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- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
from 1970 to 2007, we find that better-performing teams are less likely to hire minorities to fill lower-level and mid-level coaching positions (as predicted by prior literature on labor queues), but that such teams are more likely to hire minorities into View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- March 2023
- Teaching Note
Sustainability Reporting at Dollar Tree, Inc.
By: Suraj Srinivasan and Li-Kuan Ni
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 122-044. The case discusses the ESG strategy of Dollar Tree Inc., a U.S. Fortune 500 company in the deep discount retail industry and the shareholder pressure faced by the company. In 2022, the company faced a shareholder resolution from...
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ESG;
Sustainability;
Shareholder Activism;
Dollar Tree;
Sustainability Reporting;
ESG Reporting;
Board Of Directors;
Shareholder Engagement;
GHG;
Environmental Accounting;
Integrated Corporate Reporting;
Trends;
Communication;
Announcements;
Voting;
Environmental Management;
Climate Change;
Environmental Sustainability;
Values and Beliefs;
Corporate Accountability;
Corporate Disclosure;
Corporate Governance;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Policy;
Reports;
Business or Company Management;
Risk Management;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Outcome or Result;
Strategic Planning;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Situation or Environment;
Opportunities;
Civil Society or Community;
Social Issues;
Public Opinion;
Strategy;
Adaptation;
Alignment;
Business Strategy;
Corporate Strategy;
Value Creation;
Retail Industry;
United States;
Virginia
- 10 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
High Commitment, High Performance Management
only come from the top. Develop a leadership team that embraces the values and perspective discussed here. If that means moving people out and replacing them, that must be done. Engage the View Details
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by Martha Lagace
- 06 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 6, 2007
patients' families in an ongoing organizational learning process. The two-case series is particularly distinctive in tracking an organizational change initiative for almost a decade and, as such, uncovers and promotes discussion of the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 25, 2006
Working PapersA Gentler Capitalism: Black Business Leadership in the New South Africa Authors:Linda A. Hill and Maria T. Farkas Author's Abstract Through her efforts to recruit, hire, and develop minority executives at MTN, a South...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization
Many of the CEOs we heard from highlighted their concerns about getting communication right, particularly communication with their employees. How often? What platform? What tone? In Leadership on the Line: Staying Alive Through the...
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by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
- 2008
- Chapter
When Learning and Performance Are at Odds: Confronting the Tension
By: Sara Jean Singer and A. C. Edmondson
This chapter explores complexities of the relationship between learning and performance. We start with the general proposition that learning promotes performance and then describe several challenges for researchers and managers who wish to study or promote learning in...
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- January 2018
- Supplement
Scaling Swagbucks (B)
By: Jeffrey F. Rayport and Matthew G. Preble
“Swagbucks (B),” HBS No. 817123, picks up in mid-2014 following the events described in “Swagbucks (A),” HBS No 817122. Davis and Gorowitz were successful in their efforts to position the company for scale without negatively affecting the company’s foundational...
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Loyalty Management;
Scaling;
Scale;
Entrepreneurship;
Human Resources;
Employees;
Employee Relationship Management;
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Organizational Culture;
Organizational Design;
Leading Change;
Growth Management;
Religion;
Information Technology;
Internet and the Web;
Transition;
Leadership;
Web Services Industry;
Technology Industry
Rayport, Jeffrey F., and Matthew G. Preble. "Scaling Swagbucks (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 818-071, January 2018.
- 2011
- Other Unpublished Work
Pioneers in Finance: An Interview with Michael C. Jensen - Part 2
By: Michael C. Jensen and Ralph A. Walkling
This interview is Part 2 of a two-part series in which Professor Ralph Walkling, the Stratakis Chair in Corporate Governance and Executive Director of the Center for Corporate Governance at Drexel University, interviews Professor Michael C. Jensen, Jesse Isidor Straus...
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- 16 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Most Successful Startups Have Hands-On Founders
leadership approach. The majority of these founders made at least one substantial business change after the retreat. “Founders talked at length about implementing particular action items,” the paper says. “For example, founders View Details
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by Dina Gerdeman
- March 1992 (Revised June 1995)
- Case
Introduction of FM Radio (A): Finally, A ""Staticless"" Radio
Describes the evolution of radio technology and business from the initial days of wireless telegraphy to the advent, growth, and establishment of amplitude-modulated (AM) radio manufacturing and broadcasting. Begins and ends with a description of a decision the Radio...
