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- February 2000 (Revised January 2008)
- Case
Merrill Lynch: Integrated Choice
By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Marie Bell
Merrill Lynch, a full-service brokerage firm with $1.5 trillion in client assets, is under attack from both discount and electronic brokerage firms. It responds with Integrated Choice, a suite of products designed to capture clients from the do-it-yourself investor who... View Details
Keywords: Distribution Channels; Marketing Strategy; Product Launch; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Risk and Uncertainty; Financial Services Industry
Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Marie Bell. "Merrill Lynch: Integrated Choice." Harvard Business School Case 500-090, February 2000. (Revised January 2008.)
- March 1996
- Case
Ernst & Young United Kingdom (A) (Abridged)
By: John J. Gabarro and Samantha Graff
Intended to be a robust example of the challenges encountered during the early stages of a large-scale organizational transformation effort in a professional service firm. Describes a massive change program initiated and led by the new managing partner along with a... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Leading Change; Management Teams; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Restructuring; Problems and Challenges; United Kingdom; London
Gabarro, John J., and Samantha Graff. "Ernst & Young United Kingdom (A) (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 496-049, March 1996.
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Batteries and Chocolates
Illustration by Adam Niklewicz/theispot.com by Debora L. Spar In 1991, when I joined the HBS faculty, men outnumbered women by two to one in the student body and four to one among the senior faculty. Back then, male students saw nothing wrong in circulating sign-up... View Details
- October 3, 2023
- Article
10 Pitfalls That Destroy Organizational Trust
By: Frances X. Frei and Anne Morriss
In their new book, Move Fast and Fix Things, Frances Frei and Anne Morriss outline five strategies to help leaders tackle their hardest problems and quickly make change. Their second strategy is to build — or rebuild — trust with your stakeholders. This means... View Details
Keywords: Trust; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business or Company Management
Frei, Frances X., and Anne Morriss. "10 Pitfalls That Destroy Organizational Trust." Harvard Business Review (website) (October 3, 2023).
- June 2024 (Revised September 2024)
- Case
Sequoia Capital
By: Jo Tango, Christina Wallace, Srimayi Mylavarapu and Johnson Elugbadebo
Sequoia Capital, a venture capital firm founded in 1972, quickly grew to become one of the most storied venture capital firms in the world. Fueled by a strong culture, Sequoia's investment track record included the names of some of the largest global successes.... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Restructuring; Corporate Strategy; Financial Services Industry
Tango, Jo, Christina Wallace, Srimayi Mylavarapu, and Johnson Elugbadebo. "Sequoia Capital." Harvard Business School Case 824-212, June 2024. (Revised September 2024.)
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Making Sense of the Modern Startup
Illustration by Martin Leon Barreto In a lot of ways, it didn’t seem like a very good experiment to run. A young HBS professor—a rising star in the Finance area, an economist by training, by then already looking down the road at an all-important tenure decision—had an... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
- 15 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
A Mass Crisis Can Overwhelm Health Care. Liberia Found a Solution.
adapted for the novel coronavirus in the United States and beyond. Trelstad points to four requirements that Panjabi calls the “Four S’s” for community health workers: they must be skilled, they need access to supplies, they must have... View Details
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Let Customers Call the Shots
programs, your satisfaction with existing networks is not so low that you are crying for a revolution. The same is true of advertising: of course, we would prefer not to be bombarded by irrelevant messages, but on the other hand we have View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 11 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
How AI Could Ease the Refugee Crisis and Bring New Talent to Businesses
“It’s a very lengthy process, and we continue to look to bring on new partners.” While the refugee and asylum-seeker algorithms have a particular application, Paulson says the methodology can be adapted to solve resource allocation... View Details
- 16 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Weighing Digital Tradeoffs in Private Equity
about their interest in digital opportunities as they weigh whether to sell. As generative AI and other new technologies emerge, that question may become increasingly relevant to success, the researchers say. You Might Also Like: How Humans Outshine AI in View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Educating, Connecting, and Mobilizing Around Climate Change
at the School to accelerate climate solutions and help society adapt to the changes already upon us. We are seeking to maximize ways to reach the broad community of practitioners who can both benefit from and inform this work, through... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Taking Time to Make Time
addressing that challenge, and having everyone come together on a way it can get done by a mutually agreed deadline. On the subject of management styles, you write about the wisdom of adapting your personal style to that of your boss.... View Details
Keywords: Time management
- 05 Nov 2024
- Book
Building the Road to 'Small Business Utopia' with AI and Fintech
Matter in Remote Work How Humans Outshine AI in Adapting to Change What Happens When Business Owners Turn to ChatBots for Advice Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image: Getty Images for... View Details
- 16 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
The HBS Climate Rising Podcast Reaches 50 (Episodes)
balance the technical and business aspects to help educate our listeners about opportunities in this emerging field of climate tech. Our first series in 2023 addressed how businesses are using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to mitigate or View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
The Physical Campus in a Virtual World
campus construction site. Outside class, our students spend much of their time collaborating on projects: To facilitate this work, we have dozens of adaptable project spaces that allow for whiteboarding, video conferencing, or group... View Details
Keywords: Nitin Nohria
- 18 Feb 2014
- News
Stick with Plan A
persistence are must-haves. Find good local partners who share your vision and your business philosophy. "In terms of impact, there is an absence of legacy technology in many cases. An entrepreneur has far greater latitude in leveraging technology that is already... View Details
- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
often don’t take the vacation time they have coming to them, and many are feeling even more hesitant to ask for time off right now. But they are also feeling really burned out,” Whillans says. “We have all had to do a lot of adapting in a... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
could teach the richest nation on earth about how to finance infrastructure. But, there are important lessons in multiple examples of roads, power, ports, and water projects that actually get built, thanks to successful funding models. Their success is founded on their... View Details
- 03 Sep 2020
- Op-Ed
Why American Health Care Needs Its Own SEC
excellent model. The business community should embrace this model to help solve its long-standing, unresolved issues with health care costs, quality, and access. A version of this commentary was first published by Bloomberg and adapted... View Details
- 13 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Leading With Curiosity: Mayowa Kuyoro (MBA 2015)
Things Fall Apart and talked about being rigid versus having a set of tools that can enable you to adapt to change,” she recalled. “The reason why that has stuck with me is that the pace of innovation and the pace of change has been so... View Details
Keywords: All Industries