Change Leadership - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 28, 2008

teams tend to develop products with more modular architectures. Furthermore, the differences between systems are substantial—the pairs we examine vary by a factor of eight, in terms of the potential for a design change to propagate to... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

June 2024
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Climate Governance at Linde plc (B)

By: Lynn S. Paine, Suraj Srinivasan, Emilie Billaud and Vincent Dessain

In July 2023, the Linde plc board of directors' sustainability committee convened in London to review the company's environmental performance, with a focus on decarbonization and clean energy. Linde was the world's largest industrial gas supplier, with a workforce of... View Details

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October 2000 (Revised July 2001)
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Avon Products (A)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Greg Rogers

The general manager of Avon Mexico, Fernando Lezama, must decide whether to promote a woman to the position of vice president of sales. If appointed, the candidate would be the first female in all of Latin America to hold an executive position and one of the first... View Details

Keywords: Business or Company Management; Leading Change; Salesforce Management; Organizational Culture; Job Design and Levels; Gender; Management Teams; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Mexico

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June 2013 (Revised September 2016)
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Governance and Sustainability at Nike (B)

By: Lynn S. Paine, Nien-he Hsieh and Lara Adamsons

Two members of Nike's executive team must decide what sustainability targets to propose to Nike's CEO and to the corporate responsibility committee of Nike's board of directors. Set in 2012, the case traces the evolution of Nike's approach to environmental and social... View Details

Keywords: Nike; Hannah Jones; Mark Parker; Phil Knight; Philip Knight; Eric Sprunk; Jill Ker Conway; Phyllis Wise; Don Blair; Sustainable Business And Innovation; SB＆I; Flyknit; DyeCoo; Footwear; Athletic Footwear; Apparel; Athletic Apparel; Sustainability; Greenpeace; Detox Campaign; Dirty Laundry; Water; Water Use; Water Pollution; Water Resources; Corporate Responsibility Committee; Judgment; Board Of Directors; Board Committees; Environmental And Social Sustainability; Footwear Industry; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decisions; Ethics; Fairness; Globalized Firms and Management; Multinational Firms and Management; Globalized Markets and Industries; Governance; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Innovation Leadership; Innovation Strategy; Goals and Objectives; Management Practices and Processes; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Performance; Alignment; Supply Chain; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Judgments; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Asia; China; United States; Oregon; Portland

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13 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

Managing the Support Staff Identity Crisis

Last year, Harvard Business School professor Ranjay Gulati met with the marketing department of a large American corporation and posed a seemingly simple question: What do marketing people actually do? "I got this nervous laughter," says Gulati, an expert on... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

February 2020
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Indigo Agriculture: Harnessing Nature

By: Michael W. Toffel and James Barnett

Indigo Agriculture used a digital-enabled research and development (R&D) process to launch its initial product, microbial coatings for agricultural seeds, which increase crop yields while reducing the need for fertilizers. In doing so, the company developed direct... View Details

Keywords: Operations; Supply Chain; Social Enterprise; Product Development; Distribution Channels; Business Strategy; Digital Platforms; Environmental Sustainability; Science-Based Business; Climate Change; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Green Technology Industry; United States; Massachusetts

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20 Feb 2001
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What’s Next for Japan

these are good things. [They] don't want to just throw those out.—Ezra F. Vogel, Harvard University professor Yasunobe went on to discuss the changing attitude within the Japanese government towards big business. There is currently a... View Details

Keywords: by Hilah Geer

13 Dec 2016
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December 13, 2016

design decisions, asking themselves the following questions: 1) Are we providing too much information? In many cases, the simplest, most effective change a platform can make is to withhold information such as race and gender until after a... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

02 Feb 2004
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Where Does Apple Go From Here?

rather than a vertical, turnkey hardware integrated software provider. It's a fundamental change in strategy, if they were to pursue it aggressively. On the other hand, if they pursue their iPod licensing strategy like they pursued their... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

16 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?

country. As you might imagine, I've given this issue considerable thought. I have come to it as an individual, as an academic, and as the head of an institution that prepares hundreds of people for business leadership every year. And I... View Details

Keywords: by Kim B. Clark

23 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019

2019 Boston: Harvard Business Review Press Becoming a Manager: How New Managers Master the Challenges of Leadership By: Hill, Linda A. Abstract—In your career, or anyone's, there is one transition that stands out as the most crucial—going... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

29 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 29

intensity, we allow the incumbent to consider changes in its business model. We consider four alternative business models—two pure models (subscription-based and ad-sponsored) and two mixed models that are hybrids of the two pure models.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 7, 2008

answered the right question poorly (Study 2). Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-048.pdf Concentration Levels in the U.S. Advertising and Marketing Services Industry: Myth vs. Reality Authors:Alvin J. Silk and Charles King III Abstract This paper... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 May 2015
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First Look: May 26

for two completely different reasons. The first is a change in technology that reduces the value of co-location (stickiness). This tends to lead to the decoupling of design and production activities and to a broad geographic diffusion of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

January 2018
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Peak Games: Hiring Priorities in Times of Rapid Growth (B)

By: William R. Kerr and Gamze Yucaoglu

On November 7, 2017, Sidar Şahin, founder and CEO of Peak Games, a Turkey-based global mobile gaming company, had just closed the sale of Peak Games’ card games studio. This sale included three of the company’s top grossing games and half of its team. Sahin was happy... View Details

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25 Jul 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52939 forthcoming Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Computer Vision Uncovers Predictors of Physical Urban Change By: Naik, Nikhil, Scott Duke... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

06 Mar 2018
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First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

provide insights into why and how investors use reported environmental, social, and governance (ESG) information. Relevance to investment performance is the most frequent motivation for use of ESG data followed by client demand and product strategy, bringing View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019

national changes in migration flows across ethnic groups with pre-existing immigrants’ enclaves across U.S. cities, we find that immigration raised marriage rates and the probability of having children for young native men and women. We... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 1

Harder Than I Thought: Adventures of a Twenty-First Century Leader (2013). The book focuses on CEO leadership in the global economy and the fast-changing IT-enabled pace of business. We extended the mechanism of Barton's living whiteboard... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

31 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 31

perfect substitutes for equity finance, payout taxes may therefore have an effect on the investment of firms. High taxes will favor investment by firms that can finance internally. Using an international panel with many changes in payout... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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Climate Governance at Linde plc (B)

Avon Products (A)

Governance and Sustainability at Nike (B)

Managing the Support Staff Identity Crisis

Indigo Agriculture: Harnessing Nature

What’s Next for Japan

December 13, 2016

Where Does Apple Go From Here?

At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?

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Peak Games: Hiring Priorities in Times of Rapid Growth (B)

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