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  • 23 Dec 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS

and income during periods of unemployment. Q: The purpose of the Harvard-Newcomen Postdoctoral Fellowship award is to enable scholars who have received a Ph.D. in history, economics, or a related discipline within the past ten years to... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard; Banking; Financial Services
  • Web

Freedom, Fear, and Feedback: Should Other Companies Follow Netflix’s Lead? | Working Knowledge

first loss of customers in a decade. The challenging period left some observers wondering if the same culture that propelled Netflix to its highest heights now held it back. Joly asks: “In Netflix’s case, what do you change? Do you revisit Netflix’s View Details
  • 20 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 20, 2008

could prevent if we only knew what to look for. This book plays on that fear and offers a positive, proactive resolution to it. Two leading experts in managerial decision making show that many disasters in business are preceded by clear warning signals that leaders... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Jan 2021
  • In Practice

Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm

improve Americans’ lives. It’s this kind of honest and purposeful leadership that we need to help guide our communities through the pandemic and move forward once it’s over. Karen Gordon Mills (@KarenGMills) is a Senior Fellow and served... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 05 Nov 2009
  • Research & Ideas

A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?

framework.) The window of opportunity, if you wish, is even larger than it might appear. More specifically, the purchase or sale of whole bodies—not parts—is absent from the Act's provision. Second, the purchase and sale of body parts for View Details
Keywords: by Michel Anteby; Health
  • 17 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 17, 2009

focus its attention moving forward. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=709458 Tata Motors in Singur: Public Purpose and Private Property (B) Harvard Business School Case... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Nov 2007
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching The Moral Leader

was asked to develop and teach my own version of The Moral Leader. Q: Tell us about your version of the course. A: In my design, The Moral Leader is a 13-session seminar, an elective course taken by MBAs in their second year. The purpose... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Education
  • 25 Oct 2024
  • Blog Post

Harvard Business School Announces Latest RISE Fellows

(MBA 2025)Heaven’s commitment to elevating experiences across stakeholders has been a guiding compass throughout her journey and led to her finding purpose at the heart of social issues: distribution of capital. Her professional... View Details
  • 02 Aug 2018
  • News

Can Marketing Help Halt the Heroin Epidemic?

to work on with this heroin campaign. Hanna: Last week the White House introduced four ads that are focused on prescription opioids, and they feature the stories of four people who purposely hurt themselves in order to get more of the... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2009
  • News

Model Patient

Massachusetts legislature deliberately left certain “hot potato” issues for the Connector to define (such as “affordability” for the purposes of the individual mandate), and despite differing viewpoints, Wcislo believes,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Health, Social Assistance
  • 10 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 10, 2009

re-conceptualize its strategy to focus on system-level change. While there were numerous risks to pursuing the alternative strategy for Schramm and Segal, the possibility of helping redefine the purpose of secondary education might be too... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Nov 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale

get you through. A: Yes. Like any strong culture, Harvard Business School, for example, strong cultures have their defects and their virtues. But let's talk about their virtues first. Andy, in constructing Intel culture—I don't think he did this View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer
  • January 2017 (Revised March 2017)
  • Case

Royal DSM: From Continuous Transformation to Organic Growth

By: William W. George, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Amram Migdal
Royal DSM CEO Feike Sijbesma was pondering the challenges of shifting DSM’s global organization from the constant transformations of the past 100 years to creating organic growth. When Sijbesma took the helm as CEO in 2007, he further pushed and completed the company’s... View Details
Keywords: Organic Growth; Organizational Change; M＆A; Mergers And Acquisitions; Divestment; Business Ventures; Business Divisions; Business Growth and Maturation; Restructuring; Change; Change Management; Transformation; Transition; Engineering; Chemicals; Mining; Ethics; Values and Beliefs; Finance; Capital Markets; Financial Markets; Food; Globalization; Global Strategy; Globalized Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Health; Nutrition; History; Leadership; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Management; Business or Company Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Management Practices and Processes; Management Style; Organizations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Design; Ownership; Public Ownership; Performance; Strategy; Adaptation; Consolidation; Corporate Strategy; Value; Value Creation; Biotechnology Industry; Chemical Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Mining Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry; Europe; Netherlands
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  • January 2024
  • Case

Frank Cornelissen: The Great Sulfite Debate (A)

By: Tiona Zuzul and Susan Pinckney
In 2018, artisanal Italian vineyard Frank Cornelissen was one of the world’s leading natural wine vineyards. Its founder, Frank Cornelissen, faced weather related conditions that forced him to have to decide between staying true to the tenets of the natural wine... View Details
Keywords: Budgets and Budgeting; Business Earnings; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Family Business; For-Profit Firms; Small Business; Change Management; Transition; Communication Strategy; Cost vs Benefits; Financial Management; Financial Strategy; Profit; Revenue; Spending; Global Strategy; Goods and Commodities; Innovation Strategy; Crisis Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth Management; Success; Strategic Planning; Problems and Challenges; Risk and Uncertainty; Cognition and Thinking; Reputation; Adaptation; Expansion; Weather; Mission and Purpose; Values and Beliefs; Food and Beverage Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Europe; Italy
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  • 01 Apr 2022
  • Blog Post

Climate Stories Episode #3: Keith Kinch, BlocPower

workers in America.” Asked how he is managing BlocPower’s explosive growth, Keith sighed: “One day and one breath at a time. We still have a lot to do in a lot of cities. We are staying mission and purpose driven.” He added: “I am... View Details
  • 15 Jun 2020
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2020

to the top. The time for action is running short. Professor Rebecca Henderson’s rigorous research in economics, psychology, and organizational behavior, as well as her many years of work with companies around the world, illuminates a path forward. She debunks the... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2008
  • News

Kash Rangan

jump at creating for-profit enterprises. In certain segments like health care, and even arts and culture, it might make sense when the for-profit and nonprofit parts are tightly linked by a common purpose or platform. For example, in... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance
  • 01 Mar 2011
  • News

James McNerney Jr.

that has to start somewhere, and there are qualities a company can’t let go, such as its purpose and values. I’ve seen examples where, in a hunger to be both local and global, people forget about ethics and integrity. Manufacturing is... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; interview; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Air Transportation; Transportation
  • 10 Apr 2012
  • First Look

First Look: April 10

ponder how best to utilize data for the purposes of generating "alpha" (positive risk-adjusted returns) in investing. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/212057-PDF-ENG Resolving Your Founding Dilemmas:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 07 Dec 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 7

Joan E. Ricart Publication:Management Research 8, no. 2 (2010) Abstract The purpose of this paper is to reflect on competitiveness by using the business model concept and to understand the need to adapt business models to changes in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne