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  • December 2002 (Revised January 2014)
  • Case

Matt Leeds (A)

By: Linda A. Hill

A new associate in a consulting firm attempts to navigate his way through the norms and culture of a new setting and to manage his relationships with his superiors and peers, which got off to a poor start.

PLEASE NOTE: This case was revised in January 2014.... View Details

Keywords: Power and Influence; Rank and Position; Organizational Culture; Consulting Industry
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    Lynda M. Applegate

    Lynda M. Applegate is a Baker Foundation Professor at HBS and is Chair of the Advisory Committee for Harvard University’s Masters Degree of Liberal Arts in Finance and Management at the Harvard University Extension School.  She has also played a... View Details

    • November 2009 (Revised March 2013)
    • Case

    Miles Everson at PricewaterhouseCoopers

    By: Robert G. Eccles and David Lane
    Miles Everson, a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC), is the Global Engagement Partner (GEP) for a large U.S. financial institution and about to take over this role for a much larger global financial institution. The GEP role is a critical one at PwC. GEPs have... View Details
    Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Customer Relationship Management; Globalized Firms and Management; Managerial Roles; Consulting Industry
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    • January 2024
    • Supplement

    Winning Business at Russell Reynolds

    By: Ethan Bernstein and Cara Mazzucco
    In an effort to make compensation drive collaboration, Russell Reynolds Associates’ (RRA) CEO Clarke Murphy sought to re-engineer the bonus system for his executive search consultants in 2016. As his HR analytics guru, Kelly Smith, points out, that risks upsetting—and... View Details
    Keywords: Restructuring; Talent and Talent Management; Compensation and Benefits; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Performance Evaluation; Motivation and Incentives; Consulting Industry
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    • 02 Jul 2014
    • Blog Post

    Connecting Fashion & Technology at Kate Spade

    I found my internship with Kate Spade through Career & Professional Development’s collaboration with the Council of Fashion Designers of America (CFDA). Coming from management consulting where the recruitment process was very... View Details
    Keywords: Technology; Consumer Products / Retail
    • 2021
    • Book

    Lead and Disrupt: How to Solve the Innovator's Dilemma

    By: Charles A. O'Reilly III and Michael Tushman
    Why do successful firms find it so difficult to adapt in the face of change—to innovate? In the past ten years, the importance of this question has increased as more industries and firms confront disruptive change. The pandemic has accelerated this crisis, collapsing... View Details
    Keywords: Organization Change And Adaptation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Disruptive Innovation; Innovation and Management; Leading Change
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      Joseph B. Fuller

      Joseph Fuller is a Professor of Management Practice in General Management and Entrepreneurship. He founded and co-leads the school’s project, Managing the Future of Work, as well as the Harvard Project on the Workforce. He currently leads the FIELD Global Capstone... View Details

        Lauren H. Cohen

        Lauren Cohen is the L.E. Simmons Professor in the Finance & Entrepreneurial Management Units at Harvard Business School and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is an Editor of the Review of Financial... View Details

        Keywords: investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry

          Brian J. Hall

          Brian J. Hall is the Albert H. Gordon Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He served as the Unit Head for the Negotiation, Organizations and Markets (NOM) Unit for 14 years. Previously, he was an assistant professor of economics in the... View Details

          Keywords: accounting industry; accounting industry; accounting industry; accounting industry; accounting industry; accounting industry; accounting industry; accounting industry; accounting industry; accounting industry; accounting industry; accounting industry
          • September 2005 (Revised August 2006)
          • Case

          Bain & Company's IT Practice (A)

          In late 2001, the consultancy Bain must decide whether to launch information technology as a practice area within the firm. The senior executives who are Bain's clients have been asking more and more IT-related questions of the firm's partners, who find themselves... View Details
          Keywords: Expansion; Information Technology; Experience and Expertise; Consulting Industry
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          • March 1992 (Revised April 1995)
          • Case

