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- August 2021
- Article
The Undervalued Power of Self-relevant Research: The Case of Researching Retirement While Retiring
By: Teresa M. Amabile and Douglas T. (Tim) Hall
For decades, training in management research has emphasized objectivity, typically viewed as an arm’s length distance between the topic of the research and the interests of the researcher. This emphasis has led most scholars to avoid research topics of deep personal...
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Keywords:
Qualitative Research Methods;
Case Research Methods;
Organizational Behavior;
Careers;
Career Changes And Transitions;
Self-relevant Research;
Research;
Personal Development and Career;
Transition;
Identity;
Retirement
Amabile, Teresa M., and Douglas T. (Tim) Hall. "The Undervalued Power of Self-relevant Research: The Case of Researching Retirement While Retiring." Academy of Management Perspectives 35, no. 3 (August 2021): 347–366.
- February 2018 (Revised May 2018)
- Case
Haier: Incubating Entrepreneurs in a Chinese Giant
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Nancy Hua Dai
CEO Zhang Ruimin must plan how to accelerate the growth of self-managed microenterprises. Platforms were Haier’s business platforms operating in five major sectors: white goods transformation, investment and incubation, financial holdings, real estate, and cultural...
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Keywords:
China;
Microenterprise;
Appliances;
Platform;
Change;
Innovation;
Opportunities;
Entrepreneurship;
Digital Platforms;
Transformation;
Innovation and Invention;
Leadership;
Growth and Development Strategy;
China
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Nancy Hua Dai. "Haier: Incubating Entrepreneurs in a Chinese Giant." Harvard Business School Case 318-104, February 2018. (Revised May 2018.)
- December 7, 2016
- Article
Is Your Client’s Generational Transition Stuck?: How Changing the Ownership Model Can Create Traction
By: Josh Baron
Baron, Josh. "Is Your Client’s Generational Transition Stuck? How Changing the Ownership Model Can Create Traction." Family Firm Institute Practitioner (December 7, 2016).
- December 1999
- Case
Sun Microsystems, Inc. (A6): Enterprise 250: Mark Canepa on the Newcomer as Change Agent
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Jane Roessner
Coming to Sun Microsystems after 20 years with Hewlett-Packard (HP), Mark Canepa brought a highly organized leadership style more characteristic of HP than Sun. His goal was to use the development of a new workstation product to build a disciplined, process-oriented,...
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- March 2014
- Teaching Note
The Weather Company
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
New CEO David Kenny transformed The Weather Company in less than two years from a primary identity as a cable television channel to a multi-platform digital company innovating in the uses of weather data. He assesses progress and considers strategic choices and...
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- April 2022 (Revised May 2022)
- Case
Mastercard Labs (A) (Abridged)
When Ajaypal (Ajay) Banga became the CEO of Mastercard in 2010, he shifted the company’s competitive focus from card networks to cash itself. Mastercard’s new vision of a “World Beyond Cash” distilled into a three-pronged framework: Grow the core business, Diversify...
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Keywords:
Organizational Behavior;
Culture;
Organizational Culture;
Culture Change;
Organizational Adaptation;
Organizational Effectiveness;
Alignment;
Leadership;
Leadership Development;
Innovation;
Innovation Ecosystems;
Diversity;
Collaboration;
Co-creation;
Learning Organizations;
Empowerment;
Ecosystem;
Agility;
Prototype;
Experiment;
Partnerships;
Operating Model;
Risk Management;
Metrics;
Payments;
Financial Inclusion;
Financial Industry;
Ambidexterity;
Corporate Innovation;
Innovation Lab;
Accelerator;
Start-up;
Intrapreneurship;
Competitive Strategy;
Business Model;
Technological Innovation;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Digital Transformation
Hill, Linda A., Sunil Gupta, Emily Tedards, and Julia Kelley. "Mastercard Labs (A) (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 422-082, April 2022. (Revised May 2022.)
- 2011
- Case
CSCEC: Transformation and Development
By: F. Warren McFarlan, Donghong Li and Hong Zhang
In 2001, CSCEC, the largest residential building constructor in China, greeted its new General Manager, Wenjie Sun, who was the President of China Overseas, a Hong Kong-listed subsidiary of CSCEC. In the following 9 years, Sun strived to advance the transformation and...
