Filter Results
:
(4,344)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(4,344)
- People (4)
- News (702)
- Research (3,028)
- Events (17)
- Multimedia (14)
- Faculty Publications (1,945)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(4,344)
- People (4)
- News (702)
- Research (3,028)
- Events (17)
- Multimedia (14)
- Faculty Publications (1,945)
Julie Battilana
Julie Battilana is the Joseph C. Wilson Professor of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior unit at Harvard Business School and the Alan L. Gleitsman Professor of Social Innovation at Harvard Kennedy School, where she is also the founder and faculty... View Details
- 24 Jun 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
The Entrepreneurial Gap: How Managers Adjust Span of Accountability and Span of Control to Implement Business Strategy
Keywords:
by Robert L. Simons
- 20 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 20
New inventors received more patent citations than incumbent inventors, suggesting a cycle of creative destruction. The financial returns to technological development were high. At the macro level we identify a strong relationship between...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- January 1995 (Revised September 2011)
- Case
Charlotte Beers at Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide (A)
By: Herminia M. Ibarra and Nicole Sackley
Examines Beer's actions on assuming leadership of Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide, the world's sixth largest advertising agency, during a period of rapid industry change and organizational crisis. Focuses on how Beers, the first outsider CEO, engages and leads a senior team...
View Details
Keywords:
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Leadership;
Advertising;
Organizational Structure;
Advertising Industry
Ibarra, Herminia M., and Nicole Sackley. "Charlotte Beers at Ogilvy & Mather Worldwide (A)." Harvard Business School Case 495-031, January 1995. (Revised September 2011.)
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Shaping Leaders Who Understand Business and the Environment
company to engage on this issue.” Toffel, as course head for the Technology and Operations Management course, has himself taken the lead on introducing some of these cases. One example is Indigo Agriculture,...
View Details
Keywords:
April White
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
as sustaining creativity on the job, entrepreneurial thinking in established organizations, and the link between individual creativity and organizational innovation. While the...
View Details
- Web
Celebrating Socioeconomic Diversity and Inclusion at HBS (Part 1) - MBA
necessary credibility to try and drive systemic change. It’s about finding ways to use a voice that statistically shouldn’t have made it here to challenge the status quo. Being FGLI at Harvard means using an...
View Details
- 14 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom
public-private partnerships for water filtration and distribution. Ayala's public utility subsidiary, Manila Water Company, was awarded the operation of the privatized water system for the East Zone of metro...
View Details
Keywords:
by Carmen Nobel
- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
opportunity that's right for you. Entering StartUpLand will guide you as you seek your ideal entry point into this popular, cutting-edge organizational paradigm. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53337 2017...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- May 2019
- Teaching Note
Gender and Free Speech at Google (A), (B), & (C)
By: Nien-hê Hsieh and Sarah Mehta
Teaching Note for HBS No. 318-085, 319-095, and 319-097.
View Details
- 2021
- Working Paper
Digital Labor Market Inequality and the Decline of IT Exceptionalism
By: Ruiqing Cao and Shane Greenstein
Several decades of expansion in digital communications, web commerce, and online distribution have altered regional IT labor market returns in the United States. IT occupations experienced similar wage growth as STEM occupations involving IT-related work activities,...
View Details
Cao, Ruiqing, and Shane Greenstein. "Digital Labor Market Inequality and the Decline of IT Exceptionalism." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-019, August 2020. (Revised January 2021. NBER Working Paper Series, No. 21-015, August 2020)
- December 1975 (Revised January 1987)
- Background Note
Note on Organization Design
By: Jay W. Lorsch
Deals with the organizational designer trying to create a structure, rewards, and a system of measurement that are compatible with the external environment, strategy, tasks, the members of the organization, management style, and the existing culture.
View Details
Keywords:
Organizational Design
Lorsch, Jay W. "Note on Organization Design." Harvard Business School Background Note 476-094, December 1975. (Revised January 1987.)
- 21 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now
creates a more genuine style of leadership communication. Interactivity turns that communication into a two-way dialogue, allowing management to respond to workers’ needs better, and act on their insights. View Details
- 2013
- Working Paper
Visualizing and Measuring Enterprise Application Architecture: An Exploratory Telecom Case
By: Robert Lagerstrom, Carliss Y. Baldwin, Alan MacCormack and Stephan Aier
We test a method for visualizing and measuring enterprise application architectures. The method was designed and previously used to reveal the hidden internal architectural structure of software applications. The focus of this paper is to test if it can also uncover...
View Details
Keywords:
Communication Technology;
Complexity;
Applications and Software;
Product Design;
Telecommunications Industry
Lagerstrom, Robert, Carliss Y. Baldwin, Alan MacCormack, and Stephan Aier. "Visualizing and Measuring Enterprise Application Architecture: An Exploratory Telecom Case." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 13-103, June 2013.
- 19 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
diversification strategies. The article concludes by suggesting a research agenda for dynamic capabilities. Publisher's link: https://pubwww.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53220 Carbon Tariffs: Effects in Settings with Technology Choice...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jun 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
The Role of Institutional Development in the Prevalence and Value of Family Firms
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
The Influence of Geography on Work and Innovation
a physical office. “An all-remote company immediately addresses all the concerns that cause geographic mobility friction. No one has to move anywhere,” he says. “But these companies have to address questions about managing coordination View Details
Keywords:
April White
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
powerful insights and practical guidelines that allow managers to bridge professional divides and organizational boundaries in order to work together effectively, this is a new...
View Details
Keywords:
by Sean Silverthorne
- Summer 2021
- Article
The Cost and Evolution of Quality at Cipla Ltd, 1935–2016
By: Muhammad H. Zaman and Tarun Khanna
This article examines the evolution of Indian pharmaceutical manufacturer Cipla towards producing drugs that met the quality standards of European and U.S. regulators. It employs new research in Cipla’s corporate archives, the Creating Emerging Markets database, and...
View Details
Keywords:
Cipla;
Pharmaceuticals;
Drug Quality;
Generics;
Quality;
Standards;
Information Technology;
Cost;
Organizational Culture;
Business History;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
India
Zaman, Muhammad H., and Tarun Khanna. "The Cost and Evolution of Quality at Cipla Ltd, 1935–2016." Business History Review 95, no. 2 (Summer 2021): 249–274.
- 1979
- Chapter
Dilemmas of Participation: Issues in Organization Design and Management
By: R. M. Kanter
Kanter, R. M. "Dilemmas of Participation: Issues in Organization Design and Management." In Proceedings of the Second National Seminar on Individual Rights in the Corporation, edited by Alan F. Westin and Stephan Salisbury. New York: Educational Fund for Individual Rights, 1979. (Also in National Forum, spring 1982.)