Organizational Change - Publications - Faculty & Research

March 2019
Teaching Note

Zespri Grows

Teaching Note for HBS No. 519-047. View Details

24 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

Managing Alignment as a Process

like budgeting, should be part of the annual governance cycle. Whenever plans are changed at the enterprise or business unit level, executives likely need to realign the organization with the new direction. The alignment process, of... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Consumer Products; Retail

December 2017 (Revised January 2018)
Case

Alltech

By: David E. Bell and Natalie Kindred

Alltech was a Lexington, Kentucky–based producer of supplements for animal feed, with revenues of over $2 billion (projected to reach $3 billion in 2018), sales in 120 countries, 5,000 employees, and 100 manufacturing plants worldwide. For nearly four decades, Alltech... View Details

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October 2019 (Revised February 2020)
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Thermax—Changing of the Guard

By: Christina R. Wing and Inakshi Sobti

Thermax is an engineering company in India that provides integrated solutions in energy, environment, and chemicals. The Aga family along with family trusts owns 62% of the company. Post a restructuring exercise in 2000, Thermax transforms itself from a small family... View Details

Keywords: Family Business; Transformation; Business Conglomerates; Strategy; Management Succession; Selection and Staffing; Organizational Culture

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September 2009 (Revised December 2011)
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IBM Values and Corporate Citizenship (TN)

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Matthew Bird

Teaching Note for [308106]. View Details

Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Transformation; Fairness; Innovation and Invention; Value; Global Range; Organizational Culture; Information Technology Industry; Computer Industry

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01 Dec 2022
News

Ink: Comfort in Discomfort

by them. Organizational leaders are also using both/and language to communicate their organizations’ goals and missions. Barclays unveiled a campaign it called AND—stressing that the 300-plus-year-old bank would only survive the next... View Details

01 Dec 1997
News

New Releases

to these changes with structural adaptations, few have achieved the much more fundamental organizational and managerial transformation required to succeed in this new environment. In their latest book, The... View Details

Keywords: Robert Binstock

13 May 2014
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Willing Hands

churches, synagogues, corporations, and service clubs to build and repair these houses. It's a ministry to both sides. But it is also a complex organization that demands planning for logistics, organizational issues, strategy, and... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Construction; Real Estate

01 Oct 1997
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Theory & Practice

has collected the best of her wit and wisdom on management thinking and practice. Looking back across the changing landscape of business, Kanter helps reveal what has worked, what has not, and what businesses still need to learn. She also... View Details

01 Jun 2005
News

Do You Speak Business?

be deeply embedded throughout the organization.” These findings suggest that excellence in global corporate competition demands certain success-enabling organizational characteristics, attributes that of course must be introduced and/or... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

02 Oct 2013
What Do You Think?

Is Leadership an Increasingly Difficult Balancing Act?

pp. 44-58. Eric Reis, The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses, (New York: Crown Business, 2011). Michael L. Tushman and Charles A. O'Reilly III, Winning Through Innovation: A Practical Guide to... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

27 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

The ‘Promotion’ That Makes You Feel Bad

Companies change strategy, operational processes, and policies all the time, each shift creating a new group of winners and losers. When Steve Jobs became CEO of Apple for the second time, the culture shifted, with designers enjoying... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

April 2025
Supplement

Joe Mazzulla and the Boston Celtics (B)

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

This case is a supplement to “Joe Mazzulla and the Boston Celtics” (A) and is set against the backdrop of the 2024 NBA Finals. It describes the impact of Mazzulla’s decision to rally his team with an aggressive “go for the kill” mindset instead of choosing language... View Details

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13 May 2002
Op-Ed

A Cure for Enron-Style Audit Failures

past five decades, accountants have changed from watchdogs to advocates and salespersons. Auditing has become one of a number of services, including consulting and tax advice, in which accountants "sell" creative tax avoidance... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Lorsch; Accounting

April 2018
Teaching Note

InsideSales.com (A) and (B)

By: Frank Cespedes

Teaching Note for HBS Nos. 817-018 and 817-042. InsideSales.com (ISC) has been successful selling its software to small- and medium-sized businesses (SMB). But for various reasons, the founders see “the next stage of growth” as building a scalable sales and service... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Design; Customer Relationship Management; Growth Management; Marketing Strategy; Salesforce Management; Talent and Talent Management; Technology Industry

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06 Feb 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

it is urgent. What does it mean to make capitalism a subject of historical inquiry? What is its potential across multiple disciplines, alongside different methodologies, and in a range of geographic and chronological settings? And how does a focus on capitalism View Details

17 Apr 2013
Research Event

Conference Challenges Gender Conventions

series of 20-minute presentations followed by discussion groups took an unconventional look at topics such as stereotypes, difference, and organizational change. (Presenters were also asked to write short research-based papers to... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

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Entrepreneurial Sales 101: Founder Selling - Course Catalog

not made. Every organizational activity leverages off that single fact. Markets are not totally rational organizations and the firms with the best sales teams will usually win. “Superior sales and distribution by itself can create a... View Details

01 Dec 2008
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Summit Sound Bites

President, Brigham Young University–Idaho; former Dean, Harvard Business School “Today, 21st-century medical technology is delivered with 19th-century organizational structures, management practices, and pricing models.” —Michael Porter,... View Details