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- September 2024
- Case
Navigating Digital Transformation at Carrefour
By: Sunil Gupta and Emilie Billaud
In 2023, Elodie Perthuisot, Carrefour’s Executive Director for e-commerce and digital transformation, met with CEO Alexandre Bompard to discuss strategies for the company’s digital initiatives. Carrefour, a global retail giant with over 14,300 stores across 40... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Transformation; Talent and Talent Management; Decisions; Digital Strategy; Technology Adoption; Leading Change; Goals and Objectives; Resource Allocation; Digital Marketing; E-commerce; Operations; Logistics; Business Processes; Organizational Culture; Strategic Planning; Alliances; Partners and Partnerships; Competitive Advantage; Retail Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Europe
Gupta, Sunil, and Emilie Billaud. "Navigating Digital Transformation at Carrefour." Harvard Business School Case 525-024, September 2024.
- 18 Aug 2021
- News
Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement
Ventures “solidified my belief that technology has the power to dramatically change the lives of marginalized communities.” In founding The Aspen Fellowship, a 6-week program that pairs Black undergraduates... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
These Are the Good Old Days
been introduced to the world of “blogs” — where teenagers, including her son Brendan and his friends, often keep online diaries. “But I’m not sure that the technological changes have been any more dramatic... View Details
- 19 Feb 2021
- News
A Playbook for Progress
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes “Our message is don’t take a solo journey. Do what Bonita and I did, team up. And once we team up, we are an unstoppable force.” “Our message is don’t take a solo journey. Do what Bonita and I did, team up.... View Details
- November 1990 (Revised September 1991)
- Case
The Transformation of IBM
By: Andrall E. Pearson and David B. Yoffie
John Akers, IBM's chairman, must confront how to transform a $60 billion, full line, global computer company that is the leader in every market it serves, yet losing share across the board. The case explores senior management's perspective on the process of... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Transformation; Corporate Strategy; Adoption; Management Teams; Information Infrastructure; Information Technology; Multinational Firms and Management; Computer Industry
Pearson, Andrall E., and David B. Yoffie. "The Transformation of IBM." Harvard Business School Case 391-073, November 1990. (Revised September 1991.)
- March 2011 (Revised December 2012)
- Teaching Note
Bono and U2 (TN)
By: Nancy F. Koehn, Nora N. Khan and Elizabeth Legris
Teaching Note for 809148. View Details
- 14 Nov 2024
- Blog Post
Weekend Sprint: Accelerating Climate Solutions
This fall, Professor Jim Matheson offered the inaugural "Launching Climate Ventures" Sprint, a one-day program that provided students with an understanding of the process of launching a climate-focused technology venture. This was a... View Details
- Web
Transportation - Business & Environment
changes to all transportation modes will reduce greenhouse gases that cause climate change: Airplanes Alternative fuels and technologies to increase aircraft efficiency Cars & Electric Vehicles Hybrid cars,... View Details
- January 2020
- Case
The June Oven
By: Leonard A. Schlesinger and Christian Godwin
The June Oven was a smart oven which was capable of identifying food and cooking it accordingly. This type of smart oven represented the next step in the long history of oven and stove development. Due to the widespread use of traditional ovens, the market for the June... View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Trends; Customers; Design; Entrepreneurship; Food; Goods and Commodities; Innovation and Invention; Marketing; Brands and Branding; Demand and Consumers; Distribution; Product Development; Sales; Information Technology; Internet and the Web; Applications and Software; Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Technology Industry; United States
Schlesinger, Leonard A., and Christian Godwin. "The June Oven." Harvard Business School Case 320-067, January 2020.
- April 2024
- Teaching Note
Harvard University and Urban Mining Industries: Decarbonizing the Supply Chain
By: Shirley Lu and Robert S. Kaplan
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 123-076. View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
employ to successfully return to the Red Planet. The case, "Mission to Mars," looks at changes the space agency has made not only recently but also over several decades as it followed a faster, simpler approach to program... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Delivering the Goods
expectations with promises of same-day delivery, the logistics industry is looking to completely new models, like crowdsourcing, autonomous technology, and on-demand delivery. Robert Reisner (MBA 1971), who led the Postal Service’s View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Leading In a New Era
face-to-face with customers, competitors, and new technologies — quickly and efficiently. In the airline industry, for example, computer technology has fundamentally changed... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- Web
Vaughn Bryant Archives | Social Enterprise
Curriculum Social Enterprise Student Club Social Entrepreneurship Summer Fellows Technology for Good Transformative Impact Tri-Sector Impact 1 Results The Opportunity for Service and to Create Systemic View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
40 percent of the world’s population lives within 60 miles of a coastline, putting wave and tidal power conveniently close to “demand loads” (aka customers). The US Department of Energy’s Water Power Technologies Office (WPTO) estimates... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
A World of Reading
two and a former Amazon.com executive. When he went on a world tour with his family, he saw a padlock on an unused library at an orphanage in Ecuador. “It was my ah-ha! moment, when I realized we really can change the world,” says Risher.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
The Best-Laid Plans
deals with Bed Bath & Beyond, Frontier Airlines, and Johnson & Johnson. “You’re always asking, is this the right business model? But there are no answers. The market and technology are constantly changing,” Riesenfeld remarks. The biotech... View Details
- 11 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 11
had implemented changes to regulated but competitive insurance and provider markets, and the United Kingdom, which had introduced market-style initiatives while keeping insurance and delivery under the National Health Service. Purchase... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship
different options. It is often unclear how proposed changes will interact with each other. Furthermore, there is no clear "instruction manual" that explains which changes will have the desired... View Details
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
New Releases
Engines of Innovation edited by Richard S. Rosenbloom and William J. Spencer (HBS Press) In past decades, industrial laboratories such as AT&T's Bell Labs and the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center were wellsprings of powerful new View Details