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  • October 2014
  • Case

Teckentrup: A Door to Managing Difference

By: Clayton Rose, Jerome Lenhardt and Daniela Beyersdorfer
For Kai Teckentrup, the owner and co-CEO of the German "Mittelstand" door manufacturer Teckentrup, balancing competitive pressures, demographic realities and values were at the heart of the diversity program that he had started and championed at the company. Beyond... View Details
Keywords: Diversity Management; Corporate Values; Competitiveness; Demographics; Change Management; Transformation; Diversity; Ethnicity; Gender; Literacy; Nationality; Race; Residency; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Culture; Economic Growth; Fairness; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Immigration; Employee Relationship Management; Civil Society or Community; Manufacturing Industry; Construction Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Europe; Germany; Russia; Turkey
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  • Fall 2012
  • Article

Enacting Our Field

By: Alnoor Ebrahim
This keynote address, delivered to the Nonprofit Academic Centers Council at its 25-year "benchmark" conference, examines the pedagogical challenges facing the field of nonprofit management in American higher education. It interrogates four binary distinctions commonly... View Details
Keywords: Conferences; Higher Education; Teaching; Social Issues; Innovation and Invention; Programs; Management; Nonprofit Organizations
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  • February 2004 (Revised April 2005)
  • Exercise

Necessary Evils: A Diagnostic Exercise

By: Joshua D. Margolis and Andrew Molinsky
Central to the work of leaders and professionals are tasks that entail harming one party to deliver benefits or advance valued and worthy goals. Sometimes a person must, as part of his or her job, perform an act that causes emotional, material, or physical harm to... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Leadership; Problems and Challenges; Ethics; Management Skills
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  • February 2003 (Revised April 2003)
  • Case

Roman Catholic Diocese of San Jose, The

By: Allen S. Grossman and Christina Darwall
Patrick J. McGrath, the bishop of the healthy and growing San Jose diocese, is pioneering the use of long-term, business-like strategic planning to better deliver on his churches' core mission. The adopted plan addresses issues at the heart of how the diocese is... View Details
Keywords: Financial Management; Innovation Strategy; Leadership; Growth Management; Success; Performance Effectiveness; Strategic Planning; Problems and Challenges
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  • 13 Dec 2014
  • News

The openness revolution

  • 09 Jul 2021
  • News

Three Ways Employers Can Best Support Caregivers Returning To Work

  • 10 Feb 2020
  • News

The Executive Success Factors That Lead Directly to Jail

  • 17 Jul 2019
  • News

Leading with Trust

  • 02 Sep 2015
  • What Do You Think?

What's Wrong With Amazon’s Low-Retention HR Strategy?

Comparison of Costco to Wal-Mart’s Sam’s Club,” Academy of Management Perspectives, August  2006. David Glass, in a comment confirmed by email on April 10, 2002. James L. Heskett, Earl W. Sasser, Jr., and Leonard A. Schlesinger, What Great Service View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Web Services; Retail; Apparel & Accessories; Consumer Products; Fashion
  • Web

Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

100 artists and designers to present 87 art exhibitions and 1,826 public programs to over 1.8 million visitors, including many important leaders from all over the world. Given the context of the economic and political environment in the... View Details
  • 07 Mar 2023
  • HBS Case

ChatGPT: Did Big Tech Set Up the World for an AI Bias Disaster?

inaccuracies and biases that could target certain groups.” In a world so heady about ChatGPT, developed with backing from Microsoft, and AI that US regulators cautioned companies to rein in grandiose claims, leaders should get ready to... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis; Technology
  • Web

About the Project - Managing the Future of Work

Business School’s Project on Managing the Future of Work pursues research that business and policy leaders can put into action to navigate this complex landscape. The Project’s current research areas focus on six forces that are... View Details
  • Web

Measure Outcomes & Cost for Every Patient - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Until recently, having full sets of outcome measures for clinical conditions a was major limitation to implementing this part of the value-based health care agenda. That was changed in 2012 when leaders at Harvard Business Sschool, Boston... View Details
  • 21 Dec 2023
  • Blog Post

Top 10 MBA Voices Blogs of 2023

to sustainability, cases share the story of a business leader (the case protagonist) making a key decision in a difficult situation. In the classroom, students discuss and debate potential solutions with fellow classmates, bringing their... View Details
  • Web

Biography - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

“Why Competition in the Politics Industry Is Failing America: A strategy for reinvigorating our democracy” in 2017. Their work continues, and is informing, engaging and motivating businesspeople and leaders from across America in the... View Details
  • 23 Apr 2024
  • In Practice

Getting to Net Zero: The Climate Standards and Ecosystem the World Needs Now

With each month clocking record-breaking temperatures across the planet, this Earth Day reflected the renewed urgency of regulators and businesses to find climate-change solutions. The US Securities and Exchange Commission recently adopted new rules that will mandate... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 29 Nov 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Is There a Method to Musk’s Madness on Twitter?

SpaceX and Tesla and his other businesses. While it isn’t quite building electric cars or going to Mars, the situation that Musk is stepping into at Twitter is challenging and might call for a leader who is willing to take some risks here... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Technology
  • Research Summary

Top Management Teams

Michael Roberto is studying how senior management teams function, and how chief executives lead these teams effectively. Many chief executives can identify their top management team, but this set of executives does not necessarily perform critical tasks and make... View Details
  • 2020
  • Case

The Ellen MacArthur Foundation: Accelerating a Circular Economy for Plastic Packaging

By: Andrew J. Hoffman
Plastic has become essential to global day-to-day activities, yet it is also causing extreme environmental degradation. Many leaders in the plastics industry are starting to question its sustainability. This case presents insights into the future of the plastic... View Details
Keywords: Plastic Waste; Environmental Sustainability; Cooperation; Supply Chain Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Consumer Products Industry
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  • 2011
  • Teaching Note

Founder's Group Diversification (TN)

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Donghong Li and Chuanjiang Mao
Founder Group's Chairman of the Board, Wei Xin, made adjustments to the company portfolio in 2010. Established in the mid-1980s, Founder is the industry leader for Chinese laser typesetting systems and was once the second largest PC manufacturer in China. It is also... View Details
Keywords: Strategy Management; China; Computers ＆ Electronics; China
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