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- August 2002
- Case
Trilogy University
By: Thomas J. DeLong and Michael Paley
In early 2001, Trilogy Software faced a slowdown in its business, a large number of unsuccessful customer deployments, and an overall weakening in the enterprise software market. In response, the company revamped its business model and restructured the organization.... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Design; Alignment; Restructuring; Organizational Structure; Change Management; Business Strategy; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Information Technology Industry
DeLong, Thomas J., and Michael Paley. "Trilogy University." Harvard Business School Case 403-012, August 2002.
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Social Enterprise Initiative Marks 20th Anniversary
Faculty cochair V. Kasturi (Kash) Rangan, a newly tenured professor when he became the SEI's first head, recalls, "We decided on a broad scope of inquiry. For us, understanding managerial challenges within the non-profit sector was a piece of a bigger puzzle. We wanted... View Details
Keywords: SEI
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Faculty Symposium Honors McArthur
sometimes vigorous debate about pivotal issues. The "tip of the iceberg" is how Professor Thomas K. McCraw, one of the principal organizers of the symposium, described the event's program. "A tremendous amount of important research and... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Shareholders Key to Corporate Reform
voting information accumulates, shareholder organizations such as Institutional Shareholder Services could use the balloting data to create director scorecards. Such objective information, and any... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Faculty Books
and the social sciences. Bringing together leading scholars, the book is organized in four parts: Approaches and Debates; Forms of Business Organization; Functions of Enterprise; and Enterprise and Society. Capitalism, Democracy and... View Details
- February 2000 (Revised October 2000)
- Case
E-commerce at Williams-Sonoma
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Daniel Galvin
Describes Williams-Sonoma's development of a third channel of business on the Internet. Describes the strategies for managing changes in the organizational, operational, and technological structure of the company. The new e-commerce division confronts challenges posed... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Internet and the Web; Trade; Corporate Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Operations; Information Technology; Technological Innovation; Information Technology Industry; Information Technology Industry; California
Kanter, Rosabeth M., and Daniel Galvin. "E-commerce at Williams-Sonoma." Harvard Business School Case 300-086, February 2000. (Revised October 2000.)
- Teaching Interest
Overview
I currently teach a module in the HBS Owner President Management (OPM) program that is entitled Innovation @Work. The module is designed to provide a general manager perspective on how to lead innovation and transform organizations, industries, and society. The role... View Details
Keywords: Innovation ＆ Entrepreneurship; General Management; Technological Innovation; Entrepreneurship; Information; Innovation and Invention; Leadership; Organizations; Risk and Uncertainty; Social Enterprise; Strategy; Technology; Information Industry; Information Industry; Information Industry; Information Industry; Information Industry; Africa; Asia; Latin America; Middle East; North and Central America; Europe
- 08 Mar 2017
- News
Safe, Secure, and Prosperous
makes our nation more secure and more prosperous, because it enables our organization to be much more effective. “The threats that we see across the world cross all of our borders—and so as we share View Details
- 14 Jun 2011
- News
New Directions
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Alumni Books of 2016
that flourished and those that failed, they describe the practices that characterize entrepreneurial individuals, families, and organizations and offer pragmatic advice. The Upside of Inequality: How Good Intentions Undermine the Middle... View Details
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Books
to make “transforming commitments” — managerial actions like exiting a legacy business, publicly committing to a new goal, or firing a powerful executive who defends the status quo. Such actions break the organization from the past and... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Laura Singleton; Donald; Sull; Henry; Chesbrough; Rob; Austin; Leslie; Perlow; Information; Information
- 05 Mar 2008
- What Do You Think?
Where Will Management Innovation Take Us?
Summing Up Will management innovation be "pushed" or "pulled"? Competitive organizations in the future will be managed differently. This will require new roles for managers. But according to respondents to this month's... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 19 Nov 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Lessons from IBM in Nazi Germany
- 26 Apr 2011
- News
BioMine Strikes Gold
category, and browse buying guides, helping customers make an informed buying decision. vinsnap is a mobile automotive marketing company. The application organizes car searches for customers using... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
who want to become valued and successful members of their organizations without selling out on their identities and their beliefs. These "tempered radicals" may have differences based on moral values, social perspectives, or racial,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Where Are They Now?
Christian University, he was not only TCU’s first African American basketball player but also the first in the entire Southwest Conference. In 1975, about the same time a kid named Bill Gates opened a shoestring operation called Microsoft, Cash was closing in on his... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
I have recently returned from the Board's winter meeting at HBS, and, as usual, I found being back on campus extremely energizing. Our subcommittees on information technology, alumni career management and development, and global alumni... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Entrepreneur's Notebook with Kevin Przybocki (MBA '91)
Name: Kevin Przybocki (MBA ’91), VP, Sales & Marketing Company: Anué Systems (founded 2002) Location: Austin, Texas Web: www.anuesystems.com Przybocki Elevator pitch: Anué Systems is a technology leader in next-generation data communications testing. We make network... View Details
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
we worked on. The Alumni Communications Committee, under the able guidance of Paul Stewart (MBA '87), reached out to a sampling of alumni in order to better define existing market segments and their needs. The committee's work will inform... View Details
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
Understanding Business Firsthand in South Korea
MBA students interview consumers in Seoul, Korea, to help inform the marketing strategies they developed for Orion Snack International. The project was the culmination of a required first-year course designed to develop students’ global... View Details