Publications

September 2017 (Revised January 2019)
Case

FJ Management Inc.

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Matthew G. Preble

In late 2015, Crystal Call Maggelet, president and CEO of FJ Management, is working with her investment committee to help set the company’s strategic direction. Maggelet, daughter of the company’s founder, has led FJ Management since 2009 when she stepped in as CEO... View Details

September 1993
Case

Manufacturing at ALZA: The Right Prescription? (A)

By: Dorothy A. Leonard

ALZA, a company specializing in drug delivery systems such as transdermal patches, considers manufacturing its own products. Until now, the company has conducted research and development on its patented system but has then licensed the technology to client-partner... View Details

Keywords: Business or Company Management; Technological Innovation; Innovation and Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Problems and Challenges; Production; Research and Development; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Pharmaceutical Industry; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry

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01 Dec 2010
News

The Transformers

edge of a cliff, cast knowing glances and jumped. “There was that feeling that submitting the business plan was like jumping off a cliff,” says Tierney. “We couldn’t say after that, ‘Oh, we changed our minds.’” A Targeted Approach... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

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Modern Corporate Strategy: Revitalizing the Corporation - Course Catalog

integration and geographic expansion of the firm. More generally, this requires developing a portfolio that is robust to changes in the external environment and has to address the choice between internal development of new businesses and... View Details

01 Sep 2017
News

Is Private Equity Blockchain’s Killer App?

invented, they’ve always been private,” he says. “You have to get over the cognitive block of, ‘Oh my God, this is going to be open to all the parties,’ and secondly, ‘I now have to change all my processes.’ ” The technology, Lakhani... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

01 Dec 2002
News

Building a Network for Social Enterprise in Latin America

H-E-B and the Monterrey Food Bank, a program administered by the Mexican branch of the nonprofit organization Caritas. The outcome? The nonprofit, which received sporadic support in the past, suddenly had access to the organizational... View Details

16 Sep 2020
Blog Post

Turning a Moment into a Movement: How the Anti-Racism Fund Co-Founders are Fighting Racism and Encouraging Other Companies to Do Their Part

issue. Just like setting sales goals tied to consequences for not meeting those goals, increasing diversity in your workforce is something measurable and it is tied to organizational success so it should be treated as such. They added... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

08 Aug 2025
News

Overturning Convictions

Muriel Wilkins (MBA 1997) doesn’t want to change your mind. She wants you to do it yourself. The idea that lasting change needs to come from within is one of the many lessons she’s learned in more than 20 years as an executive coach. In her new book, Leadership... View Details

Keywords: Michelle Cassidy

08 Dec 2009
First Look

First Look: Dec. 8

experience working with one another—is one mechanism that helps teams leverage the benefits of variation in team experience by alleviating coordination problems that variation creates. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-145.pdf Traveling Agents:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

March 2022 (Revised March 2024)
Case

DaVita Responds to COVID

By: Susanna Gallani and David Lane

Early in August 2021, DaVita CEO Javier Rodriguez was assessing the ongoing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on his firm, which provided life-sustaining kidney dialysis to roughly 240,000 people. Effective infection control practices and information sharing had ensured... View Details

Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Change Management; Communication; Talent and Talent Management; Fairness; Values and Beliefs; Corporate Accountability; Health Care and Treatment; Health Pandemics; Human Resources; Employee Relationship Management; Retention; Wages; Working Conditions; Leadership Style; Crisis Management; Organizational Culture; Health Industry; United States

01 Sep 2012
News

Faculty Books

use their best elements in a hybrid “third way.” He demonstrates how the tools and principles of organizational economics can be used to build an innovation infrastructure with the right incentives and time horizons for investments. The... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

14 Nov 2006
First Look

First Look: November 14, 2006

Partners, a boutique consulting firm focused on organizational change and strategy. Covers how Keller initially struggles with his assignment and ends with a question of whether or not he should attend a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 3, 2009

Exploration creates new knowledge, enabling organizations to innovate and adapt to changing conditions. Enduring organizational performance requires ambidexterity, the ability to sustain both exploration and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

August 2023
Case

Constellation Pharmaceuticals: Corporate Development at a Novel Therapeutic Company

By: Satish Tadikonda and Brad Prosek

Constellation Pharmaceuticals was a company focused on epigenetic therapies for cancer patients. Despite a promising start and an early deal with a leading biopharma company, the company weathered twin setbacks in the end of a major research collaboration and the... View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Health Care and Treatment; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Research and Development; Business Strategy; Partners and Partnerships; Goals and Objectives; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States

October 2000 (Revised July 2001)
Case

Avon Products (A)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Greg Rogers

The general manager of Avon Mexico, Fernando Lezama, must decide whether to promote a woman to the position of vice president of sales. If appointed, the candidate would be the first female in all of Latin America to hold an executive position and one of the first... View Details

Keywords: Business or Company Management; Leading Change; Salesforce Management; Organizational Culture; Job Design and Levels; Gender; Management Teams; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Mexico