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A Harvard Business School case on Morning Star’s self-management model, accountability, compensation, and peer-based coordination.
It brings a rigorous case-study lens to the hard questions of accountability and compensation in self-managed organizations.
Students, researchers, and operators studying self-management beyond the surface-level idea of no bosses.
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This paid 22-page Harvard Business School case, published September 26, 2013, is by Francesca Gino and Bradley R. Staats. It examines Morning Star's self-management system through a concrete operating problem: how to design compensation and peer accountability without reintroducing a conventional management hierarchy.
Choose it as a discussion case rather than a current company profile or implementation manual. Its company facts and decision point reflect the case period, access is licensed per user through Harvard Business Publishing, and the case does not establish that Morning Star's choices will transfer unchanged to another organization.