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  • 13 Dec 2019
  • Blog Post

All Is Well in Texas: How Julia Cheek Founded Her At-Home Lab Testing Startup, EverlyWell

HBS founded companies including Gilt Group and Birchbox. Julia had gone to Vanderbilt, where she majored in Economics and Psychology. When she started at HBS, she thought she would pursue a traditional corporate path, perhaps in brand... View Details
  • March 2021 (Revised July 2021)
  • Case

Resident

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport and Thomas O. Jones
Launched in 2016, Resident was a leading player in the direct-to-consumer bed-in-a-box mattress market, where it was one of at least 175 venture-backed companies competing in the space. By late 2020, it had realized over $500 million in revenue, profitability in the... View Details
Keywords: Digital Marketing; Business Growth and Maturation; Operations; Entrepreneurship; Competitive Strategy; Initial Public Offering; Decisions; Marketing Strategy; Cash Flow; Demand and Consumers
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Rayport, Jeffrey F., and Thomas O. Jones. "Resident." Harvard Business School Case 821-090, March 2021. (Revised July 2021.)
  • October 1991 (Revised January 2000)
  • Case

Workplace Safety at Alcoa (A)

By: Kim B. Clark and Joshua D. Margolis
Examines the challenge facing the managers of a large aluminum manufacturing plant in its drive to improve workplace safety. The CEO of the company has made safety a top priority. The plant has made good progress in reducing the injury rate, but now confronts the need... View Details
Keywords: Working Conditions; Safety; Problems and Challenges; Change Management; Operations; Resignation and Termination; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Manufacturing Industry; United States
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Clark, Kim B., and Joshua D. Margolis. "Workplace Safety at Alcoa (A)." Harvard Business School Case 692-042, October 1991. (Revised January 2000.)
  • 31 Oct 2007
  • HBS Case

Climate Change Puts Heat on GMs

What is the responsibility of business regarding social issues? And how does that jibe with maximizing profits? In "UBS and Climate Change—Warming Up to Global Action?" Associate Professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Professor Forest Reinhardt present the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities
  • February 2025 (Revised May 2025)
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Align Partners and SM Entertainment: Korean Shareholder Activism Meets K-Pop (A)

By: Charles C.Y. Wang and Billy Chan
For years, institutional investors had experienced very limited success in influencing the management of listed companies through shareholder activist campaigns in Korea. The common practice of circular ownership and public resentment toward foreign shareholder... View Details
Keywords: Financial Reporting; Public Equity; Stocks; Investment Activism; Music Entertainment; Corporate Governance; Success; Business and Shareholder Relations; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; South Korea
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Wang, Charles C.Y., and Billy Chan. "Align Partners and SM Entertainment: Korean Shareholder Activism Meets K-Pop (A)." Harvard Business School Case 125-065, February 2025. (Revised May 2025.)
  • 10 Sep 2014
  • Blog Post

A Summer Reflection

Looking back on my summer internship at Walmart, I have four main takeaways about the company: Walmart cares A LOT about maintaining the culture that Sam Walton initially put in place. It’s actively and constantly managed- 4 core values, 10 rules of doing business,... View Details
Keywords: Technology; Consumer Products / Retail
  • 2016
  • Book

The Three Box Solution: A Strategy for Leading Innovation

By: Vijay Govindarajan
How to Innovate and Execute. Leaders already know that innovation calls for a different set of activities, skills, methods, metrics, mind-sets, and leadership approaches. And it is well understood that creating a new business and optimizing an already existing one are... View Details
Keywords: Innovation Strategy; Innovation Leadership
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Govindarajan, Vijay. The Three Box Solution: A Strategy for Leading Innovation. Boston: Harvard Business Review Press, 2016.
  • 21 Jan 2020
  • Cold Call Podcast

China-based Fuyao Glass Considers Manufacturing in the US

Keywords: Re: Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing
  • 04 Mar 2019
  • What Do You Think?

What’s the Antidote to Surveillance Capitalism?

trusts like Standard Oil were busted by President Theodore Roosevelt. They were the Big Tech of their day. Where is the outrage today?” Facebook should be broken up, he added. Wildebeest proclaimed, “The best approach is to break up the big View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Advertising; Consumer Products

    Derek C. M. van Bever

    Derek van Bever is a Senior Lecturer in the General Management Unit of Harvard Business School. He teaches courses in both years of the MBA program (“Leadership and Corporate Accountability” in the first-year required curriculum and “Building and Sustaining a... View Details

    • February 1998 (Revised November 1998)
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    Novartis (A): Being a Global Leader

    By: Srikant M. Datar and Carin-Isabel Knoop
    For the Novartis leaders, the decision to "use stretch budgets again next year" highlights the tension between candor and empowerment and command-and-control, between the new and the old, between high performance and business as usual, between Ciba and Sandoz.... View Details
    Keywords: Goals and Objectives; Leading Change; Organizational Culture; Performance; Budgets and Budgeting
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    Datar, Srikant M., and Carin-Isabel Knoop. "Novartis (A): Being a Global Leader." Harvard Business School Case 198-041, February 1998. (Revised November 1998.)
    • 19 Mar 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    A Brand Manager’s Guide to Losing Control

    authentic—because they are—and have proven very good at garnering more fans. For instance, the Facebook pages for both Nutella and Coca-Cola were created, unsolicited, by actual fans. In both cases, the companies have encouraged these... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising
    • October 2004 (Revised April 2005)
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    Lexar Media: The Digital Photography Company?

