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      Organizational Alignment: The 7-S Model
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      • October 2020
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      PraDigi Open Learning: Transforming Rural India

      By: John J-H Kim and Malini Sen
      Pratham is a non-governmental organization, focusing on high-quality, low-cost and replicable interventions to address gaps in the Indian education system. Co-founder Madhav Chavan is interested in using technology for education but differed in the way it is used in...  View Details
      Keywords: Decision Choices And Conditions; Social Entrepreneurship; Education; Technology; Learning; Growth And Development Strategy; Non-governmental organizations; Social Issues; Education Industry; India; Asia
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      Kim, John J-H, and Malini Sen. "PraDigi Open Learning: Transforming Rural India." Harvard Business School Case 321-022, October 2020.
      • 2020
      • Working Paper

      Updating the Balanced Scorecard for Triple Bottom Line Strategies

      By: Robert S. Kaplan and David McMillan
      Many companies are now attempting to achieve triple bottom line performance on financial, environmental, and societal metrics. Successful strategies for such performance, however, generally require new relationships among multiple players in multiple sectors across a...  View Details
      Keywords: Balanced Scorecard; Adaptation; Environmental Sustainability; Social Issues; Performance; Strategy
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      Kaplan, Robert S., and David McMillan. "Updating the Balanced Scorecard for Triple Bottom Line Strategies." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-028, August 2020.
      • July 2020 (Revised January 2021)
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      Vineet Nayar and Sampark Foundation: Frugal Innovation at Scale (A) (Abridged)

      By: Linda A. Hill and Emily Tedards
      In 2005, Vineet Nayar, the former CEO and Vice Chairman of HCL Technologies, and his wife, Anupama Nayar, committed $100 million of their personal wealth to found Sampark Foundation—a grant-making philanthropy with a mission to transform learning outcomes for 20...  View Details
      Keywords: Organizational Behavior; Organizational Alignment; Culture Change; Digital; Digital Transformation; Innovation; Experimentation; Metrics; Education Reform; Non-profit; Frugal Innovation; Scale; Ecosystem; Government; Education; Social Enterprise; Leadership; Leading Change; Change Management; Organizational Culture; alignment; Innovation Leadership; Nonprofit organizations; Growth And Development Strategy; Technology; India
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      Hill, Linda A., and Emily Tedards. "Vineet Nayar and Sampark Foundation: Frugal Innovation at Scale (A) (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 421-021, July 2020. (Revised January 2021.)
      • July 2020
      • Article

      Who Should Select New Employees, Headquarters or the Unit Manager? Consequences of Centralizing Hiring at a Retail Chain

      By: Carolyn Deller and Tatiana Sandino
      We examine how changing the allocation of hiring decision rights in a multiunit organization affects employee-firm match quality, contingent on a unit’s circumstances. Our research site, a U.S. retail chain, switched from a decentralized hiring model (hiring by...  View Details
      Keywords: Control; Selection; Decentralization; Company Values; Retail Chains; Employees; Selection And Staffing; Local Range; Business Headquarters; Decision Making
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      Deller, Carolyn, and Tatiana Sandino. "Who Should Select New Employees, Headquarters or the Unit Manager? Consequences of Centralizing Hiring at a Retail Chain." Accounting Review 95, no. 4 (July 2020): 173–198.
      • June 2020
      • Teaching Note

      The New LAX: Ready for Takeoff?

      By: Boris Groysberg, Carin-Isabel Knoop, Kerry Herman and Amy Klopfenstein
      This teaching note serves as a supplement to “The New LAX: Ready for Takeoff?” HBS 420-025.  View Details
      Keywords: Change; Change Management; Transformation; Leadership; Leading Change; Leadership Style; Management; Management Practices And Processes; Management Succession; organizations; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change And Adaptation; Mission And Purpose; Strategy; alignment; Transportation; Air Transportation; Transportation Networks; Air Transportation Industry; North And Central America; United States; California; Los Angeles
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      Groysberg, Boris, Carin-Isabel Knoop, Kerry Herman, and Amy Klopfenstein. "The New LAX: Ready for Takeoff?" Harvard Business School Teaching Note 420-091, June 2020.
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      Using the Balanced Scorecard for Successful Health Care M&A Integration

