This slide presentation describes the origin, approach and deliverables of course Org. Dynm.633, on “Leadership from the Middle” (LftM). Course participants were middle managers taking responsibility without authority for producing results in uncertain organizational environments, under high...

This paper weights the relative advantages of multiple factors that lead to the success of professional sports stadiums in major markets, though a discussion of the arguments for and against public subsidies towards these projects. Using a logit statistical model, the paper determines that the...

The following is a case study of Barakat, an organization based in Cambridge, MA, with subsidiaries in Pakistan, Afghanistan and India that has been implementing successful, local, grassroots educational programs since 1994. Recently, due to changes in its funding environment, Barakat has made...

The purpose of this paper is to describe and learn from the strategic planning process in a nonprofit organization and its perceived impact on organizational effectiveness. The study examined the strategic planning process and its effectiveness at the International Center for Research on Women...

Most nonprofit managers consider the communications function of the agency to be predominantly about influencing external stakeholders including clients, funders, and constituents. Using a blend of academic literature from the fields of Psychology, Organizational Management, and Communications...

Identifying a successful mutual fund investment involves a crucial analysis of alternatives, all of which influence the true benefit of the investment. Major considerations must include performance, management and fees; which ultimately determine investment returns. Studies have shown that team...

The purpose of this project was to evaluate the financial feasibility of implementing an automated gas injection system from Pulsair as an alternative to the traditional pump over cap mixing technique that is used during the alcoholic fermentation stage of winemaking.There were various costs...

Organizational research provides evidence that men and women differ in the structure of their personal networks as well as in the rewards attained from their personal networks (Ibarra 1992, 1993, 1995, 1997. The potential confound in past research between structural constraints and personal...

We conduct an experiment to examine how lending decisions are affected by lender perceptions of reporting and governance quality. We perform a set of experiments to determine whether lenders are sensitive to the quality of governance as measured by board composition along multiple dimensions,...

Researchers have examined several factors that influence the extent to which the values of individuals are congruent with the values of the organizations in which they are employed. These factors include personal characteristics, satisfaction with corporate policies, and job/task competence....