Culture As Commitment - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Apr 2011
Research & Ideas

What CEOs Do, and How They Can Do it Better

in order to increase the sample as well as to take cultural differences into account. Sadun says that the group has received nothing but positive feedback from the anonymous... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Dec 2022
News

Full Court Press

offer popcorn as well as bowls of spicy beef over French fries. During timeouts, the nearly 10,000 fans—one of them painted head to toe in green, yellow, and red, and another wearing an impossibly detailed... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

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HBS - The year in Review

the School's culture and organization. Milestones in the following months include announcing the appointment of Terrill Drake as the School's first Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer, increasing the... View Details

23 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Arla Foods: How Sustainable Can A Dairy Company Be?

Corporate Sustainability. Arla shared their commitments to a stronger planet and stronger people, grounded in a selection of eight priority UN Sustainability Goals. In pursuit of these commitments, Arla has set ambitious goals, including... View Details

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John H. McArthur | About

faculty planning during McArthur’s tenure. McArthur also committed unprecedented sums to research and course development. Under his leadership, the School carved out a reputation as a pioneer in both the... View Details

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Mo Fong

teams in various functional areas including her most recent role as Sr. Director of Google Technical Solutions for Google Learning and Education, Google Assistant and Search. She has also served as Google's... View Details

Keywords: Technology; Education; Government; Social Enterprise; Consumer Finance; Financial Services (All); Commercial Banking; Financial Services (All)

April 2025
Case

Joe Mazzulla and the Boston Celtics (A)

By: Linda A. Hill, James I. Cash and Lydia Begag

Joe Mazzulla's leadership journey with the Boston Celtics began in 2016 when he served as an assistant coach for their NBA G-League affiliate. In 2019, he was promoted to a "behind-the-bench" assistant coaching role with the Celtics, before being asked to become the... View Details

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Educators

01 Jun 2012
News

Catherine Kuehn Price (MBA 1986) and Malcolm Price (MBA 1987)

committed bequest pledge, as a way to support an institution they believe in without compromising their family’s financial security. “Harvard is great at providing vehicles that allow you to achieve your... View Details

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Wyss House | About

candidates at HBS and with their counterparts in other Harvard PhD programs. The 6,290-square-foot facility includes state-of-the-art technology; administrative, meeting, and study space; as well as a... View Details

15 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Managing the Family Business: It Takes a Village

I led on family business management in Santiago in 1999. I've worked with their family business system ever since. Nelson, then CEO of RBS and also leader of his family branch, attended the seminar to develop plans for his family business system and to reconsider his... View Details

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Prineeta Kulkarni

sophistication. "Anyone can apply an analytical tool such as WACC [Weighted Average Cost of Capital]," she says. "But case study has taught me the right situations for applying a WACC. What are the nuances you need to keep... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare/Biotech; Nonprofit/Government/Education

March 1996 (Revised February 1997)
Case

Change Agent Program at Siemens Nixdorf, The

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, John F. McGuire and Afroze A Mohammed

To change its culture, the German computer giant Siemens Nixdorf Information Systems launched a program to train 21 "change agents" who would lead entrepreneurial projects designed to get results and to serve as models of a new style. View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Organizational Culture; Training; Leadership Development; Programs; Human Resources; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Business Model; Computer Industry; Germany

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Find at Harvard

01 Nov 2024
In Practice

Layoffs Surging in a Strong Economy? Advice for Navigating Uncertain Times

From tech to media to management consulting firms, layoffs are back. Downsizing during a healthy economy can help lay the foundation for efficient growth or make space for new roles that harness newer technology, such as artificial... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology; Information Technology

08 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Knowledge Transfer: You Can't Learn Surgery By Watching

the topic based on his own experience as an outdoor wilderness instructor, an area in which the cost of failure is too high for people to learn only from their own experience. “Trial and error is not the way you want to learn rock... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

28 Jun 2022
Book

The Moral Enterprise: How Two Companies Profit with Purpose

How can government and business work together in this fractious political moment, when finding solutions to pressing problems like inequality and climate change are more urgent than ever? Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University’s John and Natty McArthur University... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

14 Feb 2019
Blog Post

LOVE At HBS

graduated with the first class of college students in China after the cultural revolution and was a determined M.D. Driven as she was in her profession, she fought hard to provide me with love,... View Details

01 Nov 2022
What Do You Think?

Why Aren’t Business Leaders More Vocal About Immigration Policy?

(iStockphoto/Sundry Photography) Most people agree that US immigration policy is a mess. At times, it is hard to even know what it is. Immigration policy differences divide us as a nation and produce a great deal of misinformation. They... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

Profile

Peter Gumulia

What do I value? What kind of culture do I want to build? Why?” HBS impressed Peter with its richness of classroom discussion. “Often times in business, there is no right or wrong answer – only trade-offs. View Details

23 May 2018
News

Abigail P. Johnson, MBA 1988

order to make room for innovation.” “It is important to figure out how to balance long-standing traditions with new insights in order to make room for innovation.” Growing up in Boston as the eldest of three children, Johnson enjoyed... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

11 Apr 2024
News

Mission Control

for yourself. What spurred that movement? Why did you sit down and say, I need to figure out a purpose here. PP: So, I have always been someone that, driven by this question about who am I and where are we going? Why are we here as a... View Details

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