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McFarlan, F. Warren, Donghong Li, and Hong Zhang. "CSCEC: Transformation and Development." Tsinghua University Case, 2011.
- 2022
- Book
Corporate Explorer: How Corporations Beat Startups at the Innovation Game
By: Andrew Binns, Charles A. O'Reilly III and Michael Tushman
Innovation used to be seen as a game best left to entrepreneurs, but now a new breed of corporate managers is flipping this logic on its head. These Corporate Explorers have the insight, resilience, and discipline to overcome the obstacles and build new ventures from...
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Keywords:
Organization Change And Adaptation;
Disruptive Innovation;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Innovation and Management;
Leading Change
Binns, Andrew, Charles A. O'Reilly III, and Michael Tushman. Corporate Explorer: How Corporations Beat Startups at the Innovation Game. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2022.
- June 2016
- Teaching Note
N12 Technologies: Building an Organization and Building a Business
By: David A. Garvin
N12 Technologies was a startup founded in 2010 that employed nanotechnology to manufacture a patented material to improve the performance of carbon fiber composites, which were used in a wide variety of products, ranging from bicycles to automobiles to aircraft parts....
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Keywords:
Startup;
Organizational Structure;
Nanotechnology;
Business Processes;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Design;
Management Systems;
Commercialization;
Industrial Products Industry;
Manufacturing Industry;
Auto Industry;
Bicycle Industry;
Transportation Industry;
United States
- January 2016
- Case
Die Mannschaft: How Germany Won the 2014 FIFA World Cup
By: Boris Groysberg, Sascha L. Schmidt, Arjun Thomke, Kerry Herman and Michael Norris
After years of ups and downs, Germany won its fourth World Cup Championship in 2014. This case examines the national team's recent history and the changes they made to set themselves up for success.
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Keywords:
Football;
Soccer;
"World Cup," Germany;
Germany;
Organizational Behavior;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Success;
Sports;
Sports Industry;
Germany;
Brazil
Groysberg, Boris, Sascha L. Schmidt, Arjun Thomke, Kerry Herman, and Michael Norris. "Die Mannschaft: How Germany Won the 2014 FIFA World Cup." Harvard Business School Case 416-025, January 2016.
- 2011
- Chapter
Explaining the Loss of Community: Competing Logics and Institutional Change in the U.S. Banking Industry
By: Christopher Marquis, Zhi Huang and Juan Almandoz
Keywords:
Banks and Banking;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Conflict and Resolution;
Banking Industry;
United States
Marquis, Christopher, Zhi Huang, and Juan Almandoz. "Explaining the Loss of Community: Competing Logics and Institutional Change in the U.S. Banking Industry." In Communities and Organizations. Vol. 33, edited by Christopher Marquis, Michael Lounsbury, and Royston Greenwood. Research in the Sociology of Organizations. Emerald Group Publishing, 2011.
- April 2022
- Supplement
Mastercard Labs (B)
When Ajaypal (Ajay) Banga became the CEO of Mastercard in 2010, digital technologies were on the rise, and innovation needed to become a strategic imperative at the company. Banga tasked Garry Lyons, who had joined Mastercard through the 2009 acquisition of Orbiscom,...
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Keywords:
Organizational Behavior;
Culture;
Transformation;
Organizational Culture;
Culture Change;
Organizational Adaptation;
Organizational Effectiveness;
Alignment;
Leadership;
Leadership Development;
Innovation;
Innovation Ecosystems;
Diversity;
Collaboration;
Co-creation;
Learning Organizations;
Empowerment;
Ecosystem;
Agility;
Prototype;
Experiment;
Partnerships;
Operating Model;
Risk Management;
Digital Transformation;
Metrics;
Payments;
Financial Industry;
Financial Inclusion;
Ambidexterity;
Corporate Innovation;
Innovation Lab;
Accelerator;
Start-up;
Fintech
Hill, Linda A., Sunil Gupta, Emily Tedards, and Julia Kelley. "Mastercard Labs (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 422-081, April 2022.
- Fall 2021
- Article
Strategy as a Way of Life: Businesses Must Root Strategy in Moral Purpose to Thrive in a Complex, Rapidly Changing World
By: Ikujiro Nonaka and Hirotaka Takeuchi
Doing the ordinary things in life a little bit better every day elevates individuals. All of us gained mother's wisdom by living with her, by watching her from behind her, by being scolded by her, and being told over and over again, to be honest, not to tell a lie or...
