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  • 29 Oct 2019
  • Video

Leonor Melo de Velasco

Leonor Melo, who founded the Mundo Mujer Foundation (Women’s World Foundation) in Colombia in 1985, describes how her micro-finance NGO grew by building strong relations with its clients, and how it learned new... View Details
  • November–December 2020
  • Article

Our Work-from-Anywhere Future

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury
The pandemic has hastened a rise in remote working for knowledge-based organizations. This has notable benefits: Companies can save on real estate costs, hire and utilize talent globally, mitigate immigration issues, and experience productivity gains, while workers can... View Details
Keywords: Remote Work; Best Practices; Employment; Health Pandemics; Geographic Location; Opportunities; Problems and Challenges
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  • Research Summary

Leveraging Knowledge for Performance

Morten Hansen is involved in research which examines how knowledge residing in different units in a company can be leveraged to improve performance in a specific unit. He has conducted several large studies of the use of knowledge in creating competitive performance,... View Details
  • Career Coach

Nathan Lasche

Nathan interned in Product Management at Amazon and was the Co-President of the HBS TechMedia club. Prior to HBS, he spent two years in Uganda starting the Clinton Foundation HIV / AIDS Initiative’s country office, worked in feature film development at Sony Studios,... View Details
  • September 1999 (Revised May 2003)
  • Case

Deloitte & Touche (A): A Hole in the Pipeline

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Jane Roessner
Deloitte & Touche was losing talented women, and CEO Mike Cook wanted to stop the loss, especially as the accounting and consulting fields became more competitive. The firm commissioned an analysis of the situation; now it had to consider the results and develop a plan... View Details
Keywords: Strategic Planning; Organizational Culture; Accounting; Gender; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Loss; Change Management; Jobs and Positions; Resignation and Termination; Accounting Industry; United States
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  • June 1995 (Revised April 1997)
  • Case

Integron Incorporated: The Integrated Components Division (ICD)

A high-technology manufacturing company was recently given profit-and-loss "stand-alone" status by its parent. No longer a captive supplier, it must seek new markets for its technology and products on the outside world. Describes a benchmarking study by a group of... View Details
Keywords: Technology; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Restructuring; Manufacturing Industry
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  • 18 Mar 2014
  • News

The Seven Skills You Need to Thrive in the C-Suite

  • 20 Mar 2012
  • News

Two Harvard Business School Professors Win McKinsey Awards

    Leila Doumi

    Leila Doumi is a PhD Candidate in the Strategy Unit and an affiliate of the Digital Data and Design (D^3) Institute at Harvard. She conducts research on technology adoption, corporate strategy, and the future of work with a focus... View Details

    • September 2022 (Revised April 2023)
    • Case

    Cesaro e Associati

    By: Christina R. Wing and Amram Migdal
    This case describes the leadership succession planning process at Cesaro e Associati (Studio Cesaro), founded in 1986 by Franco Cesaro in the northeastern Italian state of Veneto. In 2022, Franco was contemplating retirement and passing leadership of his firm, which... View Details
    Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Family Business; For-Profit Firms; Restructuring; Small Business; Change; Change Management; Competency and Skills; Experience and Expertise; Talent and Talent Management; Entrepreneurship; Governance; Leadership; Leading Change; Management; Management Succession; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Ownership; Family Ownership; Private Ownership; Personal Development and Career; Relationships; Family and Family Relationships; Consulting Industry; Europe; Italy
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    • June 2003 (Revised October 2003)
    • Case

    An Ancient Fable

    By: Ashish Nanda
    This case presents a thinly disguised account of Andersen's collapse, followed by a tightening of the oversight of audit firms. It raises questions on who lost and who gained, as well as the long-term implications of the changes for the accounting profession and... View Details
    Keywords: Accounting Audits; Consulting Industry
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    • 24 May 2012
    • News

    Businesses need an image repair

    • Research Summary

    The Meaning-Making of Meaningful Work

    This stream of research considers cultural processes of meaning-making. In an ongoing inductive case study of a consulting firm, I examine what makes certain kinds of work meaningful and what role the interpretation of organizational communications plays in this... View Details

      Michael Beer

      MICHAEL BEER

      Mike Beer is the Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School and author Fit to Compete: Why Honest Conversations About Your Company’s... View Details

      • January 2000
      • Case

      Selecting a New Name for Security Capital Pacific Trust

      A methodology for selecting a new corporate brand name is explored, highlighting different types of names, criteria and hurdles in securing new names, and legal implications. Brand identity consultancy Lippincott & Margulies guided a real estate investment trust... View Details
      Keywords: Brands and Branding; Financial Services Industry
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      • 01 Oct 2012
      • News

      Anchored to mobiles

      • 14 May 2013
      • Blog Post

      Scratching the surface

      It’s amazing to think that already a month has passed since the school year started. Things have finally reached a solid level of familiarity, even as other things (notably internship recruiting) are only now warming up. Prior to HBS, I worked in management View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurship
      • May 2004 (Revised December 2004)
      • Case

      Slingshot Technology, Inc. (B)

      By: Lynda M. Applegate and Elizabeth Collins
      Slingshot Technology Inc. (STI) is a privately held software start-up founded in 1995 focused on identifying emerging spaces in the IT services industry and partnering with vendors selling promising but unproven technologies in those spaces. The vendors used STI to... View Details
      Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Private Ownership; Opportunities; Partners and Partnerships; Information Technology; Entrepreneurship; Applications and Software; Intellectual Property; Business Startups; Information Technology Industry
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      • 19 May 2011
      • News

      Is Google profiting from illegal ads?

      • August 2001 (Revised May 2004)
      • Case

      Maria Hernandez & Associates

      By: William J. Bruns Jr.
      This case presents the situation of an unemployed web page designer who starts a new consulting firm with personal savings and a family loan. Two months later, she is to report on operations to her father, using financial reports she must design and construct. View Details
      Keywords: Financial Reporting; Accounting; Business Startups; Design; Borrowing and Debt; Service Industry
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