    Examines growth options for a start-up that has parlayed its core technology in flash memory controllers into a rapidly growing position in the emerging digital photography industry. The new CEO must decide whether LexarMedia should maintain its identity as a digital... View Details
    Keywords: Technology; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Growth Management; Market Entry and Exit; Business Startups; Business Strategy; Technology Industry
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    Tripsas, Mary, and Emily Thomson. "Lexar Media: The Digital Photography Company?" Harvard Business School Case 805-062, October 2004. (Revised April 2005.)
    • May 2003
    • Case

    Sun Hydraulics: Leading in Tough Times (A) (Abridged)

    By: Linda A. Hill and Jennifer Suesse
    Sun Hydraulics, 32-year-old global hydraulics engineering and manufacturing company headquartered in Sarasota, Florida; confronts tough choices due to the economic downturn in 2001. The company leadership debates how to maintain profitability and reduce labor costs... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Culture; Mission and Purpose; Financial Crisis; Crisis Management; Manufacturing Industry; Florida
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    Hill, Linda A., and Jennifer Suesse. "Sun Hydraulics: Leading in Tough Times (A) (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 403-139, May 2003.
    • 28 Sep 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    How Leaders Can Navigate Politicized Conversations and Inspire Collaboration

    into your own point as soon as your partner finishes speaking. Highlight areas of agreement, no matter how small or obvious. For example, “I agree that we both want to get back to normal as quickly as possible...” or “I agree that social... View Details
    Keywords: by Kristen Senz
    • October 2001
    • Case

    SchoolSuccess.net

    By: James E. Austin and Arthur McCaffrey
    The mission of the nonprofit Jumpstart for Young Children was to address the problem of school readiness of low-income family preschoolers. It had been growing significantly, and to achieve its projected expansion would require major increases in funding. After... View Details
    Keywords: Nonprofit Organizations; Early Childhood Education; Venture Capital; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Startups; Management Teams
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    Austin, James E., and Arthur McCaffrey. "SchoolSuccess.net." Harvard Business School Case 302-008, October 2001.
    • March 2022 (Revised October 2022)
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    Transforming Kimball International, Inc. (A)

    By: Lynn S. Paine and Will Hurwitz
    Kimball International, Inc. (KII), led by CEO Kristie Juster, and its board of directors, chaired by Kim Ryan, faced critical questions about KII’s future in the spring of 2021. Two years earlier, the board had appointed Juster as the new CEO of KII, a publicly traded,... View Details
    Keywords: Board Of Directors; Board Committees; Board Decisions; Board Dynamics; CEO Compensation; CEO Succession; Compensation Committee; Compensation Consultants; Compensation Design; Compensation Mix; Corporate Purpose; COVID-19; ESG; Furniture; Furniture Industry; Manufacturing; Midwest; Pandemic; Purpose; Spin Off; Strategic Change; Strategic Decisions; Strategic Evolution; Target-setting; Executive Compensation; Family Ownership; Governance; Restructuring; Strategy; Transformation; Manufacturing Industry; United States
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    Paine, Lynn S., and Will Hurwitz. "Transforming Kimball International, Inc. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 322-083, March 2022. (Revised October 2022.)
    • October 2019
    • Case

    Kaspi.kz IPO

    By: Victoria Ivashina and Esel Çekin
    This case follows Kaspi.kz, a private equity (Baring Vostok) co-owned retail bank in Central Asia that evolved into a fintech, payments and e-commerce company. It provides insights into private equity financing, portfolio company management, and initial public offering... View Details
    Keywords: Finance; Private Equity; Initial Public Offering; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Central Asia
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    Ivashina, Victoria, and Esel Çekin. "Kaspi.kz IPO." Harvard Business School Case 220-007, October 2019.
    • May 2021
    • Case

    Endeavor Kenya: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem

    By: Lynda M. Applegate, Shikhar Ghosh and Christian Godwin
    In 2016, Fiona Mungai became Endeavor Kenya’s first managing director. In this role, she helped the organization build its inaugural board and select its first Endeavor entrepreneur, a fintech company called Cellulant. Throughout this process, Mungai observed the power... View Details
    Keywords: Business Ventures; Entrepreneurship; Human Resources; Leadership; Leading Change; Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Negotiation; Economy; Markets; Emerging Markets; Network Effects; Relationships; Strategy; Financial Services Industry; Technology Industry; Telecommunications Industry; Shipping Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Africa; Kenya
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    Applegate, Lynda M., Shikhar Ghosh, and Christian Godwin. "Endeavor Kenya: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem." Harvard Business School Case 821-038, May 2021.
    • February 2011 (Revised December 2022)
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    Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

    By: Stuart C. Gilson and Sarah Abbott
    One of the leading publishers of textbooks and other educational materials for the U.S. K-12 educational instruction market has suffered a dramatic decline in sales and profits in the wake of the 2008-2009 financial market crisis and economic recession, and it now... View Details
    Keywords: Restructuring; Decisions; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Borrowing and Debt; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Profit; Crisis Management; Goals and Objectives; Sales; Competition; Publishing Industry; United States
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    Gilson, Stuart C., and Sarah Abbott. "Houghton Mifflin Harcourt." Harvard Business School Spreadsheet Supplement 211-708, February 2011. (Revised December 2022.)
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