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Technological Innovation;
Leading Change;
Product Design;
Product Development;
Media and Broadcasting Industry;
United States
Dhebar, Anirudh S. Introduction of FM Radio (A): Finally, A ""Staticless"" Radio. Harvard Business School Case 592-092, March 1992. (Revised June 1995.)
- 19 Dec 2023
- Research & Ideas
15 Podcast Episodes That Grabbed Listeners in 2023
Inflation Reduction Act This bonus episode features the Harvard Law School Environmental and Energy Law Program’s CleanLaw podcast, where professors Jody Freeman (Harvard) and Greg Dotson (University of Oregon) talk about the US Inflation Reduction Act that was enacted...
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by Danielle Kost
- January 2018
- Case
Kids & Company: Entering the U.S.
By: Boris Groysberg, Matthew G. Preble and Katherine Connolly Baden
In April 2017, Victoria Sopik and Jennifer Nashmi, CEO and CFO (respectively) of Kids & Company, a Canadian childcare provider that they had co-founded in the early 2000s and developed into a nearly 100-unit enterprise, are discussing how the company should proceed...
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Child Care;
Childcare;
Day Care;
Daycare;
Early Childhood Education;
Strategy;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Growth Management;
Business Strategy;
Competitive Strategy;
Competitive Advantage;
Expansion;
Leadership;
Marketing;
Product Marketing;
Brands and Branding;
Service Delivery;
Service Operations;
Product Design;
Product Development;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Selection and Staffing;
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Entrepreneurship;
Service Industry;
Education Industry;
United States;
Canada
Groysberg, Boris, Matthew G. Preble, and Katherine Connolly Baden. "Kids & Company: Entering the U.S." Harvard Business School Case 418-011, January 2018.
- 05 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Managers Should Reveal Their Failures
through fast-track promotion programs and their colleagues don’t. So, in discussing a promotion or a work-related reward, a manager might consider tossing in a setback encountered earlier in the person’s career to appear more confident...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
Seven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better Execution
Your personal attention is the critical catalyst to focus your entire organization on the strategic uncertainties that keep you awake at night. After all, everyone watches what the boss watches. I will discuss how you can use this...
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by Robert Simons
- 24 Feb 2021
- Lessons from the Classroom
What History's Biggest Wars Teach Us About Leading in Peace
for corporate leaders and entrepreneurs. After all, leadership challenges, strategic choices, and high-stakes negotiations are constants not only in conflicts among nations, but in the business world, too, he points out. So business...
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by Lane Lambert
- 22 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Why Salespeople Struggle at Leading
especially since many supervisors treat them as an afterthought, Cespedes says. “They’ll begin to pay attention to someone a few days before the performance review, and then it becomes mainly a compensation discussion about whether the...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 11 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Building a Better Board
discuss what he considers to be the biggest practical issues facing boards today: how to get and give honest assessments without eroding collegiality and trust; how to evaluate the CEO using factors that go beyond financial results; how...
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by Carmen Nobel
- August 2010 (Revised July 2011)
- Supplement
Erik Peterson at Biometra (E)
By: John J. Gabarro, Thomas J. DeLong and Jevan Soo
Presents the final outcome of the events. The Richard Jenkins at SciMat case presents a description from the executive vice-president's point of view of the series of events as reported in the Erik Peterson at Biometra (A), (B), (C), and (D) cases. The Jenkins at...
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Decision Choices and Conditions;
Leadership;
Business or Company Management;
Management Succession;
Product Launch;
Outcome or Result;
Problems and Challenges;
Behavior;
Perspective
Gabarro, John J., Thomas J. DeLong, and Jevan Soo. "Erik Peterson at Biometra (E)." Harvard Business School Supplement 411-035, August 2010. (Revised July 2011.)
- November 2004 (Revised August 2008)
- Case
KIPP National (A) (Abridged)
The KIPP Academies are, two high-performing public middle schools founded in 1995 by Michael Feinberg and David Levin in Houston and New York. In January 2000, Feinberg and Levin meet with Scott Hamilton, managing director of the Pisces Foundation, to discuss the...
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Middle School Education;
Framework;
Leadership;
Performance Effectiveness;
Programs;
Expansion
Leschly, Stig. "KIPP National (A) (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 805-068, November 2004. (Revised August 2008.)