      By: Robert S. Kaplan
      The failure of merged organizations to achieve stated goals is commonplace. In health care, the challenge is exacerbated by the industry’s third-party payer system and multiple stakeholders, especially the physicians in the merging entities. This article describes how...  View Details
      Keywords: Health Care And Treatment; Mergers And Acquisitions; Integration; Balanced Scorecard
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      Kaplan, Robert S. "Using the Balanced Scorecard for Successful Health Care M&A Integration." NEJM Catalyst (May 21, 2020).
      • 2020
      • Working Paper

      Recognition Incentives for Internal Crowdsourcing: A Field Experiment at NASA

      By: Jana Gallus, Olivia S. Jung and Karim R. Lakhani
      What might motivate employees to participate in internal crowdsourcing, a peer-based approach to innovation? Should organizations use incentives that are congruent with their established hierarchical structures, or should they use incentives that are aligned with the...  View Details
      Keywords: Online Platforms; Employee Engagement; Managerial Recognition; Innovation And Management; Employees; Motivation And Incentives
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      Gallus, Jana, Olivia S. Jung, and Karim R. Lakhani. "Recognition Incentives for Internal Crowdsourcing: A Field Experiment at NASA." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-059, November 2019. (Revised May 2020.)
      • 2019
      • Working Paper

      The Effect of Systems of Management Controls on Misreporting

      By: Aishwarrya Deore, Susanna Gallani and Ranjani Krishnan
      Organizations use systems of controls to encourage goal congruent employee behavior. Some control instruments within the system (e.g., cultural controls) guide employees and align their behavioral choices with organizational values, while other instruments (e.g.,...  View Details
      Keywords: Directing Controls; Misreporting; Mission Statements; Participative Budgeting; Stewardship Theory; Systems Of Management Controls; Management Systems; Governance Controls; Mission And Purpose; Financial Reporting
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      Deore, Aishwarrya, Susanna Gallani, and Ranjani Krishnan. "The Effect of Systems of Management Controls on Misreporting." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-053, October 2019.
      • 2019
      • White Paper

      Impact-Weighted Financial Accounts: The Missing Piece for an Impact Economy

      By: George Serafeim, T. Robert Zochowski and Jennifer Downing
      Reimagining capitalism is an imperative. We need to create a more inclusive and sustainable form of capitalism that works for every person and the planet. Massive environmental damage, growing income and wealth disparity, stress, and depression within developed...  View Details
      Keywords: Impact-weighted Accounts; Iwai; Background; Economic Systems; Economy; Corporate Social Responsibility And Impact; Measurement And Metrics; Financial Statements
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      Serafeim, George, T. Robert Zochowski, and Jennifer Downing. "Impact-Weighted Financial Accounts: The Missing Piece for an Impact Economy." White Paper, Harvard Business School, Boston, MA, September 2019.
      • 2019
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      Problem, Person, and Pathway: A Framework for Social Innovators

      By: Julie Battilana, Brittany Butler, Marissa Kimsey, Johanna Mair, Christopher Marquis and Christian Seelos
      As the appetite for learning about social innovation intensifies, how can we better prepare practitioners for the work of addressing the world’s pressing social problems at the relevant scale? This chapter presents the “3P” framework that we developed to help address...  View Details
      Keywords: Social Innovation; Social Entrepreneurship; Social Issues; Change; Problems And Challenges
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      Battilana, Julie, Brittany Butler, Marissa Kimsey, Johanna Mair, Christopher Marquis, and Christian Seelos. "Problem, Person, and Pathway: A Framework for Social Innovators." In Handbook of Inclusive Innovation: The Role of Organizations, Markets and Communities in Social Innovation, edited by Gerard George, Ted Baker, Paul Tracey, and Havovi Joshi, 61–74. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019.
      • July–August 2019
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      Coupling Labor Codes of Conduct and Supplier Labor Practices: The Role of Internal Structural Conditions

