Leading Change - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Mar 2021
News

A For-Profit Business That Makes Education Accessible

and humanities and has educated 19 million learners in 195 countries—all for free—supported primarily by revenue-generating leads from search advertising. The number of participants has skyrocketed during the pandemic, “and we’re just... View Details

Keywords: April White

01 Jun 2020
News

Post-Office

lives because they are actually able to put deliberate markers around their days and weeks once they get past the change curve of, "I’m actually working 100 percent remote." THE WAY FORWARD See more from the online-only June Bulletin’s... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; Remote work; COVID-19; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

10 Sep 2013
First Look

First Look: September 10

opportunities for changes in corporate culture to encourage sustainability. While the U.S. chemical industry remained defensive and focused on legal compliance, there was a greater proactivity among the German firms. This paper stresses... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2014
News

Clubs Hopping: A Healthy Dialogue

search firm RobinsonButler, for a quick rundown of the day. Was there a takeaway from the event that struck you—an insight that really resonated? Kent Thiry (MBA 1983), cochairman and CEO of DaVita, one of the world's largest dialysis companies, talked about how he... View Details

Keywords: Morrell, Daniel; healthcare; HBSAAA

14 May 2013
Blog Post

Alumni: Where are they now? Featuring Matt…

Mayor Thomas M. Menino (the first as an HBS Leadership Fellow), I’ve spent the last year and a half on the Government Innovation team at Bloomberg Philanthropies, Michael R. Bloomberg’s charitable foundation. I lead initiatives to promote... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

01 Dec 2004
News

Wyss Gift Supports HBS Doctoral Programs

HBS has received a $25 million gift to support doctoral programs from Hansjoerg Wyss (MBA ’65), an entrepreneur who built Synthes, Inc., into a leading international medical-device company specializing in orthopedic instruments and... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services

29 Apr 2022
News

Clean Slate

forming a new national stock exchange, leading early IPOs of Indian companies like Wipro and Infosys, and overseeing early diversity and inclusion initiatives in her role as head of HSBC India. After retiring in 2015, Kidwai co-founded... View Details

Keywords: Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities

14 Nov 2024
News

How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance... View Details

14 Feb 2023
News

Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in San Francisco

times—from climate change and environmental sustainability to racial equity and social and economic inclusion—and then sharing that research with students, practitioners, policy makers, and the general public to affect meaningful change.... View Details

November 2017 (Revised November 2021)
Case

Irene Rosenfeld at Mondelēz International: Crafting a Corporate Strategy

By: Raffaella Sadun, David J. Collis, Amram Migdal and Kerry Herman

The case focuses on Irene Rosenfeld’s tenure as CEO of the global snack food company Mondelēz International. Beginning in 2006, she had led the company through many acquisitions, including France’s LU Biscuit and British confectionery company Cadbury, before, in 2012,... View Details

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01 Jun 2020
News

Unleashed

lever you have for leading organizations, arguably the more vocal one. Whatever strategy has not made clear to your extended team, culture will unapologetically fill the void. Culture establishes the rules of engagement after leadership... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

24 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Alumni Spotlight: Career Advice from Alums Working in Climate

innovators alike grapple with both the impacts of climate change and how to build a more sustainable system for the future. Right now there is enormous opportunity (and need!) for strategic thinkers and do-ers to bring fresh energy and... View Details

04 May 2009
Research & Ideas

What’s Next for the Big Financial Brands

(Editor's note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge.) Recent news coverage of the cosmetic name change... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Banking; Financial Services

24 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Global Brands: Connecting With Consumers Across Boundaries

priorities at the beginning of the new century, the participants pointed to a variety of items that resonated in their organizations. Gueldenberg referred to a continuing emphasis on convenience, service, and product information. In Krauss's view, the Internet has... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner

26 Apr 2011
Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day

what we have learned about how best to accelerate innovation from industries like IT and pharmaceuticals - sectors in which the US leads the world and which saw enormous rates of technical progress over the last fifty years. The results... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Energy; Utilities

28 Aug 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018

scant direct empirical research on how human interaction patterns change as a result of these architectural changes. In two intervention-based field studies of corporate headquarters transitioning to more open office spaces, we... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

07 Jul 2009
First Look

First Look: July 7

related bills that have both costs and benefits are combined. Using a laboratory study, we confirm across a set of four legislative domains that this bundling technique increases support for bills that have both costs and benefits. We also demonstrate that this effect... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

03 Dec 2001
What Do You Think?

What Happens When the Sumo Master Learns Judo?

the greater the likelihood that it will not be a major player in future competitions in rapidly changing environments. —Professor James Heskett Both Dennis Crane and Richard Eckel suggested that a broader view of the competitive spectrum... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Apr 2025
Blog Post

Alumni in Climate Networking Series: Miami

recent case studies. Her insights illuminated how passionate believers are driving meaningful change across various sectors. Harnessing Ocean Energy: Vineyard Wind Professor Kanter began with the groundbreaking Vineyard Wind project,... View Details

01 Oct 1999
News

Culture Clash: Exploring Cross Cultural Conflicts in Business

reference points, students learn to anticipate and deal with the kinds of value conflicts they are likely to face as global managers. They also develop a business philosophy and a set of values that will help them lead effectively when... View Details

Keywords: Judith A. Ross

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