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- June 2024
- Teaching Note
Dirk Nowitzki: Changing the Game
By: Boris Groysberg, Katherine Connolly Baden and Robin Abrahams
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 420-031. NBA Superstar Dirk Nowitzki was unsure whether the 2018-19 season would be his last as an NBA player. He had not faced such uncertainty since 1998, when he had navigated a difficult decision regarding the timing of his move to... View Details
- April 2024
- Background Note
Leader as a Communicator
By: Boris Groysberg, Robin Abrahams and Katherine Connolly Baden
- April 2024
- Background Note
Leader as a Motivator
By: Boris Groysberg, Robin Abrahams and Katherine Connolly Baden
- September 2022
- Case
Blake Sports: Evolution of the CEO and the Executive Team
By: Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly Baden
Cameron (Cam) Barker, CEO and Founder of Blake Sports Apparel, sat in his office at his company’s headquarters in Birmingham, England, feeling stunned and disappointed. Only a few minutes prior, he had wrapped up a meeting with CFO James Ryan, a highly-respected star... View Details
- September 16, 2022
- Article
Bored at Work? Learn to Manage It by Putting It to Work
By: Katherine Connolly Baden, Boris Groysberg and Heather Poco
Do you often feel bored at work or in life? Do you want to feel less bored? If so, what can you do to make that happen? Boredom has a bad rap, but is it really so bad? View Details
- July 2022
- Case
Operation Overlord
By: Boris Groysberg, Greg Goullet, Katherine Connolly Baden and Sarah L. Abbott
On June 6, 1944, nearly 5,000 ships, 11,000 planes, and 160,000 infantrymen under an Allied joint-command of American, British, and Canadian leaders were sent across the English Channel, with hopes of re-establishing a foothold in Nazi-occupied France. Known as D-Day,... View Details
- May 2022
- Case
Byte
By: Boris Groysberg, Katherine Connolly Baden and Julia Kelley
In January 2021, Byte co-founders Scott Cohen and Blake Johnson reflected on how far their Los Angeles-based direct-to-consumer (DTC) orthodontics company had come since launching its clear aligners just a little over two years earlier. Cohen and Johnson were both... View Details
- February 2022 (Revised May 2022)
- Case
Buddy Valastro: Cake Boss
By: Boris Groysberg, Evan M.S. Hecht and Katherine Connolly Baden
Buddy Valastro, celebrity baker and business owner, inherited his father’s bakery—Carlo’s Bake Shop of Hoboken, New Jersey—at the age of seventeen. He had willed the shop to survive and gone on to fame through his television show, “Cake Boss”—the name most people now... View Details
Keywords: Bakery; Entrepreneur; Scalability; Digital; Systems; Process Improvement; Team Effectiveness; Team Building; COVID-19 Pandemic; Food; Entrepreneurship; Family Business; Crisis Management; Change Management; Leadership; Creativity; Operations; Groups and Teams; Brands and Branding; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
- December 22, 2021
- Article
COVID Made Some Skills Obsolete. Here's How to Make Sure Yours Stay Relevant
By: Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly Baden
- September 14, 2021
- Article
Pandemic Has Sped Up Pace that Some Work Skills Become Obsolete by 70 Percent, Survey Finds
By: Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly Baden
- August 9, 2021
- Article
OneTen: Creating a New Pathway for Black Talent
By: Rawi Abdelal, Katherine Connolly Baden and Boris Groysberg
- June 2021
- Case
Selassie Atadika: Entrepreneurship in Africa
By: Boris Groysberg, Susan Seligson and Katherine Connolly Baden
This case profiles the career of Ghana-based chef and entrepreneur, Selassie Atadika. In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, she faced many questions about the future, such as: How could she convince Ghanaian consumers to view their native cuisine in a fresh,... View Details
- June 2021
- Case
Chris Ernst: Purpose, People, Progress
By: Boris Groysberg, Robert Cross, Robin Abrahams and Katherine Connolly Baden
Executive Chris Ernst uses a unique personal strategy to define his six life roles (spiritual explorer, natural being, development pioneer, global/local citizen, thriving family, true friend) and achieve harmony among them. View Details
- April 21, 2021
- Article
The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now
By: Boris Groysberg, Robin Abrahams and Katherine Connolly Baden
- November 2020 (Revised February 2021)
- Case
The Roca Brothers: Innovation in Gastronomy
By: Boris Groysberg, Evan M.S. Hecht and Katherine Connolly Baden
Chef Joan Roca, sommelier Josep Roca and pastry chef Jordi Roca were three brothers based in Girona, Spain whose complementary skills, collective ability, and relentless drive for innovation had brought worldwide fame and awards to their restaurant, El Celler de Can... View Details
- September 2020 (Revised December 2020)
- Case
Siba Mtongana: A Pioneering Chef in South Africa
By: Boris Groysberg, Susan Seligson, Katherine Connolly Baden and Robin Abrahams
For Siba Mtongana, South African celebrity chef, the year 2020 was fraught with challenges and unknowns. Her brand was strong and she was certain it would survive. But as she fine-tuned her growth and innovation strategy in a shaky, unpredictable economy in the midst... View Details
- September 10, 2020
- Article
The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot
By: Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly Baden
- August 2020 (Revised December 2020)
- Case
General Dennis L. Via: People First, Mission Always
By: Boris Groysberg, Susan Seligson, Katherine Connolly Baden and Robin Abrahams
Dennis L. Via, was a retired four-star U.S. Army general and one of the world’s foremost experts on logistics, crisis management, supply chains, and maintaining a state of readiness at all times. As he reflected back on his career and leadership experience during the... View Details
- July 2020
- Case
Michael Solomonov: Jerusalem in a Bowl
By: Boris Groysberg, Evan M.S. Hecht and Katherine Connolly Baden
Before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Michael Solomonov and Steven Cook had begun to wonder whether it might be time to rethink their opportunistic approach to the expansion of their small restaurant empire in Philadelphia, CooknSolo. The pandemic, however, caused an... View Details
Keywords: Restaurant Industry; Entrepreneur; COVID-19; Crisis; Crisis Response Plans; Entrepreneurship; Food; Health Pandemics; Crisis Management; Innovation and Invention; Leadership; Creativity; Strategy; Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Risk and Uncertainty; Situation or Environment; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
- January–February 2019
- Article
Case Study: When Two Leaders on the Senior Team Hate Each Other
By: Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly Baden
In this fictional case, the CEO of a sports apparel manufacturer is faced with an ongoing conflict between two of his top executives. Specifically, the head of sales and the CFO are at each other’s throats and the tension is having a ripple effect on their teams and... View Details