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Nonaka, Ikujiro, and Hirotaka Takeuchi. "Strategy as a Way of Life: Businesses Must Root Strategy in Moral Purpose to Thrive in a Complex, Rapidly Changing World." MIT Sloan Management Review 63, no. 1 (Fall 2021): 56–63.
- December 2017 (Revised January 2018)
- Case
NatureSweet
By: Jose Alvarez, Forest Reinhardt and Natalie Kindred
This case describes the business model and workplace philosophy of NatureSweet, a privately owned, vertically integrated greenhouse grower and marketer of fresh tomatoes with sales across the United States and $329 million in 2016 revenues. CEO Bryant Ambelang treated...
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Keywords:
NatureSweet;
Tomatoes;
Agriculture;
Greenhouse;
Ambelang;
Cherry Tomatoes;
Incentives;
Worker Empowerment;
Empowerment;
Toyota Production System;
Leadership;
Branding;
Produce;
Manufacturing;
Organizational Change;
Agribusiness;
Business Model;
Employee Relationship Management;
Working Conditions;
Organizational Culture;
Success;
Problems and Challenges;
Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry;
Manufacturing Industry;
United States;
Mexico;
North America
Alvarez, Jose, Forest Reinhardt, and Natalie Kindred. "NatureSweet." Harvard Business School Case 518-002, December 2017. (Revised January 2018.)
- June 2016
- Case
Publicis Groupe 2016: Maurice and the Millennials
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jonathan Cohen
Having built Publicis Groupe through acquisitions maintained as separate brands, CEO Maurice Lévy wanted to transform the advertising and marketing firm to an integrated digital-ready enterprise to address industry changes. In early 2016, following a reorganization, he...
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Keywords:
Managing Change;
Transformations;
Digital;
Millennials;
Change;
Innovation;
Acquisitions;
Merger;
Culture;
Advertising Agency;
Reorganization;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Information Technology;
Change Management;
Restructuring;
Management Succession;
Marketing;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Transformation;
Innovation and Invention;
Digital Marketing;
Advertising Industry
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Jonathan Cohen. "Publicis Groupe 2016: Maurice and the Millennials." Harvard Business School Case 316-127, June 2016.
- June 2018
- Teaching Note
Sandra Brown Goes Digital
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jonathan Cohen
As a middle manager at a biotechnology company, Sandra Brown harnessed digital tools and social media to engage others and build campaigns for change in the company. This Teaching Note presents strategies for teaching the Sandra Brown case series, which follows Brown's...
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- April 2021
- Case
Transforming BlackBerry: From Smartphones to Software
By: Ranjay Gulati and Nicole Tempest Keller
On the verge of failure, BlackBerry brought in John Chen as CEO in 2013 to orchestrate a bold turnaround of the company. Once an iconic leader in the smartphone market, BlackBerry was best known for its tactile QWERTY keyboard, strong security, and a focus on business...
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Keywords:
Pivot;
Managing Change;
Turnaround;
Smartphone;
Change Management;
Leading Change;
Transformation;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Digital Platforms;
Change;
Information Infrastructure;
Applications and Software;
Competitive Strategy;
Cybersecurity;
Technology Industry;
Transportation Industry;
Canada
Gulati, Ranjay, and Nicole Tempest Keller. "Transforming BlackBerry: From Smartphones to Software." Harvard Business School Case 421-052, April 2021.
- 2001
- Chapter
Bankruptcy, Boards, Banks, and Blockholders: Evidence on Changes in Corporate Ownership and Control When Firms Default
By: S. C. Gilson
- 1992
- Chapter
Bankruptcy, Boards, Banks, and Blockholders: Evidence on Changes in Corporate Ownership and Control When Firms Default
By: S. C. Gilson
Keywords:
Insolvency and Bankruptcy;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Ownership;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Banks and Banking;
Banking Industry
Gilson, S. C. "Bankruptcy, Boards, Banks, and Blockholders: Evidence on Changes in Corporate Ownership and Control When Firms Default." In Bankruptcy and Distressed Restructurings: Analytical Issues and Investment Opportunities, edited by Edward I. Altman. New York: Business One Irwin, 1992.