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VBHCD Initiative - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School. Kaplan’s research, Executive Education teaching, and consulting focus on linking cost and performance management...
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- 14 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom
By 2050, the Earth's population will likely exceed 9 billion people, up 30 percent from 6.9 billion today, according to projections from both the US Census Bureau and the United Nations. What's more, the population in the world's cities is expected to increase by 3...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 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...
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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.)
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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...
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- 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...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 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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Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Information Technology;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Food and Beverage 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.)
- 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.
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Organizational Design
Lorsch, Jay W. "Note on Organization Design." Harvard Business School Background Note 476-094, December 1975. (Revised January 1987.)
- 24 Jun 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
The Entrepreneurial Gap: How Managers Adjust Span of Accountability and Span of Control to Implement Business Strategy
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by Robert L. Simons
- 01 Feb 1997
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Leading the Way In Negotiation and Decision Making
organizational negotia- tions. To add realism, the unit's faculty has scrambled the sections for this course so that students encounter both familiar and unfamiliar faces across their classroom bargaining...
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Judith A. Ross
- 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
- 25 Feb 2020
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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
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April White
- July 2015 (Revised October 2015)
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Building Strong Partnerships at the Inter-American Development Bank
By: Amy C. Edmondson, Erin L. Henry, Andreas Georgoulias and Natalie Bartlett
Building Strong Partnerships at the Inter-American Development Bank details the development of the bank's new Office of Outreach Partnerships to sustain a culture of innovation through maintaining and generating partnerships in order to fulfill the bank's greater...
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Business Organization;
Business And Community;
Well-being;
Wealth and Poverty;
Organizational Structure;
Groups and Teams;
Organizational Culture;
Technology Adoption;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Business and Government Relations;
Change Management;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Expansion;
Partners and Partnerships;
Restructuring;
Welfare or Wellbeing;
Business and Community Relations;
Non-Governmental Organizations;
Banking Industry;
Latin America
Edmondson, Amy C., Erin L. Henry, Andreas Georgoulias, and Natalie Bartlett. "Building Strong Partnerships at the Inter-American Development Bank." Harvard Business School Case 616-004, July 2015. (Revised October 2015.)
- January 2010
- Case
Pratham - Every Child in School and Learning Well
By: Srikant M. Datar, Stacey M. Childress, Rachna Tahilyani and Anjali Raina
The case focuses on how Pratham, a non-governmental organization, provided quality education to underprivileged children in India by collaborating with the government. It focuses on the problem Madhav Chavan, the founder, is trying to solve, the contributing factors...
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Non-Governmental Organizations;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Performance Evaluation;
Change Management;
Organizational Design;
Early Childhood Education;
Management Systems;
Strategy;
Quality;
Education Industry;
India
Datar, Srikant M., Stacey M. Childress, Rachna Tahilyani, and Anjali Raina. "Pratham - Every Child in School and Learning Well." Harvard Business School Case 110-001, January 2010.
- 12 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis
live.” CAMH, he is confident, will be leading the movement. Unspinning the COVID web These three stories provide yet another example of how COVID-19 has mushroomed into multiple interrelated crises and revealed underlying View Details
- 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.)
- 25 Mar 2021
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Alumni Honor Nitin Nohria and Support His Legacy
looks at how the company built a digital organization that leverages AI and other technologies to speed its operations, manage its processes, and ensure quality across...
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- 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,...
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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)
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Black New Venture Competition and Black Tech Master Series Recap - MBA
East and North Africa South America United States 25 Mar 2020 Black New Venture Competition and Black Tech Master Series Recap Admissions Staff Author MBA Admissions tag Diverse Perspectives Entrepreneurship...
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- 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...
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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.
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VBHCD Initiative - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Kaplan’s research, Executive Education teaching, and consulting focus on linking cost and performance management systems to strategy implementation. His current research...
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