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April 2019
Case

American Ballet Theatre

By: Anita Elberse, Tsubasa Nakajima and Melissa Rodman

Kara Medoff Barnett, executive director of American Ballet Theatre (ABT), widely regarded as one of the world’s premier ballet companies, faces several challenges. It is June 2018. Despite its prestige, the company’s $45 million annual budget and $22 million endowment... View Details

Keywords: Performing Arts; Superstars; Talent; Talent Development; Non-profit; Contracts; Labor Economics; General Management; Arts; Entertainment; Media; Talent and Talent Management; Nonprofit Organizations; Marketing; Strategy

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June 2001
Exercise

Strategic Human Resource Management Applications Exercise

By: Michael Beer

Overview of a method for diagnosing and developing an organization's capability to achieve its goals and implement its strategy, with exercises for application. A rewritten version of an earlier exercise. View Details

Keywords: Competency and Skills; Goals and Objectives; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Design; Strategy

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29 Sep 2022
News

SAP’s Tony Pante Asks These Four Questions to Connect with His Team

07 Sep 2021
News

Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2

Illustration by Ket-le / iStock; photo courtesy of Jeff Immelt Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Jeff Immelt (MBA 1982) Jeff Immelt (MBA 1982) Dan Morrell: In 2009, in the wake of the financial crisis, with ratings agencies weighing whether... View Details

01 Dec 2018
News

Research Brief: Bargaining for Better

Kathleen McGinn (photo by Tracy Powell) Kathleen McGinn (photo by Tracy Powell) By the time they reach eighth grade, about 61 percent of girls in Zambia have dropped out of school—a rate three times higher than their male counterparts. Interventions have shown little... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

01 Sep 2018
News

3-Minute Briefing: Rob Price (MBA 1997)

I learned classical piano in the traditional way as a kid, but as soon as I could get a synthesizer and play Foreigner and Journey, I escaped. That, for me, reinforces how our method builds on traditional programs. Our philosophy is that playing music that one loves... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Educational Services

01 Dec 2016
News

Takeaways

Edited by April White Peter A. Gudmundsson photo by Susan Young Peter A. Gudmundsson photo by Susan Young “All organizations need great people. Veterans are great people, so all organizations need to hire veterans.” —Peter A. Gudmundsson (MBA 1990), The Veteran Hiring... View Details

01 Dec 2005
News

Alumni Achievement Awards: Honorees and Victories

The starting five: This year's Alumni Achievement Award winners included (clockwise, from lower left) Judy Haberkorn, Lou Gerstner, Joe O'Donnell, Rahul Bajaj, and Nancy Barry. The group visited HBS in September and took part in a case discussion with members of the... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

Profile

Joseph Blair

on traditional energy, particularly on the intersection of energy and politics.” In his FIELD 2 project in Chennai, India, Joe and his teammates “worked on Microsoft’s brick-and-mortar retail concept for India. We ran focus groups, visited View Details

01 Apr 2002
News

HBS Press Books in Brief

they can compete successfully in both the old and the new economies. Authors Philip Kotler, Dipak C. Jain, and Suvit Maesincee show how to build a complete marketing platform around the exploration, creation, and delivery of superior... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2007
News

Faculty Books

experiences in more than twenty countries. (See cover story) How Countries Compete by Richard H.K. Vietor (HBS Press) Professor Vietor examines the different social, economic, cultural, and historical forces shaping governmental... View Details

Keywords: Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

24 May 2017
Working Paper Summaries

Digital Labor Markets and Global Talent Flows

Keywords: by John Horton, William R. Kerr, and Christopher Stanton

January 2021
Supplement

Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (B)

By: David J. Collis, Nobuo Sato and Akiko Kanno

This case is a follow up to HBS Case No. 721-373, Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited (A). Following the events of the previous case, Takeda reached an agreement to acquire Ireland-based Shire Plc. The case follows some of the achievements and challenges Takeda and... View Details

Keywords: Pharmaceutical Companies; Pharmaceuticals; M＆A; Mergers ＆ Acquisitions; Biotech; Biotechnology; R＆D; Talent Management; Mergers and Acquisitions; Globalization; Global Strategy; Talent and Talent Management; Strategy; Biotechnology Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Japan; Asia

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September 2020
Teaching Note

Mary Guerrero and the Advancement of Latinx Talent: Developing an Employee Resource Group at a Top Tier Bank (A) and (B)

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Amy Hernandez Turcios

Teaching Note for HBS Case Nos. 321-017 and 321-018. View Details

Keywords: Latinx; Bank; Latin America; Representation; Scale; Inclusion; Coalition; Resources; Talent and Talent Management; Diversity; Ethnicity; Banks and Banking; Leadership

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April 2017
Supplement

Global Leadership in a Dynamic and Evolving Region: Molinas @ The Coca-Cola Company (C)

By: Tsedal Neeley and Esel Çekin

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Functions; Structure; Centralization; Decentralization; Diversity; Country Of Origin Effects; Global Contextual Intelligence; Leading Change; Crisis Management; Organizational Structure; Experience and Expertise; Situation or Environment; Central Asia; Turkey

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Article

Naturals and Strivers: Preferences and Beliefs about Sources of Achievement

By: Chia-Jung Tsay and Mahzarin R. Banaji

To understand how talent and achievement are perceived, three experiments compared the assessments of "naturals" and "strivers." Professional musicians learned about two pianists, equal in achievement but who varied in the source of achievement: the "natural" with... View Details

Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Perception; Judgments; Success; Competency and Skills

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June 2011
Teaching Note

Big to Small: The Two Lives of Barry Nalls (TN)

By: Noam Wasserman

Teaching Note for 808167. View Details

Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Experience and Expertise; Business Startups; Problems and Challenges; Entrepreneurship; Telecommunications Industry

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Book

Reorganize for Resilience: Putting Customers at the Center of Your Organization

By: Ranjay Gulati

In an era of raging commoditization and eroding profit margins, survival depends on resilience: staying one step ahead of your customers. Sure, most companies say they're "customer focused," but they don't deliver solutions to customers' thorniest problems. Why?... View Details

Keywords: Competency and Skills; Customer Focus and Relationships; Profit; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Cooperation

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