Change Leadership - Publications - Faculty & Research

March 2010
Case

Transformation of Matsushita Electric Industrial (Abridged)

By: Michael Y. Yoshino and Endo Yukihiko

This is an abridged version of “Transformation of Matsushita Electric Industrial” (A), (B), and (C), HBS cases 905-412, 413, and 414. View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Corporate Strategy; Leadership; Electronics Industry

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22 Feb 2022
News

Why Some Companies Thrived During the Pandemic

01 Jun 2010
News

Rethinking the MBA

school education is all about? Garvin: The concept that people have about what it means to be a modern business school is perhaps the biggest barrier to change. We are suggesting a change in the current model toward a new perspective: one... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

22 Dec 2023
News

The Hard Questions to Ask When Planning Your Strategy

27 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses

and research, it can best contribute to what will be a major new force in the American economy. For several decades, the view from the HBS campus across Western Avenue has been decidedly "old economy." But now, creative destruction has come to the... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Biotechnology; Health

25 Mar 2016
News

New Head of MBA Admissions Is 2013 Grad

HBS as program director for 2+2, a deferred admission process for students in college or full-time master’s programs. After graduating from HBS as a Baker Scholar, Losee worked for a year as an HBS Fellow in the Dean’s Office. In that role, he collaborated with the... View Details

07 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders

course, VCs I interviewed didn't use the word "career imprint"; still, what they did point to were important differences in the kinds of capabilities, connections, confidence, and cognition that people developed at these different firms. And these differences... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

04 Feb 2021
Research & Ideas

Inside CEOs' Pandemic Worries: Uncertainty, Employees, and Kids

with young children. "Buying a house is usually the biggest decision that our customers make. It no longer was a priority during the pandemic." Managing multiple changes. CEOs had to manage changes on many different fronts simultaneously.... View Details

Keywords: by Gamze D. Yucaoglu, Robin Abrahams, and Boris Groysberg

23 Jan 2017
News

The CEO Who is Perking Up Peet’s Coffee

change everything,” Fernandes said, but maintaining the standards set by Peet’s founder, which include careful coffee sourcing and hand-roasting, has been important to keeping the brand popular among its longtime Bay Area following and... View Details

November 2000 (Revised November 2005)
Case

Meg Whitman at eBay Inc. (A)

By: Linda A. Hill and Maria Farkas

Meg Whitman takes over as CEO of eBay from the founder. She must figure out how to lead the company through a stage of phenomenal growth without compromising eBay's unique external customer culture and internal culture--its key success factors. A rewritten version of... View Details

Keywords: Leadership Style; Change Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Growth Management; Organizational Culture; Success

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Purchase

25 Sep 2015
News

Q and A with New USA Cycling CEO Derek Bouchard-Hall

Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

06 Dec 2021
News

Monaco's Digital Transformation

country’s own digital security agency handles all encryption. Genta, who brings to his role a background in business leadership at Google, Amazon, and Orange, also worked with his team to develop the Monaco ID card, a secure way for a... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

02 Dec 2021
News

Learning Curve

Courtesy Patti Melcher Patti Melcher (MBA 1986) never intended to open a school. After getting her start in investment banking in Houston’s energy sector after her time at HBS, Melcher became an early employee at SCF Partners, helping to invest the private equity... View Details

02 Dec 2015
What Do You Think?

What Will It Take to Achieve Gender Equality in Leadership?

are totally different. They control access to leadership positions, yet those positions are often filled by those most familiar—that is, those who most resemble men.” She went on to suggest that as male leaders observe their daughters... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

18 Mar 2021
News

Authentically Leading with Blind Ambition

sales/finance leader, and inspirational change agent who works at Red Hat/IBM. He was the first blind executive to graduate from Harvard Business School’s Program for Leadership Development and has been... View Details

14 Nov 2007
Research & Ideas

Growing CEOs from the Inside

industry. Promoting from within is no promise of success, of course. Former Merrill Lynch CEO Stan O'Neal was with the company 21 years before his forced resignation on October 30. But strong leadership and effective succession programs... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Employment

17 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Video Blog: My Experience as a Veteran in the HBS/HKS Joint Degree

in the military are primed to be the example for leadership on day one. And Harvard Business School very much has the section experience. So you're with 94 individuals every single day, I count them as my second family up in Cambridge.... View Details

April 2013
Case

Luca de Meo at Volkswagen Group

By: Linda A. Hill and Dana M. Teppert

Luca de Meo, chief marketing officer of Volkswagen Group, reflects on his time leading the marketing department at Volkswagen Passenger Cars brand. In particular, he thinks about the environmental sustainability initiative launched by marketing called "Think Blue" and... View Details

Keywords: Marketing; Sustainability; Branding; Leadership; Change Management; Environmental Sustainability; Auto Industry; Germany

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02 Oct 2019
What Do You Think?

What Grade Would You Give Walmart CEO Doug McMillon?

Andrei Stanescu SUMMING UP Was Walmart’s Leadership Sufficiently Proactive in Meeting Broader Corporate Responsibilities? Several times as many respondents to this month’s column gave CEO Doug McMillon high marks as opposed to low marks... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail