Cultural Organizations - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Jun 2008
First Look

First Look: June 10, 2008

opportunities being created by information technology and the Internet. The increased emphasis Kelly placed on building leadership consulting services was itself a big change. The case asks what levers Kelly can use, from culture to... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2006
News

Forestalling Terror

information. The role of this case is not to assess how well the intelligence community is doing. Rather, its purpose is to provide an extreme example of the challenge of differentiating and integrating an organization — that is, breaking... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Waleed Iskandar; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Sep 2009
First Look

First Look: September 1

industries and poor selection of investments within industries. Venture capital organizations with more experience tend to outperform those with less experience. Practicing Medicine in the Age of Facebook Author:Sachin H. Jain... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

15 Nov 2010
Lessons from the Classroom

Connecting Goals and Go-To-Market Initiatives

development, incentives, people management, developing a performance culture, and sustaining that culture in the face of inevitable market changes that are often outside the control of the selling company. And it's increasingly a bigger... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

19 Apr 2016
Blog Post

First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation

focuses solely on corporate culture and identity of the new workplace. There's a lecture about the firm's history and another about standard operating procedures. There's a packet of information from human resources, emblazoned with the... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

30 May 2019
What Do You Think?

Is There a Distinctive West Coast Style of Management?

believe that there exists a much stronger creative and entrepreneurial drive in the West and the Northwest than on the East Coast A culture of creative risk-taking exists on the West Coast more so than on the East Coast. This View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

09 Sep 2014
First Look

First Look: September 9

two countries reveals that America's love affair with credit was not primarily the consequence of its culture of consumption, as many writers have observed, nor directly a consequence of its less generous welfare state. It emerged instead... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

December 2014 (Revised January 2018)
Background Note

Troubled Marriages

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Daniel Fox

Compilation of articles looking at merger integration strategies: "business marriages." Problems of culture, management style, and business goals are revealed. View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Goals and Objectives; Management Style; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Culture; Problems and Challenges

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Educators

26 Jan 2009
Research & Ideas

Where is Home for the Global Firm?

well-integrated will not be able to handle such reallocations, as trust and preexisting relationships will be particularly critical in these settings. Growing a culture is also much more challenging in such a 'decentered' setup, and such... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

25 Mar 2015
News

The Greening of Houston

where the opportunity is,” Thacker explains. “It may not, overall, be the most beautiful city, but there are pockets of the city that are absolutely stunning. And there’s a great deal of culture in the city. We’ve got one of the... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government; Administration of Environmental Quality Programs; Government; Special Design Services; Professional Services; Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing; Manufacturing

15 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

High Ambition Leadership

practices of these CEOs and financial performance. There is already ample evidence to support this. We wanted to understand what this model of leadership looks like close up. Q: One key to success is that these leaders align strategy and View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2004
Lessons from the Classroom

Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science

more effectively design and measure complex projects and organizations. Sean Silverthorne: What drew you to the NASA/JPL Mars program as potential case material? Alan MacCormack: First, it was an ideal context in which to explore one of my current research initiatives,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

27 Jul 2023
Blog Post

Recruiting International Students is Easy and Beneficial for Employers

organization. International Students are Frequently Multilingual As the business landscape becomes increasingly international, the ability to fluently communicate in multiple languages is increasingly valuable for teams and organizations. It enables partnerships with... View Details

04 Jan 2016
News

Getting ‘Them’ Out of the Equation

Dick Simon (MBA 1980) is CEO of RSI, Inc., a Boston-based real estate development and investment management company, and founder and chair of the kNOwTHEM Initiative. In this video, he discusses the need for leaders to understand their View Details

01 Mar 2013
News

Celebrating Women at HBS

California and the HBS Women's Association of New England—have been featuring faculty speakers such as Senior Associate Dean for Culture and Community Professor Robin Ely, who is cochairing the W50 celebration. In February, the Women's... View Details

July 2017 (Revised October 2017)
Supplement

Becton Dickinson: Innovation and Growth (B)

By: Raffaella Sadun, Michael Beer and James Weber

This (B) case supplements the (A) case by providing additional information and updates through early 2016. View Details

Keywords: Transformation; Change Management; Innovation Leadership; Mergers and Acquisitions; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Design; Strategy; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Health Industry; Manufacturing Industry; United States

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03 Apr 2012
First Look

First Look: April 3

goal of residency training. The Confederacy of Heterogeneous Software Organizations and Heterogeneous Developers: Field Experimental Evidence on Sorting and Worker Effort Authors:Kevin J. Boudreau and Karim R. Lakhani Publication:In The... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

July 2024
Case

Board Director Dilemmas: Strategic Leadership

By: David G. Fubini and Patrick Sanguineti

Professor John Michaels, a distinguished scholar of corporate strategy, has served on the Board of OmniCo, a diversified industrial giant, for four years. Three months ago, the Board appointed a new CEO, Andrew Bennett, to lead growth, develop a more cooperative... View Details

Keywords: Board; Board Dynamics; Strategic Leadership; Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Strategy; Organizational Culture; Leadership Style; Management Succession

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Educators

September 2023 (Revised December 2023)
Case

Twiddy & Company: Trust in a Chaotic Environment

By: Sandra J. Sucher, Shalene Gupta and Tom Quinn

Twiddy & Company, known for Southern hospitality rooted in personal interactions, needed to adjust to contactless remote customer service as fear of the contagious virus prevented person-to-person contact. Local elected officials, in a bid to stop tourists from... View Details

Keywords: Trust; Health Pandemics; Organizational Culture; Disruption; Government Legislation; Transportation; Tourism Industry; North Carolina; United States

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July 2019
Case

Instabeat—One More Lap?

By: Shikhar Ghosh, Nicole Tempest Keller and Alpana Thapar

This case follows Lebanese entrepreneur, Hind Hobeika, an engineer and competitive swimmer who spends seven years trying to launch a wearable heartrate monitor and motion sensor to help swimmers track their performance while swimming. While the Beirut-based... View Details