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  • July 1995 (Revised October 1995)
  • Background Note

Electronic Commerce: Trends and Opportunities

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Janis Lee Gogan
In a 1966 Harvard Business Review article, Felix Kaufman implored general managers to think beyond their own organizational boundaries to the possibilities of interorganizational systems (IOS)--networked computers that enable companies to share information and... View Details
Keywords: Internet and the Web; Trends; Opportunities
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  • Article

Design Physical and Digital Spaces to Foster Inclusion

By: Eric Anicich, Jon M. Jachimowicz, Merrick Osborne and L. Taylor Phillips
Often, strategies around making organizations more anti-racist focus on changing hearts and minds. Sometimes this isn’t enough, however, and can result in backlash or increased self-segregation among white employees. In these situations, leaders should consider using... View Details
Keywords: Anti-racism; Inclusion; Work Environment; Organizational Culture; Diversity; Change Management
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  • November 2005 (Revised May 2007)
  • Case

Leading Change at Simmons (A)

By: Tiziana E. Casciaro, Amy C. Edmondson, Stacy McManus and Kate Roloff
Explores the challenge of managing large-scale organizational change at Simmons, an old and established company that manufactures and distributes mattresses. The new CEO, Charlie Eitel, hired to turn the organization's performance around, considers whether to implement... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Motivation and Incentives; Leading Change; Employee Relationship Management; Manufacturing Industry; Consumer Products Industry; United States
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  • 26 Aug 2020
  • News

The Care Economy

  • Web

Positions - Faculty & Research

candidate should have a strong interest in the concerns of practicing managers and excellent communication skills. The ideal candidate will conduct research influencing both academics and practitioners. The position entails case method... View Details
  • 25 Jan 2022
  • Cold Call Podcast

How Footwear Startup Allbirds is Decarbonizing Fashion

Keywords: Re: Michael W. Toffel
  • 09 Nov 2023
  • HBS Case

What Will It Take to Confront the Invisible Mental Health Crisis in Business?

health research fund after his son experienced a psychotic break. In the following interview, Cohen, the L.E. Simmons Professor of Business Administration at HBS, discusses why it’s important for organizations to address mental health and... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Health
  • 30 Nov 2016
  • HBS Seminar

Melissa Valentine and Michael Bernstein, Stanford University

  • 01 Oct 2008
  • Research & Ideas

How Much Time Should CEOs Devote to Customers?

Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing KnowHow, for Harvard Business. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge.Customers are the source of all cash flow. Organic growth depends on... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
  • Program

Leading Change and Organizational Renewal

Summary Market-leading organizations must constantly innovate, adjust to new business conditions, and seize opportunities before competitors do. Focused on leading organizational change, this program explores how to create a nimble View Details
  • Research Summary

Reinvention and “Frame Flexibility”

By: Ryan L. Raffaelli

Adopting a radical innovation creates pressure for leaders to reframe their mental models while they also sustain their organization's existing capabilities and product category variants. Yet at key junctures in a product class and during technological change, a... View Details

Keywords: Institutional Change; Innovation ＆ Entrepreneurship; Diffusion Processes; Technology Adoption; Cognition and Thinking; Identity; Emotions
  • November 2012
  • Case

Tracy Palandjian at Social Finance US (A)

By: Alnoor Ebrahim, Catherine Clark and Beth Bafford
It had been eighteen months since Tracy Palandjian had left her position as a managing director at The Parthenon Group to start an ambitious venture called Social Finance US. With a mission "to mobilize investment capital to drive social change," her new organization... View Details
Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Social Enterprise; Social Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career
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  • November 1989 (Revised November 1991)
  • Case

Transformation at Ford

By: Leonard A. Schlesinger and Richard Pascale
In 1980 Ford was near disaster. The company lost billions of dollars between 1980 and 1982. By 1988 the company had been transformed into one of the most successful corporations in the United States. Describes what happened and then examines how it happened. The major... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Change Management; Success; Transformation; Manufacturing Industry; Auto Industry; United States
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  • January 2005 (Revised February 2005)
  • Case

Ray Rogers and the Corporate Campaign (A)

By: James K. Sebenius and Michael A. Wheeler
Sets the stage for analyzing the strategy of labor organizer Ray Rogers in bringing J.P. Stevens to the bargaining table when conventional union tactics failed. Though set in the specific context of labor-management relations, it illustrates much more fundamental... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Negotiation Preparation; Negotiation Tactics; Labor Unions; Labor and Management Relations; Manufacturing Industry; United States
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  • 2018
  • Book

Rebel Talent: Why It Pays to Break the Rules at Work and Life

By: F. Gino
The world’s best chef.
An airline captain who brought his flight to safety in a daring water landing.
A magician known for his sensational escape acts.
A computer scientist who founded a world-renowned animation studio.
What do all of these... View Details
Keywords: Talent and Talent Management; Personal Characteristics; Success; Behavior
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  • 31 Jan 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Taking the Fear out of Diversity Policies

on the benefits of a diverse organization will lead to workplace policies that embrace diversity, instead of grudgingly accepting it or pussyfooting around it. "A lot of policies in the workplace about diversity are based on research... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 08 Aug 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Black Employees Not Only Earn Less, But Deal with Bad Bosses and Poor Conditions

published in American Sociological Review in April, Zhang measured culture, manager quality, and work-life balance based on almost 933,000 employee reviews of 8,800 companies on the career website Indeed.com. The site, which also provides... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 02 May 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Leading Professional Service Firms

firms; and Ashish Nanda, who researches management issues and strategic alliances among professional service organizations and formerly served as an executive with the Tata Group of companies in India. The... View Details
Keywords: Re: Jay W. Lorsch; Service; Consulting; Accounting
  • 31 Jul 2015
  • Blog Post

Transitioning From the Military to Business School

Back in 2009 David Ulrey became a West Point graduate – five years later he made the move to Boston and joined the Class of 2016 at HBS. In the years before coming to business school, David was commissioned as a Financial Management... View Details
  • Web

Degrees, Certifications & Alumni Status | About

multi-week regional programs that deliver a global curriculum through a regional lens; and programs created exclusively for an organization or association. A flexible variety of program formats and locations are available: on campus,... View Details