports Industry
Greyser, Stephen A., Kenneth Cortsen, and Juan Fuentes Fernández. "LALIGA—From a Soccer Competition Organizer to a Global Player in the Sports and Entertainment Industry." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-009, August 2023.
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
order to reduce the technological and market risks, where reducing technological risk is of paramount importance. As a reward, pioneers ultimately realize a higher likelihood of acquisition, but among...
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Dina Gerdeman
- March 2018 (Revised September 2019)
- Case
Chewy.com (A)
By: Jeffrey F. Rayport and Matthew G. Preble
In late 2013, Ryan Cohen, cofounder and CEO of online pet products retailer Chewy.com, faces a “bet the company decision”—whether to stay with a third-party logistics provider (3PL) for all of its e-commerce fulfillment or to take the function in house. Cohen worries...
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Pet Food;
Pet Products;
Retail;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Service Operations;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
E-commerce;
Retail Industry;
Service Industry;
Florida;
United States
Rayport, Jeffrey F., and Matthew G. Preble. "Chewy.com (A)." Harvard Business School Case 818-079, March 2018. (Revised September 2019.)
- 09 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization
James Lemoine, an assistant professor in the Organization and Human Resources Department of the School of Management at the University at Buffalo, have written extensively on VUCA, and argue, “If VUCA is...
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by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Boxer of Quirinal By John Barr (MBA 1972) Red Hen Press All animals struggle to survive. In John Barr’s poems, the success of the heron hunting, the albatross breeding, the inchworm spinning give proof of life. But for us that...
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Philanthropy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
increased more than 1,100%. As new wealth continues to pour into foundations, the authors take a timely look at the field and conclude that radical change is needed. First, they explain why. Compared with...
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- 11 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018
efforts by the city’s government to address them became 14% more trusting and 12% more supportive of government. Moreover, residents who additionally received transparency into the growing backlog of service requests that government was...
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Dina Gerdeman
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Exploring the Duality Between Product and Organizational Architectures: A Test of the 'Mirroring' Hypothesis
By: Alan MacCormack, Carliss Y. Baldwin and John Rusnak
A variety of academic studies argue that a relationship exists between the structure of an organization and the design of the products that the organization produces. Specifically, products tend to "mirror" the architectures of the organizations in which they are...
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Organization Design;
Architecture;
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Open Source Software;
Communication;
Design;
Governance;
Management Practices and Processes;
Open Source Distribution;
Product Design;
Mission and Purpose;
Organizational Structure;
Performance;
Problems and Challenges;
Behavior;
Software
MacCormack, Alan, Carliss Y. Baldwin, and John Rusnak. "Exploring the Duality Between Product and Organizational Architectures: A Test of the 'Mirroring' Hypothesis." Research Policy 41, no. 8 (October 2012): 1309–1324.