Publications

February 2025
Supplement

Moleskine: Daniela Riccardi Turns the Page

By: Ryan Raffaelli

Newly appointed CEO Daniela Riccardi needed to develop and present an action plan to the board of the company that owned Moleskine. Riccardi was hired because Moleskine had recently overextended its reach and needed more focus and discipline. Having previously served... View Details

Keywords: Brands and Branding; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Distribution Channels; Planning; Leading Change; Organizational Culture; Product Marketing; Retail Industry; Italy

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HBS - The year in Review

recognized by MBA students for their excellence and dedication with Faculty Teaching Award honors. Tony Mayo, Sophus Reinert, and Charlotte Robertson were acknowledged for their profound impact within and outside of the required... View Details

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Skydeck - Alumni

transformational pursuit of purpose Bidding Up 2022 Alumni Achievement Award recipient Bob Wilson (MBA 1961, DBA 1963) on his journey from Depression-era Nebraska to a 2020 Nobel Prize Leading to Salvation 2022 Alumni Achievement Award recipient Bob View Details

07 Jun 2023
Blog Post

My One Case: MBA Class of 2023 Looks Back

class did you read this case?In Managing Service Operations during my EC year with Professor Ryan Buell. How do you see yourself applying the lessons from this case in your future endeavors?My post-graduation focus is on growing and... View Details

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Alumni - Global

Organizing the Greek diaspora to help rebuild the country—and create the conditions to bring its citizens home again Re: Afroditi Xydi (MBA 2022); Kyriakos Mitsotakis (MBA 1995); Andreas Stavropoulos (MBA 1997); Antonis Samaras (MBA 1976); By: Jen McFarland Flint;... View Details

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Online Leadership and Management Courses | HBS Online

Negotiation Mastery Professor Michael Wheeler Master negotiation techniques to secure maximum value for yourself and your organization. 8 weeks, 4-5 hrs/week Pay by July 17 $1,850 Certificate New Transforming Customer Experiences... View Details

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Financial Aid - Alumni

fellowship budget How You Can Help The easiest way for donors to ensure that the School remains accessible to all students regardless of their financial means is by giving to the HBS Fund . As our annual fund, the HBS Fund supports core... View Details

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Turnkey or Tailored? Relational Pluralism, Institutional Complexity, and the Organizational Adoption of More or Less Customized Practices

By: Ryan Raffaelli and Mary Ann Glynn

We examine how the organizational adoption of new practices is influenced by relational pluralism, i.e., an organization's multiple ties to actors inside and outside its industry. We theorize that institutional mechanisms of practice diffusion underlying relational... View Details

Keywords: Networks; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business Processes; Adoption; Customization and Personalization

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Online Finance & Accounting Courses | HBS Online

Certificate Courses (5) Financial Accounting Professor V.G. Narayanan In this accounting fundamentals course, discover what's behind the numbers in financial statements, such as balance sheets and income statements. 8 weeks, 6–8 hrs/week Pay View Details

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Uncovering Mechanisms of Theory Development in an Academic Field: Lessons from Leadership Research

By: Mary Ann Glynn and Ryan Raffaelli

A long-standing debate in organization studies has centered on the tension between paradigmatic consensus and theoretical pluralism in an academic field, but little attention has been paid to the underlying processes of field development that account for this. Using a... View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Theory

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27 Apr 2018
News

Books love the small: How indie stores and publishers fill the niches

July 2015 (Revised September 2017)
Case

Ron Johnson: A Career in Retail

By: Das Narayandas, Joshua D. Margolis and Ryan Raffaelli

In April 2013, Ron Johnson (HBS '84) stepped down after just 18 months as CEO of J.C. Penney. In his brief tenure, Johnson, an acclaimed retailer respected for his innovation and success in shaping the retail image at Target and Apple, introduced dramatic departures... View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Leadership Development; Legal Industry; Procurement; Professional Service Firms; Pricing; Organizational Behavior Modification; Change Management; Innovation Leadership; Situation or Environment; Failure; Management Teams; Brands and Branding; Competition; Retail Industry; United States

August 2020
Case

This Old House of Worship: St. Anthony Shrine (A)

By: Ryan Raffaelli

This multimedia case asks students to consider how leaders of non-profit organizations manage difficult financial, operational, and cultural turnarounds. Since its founding in 1947, St. Anthony Shrine had been a central partner in serving the Downtown Boston community.... View Details

Keywords: Leadership And Change Management; Turnarounds; Non-profit Management; Leadership; Change Management; Nonprofit Organizations; Management; Religion; Mission and Purpose; Transformation; Organizational Culture; United States

22 Sep 2023
News

Skydeck Voices: The Most Important Person I Met at HBS

Photo provided by Harvard University Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Who was the most important person you met at HBS? And why? This is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck, and when my colleagues set up on Spangler Lawn during Spring Reunions... View Details

27 Dec 2017
News

Why shoppers who switch queues wait the longest

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Accounting & Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Theory and Practice of Intangibles, Intellectual Capital, and Sustainability by the European Institute for Advanced Studies in Management at the 2022 EIASM Interdisciplinary Conference for “Regulated Human Capital Disclosures” with Thomas... View Details

December 2021 (Revised September 2022)
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Moleskine: Daniela Riccardi Turns the Page

By: Ryan Raffaelli and Sarah Gulick

Newly appointed CEO Daniela Riccardi needed to develop and present an action plan to the board of the company that owned Moleskine. Riccardi was hired because Moleskine had recently overextended its reach and needed more focus and discipline. Having previously served... View Details

Keywords: Rebranding; Brands and Branding; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Operations; Planning; Retail Industry; Italy