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- May 2012
- Case
Evergreen Natural Markets 2012
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Paul S. Myers
Evergreen Natural Markets is a successful food retailer located in the Rocky Mountain region of the U.S. Having grown through acquisition, it has a reputation for improving the companies it purchases while retaining previous management. This strategy has succeeded due... View Details
Keywords: United States; Operating Systems; Acquisitions; Strategy; Human Resource Management; Consolidations; Retail Trade; Food; Growth Management; Organizational Culture; Consolidation; Acquisition; Business Processes; Retail Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Las Vegas; Western United States
Kanter, Rosabeth M., and Paul S. Myers. "Evergreen Natural Markets 2012." Harvard Business School Brief Case 124-450, May 2012.
- 2009
- Chapter
Creativity, Improvisation, and Organizations
By: Colin M. Fisher and Teresa M. Amabile
Although the literatures on both organizational creativity and organizational improvisation have been expanding in recent years, the links between these literatures have not been deeply explored. This chapter explores those links to create a conceptualization of... View Details
Keywords: Body of Literature; Innovation and Invention; Organizational Culture; Research; Creativity; Theory
Fisher, Colin M., and Teresa M. Amabile. "Creativity, Improvisation, and Organizations." In The Routledge Companion to Creativity, edited by Tudor Rickards, Mark A. Runco, and Susan Moger. Oxford, U.K.: Routledge, 2009.
- December 2001 (Revised November 2002)
- Case
John Smithers
By: Nitin Nohria and Todd Jick
Describes an ill-fated effort to institute a total quality program. Using the vantage point of one of the managers selected to be a quality instructor, the case traces the rise and fall of the quality effort during its very brief existence over the course of six... View Details
Nohria, Nitin, and Todd Jick. "John Smithers." Harvard Business School Case 402-041, December 2001. (Revised November 2002.)
- 01 Sep 2021
- News
The Great Resignation Doesn’t Have to Threaten Your DE&I Efforts
- Profile
Jay Khil
culture is different," Jay notes. "To learn and develop yourself, to build your network, it's easier to start in the U.S. After you establish your credentials in America, you’ll be more valued in Asia." Jay initially hoped... View Details
- Profile
Gopesh Mittal
education is in the ‘soft’ skills, the essential ingredients of leadership such as motivating teams, managing change and working across different cultural contexts. In a world where people are becoming more connected than ever before,... View Details
- Web
2016 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
1, 2016. Organizers: Robin J. Ely Diane Doerge Wilson Professor of Business Administration Senior Associate Dean for Culture and Community Amy J.C. Cuddy Associate Professor of Business Administration, Hellman Faculty Fellow Initiatives... View Details
- Web
Benefits & Compensation | Research Associates
including options for child care, transportation discounts, and real estate and mortgage resources. To sweeten the deal, your Harvard ID card acts as your passport to a University-wide offering of libraries, museums, and events, as well as discounts to movies, plays,... View Details
- Web
Field Course: Value Creation in Small and Medium Firms - Course Catalog
small firms, leading “A” players 5. Sales and building sales organizations in small firms 6. Growth through acquisition 7. CEO prioritization and Culture 8. Capital allocation 9. Selling your company and life post exit Grading / Course... View Details
- 27 Jun 2016
- News
Ulf Mark Schneider Has Plans to Make Nestlé Healthy
analysts estimate the health business could eventually achieve margins above 20 percent. A recent piece in Bloomberg also discusses Nestlé’s change in direction as a response to changing cultural mores around sugary foods. Nestlé’s goal... View Details
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Accelerating Therapies
50 million to support programs aimed at fostering an entrepreneurial culture in the life sciences across Harvard with gifts for the new Blavatnik Biomedical Accelerator and the Blavatnik Fellows program at HBS. "By increasing the... View Details
- 04 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Making the Case for Consumer-Driven Health Care
of health care is a major research topic at Harvard Business School and its Healthcare Initiative, where some 40 faculty conduct research on questions as diverse as how "work-around" cultures develop in hospitals to the best... View Details
- Web
Bibliography - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center
Corporate Eye: Photography and the Rationalization of American Commercial Culture 1884-1929 . Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005. Campbell, Heyworth, Art Centre Bulletin (September 1924): 1, no. 1. Calkins, Earnest Elmo.... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office
across a dozen jurisdictions in Asia. Being educated and having worked in Asia, the United States, and Europe has given me a measure of appreciation of the diversity in cultural and business practices. Moreover, serving on various public... View Details
- 17 Feb 2015
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: The Battle for San Francisco
home for restaurants, art, and culture at night. And more and more, tech businesses are locating here. “This is a place where the effects of inequality appear to be heightened and most palpable” In doing so, however, technology workers... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
HBS Fund Council
leverage the robust culture of reunion giving HBS Fund Investors Society—Grow and retain membership in this annual leadership donor society Recent Graduates—Develop a culture of annual giving and identify... View Details
- January 10, 2022
- Article
The Secret Ingredient of Thriving Companies? Human Magic
By: Hubert Joly
The traditional corporate approach to motivating people has been a combination of carrots and sticks: a system of financial incentives designed to mobilize everyone around a plan designed by a few smart people at the top. Multiple studies have confirmed that, for any... View Details
Keywords: Meaning; Purpose; Organizational Culture; Employees; Motivation and Incentives; Performance
Joly, Hubert. "The Secret Ingredient of Thriving Companies? Human Magic." Harvard Business Review (website) (January 10, 2022).
- 2001
- Article
From Guilford to Creative Synergy: Opening the Black Box of Team Level Creativity
By: T. R. Kurtzberg and T. M. Amabile
Previous research, from Guilford's founding tradition to more modern research on individual creativity and general group processes, falls short of adequately describing team-level creativity. Alhough researchers have addressed brainstorming in groups with mixed... View Details
Kurtzberg, T. R., and T. M. Amabile. "From Guilford to Creative Synergy: Opening the Black Box of Team Level Creativity." Special Issue on Commemorating Guilford's 1950 Presidential Address Creativity Research Journal 13, nos. 3/4 (2001).
- 2016
- Working Paper
Innovation Adoption and Organizational Identity: Identity Dynamism as a Strategic Resource for Top Management Team Decision Making
By: Ryan Raffaelli, Mary Ann Glynn and Michael Tushman
Organizations continuously face decisions about whether to adopt radical innovations. We examine the relationship between innovation adoption and identity, linking identity with firm strategy to explain innovation adoption over time. We conceptualize identity as... View Details
- 2013
- Working Paper
Non-Standard Matches and Charitable Giving
By: Michael Sanders, Sarah Smith and Michael I. Norton
Many organisations, including corporations and governments, wish to encourage charitable giving, and offer incentives for their employees, customers and citizens to do so. The most common of these incentives is a match rate, where the organisation agrees to pay, for... View Details
Sanders, Michael, Sarah Smith, and Michael I. Norton. "Non-Standard Matches and Charitable Giving." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 13-094, May 2013.