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  • June 2024
  • Supplement

Heritage Holding (A)

By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
Pre-Abstract: Instructors should consider the timing of making videos available to students, as they may reveal key case details.

Abstract: The summer of 2022 marked a crucial period for Heritage Holding co-founders, Alex de Pfyffer and Ross Porter. The... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Small Business; Cost vs Benefits; Decisions; Business Education; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Business or Company Management; Problems and Challenges; Private Equity; Corporate Strategy; Business Model; North America
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  • Web

2016 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Talking the Walk: Possibilities for Change through Dialogue, Expression, and Narrative Talking the Walk: Possibilities for Change through Dialogue, Expression, and Narrative 31 MAR–01 APR 2016 Home Speakers... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2018
  • News

What I Do: Minnie Ingersoll (MBA 2002)

things like, ‘If you have a criminal record, you are welcome to apply for a job at Code for America.’ And we do advocacy, too, and help other organizations understand that they shouldn’t be ruling out applicants just because they have a criminal record. These are... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Peter and Maria Hoey
  • Blog

Have You Checked out Podcasts from HBS?

Whether you are commuting, exercising, or just on the move, you can't always engage with the written word. HBS podcasts offer a great way to absorb information of all kinds, from business thought leadership to cultural trends. Get insight... View Details
  • December 2021 (Revised June 2022)
  • Case

Darden Restaurants: The Nine Square Feet

By: Joshua D. Margolis and James Barnett
In June 2021, Darden Restaurants CEO Gene Lee contemplates how to position the world’s biggest full-service restaurant more than one year into the COVID-19 pandemic. View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Agribusiness; Change; Decision Making; Food; Human Resources; Leadership; Operations; Strategy; Health Pandemics; Opportunities; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
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  • March 2006 (Revised October 2007)
  • Case

The Parisian Revival

By: Rajiv Lal and Carin-Isabel Knoop
In mid-2005, George Jones had two jobs: head of Saks Inc.'s 41-store Parisian department store chain as well as president and CEO of the Saks Department Store Group (SDSG), an umbrella for seven chains with a total of 182 stores across the United States. In 2003 Jones... View Details
Keywords: Profit; Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Improvement; Sales; Retail Industry; United States
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  • 10 Nov 2020
  • News

In Harmony

After an unsatisfying stint as a consultant at Strategic Planning Associates in Washington, DC, Mark Weinstein (MBA 1981) developed a new strategic plan for his life with the goal of finding a job at the intersection of business and the arts. He achieved that goal in... View Details
  • 10 Apr 2020
  • News

How to Be an Inclusive Leader Through a Crisis

  • 28 Sep 2016
  • Blog Post

Tackling Inequality: An HBS Independent Project

Like many of my classmates, I embraced this type of leadership prior to HBS by volunteering with community organizations. I came to HBS knowing that community leadership would live alongside my professional... View Details
  • 01 Oct 2002
  • News

Andrew H. Tisch

successful turnaround management is to try to make the least bad decision based on imperfect and incomplete information,” Tisch says. “The case method helped prepare me to do that.” Tisch's leadership qualities were very much in evidence... View Details
  • February 2007 (Revised February 2009)
  • Case

A Differentiation Strategy at ASDA

By: David E. Bell and Nitin Sanghavi
The Wal-Mart CEO has challenged his company to do more to help mankind. The British subsidiary, ASDA, is reviewing its activities in the environment/social arena. View Details
Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Trends; Values and Beliefs; Leadership Style; Growth and Development Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Food and Beverage Industry; Retail Industry
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  • May 1998 (Revised October 2001)
  • Case

Taco Bell Inc. (1983-1994)

By: Lynda M. Applegate, Leonard A. Schlesinger and Dave DeLong
Details the actions of John Martin, newly named CEO, as he leads Taco Bell through a decade of incremental and radical changes. By the end of the case, total system sales within Taco Bell, a Mexican style fast-food restaurant chain and a division of PepsiCo, have grown... View Details
Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Transformation; Economic Growth; Food; Leadership Style; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Design; Performance Effectiveness; Food and Beverage Industry; Service Industry; Mexico
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  • Web

Rock 100: The Summit - Entrepreneurship

Rock 100: The Summit The HBS Rock 100 is a dynamic and highly interactive bi-annual event for our rising alumni entrepreneurs. Catch a glimpse of the energy and excitement of the inaugural Summit in 2014 here. Rock 100: The Summit Video Summit View Details
  • 26 May 2016
  • News

2016 Alumni Achievement Awards

the better for it. Mary Callahan Erdoes (MBA 1993) CEO, JPM Asset Management, JPMorgan Chase & Co. “The sheer terror of a cold call changes you forever—until you realize that life is made up of cold calls in different formats. Once you... View Details
  • 14 May 2020
  • Research & Ideas

What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog

needed while some are not. How to change the organization and management teams to create new competencies without changing your essence and core values?” Skills needed now: Continuous learning and... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
  • 25 Aug 2017
  • Op-Ed

Op-Ed: After Charlottesville, Where Does a CEO's Responsibility Lie?

particular action it takes is right for their business. Constructing those arguments, however, is precisely what they would be doing. Human beings are profoundly subject to confirmation bias. They look for reasons to affirm their own beliefs, not View Details
Keywords: by Gautam Mukunda
  • 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
  • Web

The Section Experience | MBA

experiences by participating in small, cross-section teams that change throughout the year, connecting participants to the broader HBS community. Students quickly discover that the section experience gets them fully engaged during their... View Details
  • Web

Power and Influence for Positive Impact - Course Catalog

influence style? MODULE 4 – Encountering Entrenched Power in Organizations & Society: Why does the status quo persist, and why is it so difficult to change? MODULE 5 – Leading Change in Organizations and Society: What View Details
  • 01 Dec 2001
  • News

Navigating Success in Volatile Times

participants to the Plaza Hotel in New York City. The 2001 program featured six panel discussions and five keynote addresses and provided a multidimensional exploration of the changing landscape for personal and professional development.... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner; Finance