      By: Yanhua Bird, Jodi L. Short and Michael W. Toffel
      Exploitive working conditions have spurred companies to pressure their suppliers to adopt labor codes of conduct and to conform their labor practices to the standards set forth in those codes. Yet little is known about whether organizational structures such as codes...  View Details
      Keywords: Organization Theory; Economic Sociology; Social Responsibility; Sustainability; Auditing; Process Improvement; Organizational Structure; Corporate Social Responsibility And Impact; Supply Chain; Labor; Working Conditions
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      Bird, Yanhua, Jodi L. Short, and Michael W. Toffel. "Coupling Labor Codes of Conduct and Supplier Labor Practices: The Role of Internal Structural Conditions." Organization Science 30, no. 4 (July–August 2019): 847–867. (Best Paper Award at ComplianceNet Conference 2019, 2020 Responsible Research in Management Award Finalist.)
      • June 2019 (Revised November 2019)
      • Technical Note

      Sustaining Corporate Culture in a Growing Organization

      By: Dennis Campbell and Tatiana Sandino
      An organization’s culture can be a significant source of sustainable competitive advantage. For the organization, it can attract job candidates who fit and align employees working in different teams around common goals. For employees, a strong culture can generate...  View Details
      Keywords: Organizational Culture; Growth And Development; Mission And Purpose; Values And Beliefs; Management Systems
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      Campbell, Dennis, and Tatiana Sandino. "Sustaining Corporate Culture in a Growing Organization." Harvard Business School Technical Note 119-109, June 2019. (Revised November 2019.)
      • February 2019 (Revised July 2019)
      • Case

      Sales Force Management at Nobel Ilac

      By: Doug J. Chung and Gamze Yucaoglu
      Nobel Ilac was a Turkish generic pharmaceutical company marketing more than 100 drugs in 20 countries and, as of 2017, had over 2,500 employees worldwide. Nobel had implemented a transformation strategy—more specifically, a customer segmentation plan—whereby the sales...  View Details
      Keywords: Sales Strategy; Compensation; Employee Retention; Recruiting; Pharmaceuticals; Salesforce Management; Strategy; Organizational Design; Human Resources; Compensation And Benefits; Employees; Retention; Recruitment; Pharmaceutical Industry; Turkey
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      Chung, Doug J., and Gamze Yucaoglu. "Sales Force Management at Nobel Ilac." Harvard Business School Case 519-067, February 2019. (Revised July 2019.)
      • January 2019 (Revised October 2019)
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      Commercial Sales Transformation at Microsoft

      By: Doug J. Chung
      Industry leaders should adapt to changes in the business context and consider different ways to grow. Advances in technology had shifted software demand to the cloud. As a result, Microsoft announced a strategic shift in direction from its existing ‘Windows first’...  View Details
      Keywords: Sales; Strategy; Transformation
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      Chung, Doug J. "Commercial Sales Transformation at Microsoft." Harvard Business School Case 519-054, January 2019. (Revised October 2019.)
      • January 2019 (Revised February 2020)
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      Roush Performance: How to Design a Sales Force Compensation Plan

      By: Doug J. Chung
      Roush Performance manufactured and marketed factory-modified performance vehicles and high-end aftermarket automotive performance parts. Since its inception, Roush Performance had focused on building its engineering technology competency and diversifying its product...  View Details
      Keywords: Sales Force Management; Motivation; Compensation; Salary; Commissions; Bonuses; Quotas; Salesforce Management; Compensation And Benefits; Motivation And Incentives
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      Chung, Doug J. "Roush Performance: How to Design a Sales Force Compensation Plan." Harvard Business School Case 519-066, January 2019. (Revised February 2020.)
      • January–February 2019
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      What Does Your Corporate Brand Stand For?

