Session #6, 09/30/11

• “Lever 3: Build nimble networks,” chapter 6 in Collaboration.
• “A Note on Social Networks and Network Structure”, by Jeffrey Pfeffer, Stanford Graduate School of Business, Case OB-66.
• “The Search-Transfer Problem: The Role of Weak Ties in Sharing Knowledge Across Organization Subunits” by Morten Hansen.Administrative Science Quarterly (1999).
• “Structural Holes and Good Ideas”, by Ron Burt, American Journal of Sociology (2004).

Session #5, 09/23/11

• Transforming DNV: From Silos to Disciplined Collaboration across Business Units
• “Getting collaboration wrong …or getting it right,” chapter 1 in Collaboration.
• “Spot the four barriers to collaboration,” chapter 3 in Collaboration.

Session #4, 09/16/11

• Internal Entrepreneurship at the Dow Chemical Company (handed out in class, also available in front of Prof. Hansen’s office)
• Power Play
• Harnessing the Science of Persuasion

Session #3, 09/09/11

• Emerging Business Opportunities at IBM
• Exploration and Exploitation in Organizational Learning
• Building Ambidexterity Into an Organization
• What Every CEO Should Know About Creating New Businesses

Session #2, 09/02/11

• Innovation Value Chain
• Mechanistic vs. Organic Innovation Process

Session #1, 08/26/11

• Intuit Case Discussion
• Course Introduction