          Saatchi & Saatchi Co. PLC: Corporate Strategy

          By: David J. Collis
          Saatchi & Saatchi, founded in 1970, became the world's largest advertising agency in 1986. It then diversified into consulting and other managerial areas before crashing in 1989. Under a new CEO, the company restructured and refocused on its advertising agencies. View Details
          Keywords: Restructuring; Globalized Firms and Management; Corporate Strategy; Diversification; Advertising Industry
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          • 02 Feb 2016
          • Blog Post

          A Summer Internship in General Management

          Like many of his classmates, Andrew Ling (MBA 2015) decided to use the summer between his first and second year to try out something new. Formerly a consultant at McKinsey, he spent his summer working in a marketing and general management... View Details
          Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail
          • June 2003 (Revised October 2003)
          • Case

          An Ancient Fable

          By: Ashish Nanda
          This case presents a thinly disguised account of Andersen's collapse, followed by a tightening of the oversight of audit firms. It raises questions on who lost and who gained, as well as the long-term implications of the changes for the accounting profession and... View Details
          Keywords: Accounting Audits; Consulting Industry
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          • 24 Jun 2014
          • Blog Post

          Journey to my Summer Internship

          I started my internship search with an amorphous criterion of “something different”. Having worked in high tech and consulting so far, this definition only eliminated two, albeit large industries, leaving still endless number of exciting... View Details
          Keywords: Manufacturing
          • July 2008 (Revised March 2009)
          • Case

          elBulli: The Taste of Innovation

          By: Michael I. Norton, Julian Villanueva and Luc Wathieu
          Ferran Adrià, chef at elBulli, the highest-ranked restaurant in the world for two consecutive years, faces two related decisions. First, Adrià and his team must continue to develop new and different dishes for the ground-breaking cuisine at elBulli to guarantee a... View Details
          Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Growth and Development Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Creativity; Food and Beverage Industry; Spain
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          • September 1999 (Revised May 2003)
          • Case

          Deloitte & Touche (A): A Hole in the Pipeline

          By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Jane Roessner
          Deloitte & Touche was losing talented women, and CEO Mike Cook wanted to stop the loss, especially as the accounting and consulting fields became more competitive. The firm commissioned an analysis of the situation; now it had to consider the results and develop a plan... View Details
          Keywords: Strategic Planning; Organizational Culture; Accounting; Gender; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Loss; Change Management; Jobs and Positions; Resignation and Termination; Accounting Industry; United States
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          • June 1995 (Revised April 1997)
          • Case

          Integron Incorporated: The Integrated Components Division (ICD)

          A high-technology manufacturing company was recently given profit-and-loss "stand-alone" status by its parent. No longer a captive supplier, it must seek new markets for its technology and products on the outside world. Describes a benchmarking study by a group of... View Details
          Keywords: Technology; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Restructuring; Manufacturing Industry
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            Elana R. Feldman

            Elana Feldman, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Management in the Manning School of Business and a Visiting Scholar at Harvard Business School. Dr. Feldman is also a Faculty Affiliate at the Center for Positive Organizations at the Ross School of Business... View Details
            • September 2022 (Revised April 2023)
            • Case

            Cesaro e Associati

            By: Christina R. Wing and Amram Migdal
            This case describes the leadership succession planning process at Cesaro e Associati (Studio Cesaro), founded in 1986 by Franco Cesaro in the northeastern Italian state of Veneto. In 2022, Franco was contemplating retirement and passing leadership of his firm, which... View Details
            Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Family Business; For-Profit Firms; Restructuring; Small Business; Change; Change Management; Competency and Skills; Experience and Expertise; Talent and Talent Management; Entrepreneurship; Governance; Leadership; Leading Change; Management; Management Succession; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Ownership; Family Ownership; Private Ownership; Personal Development and Career; Relationships; Family and Family Relationships; Consulting Industry; Europe; Italy
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            • 04 Apr 2000
            • Research & Ideas

            The Right Way to Restructure Conglomerates in Emerging Markets

            handle. It also poses practical problems. For instance, how easy is it to estimate a reliable breakup value for a business group in the middle of a fire sale and in the absence of a well-developed market for asset sales? But if dismantling business groups is not a... View Details
            Keywords: by Tarun Khanna & Krishna Palepu