      By: Stephen A. Greyser and Mats Urde
      While most firms are adept at defining product brands, they’re less sure-footed with their corporate brands. What exactly does a parent company’s name represent, and how is it perceived in the marketplace?
      A strong corporate identity provides direction and...  View Details
      Keywords: organizations; Identity; Brands And Branding; Reputation; Management Analysis, Tools, And Techniques; Corporate Strategy
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      Greyser, Stephen A., and Mats Urde. "What Does Your Corporate Brand Stand For?" Harvard Business Review 97, no. 1 (January–February 2019): 80–88.
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      Operational Efficiency and Effective Management in the Catheterization Laboratory

      By: Grant W. Reed, Michael L. Tushman and Samir R. Kapadia
      Operational efficiency is a core business principle in which organizations strive to deliver high-quality goods or services in a cost-effective manner. This concept has become increasingly relevant to cardiac catheterization laboratories, as insurers move away from...  View Details
      Keywords: Cath Lab; Catheterization Laboratory; Health Care And Treatment; Performance Efficiency; Management; Performance Productivity; Cost Management; Health Industry
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      Reed, Grant W., Michael L. Tushman, and Samir R. Kapadia. "Operational Efficiency and Effective Management in the Catheterization Laboratory." Journal of the American College of Cardiology 72, no. 20 (November 20, 2018): 2507–2517.
      • March 2018 (Revised June 2018)
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      City Year at 30: Toward Long-Term Impact

      By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and James Weber
      In 2018, City Year was a 30-year-old nonprofit that recruited and organized teams of young-adult “volunteers” (corps teams) to provide a year of citizen service. It had 3,100 corps members serving in 327 schools located in 28 U.S. cities. In its early decades, City...  View Details
      Keywords: Education; Service Operations; Nonprofit organizations; Growth And Development Strategy; Performance Efficiency; Resource Allocation; Change Management; Social Entrepreneurship; Middle School Education; Secondary Education; Philanthropy And Charitable Giving; Human Capital; Growth Management; Service Delivery; Organizational Design; Social Enterprise; Poverty; United States
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      Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and James Weber. "City Year at 30: Toward Long-Term Impact." Harvard Business School Case 318-089, March 2018. (Revised June 2018.)
      • March 2018
      • Case

      Chaudhary Group: Rebuilding Nepal

      By: Christopher J. Malloy, Lauren H. Cohen and Inakshi Sobti
      After the 2015 Nepal earthquake, the Chaudhary Group, a billion-dollar conglomerate in Nepal, decides to play a pivotal role in rebuilding the country. The Group's philanthropic arm (Chaudhary Foundation) works with stakeholders and develops a blue print for short- and...  View Details
      Keywords: Leadership; Family Business; Decision Choices And Conditions; Developing Countries And Economies; Social Entrepreneurship; Values And Beliefs; Venture Capital; Microfinance; Geographic Location; Collaborative Innovation And Invention; Management; Crisis Management; Management Teams; Resource Allocation; Business And Community Relations; Business And Government Relations; Natural Disasters; Social And Collaborative Networks; Social Issues; Business Strategy; Consumer Products Industry; Banking Industry; Auto Industry; Real Estate Industry; Travel Industry; Nepal
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      Malloy, Christopher J., Lauren H. Cohen, and Inakshi Sobti. "Chaudhary Group: Rebuilding Nepal." Harvard Business School Case 218-100, March 2018.
      • January–February 2018
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      Inclusive Growth: Profitable Strategies for Tackling Poverty and Inequality

      By: Robert S. Kaplan, George Serafeim and Eduardo Tugendhat
      More than a billion people in the developing world remain in extreme poverty and outside the formal economy. Traditional CSR programs have done little to alleviate the situation and rarely produce transformative change.
      Instead of trying to fix local problems,...  View Details
      Keywords: Inclusive Growth; Sustainability; Social Impact; Business Strategy; Shared Value; Impact Investing; Inequality; Poverty; Corporate Governance; Balanced Scorecard; Strategy Execution; Economic Growth; Developing Countries And Economies; Poverty; Equality And Inequality; Corporate Social Responsibility And Impact; Strategy; Investment
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      Kaplan, Robert S., George Serafeim, and Eduardo Tugendhat. "Inclusive Growth: Profitable Strategies for Tackling Poverty and Inequality." Harvard Business Review 96, no. 1 (January–February 2018): 127–133.
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